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Tlie beauty of the Constitution coitsi-H in •his, 4hat no branch qf the Lerjrislatnre u^s^^q,^^^^, (5) the power of enacting any law. — All must cdti* cur therein to be valid.— The Assembly (fortu- nately for the Country) has nc;; a whit more power or right over your purses, than the Khig^s Representative, or the Legislative Council, ex- cepting that a grant of money must commence with them, before the others can entertain, ot- concur in it— but they cannot raise or appro- priate one shilling without such concurrence. The demagogues, who governed the last and some of the preceding Assemblies, and among w^hom Mr. Papineau was the chief manager, have deluded their followers by persuading them that the object was to preserve the rights and privil- eges of the people, whereas the fact is, that those rights and privileges are not attacked, nor have any thing to do with the question. It has no re- ference to monies to be granted, and respects only those already granted, and appropriated by the whole legislature.— -The aim is to nullify those appropriations, by depriving the King's Repre- sentative of the exercise of the Royal Preroga- tive — the Legislative Council of their rights un- der the constitutional act, and in defiance of that Act, to concentrate the whole legislative power in the hands of those demagogues, under the guise of superior regard for the rights of the people^ T s If they prevail in this, Mr. PApmEAU will theflr rule, with the advice of his satellites, either as Governor over the King's Representative, or as President under a revolution. Can any man of common sense believe that the people would be- nefit by the change? a despotism worse than Tur« kish would be the consequence of their elevation into the power aimed at, for no tyranny is so de- grading, as that of equals or inferiors. Has the Papineau party shewn patriotism or disinterestedness in any sluipe ? On the contra- ry, they are most selfish, and in no case have they manifested public spirit, unless a desire to en^ gross power be that virtue.— Would you trust them with fhp unrontronled management of your own purses, and shall they be entrusted with that of the public? Wherever they could apply public money to their own benefit, they have done it. Remember the grants for inland communication, and look at the application of a part of those monies to the improvement of the continuation of Bonsecour Street. — Look at any other im- provement of streets in Town or Suburbs, where the Cliqm have influence o" interest, and you will (ind verified by them the old adage, that cha- rity begins at home. It is disgraceful to such a city as Montreal, to <4) have so long submitted to the dictation of^thies« upstarts, who among other demerits have created a reh'gious division in the community of theit! countrymen, and that with a View to the Papi* NEAU interest, which their Church testifies.-— Their ambition is unbounded. They aim at the concentration of the civil power in their chief and his party, arid the clerical power in the irtan- agement of his relative Mr, Lartique as a Bishop, ivho has no right to that office without the King's consent. — I am astonished that the Canadians do not feel alarm at such barefaced and arro* gant attempts at usurpation and rule. That faction and theit- hired and detestable press, have been labouring to excite discontent^, and produce insurrection.— Their abuse of the King's Represontative is disgraceful and coward- ly, as they would not dare to atteinpt it, if not screened from personal chastisement by the di^ nity of the high character whom they abuse. And who are these men that lay claim to pa- triotism ? They shewed any thing but zeal in the defence of the Province, in the late war-— Mr. ViGER may probably recollect his interview witk Sir George Prevost, on a certain occasion. We have a security against insurrection and revolutioji in the loyalty of the great body of the '■A, (O d inliabitants, and their actual state of happiness^ and further, in the consideration, that none oi the Clique have nerves to direct the storm that they wish to raise. Canada has every thing to lose and nothing lo gain by a revolution. — Would the elevation of Mr. Papineau to a Presidency, compensate fov the loss of British protection and expenditure? — The change would be felt so distressingly, that he would probably lose his life, as the cause of it.-— Would Jonathan Expend as much of his mo- ney here as John Bull does, or pay equal ||efe- rence to Canadian prejudices? The Clergy had better ponder well upon this, they are deeply interested, as their emoluments would be the first sacrificed, under the rule of our ne!ghbours.~-It is as clear as any proposition in Euclid, that the present state of things cannot be suffered to continue* and if the Assembly per- sists in arrogating to itself, powers incompatible with the present constitution, it must be changed; for the commercial capital of the country, and the great value of Canada to the United Kingdom ias a Colony, if administered upon British princi ^les, cannot be left at the mercy of a faction, who detest every thing British, and repay unprece^ dented indulgence, with base ingratitude. [•r III k 1 i; hi k iV, ,1 : 'i-' 1^ ( 6) It is galling to see a British man of good pri- vate character harnessed to the car of the Clique, and labouring as the tool of those that vent vituperative abuse against his countrymen, and who would gladly see them and him sent out of the Province. He will ere long discover that he is a c}'pher among them, except for their purposes, as he has not, and never will have influence, to carry any point of utility, if he wished it. The demagogues oppose all improvement, un-- less where self interested. The Lachine Turnpike haS|jptentionally been allowed to drop, and other 'itirfipikes have been opposed.— -They have star- ved the Montreal General Hospital, by a pitiful aid of two hundred and fifty pounds, because of its being an English institution of great public utility, divested of factious influence, and altho^ it has been the means of preventing the fatal ra# vages of infectious diseases in a dense population. They have nevertheless expended thousands up- on an Hospital at Quebec, which will not admit patients with infectious diseases, and have given a thousand pounds a year to another hospital there, to do what the other should have either agreed to do, or had no public money. — Is this patrio- tism, impartiality, or economy of the public purse? — No, it is wasteful extravagance for par- t I c s f C7) It Id )f lis is, to ty purposes^ Their measures keep Capital out of the country, by protecting fraud, in the refu- sal of Register Offices for incumbrances upon fixed property. Their conduct alarms people at a distance and tends to prevent the expenditure of British mo- nies on Canals for internal improvement — and works for defence. Their whole proceedings are built upon false- hood and deception, and brow-beating their op- ponents. They make an outcry about the intentions of Government to tax them, when they know it neither has the intention nor. the power to raise a penny of tax, without an act of the legislature. No people on earth have the benefits of govern-, ment and protection, at so little an expencc.— Directly they contribute nothing, and the dema- gogues labour to destroy the blessings they en- joy, for a fanciful something in future, that can never be realised. — A fire brand at a late meet- ing, said it was the intention to reduce the Ca- nadians to be hewers of wood, and drawers of water. — Shall so gross a falsehood be sanctioned by the people, after nearly seventy years, expe- rience of the lenity of British rule and tlie en- joyment of a greater degree of happiness than is* *! ; : hi tU : I 'I 'i l| onjoyed by any peasantry on earth.— If Sanctis oncd by them, then in tender mercy the constitu* tion should be taken away to prevent such shame- ful abuse of it. The Clique like all Radical Impostors, will aU low of no opinion but their own.— 'If the mise- ry that the success of their mbasures would pro- duce to this country, could be confined to tho demagogues themselves, it would be a most hap- py refutation of their principles, to let the revo- lutionaiy effects of them be felt — for a short tui-. tion under Jonathan, would work a complete euro of the community at large. The Assembly was clamorous fbr indepen- dence of the Judges, to which the King assented upon condition that suitable permanent salaries and retiring allowances should be first provided, instead of complying with this indispensable pre- liminary, they fought off by new proposals ties- tructive of the King's undoubted prerogative, and thereby proving that independen-cc of the Crown was meant to be converted into absolute depcndance upon the Assembly. The Chief public Revenue, and indeed the whole of it, involved in the difficulties between the Assembly and the other branches of the Le- gislature, consi ts of the duties levied undor thrv 1 ; fi I (9) i Imperial Act of 14, Geo. 3, Cap. 88, and there- by appropriated. — £5000 permanently granted and appropriated by a Provincial Statute, passed during the present Constitution — and the King's Casual and Territorial Revenue, or private pro- perty graciously given up towards the civil ex- penditure of the Province — also the fines and forfeitures. — Now all this Revenue, the Clique modestly claim the privilege of subjecting to their annual capirce, in the teeth of solemn acts of the whole Imperial and Provincial Legisla- ture.— In other words, that the will of the Clique shall be the supreme law. Can any argument be necessary to expose the absurdity and deplorable consequences of such a power. If three persons, having an united inte- rest in property, make an agreement respecting it, upon principles which require the assent of the whole to its disposal ; what would be thought of the junior party, if he claimed the right of sole disposal and controul of this property, re- gardless of the other parties? Yet this in point of plain matter of tact, woukl be similar to the pre- tensions of the Assembly, to the disposal of the already appropriated revenues, when those pre- tensions are divested of revolutionary colouring. Another pretension of the Assembly is, that f i ( 10) h 'i ■ $ I I ::?' = ■ V i a ; J; t •iii: (contrary to every British precedent) every pub- lie officer, should annually depend upon their vote for liis salary. — At this rate, it would be in the power of the Assembly annually to create a dissolution of the Government and introduce consequent anarchy, unless the conditions were iigieed to, which they might see fit to prescribe, for allowing of its continuance. Under such a tenure of office, no honest man could serve — all such must retire and their situa- tions become filled by the tools of the Clique, Dependance of office upon the King's Repre- sentative has (independent of other considerati- ons), the security of high character against a- buse.-— Demagogues having no character, their tyranny would be bounded only by their caprice, ibr the portion of injustice done by them would sit lightly upon the shoulder of each individual. There is no example of the power claimed by the Assembly, except in the time of the grand rebellion under the Long Parliament, in the time of Charles the First, which, after being tyranni- cally exercised by themselves, led to the tyran- ny and usurpation of Cromwell. Let all loyal subjects and those well disposed to the preservation of the connexion with the Mothei* Country, as the greatest blessing to thi>: '. 1 i ( ^1 ) Province, rally round the Executive Government •n this momentous occasion, and give their votes and interest to Molson, M'Gill, Delisle, Jas. Grant and others entertaining like political prin- ciples, and turn their backs upon their opponents. As a proof of my sincere wish for the prospe- rity of this Country, I have to add, that all I Jiave upon earth is in it. AN ANGLO CANADIAN, OF OLD STANDINa. Montreal, 16th July, iSS?. I THE EN1>. PRINTED AT THE GAZETTE OFFICE. MONTBEAI.— 1827,