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When your Lordship shall hive leisiiro to rc^floct on this mat- ter, and in yom- own mind, place yoursolf in my situation, your Excellency wi!| thi'n seo tliat my all inlhis life, my every thing js at stnke ; and that your L()rd>hip has my fitc completely at your disposal ; and that the fairest opportunity is now in your hands, to render mo that justice which has b(;en so long and so cruelly withheld- I have no doubt that the subject contained in my Memorial of the 8th of Juno, gives your txcellcn- cy perplexity and trouble— that many conside- rations of a ;W///crtZ nature, oiTiY themselves in opposition to its meeting attention, yot ! cannot but hope and b ilieve that truth and justice in their simple garb, will maintain a paramount conside- ration in the mind of your Excellency over every other motive. I have for many years entertained the belief that justice ar.d truepnlicij are so inse- parably connected, that one cannot exist withonf S' > r> V^ ^»J tho oth(:r. To yonr Evcollcncy I humbly sub- mit the coriTCtiifss of this opinion. The Ma- chiovfliaii system of policy, I am well aware, of- ten presents to our view, many plausible nppear- onccs of advantage, yet however plausable, they will ultimately ar.d invariably prove deceptive ; liiis opinion likewise I would submit with due dt fier( nee to your Excellency's superior know- ledi^e of political science and of the history of the great family of man. Ymu- Excellency will rcmembirthat I had the honor of presenting a Memorial bearing date on ihe eighth day of June last, a period of more ihan six months ; your Excellency will take into consideration th*^ truth of the old adage, " hope defeied maketh the heart sick." That yourEx- t-ellency is the only person on this side the. Atlan- tic on whose regard for and power to dojustice. 1 have any dependanco. Should your Lordship's patience wiih our intestine feuds become ex- hausled, and induce your return to more happy scenes and manners ; then what have I to look for, but " flat despair ?" Such considerations fill my mind with the most gloomy prospects. Your Excellency will likewise take into consideration that the wei-ht of years, together with the en- croachmcnts''made on my constitution by the bat^ tering, beating, and •* pelting of the p.tdess elorm ' for seventy two years, have made me m- capable existenc young f must, ii; of natur depend! exhibite ftiore pa Lordshi thing b( your Eji anxious fortified likewise pathetic human I peace, 1 tressing I hav( cellency quailed believe 1 believe 3 same lig obtain a Loidshi sentatio number \\ VtX/J ft *1 ibly snb- The Ma- ware, of- i appear- \)\e, ihey cce[)live ; with due or know- history of I had the ijT date on d of more 1 take into vra, " hope t your- Ex- iho. Allan- do justice. Lordship's ecome ex- norc happy 1 I to look eralionsfiil ects. Your )nsideration ith the en- I by the bat- the pitiless lade iiie in- capable of further exertion to support my own existence, or provide for the future support of a young female child, only twelve years of age. I must, in the present stateof things in the course of nature, soon leave that child to a state of abject dependance, where her dependant state will be exhibited to hir feelings continually, in a manner itiore painful than the sling of the viper ! ! ! Your Lordship will not wonder that, my all my every thing being at stake on the sense of justice in your Excellency's bosom, 1 should be extremely anxious to awaken your attention to a subject, fortified not only by the claims of justice, but likewise by the claim of huniiinity and every sym- pathetic sentiment of the better feelings of the human heart: indeed, My Lord, I cannot die in peace, I cannot rest in my grave under the dis- tressing prospeclof the future fate of that child. I have had the honor of presenting to your Ex- cellency some/f t<7 details of my inhuman, une- qtmlled sufferings — sufl'erings which I cannot hut believe loudly cull for redress, and which I fully believe your Excellency, as a man, views in the same light. If I should ever bo so happy as to obtain an inquiry, I pledge my veracity that your Lordship will find that I have made the repre- sentation far below their heinous nature, both in number and in atrocity. Allowing this to bo true, what is there iu uaturej in justice, in the or- 4 der and rognlafiotisWf society, timt prevents wy wr()u:»3 to meet redress ? am I not a fuithfiil 13ritisli subject, nm I not rqimlly infilled to pro- tcciion and rtdrcss with others? Let nie reite- rate to your Excellency that in prosperity and adversity ; niider evil report and good report, nn- der oppression, insult and ahnse, I have never ceased tor a moment my fidelity to the Hrilish Government. ir'\u\\\ I, for my reward, meet with the most apathetic ind't^jrence and contempt 1 Is it not, my Lord a most extraonlinary concati* nation ol'events that I should suffer a reiteration of the most astounding acts of injustice for seven years in succession, and that ev(;ry such act of in- justice bhould be of that prculinr ttatnre as to be beyond the power of redress t I am unable to command attention to my sufiering. 1 am too weak-to oti'er the motive of fear, or the exercise of the L xta/io f's. as a motive to call attention to my dnent, where the cause could be consider- ed without the interruption of the base intrigues of Provincial delinquents or their supporters ; and where the calls of justice, though from a fee- ble individual^ would be heard with attention. I well know that it is in my own power to send my memorial to the foot of the Throne. How- ever, as I have laid the busim^jss, in the first place before your Excellency ; as your Lordship wa* sent to this country for the express purpose, to learn, and to redress the wrongs which now do, or heretofore have existed in Cutuida, it appear:? to my underslnndiDg, that I have a just claim on your Lordsliip to redress, or at least to a refe- rence of my inemoiial to wIkjto both the inchiia- tion and ptuver ONist for graiiliiirr me justice. It being transmitted hy your Lordship, with such remarks as you conscientioiis'y biiMeve yi>n ought to make, will render it-* a[)pcarance of more ginvc importance! and command more ready attention. The simple question before ynur Lordship is, in my hund)le opinion, whether the facts, stated in my memorial, constitute a wrong? If thoy coi:siituto a wn)ng, w'.i'To am I to look for redress? (>ertaiidy to those who have made a solemn pronnse-lo that elTt.'Ct ; and whoso public duly is to redeem the pledge which their promises, have offered for the security of the sub- ject. If the plainest cases of wrong are to bo set aside and stiauijled in the birih with bafflinjr excuses, where is the benefit of lliose flaming pro- mises — of those solemn [)romise-i made to the subject for redress/ They certainly must appear as a solemn mockery, and worse than the pains of Tantalus, to our disapj)ointed expectations. Should your ExcellcMicy entertain the least doubt in the representations set forth in my me- morial, an infjiiiry, will set that doubt at rest. There is nothing would be more grat(?ful to my feelings than an inquiry — such an inquiry, as to elicit " the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the tr would pn enemy to Can it ! the idea I that, inas long serit to sit dov ihen. ther I'ight to tl pure your ifeelings Jong reit more and lions — f>e thing of ll address, 1 greatness I Can it jbeen ollc Hake cogi fers to liisiratioii that the i ?cy's missi Kvrongs M vince ? \ complain pd to huv ust claim on uff«'red a very long series of bitter injustice, that I now ought to sit down tamely aiul silently under the bur- then, thereby al. owing my enemi(js a pri scriplire right to the iVuits of f ht.'ir wickedness ? I can as- pure your Escellency, that so far from having my ifeelings rendered torpid and callous, uiuivir the Jong reiteraiiiMi of abuses, th(^y have become more aufl more accessible to the keenest sensa- tions — f)eihaf)S to a morbid degree. Shoidd any thing of that kind appear to your Lordship, in tliis address, I appeal to your native benevolence and greatness of mind for a remission of the dlVuncc. \ Can it bkewise be possible; tlr.it the plea has jbeen olfered, that y.'ur liordship ought not to Ittike cognizance of my com[)laiut becnuLted in this Pro- vince ? Whilst your Lordshi[) i«< attending to the .complaints of the Canadians, which were alledg- cd to have happened cotomporaneously with my 8 own, and noglccting mine, will it not appear to every reflecting mind, that llio objiict ot'simpio jnsticehas not l)t;en tlio polo-star of our politics? TIio Canadians form a powerful body, who are able to per»or shouldbeat vaiiance wiih the refined sentiinenta of the most amiable heart, is an apparent solicism to my weak undiMstaudmg : y.a, for the term of thirty y«.'ars, 1 havo found a secr>t n faience hi(| in the most gloomy darkness, behind the Tubc- natorial 'rhronc. dtfi-sitino' nil inv/ f>vr-i-tii>iio and preventing my dumands fi>r ju^iice from any 16 iattentlon, eveh so far as to gain an inquiry. I need not name to your Lordsh j), that the fir&t principles of Govtrnnient arc establi.slicd in the nccessily of'' gnarding the weak against the op- pression of the .strong." Allow me to call your attention to the mnnmr in which this great dnty has been cxecnted in this Conntry. I was, in the first place, robbed by the officers of this Go- vernment, of all my property ; and the«i, by thetij treated as the s \W^ii:nm\\m\,bfca use 1 was poor !l The most outrageoas acts of iitjiistice were tole- lated agaiu-t me, hi cause I was poor ! ! The most indignant and silent contempt was cast on all my aiplications for redress, because 1 was poor ! ! 1 well know that this Government had the power to shut their ears to my compjalrita, but the present qne.^tion is not oi' power, bnl it is aqnestion o^ justice. 1 had my desponding hopes revived, my feelinus cheered, by tlife combined promises of justice, from the highest anlhoritiea of the British government : I now wish to test those promises, by their conduct. Pronjises nn- accomplished, prove nothing but the want of good faith in those who make iheni ; and whe- ther the nio»t effications mt asures to destroy all confidence between the Governors and governed, be consfsnant to fru.c po'ivij, I Iminbly submit to your Excellency's snperior wisdom. Have not the cnonnitv «)f inv wi'Minrj. niKt tli/^ii- Xntm #»r.p_ tinuance be«!n nrgcd as a reason against their redress ! pies, wi who oxiff poor, art to be vir Perha of sncha an anom atmosph the snbj( not cand were not so far as terofdoi hope exc pointmcti nal abas standing drawn fn that the f the view or that th rities, we withont tl be realize for no CO for your 1 that your with you complaint inquiry. ' >, tluit the fir&t blishcd ill the gainst the op< 3 lo call your Ills great duty y. I was, in rs of this Go- hen, by them ? Iwas'ponrI ! ice were tole- wor ! ! The t was cast on ';cause 1 was ej-nnifiit had Y c»)mp!alnts, mer, but it is i>nding hopes fb combined «t anthoritics wish to test 'roti!i»es nn- he want of ; and whe- > destroy all id governed, ^ submit to . Have not O gain^i^ theii^ 11 redress ! ! and yet, wi h such monstrous exam- ples, with such shocking doctrines from those who ought to btiexawplrs of ev(;ry virtue, we, the poor, are called upon and pathelically exhorted to be virtuous and /oijal I ! ! Perhaps it mny be urged that my wrongs are of such a peculiar nature, and arranged in such an anomalous class, as not to be included in the atmosphere of those promises. If so, why delude the subject with vain and fantastic hope ? Why not candidly declare what wrorjgs were, and what were not to claim the aitention of Governm , so far as to meet redress ? It cannot be; a mat- ter of doubt in th(* miiul of your Excellency, that hope excited, for no other pinpose but disap- pointment, is adding to the distress ot the origi- nal abuse. It appears, to my humble under- standing, that the inferences which must be drawn from the present state of my affairs are, thatthe facts stated in my memorial, do not, in the view of the Govcrnuient, constitute a wrong ; or that the promises, made by the highest autho- rities, were made as a rnt're *« tub to the whale," without the least intention, that they should ever be realized. Such a view of the subject, calla for no comment from me ; I submit it altogether for your Lordship's connderation ; I well know that your Lordship has the power, in common, with your predecessors to refuse lo listen to my complaints ; to crush me beneath your over- 12 whelming advantngo ; to stiflo the cries for justice - in every sinov ; yet uill it |,c beyond example should liny iiUimalely, from a siill " small, voice," swell in(o (he violence of a mighlytem. ptst, and shiike ihe scenes orirru^iice to iheir very foundations ! Pardon me my L«rd, if any ihltig fn (Ills address mny seem to convry a doubt of your Lordship's h.ve of jus! ice. I ^hould consider niyself unpardcMinble ^ven to entertain such a sus- picion ; much more to express it. Yel I know your Lordship to be surrounded with so many in- terested in suppressing: Ihe truth, that I v.ish losay all my feeble abilities wdl permit, lo reach the truth through the medium of your Lord>hip. My Lord, lam old and reeiilc — I can say no more — perhaps I have said to;) much already— I have said whhit my jiid<»MTient has dictated. 1 am compelled to depend on my own resourees alto- gether, by my isolated situation, without the coun- cil of the wiser and better informed. To your Excellency's a:oo;lness of heart, I appeal for my, justification. Permit me. my Lord, to expect an an^^wer to my Memorial, which may place at rest my fears and many anxieties. mil ; Allow me, my Lord, the honnrof expressrfigmy unnfficUi sentiments of profound respect and high consideration. STEPHEN BURROUGHS. Three-Rivers 10th December, 1836.