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In submitting the following correspondence to the Members of both Houses of Parliament, as well as to the public gene- rally, I feel that, although embodying, as that correspondence does, the whole of the matter at issue between the Executive and myself, some few prefatory remarks are necessary. It is, in all probability, the last time that I shall discuss claims for reward with a Government in this country — certainly not the present — or complain of exclusion from employment in a ser- vice which a recent dispatch from Lord Stanley directs is at all times, as far as circumstances will permit, to be conferred on natives of the country ; and therefore I trust 1 shall not be considered as entering upon extraneous or wholly irrelevant matter, when I offer some few observations in allusion to the subject. According to the principle contended for by the Administra- tion now in power, before they came into office, place was to be given to those who were eligible to fill it, and whose ser- vices to the country had been such as to give them a strong claim upon the Administrative justice ; yet, what has been their conduct to me — one of the strongest supporters and pub- lic advocates of those principles which secured to them their seats in the present Executive Council of the country ? We shall see. Putting aside a claim which is recognized in all civilized and polished countries — that of literature, purely incidental even as the gift may be — 1 must be permitted, and I trust without subjecting myself to a charge of egotism, to refer to an article which has appeared in the very last number (the March) of The United Servicr Mn^nmie, under the head of B / / / I '• Corrrspoml(-nce," and entitled "Cenenil lirock and llie 41sf IleginuMit." The services therein detailed are my f-erviccs ; lor I shared the danj^ers and the gh)ries of the gailnnt n^giment alluded to, and that at a period when tlie greater number of those men who now fill the high oflice ol" Executive Council- lers knew Canada l)ut by name. 'J'his, tlien, according to Lord Stanley, constituted sonw. claim upon the Government of this country, which should, in common Justice, have been sooner acknowledged than it was. I have been describ'.Mi by some, and supposed by others, to )>e a mere oHicre-seeker — a hanger-on of the Oovernment, and without othrr claim than what my own importunity has put forth. I nnist, for thc^ first time, undeceive the public, and justify myself. In 183H, and after many years of absence, 1 returned to this country, furnished with letters of introduction from the present CJovernor-(Teneral of India, the gallant and indomitably high-spirited Sir Henry Ilardinge, to Sir John Colborne, now Lord Seaton ; and from Lord Ciilenelg, the then Secretary of the Colonies, to Sir Francis Bond Head, whom I met at New York, on his way home. The i-equest contained in the letter ol his Lordship, that Sir Francis Head would give me a suitable appointment in the country, was referred, by the latter, to Sir George Arthur, to whom 1 presented the letter, on my arrival in Toronto. Circumstances later brought me into close and confidential communication with the Earl of Durham, whose policy, as unfolded to me by himself, and particularly his plans for the introduction of Responsible Government, 1 approved, as fitted to the exigencies of the country, and, on several occasions, advocated in England. For these and other services rendered to his Government, Lord Durham was good enough to ask me if there was any situation in the country vacant that I would accept from him. I, however, declined this offer, partly because, although I had been provided with the letters in question, I was then in a position to disregard office, and, secondly, be- cause I could more consciensciously and sincerely serve his Lordship if unclogged by a sense of obligation. Lord Durham was profuse in his promises of future support, siiould 1 ever i D ; r> require it; and, h.id he lived, I doubt not that I should have obtained any a[)[)ointmeiit liis known hi^h inlluenct; couUl command, not in tiiis country, but in Europe. He died, how- ever, shortly after his return home, and with him perished my well-ground<^d hopes of reward for advocating in England, at a subsequent loss to myself of four hundred a year, his g«meral North American policy, and especially his views of Responsi- ble Government for Canada. I am no toady ; nor can I play the fawning, truculent cour- tier to each succeeding Governor, and pay to all an equal homage. It was not until a month before Lord Sydenham's death that I ever saw that nobleman, or could bring myself to communicate to him the position of intimacy to which I had been admitted by his predecessor. I sent, for his perusal, various letters from Lord Durham, confirmatory of the fact, and soon aftej'vvards waited upon him. His Lordship remark- ed that my claims were great, especially (rom the pecuniary sacrifice I had made, and said that nothing could reflect more favorably on me than the terms of confidence I had enjoyed with Lord Durham, as exemplified in his letters to me ; and finished by assuring me that my name should not be forgotten in the filling up of certain oflices about to be created under the new system. That was the first and last time I saw Lord Sydenham. He died soon afterwards, and no record appears to have been made of his intentions in my favor. During the interregnum which succeeded to Lord S'ydenham's death, these claims were submitted to the Ex, :;5'tive, and subse- quently to Sir Charles Bagot. But I was informed that Par- liamentary influence, not capability, was necessary to ensure place ; and Lord Glenelg's, and subsequently Lord Stanley's, recommendations were disregarded. But the door was not yet wholly closed against me, and I had still a hope, albeit the frownings of the selfish monster — Responsible Government — which I had helped to create only to be destroyed by it, that my claims would yet be appreciated and entertained. The intelligence of Sir Charles Metcalfe's appointment as Governor-General reached this, and the beauty of the character of that distinguished statesman — both public 6 and private — us rvidcnciul in liis past riin*<;r, not only filltMl me with deep love and veneration lor liini as i\ man, but led me at onc(^ to pcreeive thiit his uncrriiii^ aiid utiswcrvinjjf sense of justiee would cause that to hv eoncreded which no honest Government couUI eonsistiwUly deny. Nor was I wronji: in my estimates of Sir Charles' charact«'r. He read over, in my pre- sence, the numerous conlidcntial letters whicli 1 had (jrcviously su))mitted to Lord Sydcnluim, ns well as one contnininff a lull exposition of my claims, and nddressed to himscdf. Ilr assured me that, as far as Responsible (lovcrnmcnt would cnabh; him, he would reward my services. Sitiee th(^ change of Adminis- tration, and T am well aware of this fact, Lord Metcalfe sought, in frei cut instfinces, to have me noniinatcnl to office, but was oppos(!d by his Council. Nay, even the appointment I so recently held was ffiven to me with their reluctant con- sent, and virtually by his Excellency alone, who, on my takinie: leave of him for the last tim(% st.ated that this was the only situation he had been enabled to procui'e i'or me thnt, but that if I acquitted myself of the duty imposed uf)on me in a satis- factory manner, something better and more permanent would be the reward of my exertions at their termination. How far I have accjuitted myself of an arduous and unen- viable duty, in the satisfactory manner expected of me, the correspondence which follows will show. Mr. Higginson's letter, written to me since my return to Montreal — and to this I call particular attention — clearly establishes the late Gover- nor-General's opinion of my services, and tliefact of difficulties having been " purposely" thrown in my way. But no discharge of my duty, however satisfactory in itself, could obtain from the Administration the slightest aid in the removal of the ob- stacles referred to. They co [Id not forgive or overlook the fact of my appointment not having been the result of their own recommendation. In a measure insulting the nomination by him, who had called themselves into being as guardians of the public weal, and distributors, according to merit or fitness for office, of the public patronage, they only waitt^d until his Lordship should have left these shores, to adopt such a course — such measures — as would lead the country to believe that I i i thai iioMciniiri litid lUMdr an injiKlir'iotH appointiurnt. Aiul it i« this ('(Hiscrvafivr AdniiiiisliMlioii, coinposrd ol iiidivijIualM vvlio have ever IxM'ri loud in dciiiiiiciatioii of tlir iililxTality and pn-jiidifM' ol'fhrir pn-dccrssoi's — nssmnin;!^ to flicrnsclvcs all the talriit and pidjli** virtiu^ of llu* I'rovincc, — who luiw ihus dan-d, hy irnpra'ation and indirectly, to wound ihci hand which rostrrcd thrm into politiral lifr. It nuist not he supposed that I have only my own conjec- tures, and the association of circumstances to which I hav«; alluded in my correspondence with the Provincial Secretary, to bear mc out in the just indi^niation I entertain at the un- worthy treatment I have experienced from the Administration — from those who, even puttiufj; all other (urcumstances Jiside, ought to have evinced more respect for a nomination to office made by Lord Metcalfe. Even since the termin.'ition of my correspondence witli the Provincial Secretary, it has been stated to me l)y an ollicer und(M* the Ciovernment, who has had good opportunity of making himself accjuainted with the mat- t(!r, f)ut whose name I do not, for obvious reasons, disclose, that my appointment to the ollicc; of Sup(lily, not only to my own puhlic character — to l> One word more. The whoh^ of the correspondence with the Government I have thouj?ht it unnecessary to publish, because although what is held back is of a nature to show the services performed by me in a much stronger light than what I have selected, my object has been principally to point out the con- secutive links in the chain which, leading to my official com- plaint to the Government of the culpable neglect of duty of the Board of Works, was eventually mad(^ to serve as a pre- text for the reduction of my force. J. RICHARDSON. / (JOmiESl'ONDENCE. 18 Skchktahy's Okkick, > ntreal, \HUli May, 1H45. \ Mmitr Sir, — I am coinirmiulfd by tlio Gdvernor-Ooiu'ral t(j inlorm you Jliut a viicQiKiy lias occurred in the oH'icn of SupcrintcMuk'nt of I\»li(;tj on the Wflluad ('uiiiil, iiiidoi' tli«' luto Act for the PrrscM'vutioii of the IVacc on tln^ I'uhlic VVorlis ; and I am to iiMjuest yon will ac<|naint niu, t()r His K.xcidloncy's intbrmation, at your earliust cuavL-nieiice, whether it Mill suit your views to accept it. With refer(Mic(( to the sahiry attached to the ttfTlce, I am to state that it has been fixed at ten shillin).f.s per (hiy, in full of all allowances, while your services may be required ; but you are to understanvt that they may be dispensed with at any time when Ilia Excellency may consider it expedient for the public interest. 1 have the honor to be, &c. |Si Montreal, 2iHh May, 1845. ^ Sir, — 1 am commanded by the iiovernor-General to acquaint you, with reference to your appointment to the ollice of Superintendent of Police on the Welland Canal, that His Excellency is desirous that you should proceed with all convenient speed to the scene of your duties, where you will receive over from Mr. Benson, the present Superintendent, the charge of the Police establishment. 10 i i Mr. Benson will be al)le to give you .such general in format ion as you may require, and will point out to you any oi' the laborers who are supposed to be ringleaders, or mischievous charactej's. Vou will also receive inlbrniation, as totlie I'eeling amotig the work- men employed on the Canal, from the Rev. Mr. M'Donogh, whose aid you will probably find valuable in your endeavours to preserve the peace. Mr. Benson will explain to you the amount of the Force connected with the Police Establishment, and tiieir rates of pay. The persons who have received appointments in the establishment have performed their duties satisfactorily, and are persons against whose efficiency or character there has been no just cause of com- plaint. Mr. Benson will also transfer to you the instructions which have been, from time to time, given to him, and any official correspondence or other inf )rmation in his possession. You will, as soon as you have entered upon your duties, report your having done so to me, for His Excellency's information, with any remarks or observations upon any matters with which you con- sider it necessary His Excellenr3y should be made acquainted. You will likewise make monthly reports to tiiis otVice, for His Ex- cellency's information, as to the state of the Police Force, and of the workmen along the line of Canal, and on other occasions where mat- ters occur which you deem it necessary to bring under His Excel- lency's immediate notice. When 'you require any information on subjects connected with the Works, you will aj)ply to the Chairman of the Board of Works, who has been directed to atlbrd you all such information as may be in his power. I am only to add that His Excellency trusts that, through your exertions, and prudence, and discretion, you may eventually be able to preserve the public peace Mith even a less establishment than that now employed, which it may probably l)e possible to reduce as the works approach completion, and the number of workmen diminished. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] D. DALY, Secretary. Major Richardsmi, Montreal. Siri'T. OF Police Office, ) Alhmhurgh, Juno mii, 1845. \ Sir, — FTaving, by command of His Excellency the Governor-Crene- ral, assumed the charge of the Police Force on the Wellaiid Canal, 1 herewith, in conformity with the lOth clau.se of the new Act for the Better Preservation of the Peace on the Public Works, which directs that the costs of the arming and equip|)it)g of the Mounted Police be paid out of the monies appropriated for the works on which such ex- penses shall be respectively incurred, transmit to you a requisition for the arms and equipment necessary to the force under my command. ,1 I // 11 It being a part of my instructions to place the establishment on such a looting as may admit of the reduction of its number, with a view to a diminution of the expense of the force upon the public, and I finding that by purging it of several insubordinate and useless characters, whose conduct is not less subversive of order and discipline than preg- nant with evil example to their conu'ades, it may safely be reduced from its present heterogenous compliment to fifteen mounted men, ex- clusive of officers, and liiis with a saving to the public of nearly two hundred a-year on this line, have adopted tiie resolution of reducing the force to the number I have named. And this latter information I atlbrd to you in order that you may perceive that the exigencies of the service require that no time should bo lost in the full and effective arming of the force. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, h. II. Kil/nly, Esq. Snpt. of Police, Welland Canal, Chairman Board of Works, Montreal. Board of Works, Montreal, I2th June, 1845. Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your commu- nication of the Oth inst., relative to being furnished with arms for the Welland Canal Police, and, with reference thereto, to inform you that it shall be laid before the Board at their next meeting. I am. Sir, &c. [Signed] John Richardson, Esq. Snpt. of Police, Welland Canal. THOMAS A. BEGLY, Sec. 15. \ Board of Works, Montreal, ^Ist June, 1845. Sir, — In fui'ther reference to your letter of the 6th inst., I have the honor to inform you that your requisition has been laid before the Board of Works, by whom it has l)een decided that the Office of the Provincial Secretary is the proper channel for all Police affairs. With this understanding, your letter has been transferred to that officer for action. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] THOMAS A. BEGLY, Sec. .lohn Richardson. E^:/. Siipt. of Police, Welland Canal. .V 12 11 f Allaiiburgh, 30/A June, 1846. Sir, — Having been apprized that it is the intention of certain of the contractors along the line of WoUand Canal to give a holiday to their workmen on the 4th July, in celebration of American Independence, and such xiidulgtuicc, if granted, being replete with the utmost danger to the public peace, I have to request that you will instantly issue an order to the several contractors under your charge, prohibiting the leave in contemplation. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, Supt. of Police Sf Special Magistrate, S. Power, Esq. Chief Engineer, Board of Works, St. Catherines. 1 I 'i St. Catherines, July 1st, 1845. Sir, —I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ult., and to inform you that there is not any clause in the contract which authorizes me to prohibit the contractors from giving a holiday to their workmen, when such a measure is not likely to interfere with the proper execution of the work, or its completion in due time. These considerations only can justify my interference in such a matter. The contractors have always evinced the strongest desire to support those charged with the preservation of the peace, and I am certain that they will attend to any suggestion you make, if good reasons be assigned . I would myself, in compliance with your request, advise the con- tractors to abstain from this measure, but you have not stated the reasons which lead you to apprehend that disturbances are more likely to occur on the 4th July next than on any other of the many days which the workmen consider as holidays. I have the honor to be, &c. Major Richardson, [Signed] S. POWER. Supt. ^c. (f*c. (^c. SuPT. OF Police Office, > Allanburgh, July iird, 1845. ^ Sir, — In reply to your note of the 1st inst., which I only received last evening, on my return from a short absence on duty connected with the Police Force, and which states your inability to compel the contractors under your direction to adopt a course of conduct with their men the most conducive to the preservation of the public peace, I have to ofler the following remarks : — In the first instance, I have to regret that the head of the Board of Works — an officer of the Government on the Welland Canal — should I I the leir ce, iger an the I 13 p have 80 little authority or influence over men who are paid out of the public purse as to be incapable of prevailing on them to forego the granting of indulgences which are pregnant with apprehension, if not with art! cvil. Yet, « ndly, I would call to your attention, that your answer to my letter, requiring you to use your influence with the contractors on the subject at issue, involves a seeming contradiction, inasmuch as, in the first part of it, you deny the efficacy of your intervention, and yet conclude with a declaration that, if good reasons can be assigned, you will advise the contractors to abstain from granting the indulgence referred to, " but that you have not stated tiie reasons which lead you to apprehend that disturbances are more likely to occur on the 4th of July next than any other of the numerous days which the workmen consider as holidays." I certainly am not aware that i am compelled to give any reason to any person employed on this Canal, the superintendence of which is confided to my judgment and discretion ; but as you seem desirous to have those for your guidance, I shall, while regretting that they should not be equally obvious to yourself, proceed to give them seriatim. Firstly, The 4th of July is not a day recognized in this country as as a holiday. Its ccleljration here cannot lail to convey a marked in- sult to those wlio are not American in their prcdelictions and principles, Seconldy, If moving, as many of them undoubtedly will, to the American shore, for the purpose of celebrating this Independence, the unusual excitement among so many hundreds of turbulent men, cannot fail to be attended by riot and excess of some kind. Thirdly, If, on the other hand, any })ortion of these remain on the Canal, and there celebrate the 4th of July, such celebration must necessarily create a feeling of anger and indignation among the loyal portion of the people of this District, and doubtless will be productive of serious collision. Fourthly, Some days must elapse before order is restored, and the apprehensions of such of Her Majesty's subjects as may reside on the line of route taken by these people finally removed by their return to their customary labor. Fifthly, There must necessarily be a strong excitement growing out of this national jubilee, which will not allow the day to be con- sidered in the light in which you socm to regard it ; and this of itself induces serious cause hr apprehension. And lastly, Should a single drop of blood be shed, or a serious riot result from the indulgence against which I have protested, I shall at least be sensible that 1 have used all the means in my power to pre- vent it, by calling in aid of my authority that influence which you seem to think unnecessary, but which I conceive to be most important. I have the honor, &c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, Stipendiari) Magi.strntP 8f Supf. of Pnlire, S. Power, Esq. Welland Canah Chief Engineer Board of Works, St. Catherines. 14 SuPT. OF Police Opfk"!;, } Allanhurgk, July Ibili, ltt45. ^ Sir, — There is a inost inipDituiit point connecteil with tlie discipline of the Force under my coiinnand, which I have to request you will submit for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor Cieneral. The Arms Bill Act, in authorizinf^ the raising- and mounting of a certain number of men, makes no allusion whatever to the punishment to be awarded to those who disobey my orders. Several persons, and, 1 have no hesitation in stating, Mr. Benson at tlioir head, are assiduous in counselling a part of my force to disobey my connnands, assuring them that I have no power to punish or coerce them. This very day an instance of the kind has occurred ; and the party has come in drunk, and braved me to my teeth. The Bill alFords me no power of punish- ment; and I urgently entreat that my authority may be enforced by a proper knowledge of my own ])ower to punish the refractory. A number of pettifoggers are closely watching me, to see if I have re- course to any mode of visiting the insubordination of my men not recognized by law, and prohibited by the Act under which they have been enlisted. It is worthy of remark, that the only instances of in- subordination which have occurred have been confined to the remain- der of the old force. I trust no delay may occur in the transmission of the necessary in- structions on the subject so all-important to the discipline of the corps. I have the honor, &c. (Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Stipendiary Magi strafe <^ Siipt. of Police, The Hon. D. Daly, WeJ/and Canal. Provincial Secretary. SuPT. OF Police Office, i Allanhurgh, July 22nd, 184.'i. <^ Sir, — 1 have to report to you, for the inibnnation of His Excellency the Governor General, one of the most extraordinary outrages that ever was perpeuated, under the plea of legality, upon an ofHcer of the Government. In my last comnumication, I stated the difliculty under which I labored in regard to the puiiislnnent of the disobedient of my force, and the utter inability T experienced, from the absence of due provision in the Act. to arrive at any accuiate knowledge of my power over them. Others have been as nmch alive to this oversight asmyseif; and hence has arisen a plot or cabal among a set of insolent persons, — of whom I have no hesitation in believing my predecessor, Mr. Benson, to be one of the leaders, — to induce my men to act in such a way as would commit me into a breach of the law, by assuming powers of punishment 1 did not actually possess, This, however, I have care- fl m m ^. m i w -5 i'ri by 1 ag 1 aj he I % ■h ^62 /5 15 I ■1 % I \ fully avoided, preferring rather to subinii to the very great inconve- nience, than to have recourse to any step of a doubtful nature. Yet, notwithstanding this, a most gross outrage has been authorized upon me, under a legal pretext, by a person whom I have never seen, an(i whose competency to fill the otiice of a Magistrate may be interred from the enclosed (I kjiow not what to call it,) which was sent to me by him, early in the i)rcsent month. Even admitting tlie power of one Magistrate to grant a warrant against another, under the very improbable causes assigned by the applicant, — namely, that his life was in danger from me, and that I had removed him to a distant station, in order that I might the better succeed in burning his house ; — admittijig, I repeat, that one Magis- trate could have been vindictive enough to have granted a warrant against another on such a {)lea, it is quite clear that he had no right to interfere between any individual of my force and myself, and to issue a warrant against me as the Superintendent of Police, subject rather to a military tribunal than to the authority of a local Magistrate. But it is not simply the arrest of which I complain, but the circum- stances of gross outrage under which it was made. These are but imperfectly detailed in the accompanying statement of the young man who acts as a clerk in my ollice, who was made to share in my arrest, in a spirit of vindicliveness only. Nay, the constable to whom the war- rant was directed, and who served it in a manner well worthy of those who had evidently preconcerted the whole affair, with a view to my mortification and antici])ated resistance, was the very individual, George Stoker, whose misconduct, on my joining the force, I have already rc])orted to the Government, and who has since been the intimate of ]\Ir. Benson and Captain Macdonald, of the Colored Com- pany, stationed at Port Rolnnson, against the latter of whom J have been under the necessity of preferring charges, connected with this subject, for the consideration of the Major-General commanding in Canada West. Without being able to adduce any positive proof of the fact, circum- stances are too glaring not to lead those who have watched their movements to the assurance that the whole of this allkir has been got up by the parties above named; and that the climav of the insult offered to me was to entrust their nuitual friend and companion (Stoker, a district constable) with the execution of a warrant, which was served on me under circumstances of violence and indignity, and in the presence of numerous persons, which could not have been sur- passed had 1 been apprehended as the worst of felons. Not knowing how to act, and unwilling to opjwse any resistance to the law, 1 calmly submitted to the affront, and was taken, with the constable Stoker seated as a "guard in the same carriage;, and puffing his filthy tobacco smoke in my face, towards the destination intended for me. Another dis- carded policeman followed close in the rear. To show the animus by which the radical and illiterate Magistrate was cToverned, he had caused the warrant to he made special, and \ 16 returnable to himself, although he lived nearly halfway up the lino of Canal from AUanburgh, thereby obviously seeking to expose me, iu the character of a prisoner, to the laborers, and thus bring the Police into contempt with them. The conduct of Mr. M'Farland,* in this matter, I cannot too highly applaud. Had he not, in some degree, frustrated the plot that was in contemplation, by coming down to me at an early hour in the day, and advising my entering into voluntary recognizances, I must neces- sarily have gone to the Magistrate issuing the warrant, and in all probability been detained some hours before I could procure the ne- cessary bail. Even when taken before him, (and I was obliged to despatch one of my own men to apprize him of what was being done, and to request him to meet and stop the carriage on its way) he had great diiBcultyin inducing the brutal constable to be satisfied with the recognizances taken by himself in the morning, and which he produced and read ; and only succeeded on stating that, if farther removal was attempted after this had been exhibited, the act would be one of the most grievous oppression. Captain Macdonald mixed himself with the crowd at the door, and I distinctly heard him utter an expression of impatience when, on the names of my bail being read by Mr. M'Farland, he found them to be legally unexceptionable. Under these circumstances of flagrant abuse of the magisterial au- thority, I respectfully submit to the Government whether their own dignity is to be vindicated, or their officers supported by those whose duty it is rather to aid than to thwart tiiem. The Hon. D. Daly, I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, Supt. of Police, Welland Canal. Provincial Secretary, Montreal. Sp^cretary's Office, Montreal, 19th July, 1845 Sir, — I am commanded by the Governor-General to acknowledge the receipt of your report of the 8th inst., detailing your proceedings for the apprehension of Jesse Raimy, and to acquaint you, in reply, that His Excellency highly approves of your having successfully exerted yourself to apprehend him. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] D. DALY, Secrefarj/. J. Richardson, Esq. Supt. of Police, AUanburgh. I * The Magistrate for Port Robinson. > the lino se me, iu he Police tx) highly at was in the day, 1st neces- nd in all e the ne- >bliged to sing done, ') he had with the produced loval was me of the self with ixpression 1 by Mr. terial au- their own Dse whose lJOR, Canal. FICE, 1845. nowledge oceedings in reply, 3cessfully •refarj/. '51 S3 r's Offick, ) hig. 1, 1845. J 17 Secretary' Montreal f A tig. Sir, — I have the lionor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd inst., complaining of the conduct of John llelmes, Esq. J. P., in certain procct dings taken against you at the suit of Chambers VV. Shannon, one of the Police force under your command, and I am to acquaint you in reply that Mr. Helmes will be called upon to explain his conduct. In the meanwhile, I am also to mention that an application has been received from Shannon, desiring to be permitted to withdraw from the Police force — a copy of which I transmit for your observations ; and I am to desire that, if not already dismissed, he may, on receipt hereof, at once be discharged. At present, it appears to the Governor-General that you have un- necessarily been subjected to a gross allront in the discharge of your public duty, and I am directed to inform you that His Excellency will always support you in all proper proceedings. )|< D* >K It « >K I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] D. DALY, Pro. Sec, John Richardson^ Esq. Supt. of Police, Allanhurgh. Secretary's Office, Montreal, July 24i/t, 1845 Sir, — On receipt of your report on the 11th ult., intimating your having assumed the command of the Police on the Welland Canal, and which report contained several charges against your predecessor, Mr. Benson, flis Excellency considered it due to that gentleman to transmit him a copy thereof, in order that he might have an opportu- nity of making such observations thereon as he might consider neces- sary for his vindication ; and having been, with the complaint, care- fully considered by His Excellency, I have been directed to transmit a letter to Mr. Benson, of which I am to enclose you a copy for your information. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] John Richardson, Esq. Supt. of Police, Welland Canal. D. DALY, Pro. Sec. Secretary's Office, Montreal, July 2Uh, 1845 Sir, — I am commanded by the Governor-General to acknowledge the receipt of your letter received on the 19th inst., and containing >l 18 observations on the complaint made a Allanbargh, October 10th, 1845. I Sir, — I have the honor to report to you, for the information of His Excellency the Governor General, that every thing has been lor some time tran(juil on the Wellaml CJanal, and that, although some appre- hension may be entertained of turbulence when the advanced state of the season shall have compelled some cessation of the labors of the canallers, I nevertheless trust to be enabled, — acting in concert with their respectal)le and esteemed pastor, whose chief solici- tude is the preservation of order among his charge, — to prevent any repetition of those scenes of violer;ce which had formerly been enacted on this Canal. The good and uninterrui)ted understanding which subsists between the Rev. Mr. M'Donogh and myself, is obvious to the whole of the workmen on the Canal, and cannot but prove a means of strengthening my authority, should occasion require its emphaiic exercise ; and, moreover, T am hai)py to add, that my Ibrce are now in that high state of discipline and organization which best imposes upon the multitude. I have the honor to bo, &c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, The Hon. V. Daly. Supt. of Police, Welland Canal. Provincial Secretary, Montreal. Surx. OF Police Office, > Allanbiirgh, Deer. 2Qth, 1845. \ Sir, — In forwarding the Pay Lists for the present month, I deem it imperative to call your attention to the very irregular manner in which the Police force arc paid, and the necessity existing for an im- mediate change. If I am correctly informed, there is an oflTicer employed by the Board of Works, at a salary of some hundreds a-year, whose especial duty it is to go round at stated periods, and liquidate the claims of those connected with the Board, on obtaining their signatures. p N? 19 1 Yet, nntvvithslaiuliiig this, my men are obliged, each month, to ride, some of thorn live-aiicl-twenty miles, in onicr to receive a pay which ouglit to be handed to thiMii on tiie .sj)ot wjien.' they arc stationed, and on the precise day on which it hecoin(;s due. This cannot be done at less than a dollar of expense to each of the men, and without great inconvenience. Tliat it has been usual with you to pay to one the orders of several I am well aware, but this is a system neither sanctioned by military usage, nor correct nor safe in principle ; for it might happen, although constituted as the force at present is such danger is not to be appre- hended, that a man, intemling to desert from the force, might avail himself of this oj)poriunity to appropriate to his own use the sums drawn for his comrades, and in such case, where, to the latter, would be the remedy ? Tin's is a possible contingency not to be risked, and I have therefore to request that you will adoj)t the necessary steps to cause the payment of the force under my command at their several stations, on the 1st of each ensuing month, — that is, provided 1 am correctly informed that there is an olllccr connected with the Board of Works who.w iluty it is to liquidate the accounts of parties receiving money from your otfice. You will perceive that the necessity for not drawing the men from their stations to receive that which should be paid them on the spot, becomes the more imperative as that season advances, when their services can be so little dispensed with from their several stations. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] .1. RICHARDSON, Major, Geo, PrcficoU, Eaq. Supt. of Police, Welland Canal. Paymaster to PoUcr. Force, Board of Works, St. Cntharines. Welland Canal Office, > St. Catharines, Oct. 25th, 1845. J Sir, — I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this day's date, on the subject of the payment of the Police Force. My reasons for paying the men at the olfice was for the sake of receiving the de- ductions and paying the men before Mr. Adams could go up, which generally happens about the 20th of the month. It will be quite im- possible for him to go before that time, as it would interfere with his other work, which has to be prepared for the Board by the 10th. As the Board has not sent any money, and the Banks refuse to advance any more, 1 cannot say when the payment will be made in November. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] GEO. PRESCOTT. Major Richardson, Paymaster. Supt. of Police, Allanburgh. D -i ; ill ^'I'T. OF Poi.icK Offici:, } anbur^h, Oct. 'Zi^th, 1845. \ 20 St Allanbi Sill, — III uiiswfr to your cnniinunication of this day, I have to ac- (juaiut you thiit 1 shall forward, forthc iiifijrinatioii of tlio Goveriiineiit, u copy of that note, to;,rf'th(>r ^\ ith one of that tn \\\\[v\\ it is a reply, accompanied i)y such ic-nuuks us 1 may deem it necessary to oiler on the subject. am, I [Signed] George PrrscoU, Eaq. rdi/innskr Po/icc Force, Board of WorkSf S(. Cdiharincs. Sir, 6cc. J. RICHARDSON, Mator, Svpt, of Police, Wclland Canal. Niagara, Canada Wkst, 'J5//i October, 1845. Sir, — I have the lionor to .send you herewith a copy of a letter ^vhicll I received froin the Assistant Quarter Master General of the District. In compliance with which I have to request that you will inform me when the Board of Works may have provided the necessary as- commodations for twenty rank and lile as well as for a subaltern ofFi- eer, in order that I may see the same, to enable nic to report, ibr the information of the Major General commanding. I have the honor to be, &:c. . [Signed] \VM. ELLIOT, Lieut. Col Major Richardson, And Col. Comdg. JSiagara Frontier. Supt. of Police, Wellund Canal, Allanhurgh. District 609. Asst. Qr. Master Generafs Office. Sill, — With reference to yours of the iiOth instant, and to its inclo- sure from the Superintendent of Police on the Welland Canal, wherein that officer recommends a jjortion of the Colored Company being sta- tioned at " Junction " for reasons therein set forth — 1 have the honor to ae({uaint you that the Major General Command- ing approves of a subaltern ofilcer and twenty rank and file being quartered at " Junction," to be detached from the Head Quarters of the Com})any at Port Robinson, as soon as the Board of Works shall have provided the necessary accommodations for such a party, and after it shall have been approved of by you, which you will be pleased to report to me for the information of the Major-General. 1 have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] F. A. MACKENZIE FRAZER, Lieut. Col. Elliot, K.H. Lieut. Col. Asst. Qr. M. Genl. Commanding ^c. ^-c. Niagara. 3 i ^ '/ 21 Siii'T. OF Police Offici:, ^ A/hmhiirgh, Octohcr '-lltli, Hlo. \ Sir, — I liave tho honor to enclost! to you copii-.s of letters tVom Col. Elliot, Commanding the District, and f'njm the tiuurtor Master (Jeiieral in (Canada West, on the suhjoct of the Barracks re(jiiireil for a detaeh- ment of troops at the Junction; and have to request that you will ho pleased to state to me in reply, in order that [ may satisfy the authori- ties in question, the period, or prohuhU; period, \vh(>n tin; accommoda- tion referred to will be jiroposcd for a detachment of ono ollicer and twenty men. I have tho honor, &c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, iS. Power, Esq. Snpt. of Police, Wdland Canal. Chief Engineer, Board of Works, St. Catharines. [It is necppsiiry here to remnrk tliat the order of the Major Gonernl Coinninnding the District was Hoii^ht lo be detoatcd, or rendered null, by the Captniii of the Colored Company, stalioned nt Fort RoltiiiHoii, who liad throughout been one of the most aetive and zealous opponents of the new force, and who essayed, by every devire and cunninj;, to throw impcdinients in its way ; and it certainly is but natu- ral to infer that no i)erson lioldiiiir a conmiission and haviiii^ connnaiul over n body of men, wiio were subjei^t to tiie orders of the Supeiintendent of Police, would thus have acted had he not been secretly supported by some higher power. So llas^rant was his conduct indeed, that he was tried before a Court of Inquiry in .Fuly last, but up to this hour no report of the result lias ever reached (me) the prosecutor. In order to prevent his men from beinp; detached, he reported to Col. Elliot that the " Junction" was an unhealthy station, and this gave rise to the farther correspond- ence on the aubjeet wlncli follows. Doctor Campbell, tlio surgeon attached to the Colored Corps, did not agree with Captain Macdonald that the siation was then an unhealthy one, and his report confirmed Colonel L^Uiot in his origiual decision. J Vest, > to. \ Niagara, Canada W 27i/i Octuher, 1845. Sir, — In reference to my letter to you of the 2.'jth instant, and it having come to my knowledge that the vicinity of the Junction is in a very unhealthy state from fever, I have the honor to request that you will satisfy youv.self that it has entirely disappeared before you call on the Board of Works to pro- pare accommodation for the detachment, as otherwise 1 should most assuredly recornmend, under existing circumstances, the order for sending this detachment might be suspended. I should recommend the certificate of Dr. Campbell on this subject, and I shall therefore call upon him for that purpose. 1 have the honor to be, «Scc. [Signed] WM. ELLIOT, Lieut. Cof. Major Richardson, Commanding Niasrara Frontier. Supt. of Police, Wel/and Canal. 22 li SUPT. OF I'OLICK OfKiCK. i Allanbur^^h, Oct. 'ilth, lb4r>. \ Sir, — \n roply to your cornniunication of lliis day's date, in rcfer- enco to the rcjH)i1».>d uiihi'altliiii* vss of tlio ** Juiiclion," 1 1j('<^ to state that during' the j)ast siiiiiincr tho sickncbs along the lino of Canal was nioro severe than usual, and I believe even more so at tiie Junction than at any other point. That siekncss, JiDwevor, has, at this advancod season of the year, almost wholly disapjx'ined ; and hy ihc time tlu; Ijuilding intended for tho acco»nmo(hitiftn (d'tho detuehmcMit yhall have been completed, (No- vember or December,) no vestige of it will remain, nor need a renewal of it be apprehended until the ensiiini!: smnmer, v hen, if necessary, the troops can be removed to their oriuinal destination lor the season. The time when troo[)s are most recpiired at the Junction is the win- ter, when that station is nut more unhealthy than any other along the line. Previous to the receipt of your communication of this morning, I had written to tho ('hief En;j;ineer of tlu; Board of Works to know when they (the barracks) would be in readiness. I liave the honor to be, &c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Majok, Siipt. of Police Wetland Canal. Lieut. Col. Elliot^ K. II. ^•C. 4'C. C^'C. Commanding Niagara Fron'ier, Niagara. Allaubiirgh, dOth Oct., 1845. My dear Sir, — As there is some intention to place a portion of the Colored Company stationed at Port Robinson at the Junction, and as there appears to be an under current at work to defeat that very im- portant object, on the plea of unhealthiness of the Post, 1 shall feel obliged if you, as the spiritual visiter of the sick, will be good enough to St; te to me in writing, for the information of the oflicer commanding the District, what you conceive to be the state of the Junction gene- rally, and especially during the season when miasm? i,i I'liger pre- vails — that is to say, from the present moment up to May or j-jo'i next. I have pleasure in copying the following extract frc i n '..»>• -vhich I received a day or two since from the Government : — " His Excellency is also slad to hear that the Reverend Mr. M'Donogh's exertions for the p"^motion of tranquillity, have been so successful." I have the honor to be, &c. feigned] J. RICHARDSON, Major, The Rev- W, P hiDonogh, Supt. of Police, Welland Canal. Catholic Viistor, St. Catharines. of H 7^ 23 St. Catharines, Oct. 'Mst, 1845. My DEAH Sill, — ill ri'^)i\iii^ to ycjur iioto of y<-'' in tiaj assist. uu'jc alli>rdi tlu^ lahorers on ilio I'ldilic VV'(n-ks. Antl <,av(^ mo leave to assum you that it ^'ive» an impetus to my humhle exertions in that |)arlieular, ti> liavf! you to co-operatt! with, in whom I have every share dI coiilidenee, from tho admiral)lo orditr you estahlishiMl in the organizatiou oi the Police Force, who keep up a military appearance and orde'^ly conduct. At all times 1 shall feel most happy to render you any assistance in my power, — and helieve me, My dear Sir, With very great respect, &.(*. [Signed] W. P. MDONOGH, Major Richardson, Catholic Pastor. Stipendiary Magistrate Sf Supt. of Police, Atlanhiirnh. Stone Bridge, Oct. 2{)th, 1845. Sir, 1 have the honor to state to you, with respect to tije healthi- ness of the Junction, that during three months of the year, commencing about th( 1st of July, a good deal of sickness is always prevalent there. As for the remainder of the year, I have always ki.own it to be a healthy place. I am aware of the Colored Company having been stanoned at Broad Creek, which 1 consider a more unhealthy place than tne June- lion , but it was not then during the sickly ssason of the year, which is generally alxiut four months. All along the line of Canal it is as healthy as any other part of the country can be during the winter. The sickly time does not com- menr-e till about the first of July. With respect to the necessity there exists of the Junction becoming a Military Station, I beg to observe that / consider it a most important ,.: I 24 one for the presence of troops, as the principal pari of the works on the Canal go on from there to Port Co/borne during the ivinter season. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] E. WHEELER, Major Richardson, Chief Constable. <^c. 4*c. ^c. Supt. of Police, Allanburgh. Junction, November 1st, 1845. Sir, — I beg leave to suggest that, in my opinion, three policemen are quite insufficient to maintain the peace of this station during the winter season, as there are now 475 men working from the Aqueduct to the tennhiation of Cheese-borough's work. The men have certainly been quiet fur some time back ; but that is owing to so many having been sick : but as the sickly season is now over, and all the men at work, after this pay day I am inclined to think they will not be peaceable. I am, Sir, your most obedient servt. [Signed] GEORGE LOGAN, Major Richardson, Sergeant in Charge. Supt. of Police, Allanburgh. Supt. of Police Office, > Allanburgh, Nov. 5th, 1845. \ Sir, — I have to request that you will, without delay, reply to my communication of the '27th ult., requiring to know, for the information of the General Officer Commanding the Troops in Canada West, and Colonel Eliott, Commanding the Niagara District, the probable period when the accommodation for an officer and twenty men, intended to be stationed at the Junction, will be completed. I cannot close this letter without remarking on the very great neo-- lect which exists somewhere in your Department, as manifested in the delay which has occurred in the transmission of the necessary infor- mation, which is of the highest importance to the officers alluded to. On Sunday last, you informed me verbally that that there was a com- munication in your office forme, and up to this day, (Wednesday,) nothing of the kind has been forwarded. I have the honor to be, &c. J. RICHARDSON, Major, .S. Power, Esq. Supt. of Police, Welland Canal. Chief Engineer, Board of Works, Si. Catharines. 4« ^orks on the ■ason. .ER, onstable. t, 1845. policemen during the Aqueduct i certainly ny having !n at worJf, aceable. JAN, Charge. FICE 1845 15. 5 ply to my I formation ^est, and t»le period tended to :reat neg. ted in the iry in for- lluded to. IS a com- nesday,) i Canal. % Alia SupT. OF Police Uffick, > llanbi/rgh, ISocr. 1th, 1845. ^ »SiR, — I have the honor to enclose to you a coMununieation which has just reached me, from the Chief Enirincer of the Board of Works,* in reply to my demand to know when tlie nt^cessary accommodations would be provided for an ollicer and twenty men of the Colored Company. 1 beg leave, at the same time, to transmit to you communications from parties well conversant ^vith the state of healtliiiiess of the .func- tion, and the necessity of having a force there during the winter. I have the honor to be, &zc. J. RICHARDSON, Major, Lieut. Col. Elliot, K. H. Supt. of Police, Wrllnnd Canal. Commdg. Niagara Frontier, Niagara. Sri'T. OF Poi>icE Office, ) Allanburgh, Noo. nth, 1*^45, ^ Sir, — I have the honor, in conformity whh the instructions I re- ceived on leaving Montreal, to transmit to you, for the inlormation of His Excellency the Governor-Oeneral, my monthly report of the affairs of the Welland Canal. No change has occurred since I forwarded my last communication, although the weather has recently been such as to cause a discontinu- ance of the labor, and consequently to place the workmen in that po- sition of idleness when disturbance is most to l)e apprehended ; nor, indeed, do I anticipate, even at a more advanced season, any serious dithculties, for the Major-General Conmianding in Canada West has granted an urgent request I made to him to have a portion of the ('o- iored troops so stationed that the several posts w ill be ready, on any pr(\ssing emergency, toaflbrd prompt communication and assistance. In the mean time, and in order to have them in that proper state of eliiciency and discipline which, more than any thing else, seems to im- pose upon the laborers, I have my men regularly drilled to the use of the broad sword, and taught such cavalry moveujcnts as may be most useful on the limited ground on which they would in all probability 1)6 required to act. For this purj)cse they assemble twice a week on two separate sections of the line, and I am happy to say that their profi- ciency is very great. 1 have, as one of the force, an excellent drill, late a non-commissiouf^d ofhcer in the King's Dragoon Guards, and he pays unremitting attention to a duty which is always overlooked by myself. Had the last month continued fine, I have no hesitation in r * Of this letter, which announced a reference to the Board in Montreal, a copy was omitted to be taken. i'f 26 saying, my small force of fifteen men would, by this time, hare been as perfect in their knowledge of cavalry movements as any Pro- vincial troop that has been hitiierto raised in the country. 1* V •p 1* V ▼ I have the honor to be, &;c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, The Hon. D. Bahj, Pro. Sec. Supt. of Police, We/Iand Canal. Montreal. Niagara, Canada West, > 24^/t Nov. 1845. \ Sir, — In reference to your letter addressed to me on the 18th of October last, I have the honor to inform you that I liave received authority from the Major-General Commanding in Canada West, to concentrate the companies of the Regiment under my command doing duty on the Welland Canal, at St. Catharines, and that I shall order the move from Thorold on the 1st proximo. I beg further to inform you that, as soon as you may be enabled, to let me know that the Board of Works have made provision for quar- tering a detachment of the Colored Company at the Junction, I will lose no time in sending them to occupy that post. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] WM. ELLIOTT, Lieut. Col. Major Richardson, Commanding Niagara Frontier. Svpt. of Police, Allanhurgh. Supt. of Police Office, > Allanhurgh, '2nd Bee. 1845. ^ Sir, — I have to request that you will be good enough to commu- nicate to me, at your earliest leisure, whether you have received any reply to your letter to the Board of Works in Montreal on the subject of the barrack proposed to be erected at the Junction, for the accom- modation of a portion of the Colored Company. The measure is at this moment, and during this inclement season, when disorder may be apprehended, of the first importance ; and if no answer has yet arrived to your letter, dated 31st of October, I shall feel it to be my duty to submit this gross neglect of the Major General's communication, on the part of the head of the Board of Works in Montreal, through the Government, to the Administrator of the Province, Lord Cathcart. I am. Sir, (S^c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, S. Power, Esq. Svpt. of Police, Welland Canal. Chief Engineer, Board of Works, St. Catharines. 27 SuPT. OF PoLicK Office, } Allanhurgh, December Sth, 1845. $ Sir, — 1 have the honor to report to you, for the information of His Excel- lency the Administrator of the Province, the very marked neglect of the Board of Works in Montreal, which has, throughout all its branches, evinc- ed the utmost disinclination to render the slightest assistance to the force un- der my command, although the written instructions I received from you led me to infer that the co-operalioii of that Department would, in all instances, be a(I()rded to the Mounted Police. So far from this being the case, the Head of the Board of Works here has made it a constant practice to take into the pay of his Dei)artment, those of the Police who have been dismiss- ed from this service. Nearly two months ago, Colonel Elliot, commanding the troops in the Nia- gara District, ol)tained, at my earnest solicitation, the sanction of Major- General Sir Richard Armstrong, that a portion of the Colored Company, stationed at Port Robinson, should be removed, for the winter, and during the period when disturbance is most to ho appreiiended, to the Junction — a post nearly e([iii-distaMt from Port Robinson and Stone Bridge, (near Port Col- borne,) where another detachment from this numerically strong Company is tjuartered. This step becomes the more important because I had been enabled, in anticipation of the movement being jiromptly effected, to comply with Col. Elliot's wish that a sub-division of his men then stationed at Thorold, sbould join the head-quarters of their Company at St. Catharines. Colonel Elliot has twice wriiteu to me to aciiuaint me that the colored troops have received orders to proceed to the Junction the moment the Barracks are re- ported to be in readiness ; and yet no step towards the preparation of a buildin."- has yet been taken, notwithstanding my repeated applications to the Head of the Board of Works here — that is to say, the chief Engineer on the Canal, who however, it appears wrote to the Board in Montreal for in- titructions on the subject, so long ago as the 3lst of October. No reply of any kind has yet been received. It is of deep importance that these troops should occupy the station to which ihcy have been named with as little delay as possible, for as win- ter has now been set in for some time, and with great bitterness, the canal beii)"- wholly frozen over, and the ground covered with snow, the probabil- ity of scenes of disturbance is now, if ever, to be apprehended. A vast number i)f men are employed between the Junction and Stone Bridge, and as the road along the Canal is favorable to ambuscade, and very ill adapted to the movements of disci[)lined men, it might chance that the detachment and Police force, stationed at Stone Bridge, would be attempted to be over- powered before support could arrive from Port Robinson, (the Head-Quar- ters of the Company, where the troops have nothing whatever to engage E 28 I'} ri their attention) which is distant not lef59 than fourteen miles. Now an Offi- cer and twenty men at the Junction, asonlered by the Major-General, would not only, from their contiguity, be ready to jitlord ininicdiaie aid, but the very fact of their presence would po far to intimidate the unruly, who might otherwise feel disposed to give trouble. There is no building at ibe Junc- tion, it has been reported to me by the Chief Engineer, that could be hired lor the purpose of being converted into a barrack, and yet the Board in Mont- real, to whom this fact is known, hesitate not to trifle with the public secu- rity, and to disregard a subject brought to its notice, under the authority of the Major-General commanding this section of the Province. As I have already reported to you, I have had my own small force drilled to such cavalry movements, with the use of the broad-sword, as would be Ibuud advantageous in so limited a field of operation, as that atll^rded l)y the wood-studded banks of the Canal; but as these do not amount to more than fifteen men, exclusive of my effi(;ieni Chief Constable, Mr. Wheeler, occa- sion may present itself when they may recjuire the aid of the troops, and these, if too far removed, can be of little service. As 1 have already remari^- ed the very fact of their removal to a new station, will of itself cause the workmen to infer extraordinary precaution, and to act as a check upon those who might otherwise feel a disj)ositiun to outrage. I have the honor to be, . ^ Sir, — I have the honor to report to you, for the information of His Excel- lency the Administrator of the Province, the following sausfactory circum- stance. In the course of my last communication to you, dated the 8th of Decern her, I stated that four men had been convicted and sent to the Niagara gaol for a felonious assault, with an intent to kill, of an inhabitant of Port Col- borne, but I thought it unnecessary to add that a fifth, and I believe, from evi- dence, a principal in the outrage had made his escape alter arrest, and be- fore the exanunation entered into on that day. Mr. Wheeler, my very ac- tive Chief Constable, was a good deal atmoyed that the imjiutalion (tf cscapo from the men of his station should attach to them, and especially in so seri- ous a case as that in which the prisoners were implicated ; and'he obtained my permission to cross the Line and seek for him in Lockport (one of the most Democratic and " sympathizing" towns on the United Slates frontier) where he was informed the fugitive was. Accompanied by Policeman Walsh, Mr. Wheeler crossed the Line on Satirrday, and on the same day, having obtained the sanction of the Authori- ties in Lockport, arrested the ^sicaped prisoner (Shanly) in the public streets of the town ; and without the slightest attempt at interference or opposition on the part of the people, placed the man in his vehicle and drove back ta Stone Bridge. 0/fi- tould ( ihe light unc- (i (or Tont- ccu- fy of / 29 1 The moral effect of this step upon the laborers pn ^jy^anal JM^ready ^reat. They seem surprised and 8fU|)ified at the courSe pursuSRy the United Stales' Authorities. Hilhertoonpchiefinceniiveto turbulence has been the assumed impunity with which they might violate the law, in their near proximity, and rea(nnos8 of means of escape to the American Territory.— The removal of this unfounded hope of exemption fr^^m tlie penalties incur- red through acts of violence committed in Canada, affords one of the surest guarantees for the preservation of order during the winter. A rigid system o) discipline in the Police Force itself, and a prompt and severe visitation of the offences of those whom it is my esjiecial province to watch over, are I find the best courses to pursue, both for the respectability of the service, and the elliciency of the duty they are called upon to per- form. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] The lion. D. Daly, Provincial Secretary, Montreal. J. RICHARDSON, Major, Supt. of Police, Welland Canal. : Office, ) 17lh, 1845. S Supt. of Police Allanburgit, December Sir, — I learn from the Rev. Mr. M'Donogh that you have expressed a desire to have communicated, through him to me, the fact of your having reported to ihe Governineiil that the number of Police employed on this Ca- nal are more thai^ are required, and thai you have moreover intimated that the whole of the Ibrce will be disj)ensed with. For this sudden and unexpected infcrest. in a branch of the Service, to the well working of which you have hiilierto offered every obstacle in your power, the Force have mucti reason to thank you, but 1 dare say they will not be mueh surprised to learn that this novel intervention in the use and employment of the Police has been the result of a communication made to you by one of thf>se discarded persotis whom you have made it a constant practice to lake into your pay, wlienever dismissed for misconduct from the body I have the honor to command. 1 refer h'-'c to Joshua Thompson, dis- rharg'd from the Police Force for repealed drunkenness, disobedience of or- ders, ni! I other acts, not necessary to enumerale here, which of themselves would have ensured his dismissal the moment they should be made known to me. Least, however, this person, whom we shall in all probability find in the employment of the Board of Works some short time hence, should not have correctly given to you what he copied, mider a ceriain understanding of con- fidence, I will here furnish you with the extract of my communication to the (lovernment, which alluded more particularly to yourself, and has of course leil to this new discovery that there are more men employed in the Service than are necessary, and the threat you, of course, have been duly aulhori/ed to hold forih, that the whole of the Police will be disbanded.* " I have the honor to report to you, for the information of His Excellency * It will be remarked hero thiil Mr. Power, seems to have been in full possession of the step intended to be taken by the Administralton, just one month before they communicated the order for the reduction of the force to me. ' !i 30 the A(LMuiistrat{MB|ttli^'rovlncc, the very marked neglect of the Board of WorkHr MontrSJ^ wmch has tliroughout all its branches evinced the ut- most disinclination to render the slii,du'st assistance to the Force under my command, although the instructions I received i'roin you led me to infer that the co-operation of that Department would, in all instances, be aHi)rded to the Mounted Police, — so far from this being the ease, the Head of the Board of Works here has made it a constant practice, in defiance of my remon- strances, to take into the pay of his Department, those of the Police who have been dismissed from the Service." It is, you will observe, rather a remarkable coincidence that this commu- nication of mine should hovf. reached the scat of (lovernmcnt almost at the same moment with the ])ublicalion of an article in the Times newspaper, which gives as a general Report, tliat tbe Head of your Department, Mr. Killaly, had planned, in conjunction with Mr. Hincks and Mr. Holmes, seri- ous embarrassment to the Government. If the rej)ort be correct, and the Times seems to place much faith in it, I now can fully understand youf hostility to the well working and elliciency of this Police Force, which how- ever, I am pleased to say, is, notvvitlistanding all your ellbrts to injure it, too well established in the favorable opinion of ;ill loyal men in this section of the Province, to need particular commendation from myself. You, I believe, are an Irish American — at least your home vi in the Uni- ted States — and much of the public monies you have amassed to yourself in Canada, have gone, if I am correctly informed, to the imf)rovement of your property in that country. Most of the Contractors employed by you are also Americans, and the large sums paid to them are ultimately taken out of the Province. With such absence of inducement, to feel any thing like interest in the successful defence of this country in the event of a war between Eng- land and the United States, which is now looked upon as a c(;rtaiiiiy, it can- not artbrd matter for surprise that you should deem a Police Force unneces- sary on this Canal. What matter to you if the unchecked laborers should use the arms, you well know to be in their possession, to strike a blow in favor of the Americans, in this District, in which they will find but too many heartily dispensed to join them. Your home is not in Canada, and it is but to cross the Line to escape the evil you may have caused. I might here adduce numerous other instances in which you have done all in your power to embarrciss my authority, and consequently the efficien- cy of the Force I command, but I have neither time nor inclination, unless 1 should be called upon by the Government to make an Official Report of the matter, to enter on these; however you will, at least, perceive that I do not require to convey to you, through a third party, my sentiments as to the conduct pursued by your Department, which has been systematically op* posed to the new Police from its (irst re-construclion. When the Government call upon me to explain the uses and distribution of my Force as it exists at this moment, I shall be prepared to atlord them that satisfactory explanation which I do not deem it necessary to enter upon to you, especially as my own exertions, in detiauce of all your at- tempts to thwart them, have made them what tliey are, — the most efficient Police in the Province ; nor will I fail at the same time to forward to theai a copy of this letter. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, .S. Poiver, Esq. Supt. of Police, WtUand Canal. Chief Engineer, Board of Woths, St. Catharines, vil in} all :>A 31 \th, 184 Mf Sdpt. ok P^ic^^I''] AlUmhurgh, Deeembt^^th Sir, — As it may be well (hat I sliouM enumerate to you some of tlic lend* ing instances wherein you have endeavored to embarrass the Public Ser- vice on this Canal, by throwing obstacles in the way of the successful work- ing of the Police employed to keep order on it, and to which I yesterday alluded, 1 resume my communication on the sui))ect. Your first act was to take into your service two constables who had pub- licly insulted me, — the OHicer a{)point(;d by the Government to superintend the n;-coMstructed Police Force on this Canal, t/ndor this glaring impro- priety of conduct, on your part, I was comj)elled to address to you a eom- tnunicalion, intimatinii tlial unless the most obnoxious of those two parties was instantly removed, I should report the matter to the (^overtiment who l)aerson. You made a pretence of doing so, as the coriespondenee that passed between us will show.* Yet after a short lu])se of time, you again took him into your service, where he is now emi)ioye(l in the vicinity of Stone Bridge, and immediately on the spot where are sta- tioned the majority of tlie Force who had witnessed his insolent conduct to me — their head. You may perhaps feel inclined to deny that sudi a [)ro- ceediug as this, has an unavoidable tendency to weaken my authority, but such is not my view of the matter ; nor 1 a])prehend will it prove to be that of the Government. The second step you took was to throw every difliculty in the way of an AUmilmr^h, Jane \Olh, 1845. * Dkau Sir, — I wish to call your attention to a circumstance, of which, 1 am sure, you have no cojinizanco, yet, which if not rectified, [ shall be compelled to bring under the notice of the Govrrnment. Perhaps you are not aware, but it is never- theless a fact, thi\t on the day of my assumption of the command of the Police Torce, I was most grossly and unprovokedly insulted by one George Stoker, a constable, and on the previous evening, by Philip Fidlerton, both of whom when the list was called, refused to answer to their names. The manner and conduct of those men has since their retirement from the Force continued to be most offensive towards me, and yet, some sulxirdinatc of yours, has I understand, had the effrontery, with a full knowledge of (he matter, to give them employment in the Engineer Department. Now, I can only say that if these men, who have insulted His Excellency in my person, are sufVered to continue in the employment of Goveriunent, I shall consider it to be a public duty, not le.ss than one to myself, to bring the matter under the ser- ious consideration of Flis Fxcellency. Howevei, I am ([uite satisfied that you nre in utter ignorance of th<' fiets I have detailed, and will not render any official notice necessary,— hence this private note. I am, Dear Sir, &c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major. S. Povrr, Em]. Supi. of Police^ WcUand Canal. OJ/icc of Hoard of Works, SI. Caikarincs. AUanburgh, June 1.5///, 1845. Dear Sir, — Having been constantly occupied on the lower part of the work, fof some days past, I had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with the facts men- tioned in your note. I, to-day for the first time, learn that the Assistant Engineer, % ■4 32 i^\ eing ^tfWblished at a central point of tlie Works, and when that dei™R(l was nnally conceded, now dilTiciiltit's were .started in the shape of intpiiries from ilie Boanl below, as you slated, as to the authority by which such expense had been incurred, even although llie whole lilting up of the office, including rent, liid not amount to more than five and twenty pounds at the outset, — and far within the sum I had saved to the Govern- ment, in the reduction of the Force I found here on assuming the command. The fact of a difficulty of tiiis kind in the establishment of a Pohce Otiice, to which prisoners troin all parts of the line must necessarily be brought for trial, was singular enough as originating with the very Department, for the belter working and proicciion ol' which the Force was principally raised ; and which, it might have boon imngincd, would have atlijrded every facility to those who were appf)irited especially to aid them. But what renders the matter of opposition on your part the more remarkable, is your admission to me that when the Baron de RottcMiburg was in this section olthe country, as .Stipendiary Magistrate, you had titled up l()r him, without the slightest difficulty, and wlioUy on your own resi)onsibiliiy, an OfHce lar more expen- sive tlian mine, which you also admiried to have been prepared with the strictest view to economy. The third step you took to emb.nirass the Police, which of course was not palatable to you since the removal of your friend and nominee, Mr. Benson, was to refuse to certify to vouchers for trilling expenses, incurred in the course «f duty, although it had ever been your previous practice to do so, and preferred rather to send them to the Secretary of the Board of Worka on this division of the work, has temporarilj rniployed two of tho otticers formerly belonging to the Police Establishment; I intended to haveimniediately mentioned the circumstance to you, knowing that there had been nm\e dissatisl'action expressed by these persons, on the day alluded to in your note. I had innuediately on my arrival here thisevening told George Stoker, that if employed by Mr. Pritehard, he must treat you as an officer of the Government, with the utmost respect, without regard to any offence or ill treatment, which he might imagine that he had received from you while he was employed. Ho assured me that he intended to act as I directed. 1 had intended to refer the matter to you, feeling confident you would be most unwilling to deprive this young man of the means of gaining a subsistence. Your note an- ticipated mine. 1 now, however, place the matter in your hands. If, on consideration, you consider the conduct of George Stoker and Fullerton, such as to render their removal indispensable, af\er the circumstances which I have stated, I will give orders not to employ them on any occasion whatever. You cannot, I believe, entertain any objection to tlie employment of William Stoker, whose uniform good conduct has been remarkable. 1 trust you will consider this explanation satisfactory. I am, Dear Sir, «&c. [Signed] S. POWER. Mojor Richardson. AUnnhurgh, June nth, 1845. Dkak Sir, — In reference to your reply to my note, 1 can only say that not being desirous of preventing the persons you have named from obtaining a livelihood, I shall consent to tlieir being employed in the public service, provided they, in your presence, as well as that of Mr. Wheeler, Captain Macdonald of Port Robinson, and such of the Police P^rce as may be here, make a public atonement for the insult % ml kil A wl col ml wl nlj col te| liam m in Montroal, from wliom, I understand, came nn imprriaus demand, know on w\\\\\ authorily expenses for stationery Imd l)eeii innnred ? Hail yon taken lliat dee}) uiterest in llie internal arraniiements of the Pctiico which yon have so recently manifested, yon might '•••ve been aware of, and coitimnnicaied to him the fact, that the Mounteci )liee of the last six months bear no resemblance to the body which existed before them, and wliich, I believ(;, were t)ripinally raised by yourself— that a daily commu- nication is kept up from both extremities of the line, and that written reports come to this Olllce, stating all that is necessary to be known to the Sujierin- tendent, — that lh(!He reports, from the various stations ulonii the line, re- (piire the use of pens, iyk, paper and wafcri^, independently of the reipiire- nu;nts of the Ollice itself in the same materials, as well as stoves, wood, candles, &c. The next step you thouglit ]jro|)er to take in order to weaken my authori- ty, (and I tell you frankly that I religiously believe no man in this District has labored more im;essaiitly than your.«elt", lioih openly and suh rcniu to ettect this) was to come forward on the occasion of the Court of ItKiuiry, held on Captain M'Donald, and pass the highest eulogium on (Tcorge Stoker, the policeman already alluded to, as having insulK'd the Covernuieni in my person ; declaring at the same lime, notwithstanding your knowledge of the valuable services of Mr. Wheeler, the present Chief Constable of the Force, that you had intended to recommend liim [Stoker] for that situation, — well knowing mor^ovi^r that this latter individual had been beaten and nearly killed by the workmen on the Canal, for having, in conjunction with an- other discarded policeman, whom you also took into your employment, in- they have ofl'cred to the service, in my person. 1 wish you to umiorstand that I do not require any uiiology to myself, ns an indivuluai, lor people in tlicir station could not v/ell ofler an insult to mo in mine ; iiut, bctbro I can give my consent to their being employed in any brancli of the Government service, without remonstrance on my part, 1 shall require them to express in presence of the parties 1 have named, their regret for their insubordination and most unjustifiable want of respect for an officer nominated by His Excellency, the Governor General, to command the Police Force, on the line of the Welland Canid. If they are out of the service, and re- duced to the condition you have named, it is by their own wilful act. The insult oil'ered to His Excellency's nominee was premeditated, and their public expression of contrition for their insubordinate conduct, must be public also. 1 am quite sure you will see the subject in the same light. In regard to William Stoker, I have to remark that the same objection docs not exist that interjjoses to the reception into the public service of the other parties. He retired from the Force, it is true, but I cannot say that I observed about his con- duct any of tliat in.solence of manner, which had l)een manifested by those against whose employment, except under the conditions I have named, I must record my protest. I am, Dear Sir, (Su;. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Majou. S. Power, Esq., Siipt. of Police. Chief Engineer, Boar 'J of Works. Note. — This apology, due to the insulted authority of His Excellency, the Gov- ernor General, was never made ; and yet Mr. Power took the man Stoker into his l ])laee, 1 answer that you had no authority trom me to make any advance of th(^ kind, (the same had in- deed heen denied to n\c on one occasion) and, even ifyci had, and had em- ployed him solely with that view, there has heen ample time alliirded l()r the purpose, for Callaghan has, for more than the last thrte months, heen cm- ployed, and still continues, 1 helicve, in your ollice. 15'it, sir, I think I can furnish a clue to all this. At the period of a certain assault, alleged to have heen committed by me on !i Mr. l>urns, Callaghan was in the Police under my command, and gav<; fair and favorable ti siimoiiy on my behalf 1 ap- ])ealed aifainst that decision, and not" more tli;u) ten days al'tervvards, as far us 1 can remi!iid)er, the man conducted himself evidently widi a design to be put out of the Force, as he stated hi; had a Ix iter siination in ^ iew. He was received in your otlice immediately •.r";'''wards, at.d his |{>iimony and opinions, in regard to the (diaracter of the r.ssanli alluded to, ha\e, sine(> liis coiitinuance there, midergone a very remarkabh; change. 1 absiaiii from further commenr on the countenance thus given by you, in taking into tho Public Service u third party discharged from my Force, to insubordination in the whole- The last and most important instance of utter disregard of the exigencies of the Public Service, was evidenced by you, in the case (jf a reipii.^ition I'or a Barrack, for a detachment of the Colored Troops at I Ik; J miction. So fur back as the commencement of October last, 1 informed you verbally that Colonel Elliot had written to that elU.'ct to Sir Richard Armstrong, the Ma- jor-General coimnanding the Western Province, for his sanction for a distri- bution of troojis which lie himself strongly recomujended. You told me, in reply, that as soon as tho answer of the iMajor-tieneral should be received, you would endeavor to hire a house, or failing in that, woidd Immediately commence erecting a suitable building. The answer did arrive, and it was to the effect that a detachment would be sent to the Junction, as soon as tli(3 Barracks should be reported ready to receive then). Instead of immetliate- ly ordering a building, which would not have cost twenty pounds (and you had previously admitted your ])ower to do so widiont any refi reiice below), you thought jiroper to consume the oidy time left li)r Imilding in writing to the Board of Works for instructions, when, if 1 am correctly informed, you were possessed of full authority to order the work yourself, and had simply to certify to its having been done. I p 35 l^p tills ns It may, liowpvcr, tho most unjiistihaKlc neg}»-«t ond <1 of iho Major (IcrxTal's ptTiiiissioii — fantamoiiiit to an ortlor- !in» 1" i < vin- cetl tlirouglioiu the wliolo atliiir. Your letter to the ('hairinan of tl U(>«rtl of Works, for instriirlioii»< as to the erection of the proposeil Uarra k*, was dated, as you assured me, on tho .'Usl of October, and yet notwilh-ii.iii'liug, the Navigation did not close for sotm; lime afterwards ; no answer hnlralor of liii,- Province, the documents arked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, U, and 7, cotniecti.d wiih my Police Force, which has !en most wantonly and improperly interfered with, by the Civil Engineer, . .1.: . i:.... be for m bee on this line. Anil not only has Mr. Power inlerlercd wiih my Force, in the manner shown in the communication from Mr. McDonogii, but lie has pursued a system lownrds himself and his hroilior, one of iheft.vv British coniraciois on th.; Canal, whicli ha-; cr'?aled in his mind ii feeling of tlu; deepest iuihgiia- tion. The repeated remonstrances of the Reverend Mr. McDonogh, tigaiust G ffi the employment of Ooorgo Rfoker, In ron80(|ncncc of tho insult offV^rrd to himHclt'niiflii8 Btudit'd exclusion t'roin certain contracts; and this, hotli the ('alhulic Pas- tor and li'3 declare, in c()nsei|ucnce of tlutir havinj; refused to sign a petition that was sent in to tlii! (Jovertunenf, soon after iiiy iirrival here, representing the orderly and ftood conduct of IVlr. llenson's I'oIkic, and prayin;; for his re- instatement. Mr. McDonogh authori/es me to say, that ho leels most deep- ly insulted hy the conduct pursued by Mr. Power, on several occasions, and particularly by his contumacious reicntion in his service, of the man whoso misconduct in assailing the Catliulic Ueligiun, had been so often reported by him. I think it necessary to add, for tlic iMlljrtnation of His Excellency, that in- dependently of the message stated by the Reverend Mr. McDonogh, in tlie enclosed liote of the 18lh iikstant, to liave been conveyed tliiongh him to me. Mr. Power has given it forth that he h.'is been instructed by the Govern- ment, to re|X)rt to them on the etUciency of my Police. I, of course, caimot for one moment believe, that the (Jovernment would oIIIt me such an indig- nity as to autliori/.e, and particularly without apprising me of their intention, a subordinate Ollicer of tlin Board of Works, not recogi)i'/ed by itself, and one whose hostility to the Force is only e(|ualled by liis ignorance of the pro- per (pialiliculions of u body uf men such as 1 coinniand, to ])ronouncc an opinion which coidil only be rendered by a mililury man ; yet I trust the Governmeni. will place nie in a position to deny a report so calculated, if un- contradicted, to ])rejudicc this particular bnuicli of the public service. I cannot conclude this communication without the expression of a hope, that if any doubt sliouhl exist on the ])art of the (joverninenl as to the etti- ciency of my Force, or their numbering more than can be employed with vigor and ettect on this line of Cunal, Ills Excellency, the Admiiiistralor of the Province, will be pleased to direct that some competent person in this neighborhood, — and I know no one more likely to ])ronounce a consciencious opinion than the Ollicer at present commanding the Canadian Rifles in this District — Major MacPherson, — to make a tour of the line and report ihereon. Such a step, I apprehend, could be taken without expense or inconvenience to the public service, and as far as I am personally concerned, would allbrd me the utmost gratification I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] J. RICnA.RDSON, Major, The Hon. D. Daly, Supt. of Police, Welland Canal. Provincial Secretary, Montreal. SiiPT. of Police Office, 7 Allanburgk, January 22nd, 184G. J Sir, — T have the satisfaction to nccpiaint you, for the information of His Excellency, the Administrator of tJic Province, that the most jierfect quiet prevails throughout the longlli of ».)e Canal among the laborers employed thereon, — a fact which is the morn .«markablo from the severity of the wea- ther during (he last two months. "Without iissuraing to myself any undue credit for the introduction of a p- I (It'cp- 0(1 by ?Jt 7 »Jl«em ofonlor wh'uli Ims proiluccd iliivio fiivoraMo rrfiiilJs I ma v be per- niiired to a»(!rt ihnt to Mir ^fiH.rullv giwiil nmilurf, iiitrlli^rticc, aclivity ntid KCfil of ilio small Korrt- I liavr the lioiior to romniatnl, — lln'ir Htrirf nttrnlion lo llifir (I'lfy, and jhoir uiuirin;a; vigilanct;, lliU stuu; of lliing?* i^ priiicijtally to be attribiMci]. WIjcii I firsf assumed ilio ctiar^^f! of llin ('anal, iiilnxication and riot wore prevalent to a sfrionH fxl.>nf aliiii;; the wlioN; llnr, and not a Monday pawsfd witlioiit (ksccralorsof ilio Sal»ljalli l)cin;r hron^lil Ik lor.' nic and jMini.Hliod. Now, Huch an ovcuit U of rare occtirrcncc, and ronsccutivc w«eks rlap80 without a cliurgt! of druiikeinicss or disorder biiing preferred against tiie laborera. How long, or br»w far iinirrterrnpted, lliis will contiime, I, of nnirse, rnn- nol protend to jnd Montreal, nth January, 1846. \ Sir, — 1 have the honor, by comiTiand of the Adniinisirator of the Covern- inent, to accpiaint you that His Excellency, in Council, has had under con- sideration the subject of the Police Force on the Welland Canal, and the question whether such Force may not with propriety be discontinued, and that His Excellency has been pleased to direct that your services and those of the Force under your command be dispensed with from and after the Slat of the present month. You will accordingly communicate the decision of the Government to those under your command, and will cause the arms, amtnujiition, accou- trements, &c. belonging to the Force lo be, >)n the 31st instant, delivered over to Samuel Power, Esq., the Engineer on the Works, who will grant you a receipt for them. I am further to retiuest that you will be pleased to transmit the accounts connected with the Force. I liave the honor to be, &c. [Signed] D. DALY, Secretart. J. Richardson, Esq., Supt. of Police, Wella7id Canal. P. S. — You will please to acknowledge the receipt of this letter. D. D. AUanhurgh, January 29th, 1846. Sir, — I am apprised by llie Government that you have instructions from them to give me a receipt for tlie arms, ammunition and accoutrements of the Force under my command, which is to be discontinued from the Sist instant, inclusive. \ 38 I have to inform you that these arms, &c. will be ready to be delivered to you at 12 o'clock (noon), on the day above stated, as well as the Office, at this place with its appurtenances. I have the honor to be, &:c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, Chief Engineer Poxver, f^upl. of Police, Welland Canal, Board of Works, St. Catharines. AUanhurs;h, January 3lst, 1846, Near Midnight, Satur ' 16, ) day, S Sir, — I have to acquaint you, for the information of His Excellency the Administrator, of the Province, but with senlinieiits of unmitigated disgust, that this night has been characterized, ostensibly with the connivance, if not under the authority, of those the Government have thought proper should succeed my Force, by a scene of outrage and confusion, and intend- ed personal insult to myself — still the servant of the Government — which can have no parallel even among uncivilized nations. These atrocities I shall latter detail to you : sufficient be it for the present, to observe that more than thirty sliots were fired opposite my house, which is situated on the Canal, accompanied by tierce shouts and yells, and that not only Canallers but discarded Policemen, of my own, were of the num- ber of the scoundrels. This outrage upon the public peace, it was impossible for me to check, as there was only one policeman left with me at Allanburgh, and his con- duct on the occasion was, I regret to say, such;that 1 have felt it my duty not to return him on the [)ay list, until the pleasure of the Government be made known as to any penalty which may be inflicted upon him for his gross breacli of duty- Such conduct was indeed to be apprehended from the fact of the Govern- ment having, without the slightest previous intimation of its intention, redu- ced the Force under my command, at not more than a Aveek's notice, there- by entailing upon me — their head, the undeserved discontent of the men, and I have only to add that it will be a duty which I owe to myself, at fit- ting opportunity, to inquire of the Government what fault (if any) there may have been found in my Superintendence of the Welland Canal Police, which has led to so sudden and unexpected a reduction of this Force, — to be succeeded, if I am correctly informed, by another, under the command of one of whose conduct I had recently and justly complained. Fortunately I possess copies of all orders and letters that have emanated from this Office, and I am fully prepared to answer to the country, and to the Government, for my faithful and assiduous discharge of a trust which was submitted lor my acceptance by the late Governor General, who uidiappily now no longer rules in Canada — Lord IVIetcalfe — with the intimation that, although a temporary and not highly desirable appointment, it was but the introduction to something better. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major. The Hon. D. Daly, Supt. of Police, Welland CanaL Provincial Secretary ^ Montreal. ; 39 7 Allanhurgh, February 5th, 1846. Sir, — I have the honor to enclose, as desired, the accounts connected with the Police Force, lately under iny comniaud. Having understood from the late Chief Constable [Wheeler], that the men had come to a determination not to defray the amount of balances due to the Contractors for clothing obtained for the service on their own written requisition — a certiHed copy of which I have the honor to cnch)se — and that Mr. Prescott, the Paymaster, intended to sellle with them, without making the usual deductions, I felt that I could not, with honor to myself, or duty to the Government, become a party to a fraudulent transaction of this nature, by signing dcjcuments, which slioiild give authority to pay away money to one party which was strictly the property of another. The pay lists therefore remain unsigned by me, and Mr. Prescott, against whose settlement of the gross amounts due to the men I strongly protested in a communication to that efiect, has apparently felt the force of my remon- strance, and delayed the payment until the pleasure of (he Government be known. I have the honor to be, &c, [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, The Hon. D. Daly, Late Supt. of Police, Welland Canal. Provincial Secretary, Montreal. * Niagara, Canada West, 7th February 1846. Sib, — Annexed I have the honor to send you a copy of a District General Order, received by mo yesterday, and I have to recjuest that you will be pleased to inform me when it will be most convenient for you to send into Niagara, the arms, ammunition, &c. lately in possession of the Police P"'orce under your command, in order that the instructions contained in the District General Order may be comidied with. I liave the honor to be, 6zc. [Signed] G. MACPHERSON, Major R. C. Riffles. Major Richardson, Superiritendent, Commanding Niagara Frontier. Late Police Force, Welland Canal. DISTRICT GENERAL ORDER. A Board of Officers will assemble at Niagara, at such time as Major Mac- Pherson, Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, shall direct, to examine and report upon the state of the arms, ammunition, «&c. in possession of the reduced Force on the Welland Canal, and whether any deficiencies or wilhil damage exist. PRESIDENT, Brevet-Major CLEMENT, R. C. Rifle Regiment, Captain MUNRO, R. C. Barback-Master GARRE': R. Regt. } ,, ETT, r^^' MBERS. 40 m The Proceedings of the Board in triplicate will be transmitted to this De- partment. By Command, [Signed] PLOMER YOUNG, Deputy-Adjutant General. A true copy. [Signed] G. MACPHERSON, Major JR. C. R. Regiment. Niagara, February I2(h, 1846. Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communica- tion of the 7th instant, requesting to know when it will be most convenient for me to send into Niagara, the arms, ammunilion, &c. lately in possession of the Police Force under my command, and to state in reply that, in con- formity with instructions received from the Goverment, I had handed over these to the Chief Engineer of the Board of Works, on the 31st ultimo, — the day of the reduction of the Force — and obtained from him the necessary receipts. I need scarcely say that the arms having been constantly worn by the men up to the moment of their being disbanded, were delivered over in per- fect order; but, as I perceive from your communication that you have re- ceived instructions to direct a Board to assemble and report upon the condi- tion of the arms, ammunition, rd, annouced ihe disbanding of the whole Force in so short and unex- pected a period as seven days from ils receipt, the men astonished and con- founded, and inconvenienced, had no longer a doubt on the subject. Nimicrous reports were prevalent as to the cause, but the principle of the whole went to show Uiat this step had been adopted in order to get rid of me — nay, one of even my own force, doubtless fully authorized, had the inso- lence to tell me, when 1 asseinbled Ihe men for the purpose of communica- ting to them the decision of the Government, that it was " through my impro- per conduct alone" that they were disbanded; I of course, made no other reply than to dismiss the man for his impertinence. Ii was obvious to me, tLdt the whole of the Force were impressed with the belief that they were reduced with a view to the formation of another body, intended to be placed under the direction of Mr. Power, and the event justified snch belief; be- cause that person, instead of continuing the small number kept up from the men already in the Police, and whose conduct had hitherto been irreproach- able in their several stations, took into the service a man whom I had pre- viously reduced, and another who had left the Force on my assuming the command in in June last, under circumstances of personal disrespect to my- self. This person, a friend of Mr. Power, I understand now receives ten shillings a day, as well as the Chief Constable Wheeler, an amount equal to Avhat was allowed to me by the Government, notwithstanding all the care and responsibility of my trust. The Force, on the occasion I have above nanjed, seemed to think that they had been unfairly dealt with, in being disbanded at so short a notice, and their expressions of discontent were against the Government. I told them not to place any faith in the rumors which were so industriously pro- ^ 45 pagated by their enemies, but rather to believe, as I had no doubt was iho case, that tbe state of iranquility wliich their own exertions had secured on the Canal, was the supcrjiiducinfT cause with llie (Tovtriunerit lor arriviug at tbc step they had adopted.* Thn (|uestion of clotliiuc; thvn came np, and one of the men stated that ihe whole bad determined .lot l) li<|uidaie tlio balance due to (be Coutractors. I replied that tliey must ilo so tlun, but lliat I bad no doubt, havina; taken tlie advice of counrii on the subjeel, that Gov- ernment, being answerable for tbe "efpnpmeut," iliey would slionly ho re- imbursed for advances, which in order to save myself from any dillieuliy of interpretation of the act, I had previously stipulated should bo made by themselves, subject to a future claim. They all left mc very much dissatisfied, and on the following; day their arms were deposited in the olVice and haudcd over by me, iu eouipliaiice with my iust ructions from the Government, to Mr. Power, wholaint to the Government, I have not the slightest doidjt. This was the card sought to be played with success, and had I intended my letters of the 17th and 18th of l)eeend)er to him to be purely personid, I should unquesliouiibly have committed myself, but as they were mere duplicates of documents designed for, and sent to the Gov- ernment, their transmission to him could bear no such interpretation. ^; 49 Had I previously entortnincd nny doubt as to tlio fact of Mr. Killaly be- ing fbo secret puller of tlie wires by wbicb lias been worked llin wbole of tlii't infamous eotispiracy aj!;aiiist one wlio, in dcHanoe of jill ob-^iaclcs, lias utisbriiikingly and unsitpporlid, fiiUillcd his duty, humldi! ib(MiL.',h it bo, lo the country — and my corrospotulerico with the uovcTumcnt HutVKjicnily at- tests tins, — that doubt would have been removed by I be eondiict which has been pursued towards me ct'cr smcfl the Fcjno has been disbanded. iris true the puppr^ts they, who dared not render themselves prominent in the matter from a fear of compromising their Principnl, have eiiijdoyed, are of an inferior class, but these have not the less beov(r in a lone of inarlied rontrnipt: "Do you know who that felh)W is?" Iudi;i;nMnt atthis gratuitous insolence, I imniediai(;ly replied, " \ shall very soon let yon know who he is." No answer was reiurned, and it was evident that tht; ollender, who was so com- fdetely enveloped in fur« and coals that I could not positively reeognl/e him, lad spoken in a tone louder than he intended. I leil the bulies to purnuo their walk, and returning iuio town, irupjired of several persons whom 1 met if they bad seen a certain sleifjh, which I described, and if so, if they were aware to whom it belonged. From the first I had suspected iVIr. Killaly, althonQ[h I Inve not had more than a slif^bt ^liinpre of bis nnxed black and gray hair which peered between his fur eap aud coat collar, raised up to protect hisears, but as it re(|uifcd some sironger ev'denceof the identity than mere suspicictn, 1 prosecuted myintpiiry. Finally, I perceived Mr. J)crbi- shire, and going up to him nunarked that I had just been insulted by a per- son whom 1 believed to bo Mr. Killaly, in(|uiring of him at the samo time what style of equipage he drove. Mr. Derbishiro could not exactly say, but he thought it impossible that Mr. Killaly could be guilty of so ungentle- manly conduct. My reply was that whoever the party 1 sliould inalie it a point to find him out before the morning, and with this intimation which I had no doubt would be eonveycd to the (|uarter I most desired, I took my leave. Tn about an hour aficr leaving Mr. Derbishire, and while I was at din- ner, a servant brought to my house a note, 0** which the following is a copy : Sir, — On passing you this afiernoon, in answer to a question from a lady in the sleigh with me 1 said, " Do you not know who he is ?" " That is Major Richardson, the author of ' Wacousta.' " This, it appears, you must have overheard, and from the manner in which you noticed it at the time, I am inclined to believe you took ofi'enceat what certainly was not intended foryour ears, much less to convey otrencc or disrespect in any manner. I have felt it but due to myself and you, Sir, at once to give this expla- nation. I am, Sir, obediently yours, [Signed] H. H. KILLALY. Major Richardson. This missive was indeed a source of much pleasantry to the whole par- ty, to whom I at once read it, and who had been present with me on the oc- casion. They, as well as myself, had heard ihe language used by Mr. Kil- laly, and had moreover remarked the very significant manner in which he had pointed his whip towards me ; and iherelbre although one person might be mistaken /bur could not. If however ibe Honorable Hamilton H. Killa- ly chose to " eat his own words," it was not tor me to deny him the gratifi- cation, and I at once sent him the following ; // 51 Thursday Evening, Vecemhcr 0th, IriiQ. Sir, — I hnvc tlio honor to ncknowlrrlge the receipt of your note, of iliU duy, (without (lute) and niMX'pt your exphuiatioii. 1 have th. Daly, Proiincial Secretary, Montreal. .1. RICnARDSON, Majoh, Spanish Service, and Late Sup!, of Police, Welland Canal. Gl Craig Street, } March \7lh, iBlti. ^ My Dear Sir, — T think !• advisable that I should enclose for your peru- sal, the very extraordinary corres[)ondenco which has passed between tho Provincial Secretary and myself, particularly that portion which has suc- ceeded to the order for the reduction of my Police Force. The whole conduct pursued towards trie, I consider to be so olTeiisIve to the nomination by Lord Metcalfe, and so personally hostile to myself, against whom no public blame has heen sought to be attached, that to justily that .iiuminalion, and to vindicate my own public character, ^v lidi it has been endeavoured to insinuate away, I shall fgeJ myself called upon to give la the public a full and correct account of my administralion of the Police Force on the Welland Canal, as contained in the voluminous correspondence, of which the accompanying forms but an inconsiderable jiortion, unless the Government by appointing me immediately to another situation or mak- ing me recompense for the inconvenience and loss to which I have been subjected, prove to the public that, as their official letters to me assert, but wnat the public do not believe, there has been no other motive for the reduc- tion of this force, than what has been assigned by them. If done with it, be good enough to return the correspondence to-morrow, when I hope you will do me the favor to add a note, as it will be of great importance to me, expressive of the approbation you assured me, when last I saw you, you had heard Lord Metcalfe repeatedly, and up to the moment of his departure, avow of my services on the Welland Canal. I shall do myself the honor of waiting on Lord Cathcart on Wednesday* ( for the first time,) when I shall of course shew him that note. I am, my Dear Sir, Very faithfully yours,, [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, J. M. ITigginson, Esq. Private SecreUiry. Government House, March 17 th, 1846. Mt Dear StR, — I beg to return the correspondence received with your note of yesterday, and in compliance with your re(|uest have no hesitation in stating, that I have frequently heard Lord Metcalfe speak of the impedi- ments which he thought were purposely thrown in your way, and which tended to render your position, as Inspector of Police on the Welland Can- al, more difficult and embarrasing ; and that his Lordship was, to the best of my knowledge, satisfied with the manner in which you had encountered and overcome the obstacles opposed to you. I am, my Dear Sir, Yours very faithfully, [Signed] J. M. HIGGINSON. Major Richardson. To His Excellency Lieutenant-General, the Earl Cathcart, K. C. B,, Administrator of the Government in the Province of Canada. The Memorial of Major John Richardson, late Superintendent of the Police on the Welland Canal, respectfully shewelh: That your memorialist was appointed by the late Governor General, Lord Metcalfe, to superintend the PoHce Force on the Welland Canal, where much riot and disorder had liiiherto prevailed, and that, on his assumption of that office, he was fold by His Excellency that if he executed his trust ia a satisfactory tnanner it would only be au introduction to something better. < I I }} 53 That your memorialist repaired without delay to his destination which he reached in the early pan of June last, and that he i)roceeded forthwith to re- model and infuse a spirit of discipline into a Police which he found witliout regularity, order, or the slightest sense of subordination. That every possible obstacle was opposed to your memorialist in the per- fecting of the new Force, not only by the person formerly at its head, but by the Board of Works, which evidently supported him, and which, ti)rouc[hout all its branches, exhibhed a uniform si)iiit of hostility to the reconstructed Force. That your memorialist, notwithstanding these and similar difliculties, which are detailed in the course of a voluminous correspondence with the Government, persevered against the malice of the enemies of his Polif e, and eventually formed a body admittedly of great etlioiency, while the syslem he pursued was such as to reduce to order and obedience a set of men who had hitherto placed all law but that of their own will at defiance. That this corps was drilled in such manner as to make them, not only serviceable as Policemen fur present purposes, but as cavalry in the field should a necessity arise for their employment as such. That your memorialist, not anticipating that extraordinary state of quie- tude which had been produced by the severity of liis measures, had applied for and obtained permission from Major-Gen. Sir Ricliard Armstrong, com- manding the troops in Canada West, that a portion of the Colored Company stationed at Port Robinson, should bo detached to a point on the line ciillfHl the Junction, which the Chief Constable of tUe Force, who had had much experience on the Canal, most strongly represented on various occasions, as being necessary to the public security. That, on application to the Board of Works for the barrack required for these troops, the most unjusiitiable neglect was manifested and reported by your memorialist to the Government. That the Civil Engineer, Power, who had been com])lained of, sent an insolent message to your memorialist through the Catliolic Pastor on the Canal, intimating that the Force under his command, was by order of the Governtnent, under his surveillance, and would speedily be reduced. That your memorialist, indignr.nt at this interference with a body of men for the conduct of whom he was resjponsible only to the (Government, replied to this message by sending to the Engineer duplicates of letters which he felt it incumbent on him to forward to the Government, expressing therein, in detail, the numeicuis instance in which the hostility of the whole of the Board of Works had been manifested towards the regenerated Police Force. That shortly after this report was made of the miscoiKluct of Mr. Power, an order arrived for the prompt reduction of the Police Force under the command of your memorialist, and the handing over of the arms to the very party who had been reported, instead of the proper military authorities. That this insult to the head of the Force, who had fearlessly done his duty in spite of all hostility and cabal, was evident to the mm, as well as to the public at large, and gave rise to a conviction that the allront was intended on the part of the Govern in en t. Tiiat although the Force of your memorialist was disbanded, five men were immediately armed and kept u]) as successors to the Police thus sud- denly reduced. That, instead of taking the whole of the men for this Force from among those whose services had been dispensed with by the Government, and I > 64 ngainst whose conduct tliero was no ground of complaint, two parties kiiowti to be personal friends of Mr. Power, and hostile to your memorialist weie selected for the purpose. That seven sets of tlie arms furnished to the Force ( which hud recently been reduced by your memorialist to twelve men) were kept by Mr. Power, the remainder only having been sent in to the Ordinance store at Niagara — thus showing that it was intended still to continue a Force little inferior in number to that reduced, although the letter from the Provincial Secretary, dated the l7th of January, announces the total discontinuance of any Force on the Canal. Tliat a general impression prevails in the Niagara District, in which the Welland Canal is situated, that your memorialist has been removed from the Superintendence of Police at the instance of Mr. Power, and through the influence of the head of the Board of Works. That your memorialist, however unwilling to credit this injustice, cannot but admit that the fact of the party of whom he had othcially complained being selected to receive over the arms and appoinlmenis of his Force, and to cause another to be raised on the day following that of the reduction, has a strong tendency to strengthen and give an air of truth to the rumor, and this especially because, on a former occasion, when a magistrate grossly abused his authority and caused your memorialist to be arrested and dragged from his home, like a common felon, on a special warrant which he was not justified in granting, the Provincial Secretary, in answer to his complaint of the outrage, thus addressed him : — " At present it api)ears to the Governor General that you have unneces- sarily been subjected to a gross attront in the execution of your public duty, and 1 am directed to assure you that His Excellency will always support in all proper proceedings," — and furthermore — ;' that Mr. Helmes (the Magistrate in quesiion ) would be called upon to explain his conduct,"— and yet, notwithstanding this assurance, your memorialist has never received any notification from the Provincial Secretary, that such explanation had been demanded and obtained from Mr. Helmes, who, your nujmorialist has reason to believe, has been recently reappointed to the new commission of the Peace. That this absence of support on the part of the Government of its ser- vant, placed in a position of much difficulty and embarrassment, was one great cause of encouragement to the hostility of feeling evinced towards your memorialist during the whole of his oflftcial career on the Welland Canal. That, notwithstanding all these obstacles, your memorialist by unremit- ting attention to his duty succeeded, as he has already remarked, in forming a Police which he has no hesitation in declaring to have been unrivalled in the country. That this Police Force had been clothed by your memorialist on contract, and in the full assurance tdat the Government would indemnify the men for their outlay, according to the provisions of the act. That a letter from the Provincial Secretary, dated the 3rd of February, admits the right of the Force to be supplied at the public expense by stating " that it is not the intention of the Government to demand the clothing of the Force, but to retpiire the surrender of the arms and appointments only. That a second letter, dated tiie 5ih, assumes a diflerent position, and denies the liability of the Gevernment. That the conclusive and positive tone of the communication from the Pro- r 55 vincial Secretary, dafed the 5th of February, leaves your memoruilist no other alternative than to appeal to Your Excellency — ^liis taith havinn; been ])ledged to the men of his late Force to use every ehdeavor to have their just claims admitted and allowed. Your memorialist begs leave furtliermore respectfully to submit that the suddenness of the reduction of the Force has been a source of great inj'iry to him, both as affecting his character for capacity to discharge, wiih efficiency an important public trust, and impairing his private interests. That His Excellency, the late Governor General, Lord Metcalfe, had given your memorialist the Superintendence of Police on the Welland Canal, as a temporary reward fur past services rendered to the Govermnent, and with the assurance that it was only a step to something better and more permanent ; but that all evidence, and this is to be found in the official cor- respondence which has taken place between the Provincial Secretary and hinjself, goes to show that several members of the administration were hos- tile to the appointment, and that, so far from lending thnt support to your memorialist which, as a public servant, he had a riglit to expect, they have pursued a course towards him which has had a tendency rather to weaken than to strengthen his authority while in office. That this evident disinclination of certain of the Administration to approve the appointment made by Lord Metcalfe, although they of course must have yielded an assent, however reluctantly, leaves your memorialist no reason 1 fer that they will ever carry through the intentions of His Excellency, > ■■' ppointing him to another situation. i'hat the very fact of the reduction of the Force, lately commanded by your memorialist, and the immediate substitution of another sufficiently attests tl'-.s. That your memorialist however seeks not as a mere favor, but claims from the Government as a due — he having been removed from his situation without any charge having been brought against him in his public cliaracter — that he be placed in some situation of trust and emolument not inferior to that which he has recently filled, or receive a gratuity from tlie Government whose summary proceedings have seriously affected his private and pecu- niary interests. Your memorialist furthermore submits that all that is contained in this memorial is more fully detailed, with much other matter in the official cor- respondence which has taken place between the Provincial Secretary and himself. All which is most respectfully submitted for the consideration of Your Excellency, whose straight forward sense of justice your memorialist cannot but believe will give to this appeal that favorable attention to which the n- disputed faithful discharge of the public duties of your memorialist would seem to entitle him. March 18, 1846. Secretary's Office, . Mon'real, 20th March, 184G. Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of (he l8th instant, with the memorial which accompanied it, which I iiave laid before the Administrator of the Government. In reply I am to state, that His Excellency considers that it would be use- 1 fie less to direct that the unfitness of the manner, in which you have expressed yourself towards the members of His Excellency's Government, should be pointed out to you, since your own sense of propriety has not prevented your expressing yourself in the way you have done ; His Excellency has there- fore only desired me to refer y^c, for the reasons why the services of the Po- lice Force were dispensed with, to a letter written to you by command of His Excellency up< the 10th instant, of whicli I enclose a copy, as it appears you declined receiving the original on account of the address on it. With reference to this latter ground of complaint, His Excellency directs me to refer you to a letter written to you by desire of the late Governor Gen- eral, on the 9th of August last, which the Administrator of the Government considers conclusive on the point. In answer to that part of your memorial, in which you state that you ask future employment, " not lias a mere favor, but as a due," on account of promises held out to you by the lau Governor General, and of the sudden- ness of the reduction of the late Police Force under your command, which yoa say has been a source of great injury to you , I am to refer you to my letter of the r;Olh of May. 1845, ottering you the appointment of Superintend- ent of Police, in which you were by command of the late Governor General expressly informed, " that you were to understand that they (your services) may be dispensed with at any time when His Excellency may consider it expedient for the public service." I have the honor to be. Sir, Your most obedient servant, [Signed] D. DALY, Secretary. John Richardson, Esq. Montreal. Late Superintendent oj j.'*olice, Welland Canal. Secrf.tart's Office, > Montreal, 10th Mareh 1846. y Sir, — I am commanded by the Administrator of the Government, to ac- knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant, with its enclosure, in which you are pleased to impute to the personal animosity of the President of the Board of Works, and to the subordinates of that department, instiga- ted by him, the discontinuance by His Excellency of your services as Su- perintendent of Police on the Welland Canal. His Excellency considers it unnecessary to direct me to make any re- marks on the tone of your letter, or on the propriety of the charges you have perniiltcd yourself to make against an Orlicer of the Government, and has therefore desired me merely to refer you to my letters of l7th January and 3rd February, in whicli you will perceive that no charge of improper con- duct is made against you, but that the services of the Police Force on the Welland Canal were discontinued in being considered no longer necessary, and without the slightest reference tj any of the cr;nsideralious to which you refer. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, [Signed] D. DALY. John Richardson, Esq. Late Supci intendent of Police Welland Canal. 57 i MoNTRBAii, March 25th, 1840. Sir, — 1 have the honor to acknowledge tlie receipt, (yesterday,) of your letter of the 20th of March, wherein, in reply to my memorial to the Admi- nistrator of the Province, dated the 18ih instant, you state that " Ilis Excel- lency considers that it would be useless to direct that the unfitness of the manner in which you have expressed yourself towards the members of His Excellency's Government should be pointed out to you, since your own sense of propriety has not prevented your expressing youreelf as you have done. His Excellency has therefore only desired me to refer you for the reasons why »he Police Force were dispensed with, to a letter written to you by commano of His Excellency, upon the 10th instant, of which I enclose a copy, as it appears you declined receiving the original on account of the address on it." In reply to this I have to remark that'my sense of propriety seldom fails to point out to me, and with accuracy, the fitness or unfitness of the particu lar style of expression I should adopt under particular circumstances ; nei- ther am I so abject in spirit, nor to irreclaimable an otlicer seeker, as not to dare to complain to the Head of the Government of the conduct of ihose who are as much, although in a more elevate*' s|)here, the servants of the public as I was, and who are amenable to the oj)inion of that public for the exer- cise of the power entrusted to them. It seems to ine however that the indi- rect charge of impropriety of expression would come with a better grace from those who scrupulously adhere to its niceties, than from the Head of a Department who has recorded his repudiation of all propriety of style by "permitting" himself to address me, on subjects connected with the public service, as " John Richardson, Esquire, of Niagara, Post Office, Montreal." That the letters referred to as being thus addressed were inteuded for me I can readily believe, but i neither am nor was of Niagara, but the Superin- tendent of Police, and a Magistrate on the Welland Canal, and all letters written to me on official matters should have been directed to me in the rank a' corded by all well bred men and men of tlie world, or in some sort of ac- knowledgement of that which I had so recently held under the Government. I regret (and you remark the circumstance in the las;t sentence of the para- graph I have quoted from your letter of the 20th instant,) that I should have been compelled, by the conviction I entertained of the slight which it was evi- dently sought to be ollered to an humble indiv' \\a\ by a body possessing such high influence as the Execul." "^ Council of this country, to return one communication and refuse ant>ther— ^boih oflensively addressed to me by you aij Provincial Secretary ; but I trust I may, this time, permit myself to re- mark that, had you attended to those proprieties which you seem so desirous of inculcating on me, and addressed me in the manner in which you, in consetjuence of my returning and refusing your letters, thought proper even- tually to adopt, you would have been spared the unpleasantness of having returned to you, as discourteously addressed, the two communications in question. You refer me on this particular subject to an official letter, dated the 9th of August, wherein you intimate to me that it ^s not usual to address ser- vants of the Government bv a Foreign rank, and that, although by courtesy I was recognized in that usually given to me, such could not be expected in the official correspondence of the Government. To this decision, much as it operated to weaken my atithority, and to occasion inconvenience to the public service on the line of my duties, I bowed, nor should I have renewed x./ \ 5S ihe subject had not several official letters been addressed to me at Niagara, where I remained for a short period, without any designation of the em- ployment I had so recently held, and to matters connected with which these lett;jrs refeired. And here, Sir, I cannot but contrast with the manner in which it was your pleasure to address me, the courteous communications of the several Officers of Her PTi'-esty's military service — men of some rank in their pro- fession — who wen ought by the duties of my situation in correspondence with me, and wb' ad 'hey felt inclined to violate that courtesy which is inherent in the gentleman might, with much more propriety than your- self, have justified to themselves the denial of a Foreign rank, which it is perfectly understood is, in a British subject, purely honorary. Naj', Sir, to prove how inconsistent has been your mode of addressing me, and how pre- meditatedly offensive since I have ceased to be the servant of the Govern- ment, I must call your attention to the fact of your acknowledgment of my rank in the letter which you wrote to me requiring to know if I would ac- cept the appointment of Superintendent of Police on the Welland Canal, as well as that which conveyed my official instructions. Yet it is no subiect f .r regret with me that you have thus acted, because —and I state this emphatically — it leaves me the less reason to apprehend that I have at all erred in my perception of the feelings and sentiments of those members of the Executive whose conduct I have permitted myself to point out to His Excellency as evidencing, from the first, a secret hostility to the appointment made by the late Governor General, nor do I feel the slightest inclination, nor can I perceive the slightest reason in your communica- tions to me, of the 10th and 20th of March, to change my opinion on the subject, but on the contrary to confirm it. Permit me, for example, to offer an observation on the anomalous man- ner in which you explain the reasons which led to the reduction of the Po- lice Force on the Welland Canal. In your communication of the 20th, you distinctly state — "no charge of improper conduct is made against you, but that the services of the Police Force on the Welland Canal were discontinu- ed as being considered no longer necessary, and without the slightest refer- ence to any of the circumstances to which you refer ;" yet, notwithstanding this admission in your communication of the 20th, that public expediency alone was the cause of the reduction of the Police, that which precedes it, and which is dated the 10th, intimates that my charge made to the Govern- ment, against the Head of the Board of Works is a reason. Now, Sir, put- ting asicfe this inconsistency which I must leave to yourself to reconcile and explain, I denv that any charges, as you are pleased to call them, were made, in referniice to Mr. Killaly's motives for having, through his subordi- nates, sought every means of annoying my Force and weakening my au- thority, before the reduction of the Police, and therefore this could not have been a cause or reason for the measure. If you refer to the observations contained in my letter of the l7tli of December, wlierein allusion is made to Mr. Killaly, I must be permitted to remind you that these were not mine,^ but the observations of the Conservative Press— and more especially so of the Montreal Times, and Brockville Statesman. And, even were it other- wise, I am at a loss to understand why one servant of the Government should be precluded from the right of reporting the misconduct of another, where the public interests are involved in the result. But I must also per- mit myself to remark that had my charges against the whole of the Board 50 V of Woikfl, for f^ross neglect of duty, been a crime of that serious nature, in the eyes of the Executive Government, that it was necessary to dismiss the complainant, where was the justice to my men who had been guilty of no wronfj;, but were, on the contrary unexceptionable in their conduct — where I again ask, was t\\v. justice to, or consideration for, tiiose who were thus sent forth upon the world, and without a prospect of future employment, at seven days notice, their jduces being 8up])lied by others who had no claim upon the (Government beyond tliat of being the selected by the Board of Works ? The discrepency bctiveon the letters of the 10th and 20th, as well as that existing between your commuuication to me of 3rd and 5th of February, on lUe subject of the claim of the men for clothing supplied by advances of their own, — a subject which you have not entered upon in answer to that ))art of my inemorial to the Adininistrator of the Province which refers to that par- ticular, wears too manifest an air of inconsistency to ])ermit me to doubt (and my official correspondence witli you attests this,) that there has been as little inclination on your part, as I'rovincial S<'cr(tary, to sustain me in the ])ro- per ilischarge of my public duty, as there was on that of the Attorney Gen- eral East, — a copy of a letter to whom, written at tht \ery outset of my official career, and up to this moment unanswered, I herewith enclose. Of the reduction of the PoHce Force I couhl have no just gronnd of com- plaint, because, as you correctly remark, I accepted the command of that body under the prrfocl understanding that the appointment was only tem- porary ; but what I do loudly and legitimately complain of is that, instead of using the common cc' y — nay decency, of ai)prising the Superintendent appointed by the laic Governor General, to this especial duty, as well as io the Magistracy, that the Government, having taken the allairs of the Wel- land Canal inU) considoraiion, were (jf opinion that such a responsible Offi- cer was not longer rci|uire(l, and had come to the determination of dis))ensing with his services, desiring him however to select ' Mn his Force such men as he should consider to be the most efficient, and c ,e them to be continued under the Chief Constable; — 1 repeat, what I no complain of is that the Government, instead of adopting this course, should have slighted that Su- perintendant by declining to give !iim any notice of their intenttion to keep up a less numerical I'orce, but on the contrary, should have pretended to him that the whole were to be ri'duced without reservation, and furthermore oU'ered him the marked insult — an insult deeply felt by the men — of ins;.ruct- ip him to deliver over the arms and other appointments in his possession, to the very individual of whose neglect of a public and im|)ortant duly he had so recently complained. If this, Sir, was not a |)remcditated insult on the part of those from whom that order came, 1 confess myself to be at a loss to know under what head it is to be clossed. Tilts:, ihen, are the grounds on which my complaint is founded : not on the mere fact of reduction, baton the highly discourteous and oH'ensive man- ner of that redudion, — a manner which has given rise to a general belief in the District where my late duties were [»erforuied, that the Force was re- duced, at the instance of the Ci\il Engineer Power, and under the exen;ise of the influence of the head of the Board of Works, — nor does your coummni- eation, dated the lOili instant, deny the correctness of this impression, for that document hints, and for ihcjlrst time, as a reason that I had permitted myself to make charges against the head of the Board of Works. This at least has the merit of novelty, for in no previous communication had the J GO slightest allusion been made to this, but on the contrary, It Is expressly and emphatically slated that there was no complaint against n\e, and that the consideration of the public good had alone led to the measure, *** ********* The (not cliarges but) motives T have assigned for the conduct of the head of the Board of Work?', Lsiill permit myself fo urge as being conclu- sive in my own mind — even as I permit myself to retain unshaken, bv any thing contained in your communications of the 10th and 20th of March, my fnil belief, as borne out by circumstantial evidence — atid men luive been tried and hanged on circumstanlial evidence, far less strong in its links of connection than that which has been atlbrded to me — that eertain members of the Administration were determined to endeavonr to etlect my removal, the moment that best of all good men, whose beautiful and etlecting answer to the aildress of the Oriental Club, in London, embodying the touohing pathos of a pure and unsoi)histicaied style, gives the fulh'st contradiction to the assertions of those who have denied the originality of his even less beau, tiful answers to addresses in this country, — 1 repeat, the moment of the de- parture of this great and good Nobleman from the shores of this country, was that which had been selected as most opportune, by the patties to whom I have referred, to endeavour to accomplish my removal — such at least, is the impression stamped not only on my mind, but on the minds of many. The fiat had been pronounced, and where numbers and influence combine to effect the destruction of one, the means are easily obtained. You, and they who acted with you — and yet I except the Attorney General West, Mr. Draper, who has ever to n\e expressed a desire to see me employed in the public service — although finding no room for complaint against me in my official cajjacity, had certainly taken steps calculated, even if not abso- lutely intended to make it appear that I was unworthy of the confidence of the Government. How easy to reduce the Force without preferring any charge against it — place the Superintendent quietly " on the shelf," and close the ear to all his claims for future employment. Whether this be the course usually pursued in regard to those servants of the Government who have done their duty faithfully, and whether these are disposed, tamely and without remonstrance, to submu to such injustice, it is not my province to en- quire; but, as far as regards myself, I feel no disposition to forego my right to a vindication before the country. I cannot. Sir, conclude this communication without recording my solemn and sincere belief that the party whom you and your colleagues have suc- ceeded in power, would never, whatever their political principles, have lent themselves, directly or indirectly, to a mode of conduct towards one whona they knew to be a faithful servant, which could lead the public to do him the injury to believe that he was placed under the ban of their displeasure ; or, in the event of this being unintentionally done, and the in justice pointed out to them, without making some demonstration which should have the effect of removing so erroneous an impression. And finally, Sir, I beg that it may be distinctly understood that in no por- tion of this or any previous communication which has passed from me into your hands, as Provincial Secretary, is it intended to advert, in the slightest degree, to the Head of the (Tovernment. That Nobleman came in- to office long after- tiic intrigue for my removal had been concocted and put into full and active operation, and, even had it been otherwise, I am of course not ignorant that the advisers of His Excellency are alone responsible for all I i 1 Q ()1 r ♦ acts emanating from the Government. I entertain all duo respect for the Administrator of the Province, but the eondiuit of certain of those who arc assumeil to rcijiilute His Excellency's political ju(la;omt'nt, leaves mo no in- clination to ileny to myself the right of [(crmiifitif; inystrlf to complain that they, seemingly with design, should have failed to at-cord to nic, in the midst of trying dilliculiies, that support to which I was entitled, and which the interests of the public service demanded. I have the honor to be, &c. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Majou, Tht Hon. D. Dull/, Lai: Si/i>L of Pull';, WclUinU Canal. Provincial Secretary, Monlreal.\ [COPY.] Niagara, June !?•/<, 1816: Sir, — In consequence of your refusal, at a private interview last evenirjg, lo j, v^e me any advice or information how to conduct myself as Special Magistrate for the line of the Welland Canal, in such manner as to avoid interference with the power or privileges of the District Magistrates, and having most distinctly relused to answer several written (pierics which, with that object in view, I had submided to you privately, and lor tin.- im- mediate benefit of the service, except in your olTice at Montreal, whither it is utterly impossible that I should, without culpable neglect of duly, repair, I now otficially adilress you as the Attorney (ieiieral, and as the Public Of- ficer most calculated, as the framer of the Bill under which I am acting, to aHijrd proper guidance to the Force under my special command ; and have to retpiest that you will, at your earliest convenience, reply to the (|ueries contained in the enclosed memorandum, which are precisely those submit- ted to you last evening, but refused :o be entertained by you unless at your otPce in Montreal. In regard to that portion of your remarks which went to deny my power to institute organization for disorgani/alion, and elliciency for inetliciency in the Police Force on the Welland Canal, with the command of which 1 have been honored by His Excellency the Governor General, 1 have incre'y to interpose the recommendation contained in my iustructioiis, that I should place it on a footing of economy to tl)e Government — the wording of the act itself, and my Special Commission which appoints me as the ollieer desig- nated, by the Government, to carry through its provisions, after the publica- tion of the Proclamation of the 9th of May. I have the honor lo be, ficc. [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Major, StqH. of Police, Wetland Canal, The Honorable, the Attorney General East, Niagara. Montreal, 30 Ih of March, 184G. Sir, — In your communication of the I7tli of January, announcing the dis- continuaiue of the Police Foroo on the Welland Canal, under my com- mand, the tullovving paragraph occurs : " I am farther to reciucst that you will be pleased to transmu the accoui't-' connected with the Force." 62 These; ncc(»iin»8 WfTo tninsmitlod by iiic, and showed th»miinsof money due to the iiieii for " ef|uipincnf," t^uppUed in conlorniily with the act, sueli 0(|ni|)r)ici)t having becu paid fur in advance by the several individual of llu^ Force. 1 have MOW to rtqiicsl that you will favor me wiih the dceision of the (lovcniimiit, as to iluir elaiiiis wliii h nr<' for the jirice of etpjipincnl and out! iiioiilh's pay, in (;ouse«pienco of llieir .-serviees having been dincontinued without any previous notification. The Force, I have to rtuiark, were paid montlily and on the first of ea( h month. I have the honor to be, 6cc, [Signed] J. RICHARDSON, Majo«, The Hon. JJ. Daly, La'e Supt. of Police, WellanU Canal. Provincial Hecreiary, Montreal. Skciiktaut's OrriCE, } Moiiireul, 4fh April 184G. \ Sir, — I am cotnmnnded by the Administrator of the Province, fo acknow- Icilge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ulliino, and to inform ytm that the accounts of the late Police Force under your command, are under the con- sideration of His Excellency in council. [Signed] D. DALY, Secretary. John Richni(hon, Esq., Late Supl. of Police, Welland Canal. Montreal. Montnml, llth April, 1846. Sir, — In answer to your question put; to me the other day, I have no hes- itation in stating that it was generally reported in St. Catharines, and among the Force under your comn)and, and I was assured in a most positive man- ner by a resident of St. Catharines, a few days before the Force was broken up, that vhe day you gave up the Government arms a new Superintendent (who was Mr. Power) would be in charge of the Force with some few indi- vidual changes. When speaking one day with Mr. Prcscott, the Paymaster at the Canal Otfice, concerning a iTtcniorial of the nv>:i recently transmitted, in regard to the repayment of their outfit, to (Jovcrnnicnt, I was told by him that they were unfortunate in not having su'.)mitlcd their case to Mr. Power, as had they so done, there was no doubt I'Ut that the claim would have been allow- ed, as that gentleman was all influential with ilu; (iovernnicnt. Mr. Prescott observed that it was not too late, and suggested the re-application to the Gov- ernment on the subject, through Mr. Power. I beg to remain, &c., [Signed] FRED. WILKINSON, Surgeon, Major Richardson. And Late of Police Force, Welland Canal. FINIS