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Sir, There is not at this moment in the Province, a man who cla.m3 so large a share of public attention, or who occupies so pre-eminent a station in public opinion as yourself; not only do you form the subject of conversation in all circles, but men, who never before mingled in politics, now reason on the probable consequences of your words and acts, ordinary occupations have been suspended, the artizan forgets his labour-the professional man his studies-, pleasure even ceases to allure-and the great magnets of public attraction are now the Hall of Assembly-and you the governing spirit that presides there. ' Allow me, Sir, to ask, what has led to the pre-eminence the observed of all observers," is it because of your commanding talent-your high principle-your liberal views -your pure patriotism-or your public virtue? h h for your consistency of conduct-your generous di^gregard of self-or for the sacrifices you make of yeur own private views A 2 and intereBts, for the public weal ? These are the viitties for which we reverence public men, it is by these qualities that the Statesman becomes eminent, and it is by the practice of these virtues that the true Patriot and lover of his country is known. Are these then Sir, your distinguishing charac' teristics, or rather can any thing be more opposed to one and all of these, than your whole public conduct, if you are pre>eminent, it is guiltily so, if all eyes are turned upon you, it is not with reverential love and admiration, but in disgust and abhorrence ; — if there is a being, who concentrates in his own person, all that public hatred, scorn, and contempt, can bestow upon him, to you, Sir, do I apply the emphatic language of the Prophet, and say thou art the man ! Ifthcreisan individual lost to all sense of honor — dead to every feeling but that of self-interest — guiltily intent upon his own advancement, and disregai ding alike the means of his elevation and the men who contribute to it, desperately reckless of feme — active in sedition — pre-eminent in dis- loyalty—again do 1 say thou art the man ! Painful is it indeed to confess, that a man sucli as you, should have attained eminence, even by any means, because the knowledge that you possess power carries with it a conviction ot the weakness or wickedness of those by whose means you have obtained it. It is well known, that there are men over whom you exercise an influence, almost despotic, who think but as you think, see but as you see, act but as you command, and who are invariably de f opinion de Monsr. VOrateur^ and it is indeed subject matter of regret, that these men are to be found in that body, who arrogate to themselves, the title of" The Representatives of the People." that they should show so utter a disregard to public principle, as to yield a blind subserviency to an unprincipled leajer, Ibat iha act. „l' .1 .Mrdaiib„L^r::l;:^;" *■; J'-'-." "• -«•" «oald b. a s.a.. of m1 ZtX 1 . '," "^ ""' "«"■ if .l.e i„di.iU„a, po.,«i*; ZXJ^ ^'""1' "■'" public virlua, and l,ono„7 ."^ " *" ''"""guialiea fi,, «"en yo,„ Sir ar^ .ba I , Jbal"' °. """''"'^- "•" w.;bioborigi„.ua;,b,I"l'^i:^;;" "'"' '^"™ -^ incon=U.encc.«bTehZ * . """'^ "'»«•— nd given .i.™ publicum. a„iZ"d;d;r..a'„r.o""d' "l' m ihe aund of everv th!nl,:„ ^ «oi,deino«J public in.p,o,e;e„7a„^tl7:'":"'= «-' "" ■» «» bi..ere..foe. My i„ entionTwr.,, '' ' *°"' "«' Provincial P.rli.««n.; a„d poin, o„.T ^'°'' " "" -bi«by„„ha.e.„ade\o.he'^al j^k T'^! 'l"""'"' you bad bd;,re nccun.ala.ed a v "^ " '"'"«'' .be new c.i,. „bicb ^otll':/, L°;" Z'""" ■ ':' «nd good will of ,be Uri.ish po.-.ion o7^ ^ ■^""""''° Sir. as 1 bare before as«r.ed^ 2 '"''"'""°° ' •"■•' public opinion, I .eekforlo *"'"» ^''" " "" •"" "t .ban your o. a^a UtJT*" ""'""'"^ "<■--' yo". your »n.vor.l,i„e» ban h T"°"''""" """''■<"' furnish again. 1 ""'° •"""'» *'-" >»>' lamenlable lo behold a human bein^ (hua degraded— pitiable to see a fellow creature ihui, striking a fatal blow at the |wor remains of reputation left hi.u. You asked, Sir, fur approval, and in reply you were told that His Excellency alfowed the choice of the Assembly. Where were the customary forms ?— where the reliance upon your talent, zeal and integrity?— where the antici|)ation of your fcithful discliai^ of the duties confided to you ? All— all were omitted. Your election was confirmed without further ceremony or courtesy -the usual privileges accorded to you in the briefer language— and thus ended a ceremony without parallel in the records of the Colony. Yoti now, Sir, entered upon the more immediate du- lies of your office, biihevtu tlie presence of your mj- periors in birth, talent, and station, had somewhat res- trained you, but once more anrang kindred minds, sur- rounded by your own satellites, you soob proved to us ihftt we had correctly anticipated the result of your return to the Hall, where the sittings of the Assembly are held. It was no new thing to ua to see, that the Speaker who ought by wtue of tbia office to b« the ModepMior in the popafo, bwnctr, was the most ttofem partiain rn it, that the dignity of his office was never for a moment consulted when party 10 ■pirit or national annimosiiies called foi- his intervention — we were prepared for what has occurred, and we fully anti- cipated ail the abuse which it has since pleased you to lavish upon the British, the Council and the Execuiive—swifily did speech follow speech, declamation succeeded to declama- tion, and we now, Sir, have ceased to wonder at your mar- vellous powers ot invention, but are still lost in astonishment at the strength of your lungs, and your untiring powers of vituperation — If to slander be an accomplishment, verily thou art a first »!iie Professor — if frantic rant be the test of oratory you are, indeed, an accomplished Orator — if bold and im- pudent assertion be the criterion of reasoning, your logical powers are, indeed, unrivalled. — You commenced, Sir, your career of this Sesaion with a speech upon the slate of the Province — it is like all your parliamentary efforts — a string of impudent falsehoods, gross and malicious abuse of the Coun- cil and Executive, and contains a series of false reasoning mixed up with the usual quantum of empty declamation. To prove the first of my positions, I need only point out the assertions mtide by you — " That a whole people were embar- rassed and groaning under the weight of their affliciions," that " the measures of the House had received the approba- tion of the constituency in the proportion often to one," and that " the concurrence of all the Members with whom'com- municaiion was practicable" has been asked to the Petition agreed to by the Convention. Scarcely had this last asser- tion been made by you, when it was positively and unequivo- cally contradicted by an honorable and respected Member of the House, resident in Quebec, who not only denied that any communication had been made to hitn, but staled that he was not even aware of the nature or contents of that Petition upon which he was immediately to vote — so much, Sir, for j'our veracity. These, however, are but a few of the false assertions contained in that Address, and they are merely selected as the most prominet. As a specimen of your vulgar abuse of the Council and Executive, let us (ake'the follow- ing :t-'* An Administration remarkable only for inconsisten- cy and the daily commission of error" — " A Council who conceive that tliey were appointed for the especial purpose of evil, who through the means of fawning effected their en- try. into that body, and maintained their position by the repe- tition of acts of oppression," and that the Province •' was 11 ention — illy anti- to lavish —swiftly Jeclama- 3iir inar- lishinent owers of rily ihou f oratory ind iin- ir logical >ir, your le of the siring of lieCoun- easoning a mat ion. : out the eembar- liciions,'* approba- nt," and om'com- Petition St asser- nequivn* ember of that any i that he t Petition i)ir, for the false e merely ur vulgar le follow- ooaisten- incil who I purpose their en- the repe« :e *' was under the rule of a Soldier governing with ignorance, witli passion, and with a partiality towards the Soldiery to tb# extent of conniving at the utmost atrocities." Why, thou insolent defamer of thy belters ! thou slanderer of all'that is great and honorable ! how didst thou dare to make an asser- tion so unsubsiantiatfd by the slightest proof. Was it be- cause a gallant British officer on ihe memorable twenty-first of May, by a prompt suppression of Riot, saved the proper- ties and lives of hundreds of citizens, and afterwards received the well-merited thanks of his Commanding Officer for an act which perhaps prevented the City of Montreal from being given over to the attack and plunder of bands of organized thieves and bullies ? or was it upon the information given to you by that sapient body the ♦* Town C icil of Quebec," those men who stand convicted not only of a gross depar- ture ffom their municipal functions, by interfering in political matters ; but who in defiance of all hw, honor and justice prosecuted an Enquete in which the military were a party, as foully, as partially, and as falsely as any have been conduct- ed which disgrace the records of the Inquisition, and who in their besotted igi;orance, imagined that the Commander in Chief would, upon their recommendation, break a Standing Rule of the Service, and, in compliance with the wishes of some six or seven impertinent intermeddlers deprive a British Regiment of their side-arms ! ! ! or were these assertions made because your own door was, during a popular commotion, (of which you alone were the cause) guarded and protected by a British Sentinel ? Was it from one or all of these causes 1 ask, that you uttered the slanders in question ? or was it be- cause your ambitious mind brooks no superiority ? and that conscious of debasement you would reduce every one to your own level ? Why is it that you would instil into the minds of British subjects any other feelings than those of esteem and respect for those brave men who have so often been their defenders ? Why is it that British officers are so peculiarly selected as the objects of your low and scurrilous abuse ? Is it that ilieir honor and bravery are a tacit reproach to your ■want of those virtues? Why is it that the Governor of this Colony is so often singled out by you in his military capa- city ? so repeatedly designated *' a Soldier ?"— from the basest and worst of motives, from a desire to create distinc- tions which ought never lo exist, from a wish to generate whose honor ie, hYe i.a Sir, ! .^ cliaraciei- of ihat Army specimen of VoL Irven.ive^noT''"'- ""'^ "" ^•"'"^«- As k impudence. C U3 .X he f-lW '' ^"'""^ ^i"' ""Paralled auJrfiss;-.?* TheVn^lVh tn ^^ "^ ««»'«« from the same wcter^ when hey Sd ZllT""''^ "'' ^^'^'^'^^ ^l'"- privilfffes. Sr. of which vn.. 7^J^^^'' ^Vhat are the or actTof ,he A m lor v'' dnV^'t^* "" ''IT ^^«» ^Pi^'o-^ Read, Sir. In theDlclJ^ ^*"J. ^u'*^° '^'^^ «» ^ssirtion ? Assoc'iation ",Le ca^se wl^h ,"^ '''•' ^""'^.^^ Consiitutiooal form Societi^ foJ m m!..w '\''*'^ '"^""^ ^^a* minority ,o demand boCyouTrrJenTwh' ""^ ''"'" ^^''^ 'W 10 Ihem.-They Lrfflr.L •^*!i7 unworthy moiiveJ fair share in .he'r:;reiinrion7;he P^^^^^^^^^^ " • end's only by Constitu.L^af i' themselves to effect these a lesson that you will lonlvl ^t "^ V'" ^^ »**«*» you people who a^racc:stomXr^^ '^^^7 •? « msult— too long have ihev nenn »»^^^ national or individual generosity; but yorhave s^r J. i^""" *'' V'^^^''»» t^eir S.em thai iill ne?e7relaruil Lv I *" TTf * 'K"' """^"^ gpiliy eminence, an oWec of mfb lo? *^"^'^^y"« ^o™ you? of miserably blasted aSbition ^ ' *"'* * monument 4crarthe^t:rtL?^^^^^^^ - "- Governors you more nearly than tW /dd'l^r h^°''''"« ^^J*'** »°"c»» ing applicability to yiurseU Yo^ l^ T*'-.°^ ''« "'"l^- vidoal had been roCd ftL ? "^"^ •.*'** '^*''*'' •»» 'n^i- fortuitous circumsSicel yov^ VtKi '"''«? '^'"^^ ^^^ wonder that its truth was Wl»«. """ '. *"^ ''« c*nnat it W.8 characters bryUaiJUrr"*"^''*'""' «»"<* *hai i« 1810, by General cfJ^w?.!. *''*®P»'"S «»»« one delivered ;ddres3U iat^lfeaZn^o^^rtC^ /," ''-^"^^ deserved the aDoellatinn «?«.«;" ' ,f*^ff' *nat « the minor ty U..o„ of o„. hundred WftylhSltotJire™":?;:; aiui i'wm a of I hat Army nineil. As a li unparalled om the same >rthle83 clia- es privileges l^'hai are ilie hat opinions n assertion ? institutional minority to what they rthy motives words) *♦ « '— *' an en-» asses of His effect these nauvais su* « teach you lelong to a individual with their pirit among from your monument Governor's ould touch its strik- er an indi- ficance by we cannot I) and that i delivered I the same e minority red to ask iaI Legist — a popu* beenfrait- 18 dulently depiived ol the intended beneBis of the ConsiiiulJon —they have been tricked, cheated, (call it what yon will, sir,) out of all share in the repreaeniation, and they are styled factious btcause they dar« to solicit the intervention of the Imperial Ptuliaroent— because iliey assert that the wmnffs under which tliey labour demand redress, and a«k it of ilie only authority comiMieat to give it. 1 suppose, sir, that ihe opinion of Lord iMansfield, that « a couniiy conq«ere of " like master like nia»." 14 ?o,.r .,s„« discriminaiion !hn.. T? ''*''^' ''°^ever, (will, Lord Stanley i9 not only ri^nf I. K^t-r*'^' ^'••' '^at enceand ^reat aua^nmentT" hnf . '^^ •''"''\^°""^ "P^^i- considered even by Th^fi L' •'"'•!'"»'"« political talent is Do yon knorSir^that he s noiVn^v^h^'""^ Pre-enunent. •er in the Common, and on- "fH ^ '^' "'°" ''^"^y ^^^a- ciay, but that headdrtoaM .h ^T'^"'"^"*'"' men of the proachable cllal'c er aid J eLtTer^o;:)"':'? '"f?^ •*?^ '"''• ence-this is the man Si'? Li f 7 ' """^ P°'"»^^»' '"«"" Roebnck. Tr lyiri'sick^nrna o ;r/?"/°'"P«'^ ^••• you speak of your superiors to lU.ln "'' u^'^''^ '" '^^" drawn by yon of pohticai mpn I^a"-^" ^^^ comparisons witl. whi^clfyou aracr^Urt sl'b^r^l^/h'^r'^h" and attempt ,„ degrade them to the eyd of .hn.P J. '"""'• .n T7T?r '^y to Roebnck-^sa^o a fc hZ ^"" lo a Mole-hill-Manners Sotton to Louis ln«!. iTp ^""P"' I know not, Sir, what incipient hm,o^9n.lrr'^ Papmeau. «n store for Mr/Uoebuck, C Is S S Lnf ^^ 1"*^ *'"^« cently honored by indue io in.n. i^'u^^il''' ^^^" ^^• Rector of the Unfyer"ity of ClJ,. ^ ^'^^. ""^'^ '^^ ^ord sort may be attemS here for T^^ «omethmg of the same Lis political Riv«r pSriaprfnotlZ^r •°"' ^.''^^^ ""^^^ reforming times) Mr. RoTblKj^'^e;^^^^^^^^ ">r Jesuits' Estates placed at the disposal of the r, I ^ ?^ '-^ lature ; if so, amidst the race for nublfc mn "'^' *^^8''- would inevita'bly followsuclfaneyemhiT^oT'T'" ?''["'* the Education of Members of pf' *° ^® ''"P*^ •hat *>, where tlie very necessary arcs o( r/adin. .^^"^ * ■ " e.s, might be ...fgl,,, sini i. U e, den ?|,'?1„'";;'"«!' in G,a,g„„« •„„,; ^Tct£ Tc.i's:'.:'' Kr'cY; 15 mh\y on die mendalion of unilei->value use I am not her. I only ember ofthe > be but lit- I'ever, (with ompare him 5> Sir, that und experi- ical talent is >re-eniinent. ready deba- men of the |y and irre- itical influ. nfipare Mr. ree to hear omparifiona frantic zeal r character whom you -Olympus Papineau. f may have 3 been re- B of Lord the same tave made e in these [filing the iai Legis- ?nt which oped that ot be ibr- cial bene- wiiting at I Canada nature.*' Stanley, loebuck, and the public may be favored through the medium of the moderate and impartial " Canadien," or the veracious, clas* flical, and elegant *'• Vindicator," wiili a pompous account of the inauguration of John Arthur Roebuck, Esqr. M. P. and Agent of the Assembly, in England, into the high and honorable office of Lord Rector, or to use a more republican phrase. President ot so illustrious a College of Blockheads — truly " The force of fancy can no farther go." I now come, Sir, to your grand and crowning effort of the Session, namely your Speech on the " Answer of His Excel- lency to the demand of the House for their contingencies." Distinguished as you are for your marvellous powers of invention, arid known as you have ever been for your capability of misrepresentation, this was an effoit even be- yond yourself. What shall we say to the opening assertion— " that the House had for many days proceeded with great " calmness and moderation in the discharge of its duties." Let us take some of its acts as a specimen, it elected you its Speaker,— struck His Excellency's Speech of last Session from its Journals, — answered the Speech from the Throne by ridiculous and impertinent Resolutions,— imprisoned a h'luh public functionary of the Crown for refusing to break his official oath ; and lastly, grossly abused and insulted the Head of the Executive. This, Sir, is a perfectly new diffi- nition of " calmness and moderation," and is not, 1 believe likely to be a very generally received one. You ask with miich naivete — " what reasons had the Governor for suspect- *' ing a violation of the promises made by the House of As- " sembly ?" I answer several, and very cogent ones. His knowledge of the men who compose it — the total want of public honor and principle displayed by the majority, and the fact of his having been formerly deceived by them. These, Sir, would, I believe, be considered by any rational man, as amply sufficient grounds for doubting even " The honor of the Representatives of the people." You state in the same Address that the ** Local Legislature was left to " n>ake laws relative to Reeds and Bridges alone." What a blessing, Sir, would it be to the country, if for once, you had spoken truth. The records of the Colony would not then have been disgraced by the « Act for the subdivision of the " Province into Counties,"— The « Militia Laws,"— The " Acts of Incorporation,"— that premium upon ignorance, t r r 16 the Sfanxe permiitinj{ « MMters of School!* to *ffix ilinr « cf«i»w wheii nnaMe lo wri te."-'rfie « Membew imlem- .nurder calJed " The Jary Bill.- B„t. Wr, I ^| not l^ jiw follow you ihrongh your eniflw* maze of fahjehood— nor longer recapiinlate the crimes which siitk you Mow the l».fel or fhe meanen crimtmil. To work your reformation ia, 1 tear, impossible; for you have loo long enjoyed sec urUv— too long practised evil with Impunity; but do not imagine. }S