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GsiiTLKMiirt—- PARLIAMENT hii been diatolved, Kod you will be immrd lately called upoa lo pronounce at Ihe halting! your coDsiitutioaal vetdici on the conduct of public afiiiirfl dariag the lut three years. At « crista like the present it may beeipected that I abonid inke occaiionof communicating with you, somewhat more at jenglh than a mere election addrefs would aflfurd ma the opportunity of doing. Hence the letter which 1 now •ddrcaa to you. The Province has paased through a long and arduous ■troggle for the establinhment of n system of gnvrrnment founded on the broad basis of Oriilsh Constiruiional princi* plea. Your favour, and the confidence of a lurge portion of the people of my country, placed me in a position in which I waa called upon to perform no unimportant part in the great battle of the constitution. That battle has been fought. The fic'ory has been achieved. And it now rests with the people li*TmselveB whether they will permit ihe eneinies of those grer.t principles to raise the standard which they have heretofore endeavoured to prostrate, and under its shelter re-ereet practically the old system under a new name, or whether, by one more great and united effort, the people will insure ihe fruits of past struggles to themselves m a government adapted (o their wrtnts and wishes. Such a Government in my opinion, and ] believe in that of moat men, we have not had during the last four years. Neither the course by which her Mnjfsty*? present Provincial Minis- ters obtained power, the political materials of which their Cabinet has been composed, nur the manner in which they have conducted the business of the country have, in my opinion, entitled them to public confidt^nre, 1 have, there- fore, aa your Representative, felt bound as far as it rested with me, to withhold thai confidence from them. Afl respects the first. They obtained power under false ppetencea. They pretended the Royal Prerogative to be endangered because the laie adminisiration had claimed the Gonstitui'onal right of being cunsulied by the Representa- tive oi ih . Sovereign respecting appointments to omce, and that audi consultation should precede any offer or promise of such appointment to any one. And they afTected to be greatly alarmed leal such a practice should lead to the patronage of the Crown being made use of for party purposes. But hav- ing by ihe aid of these cries possessed themselves of place, they not only have avowedly insisted on the very practice which they had condemned, but have notoriously gone far beyond iheir predecessors in making use of patronage for the advancement of party interest. So that if they were right in their objection to the use of Government patronage for party influence, iheir practice has condemned them. If their practice is in any re^^pecl right, their repronch against us, haa •II the falsehood and insincerity with which we charged it, for thia was the very cry, which, under the i^anction of the then Governor-General, they raised against us— and in either case they are unworthy of public confidence. The following is the landuage of theii great leader on this subject in taking leave of the House, on his elevation to the Bench. Spenkme of the offer of the Adjutant-General- ship to Sir Allan McNah, Mr. Draper said, '* I felt that I would not be doing my duly, if I allowed so important an oflke to be conferred without my advice. I could not allow it. If it had been bo conferred I must have resigned." And a reference to the journals of the last session will show that for the purpose of strengthening themselves with their party ihey constrained the lute Governor-Genernl, after he bad authorized the ofier of the Deputy-Adjuiant-Generalship, and that offer had been made to the party, to write through his Secretary **il)at circumsinnces beyond his control had ocoaaioned the departure from hia first intention." I have referred to this, not only to enable you to compare the rsftl regard for the Prerogative of the Crown, and true de- firrenee towards the Representative of the Sovereign, which iMMh the principles and practice of the late Ministry displayed with the conduct of their successors ; but to call your allen- tioQ 10 the fr.ct, that the issue which the present Ministers and their partizans, aidtd by the most unscruputoua use of the name and authority of the Queen's Representative, con- trived to place before the people of the country at the last General Election, was in truiki a false one. Then, secondly, what were the materials of which their ever abrfling Cabinet has been composed. Let them be tested by their action on some of the grt i queations with which they have had to deal. For instanct^ the question whether the Clergy Reserves should be invested in the difTe- rent Ecclesiastical Corporations, and in their hands afTurd the means of creating an extensive tenantry to swell the in- fluence of these bodies, or whether they should be sold at a reasonable price to the people, and thus add to the numbers and the influence of the independent Farmera of the country. Thia surety was not a question of minor intereat but one of the most vital importance to the peace and prosperity of the Province. One in which every man in the eoontry, either directly or indirectly was interested, and on which a Government was bound lo choose ita side, and upon that side to use all ita power and legitimate influence. And yet this of all others was a question upon which thtse Ministers cisiming to be true rep reaen tali vea of the piblio opinion of the Province, and fit expositors of that public opinion tu the Representative of iheir Sovereign, haili aa an Administration, uo opioioo at all. Their four Law Officers dividing two and two forandaaainsi theinvealnent, and their Inspector-General, Provincial Secretary, Commis* sioner of Works and Commissioner of Crown Lands, follow* ing suit in corresponding couples two for and two against it And that loo on a division of 37 lo 14, in a house that gtv* (hem, a^ a Mmisiry, its general support. Wbaisyaien or plan of government can you infer from this to be the ano of the present Ministers, hot that on great public qnestioos tho sdministratioo which should repreaent embodiod pablie opi- nion, may, in the face of the public, avow thataa a Qovem* ment they have no opinion at all. And let not those who may be inclined to becnile them- aelves with the hope that all danger aa rcspeela this qoesiioa haa wholly passed away in consequence of our succtssihl opposition to the scheme of investment on that occaaioa« forget the persevering energy of those whose object it ia to procure such invesitnent, and lei ihem bear in mind more- over that the chosen champion of that measure is the preaent first Law officer of the Crown fur L'pper Canada, a gentle- man by some considered ihe head of the Adminifiratioo. Then, as respetis the University question. That has been the subject of no less than three abortive attemp'« at legisla- tion on the part of ministers, displaying auch h... latioa and want of unanimity among themselves, as shows them to have no fixed, well defined views wiih relation to it ; al- though, by their own admission, a question of ihe higheot importance. In my opinion, when an adviser of the Crown, oa • great public question, avows a'scheme which his colleagues dare not approve, public safely, and public morsls require that they should separate. But in ihe present ministers yon have lo deal with men who can publicly denounce, and oppose each others' policy, and yet have the hardihood lo claim for the ministry, as a body, public confidence. Of what avail is it to you, if your representative thinka rightly for himself 7 Jf he tends his aid lo preserve in power, thost whose judgment and acts are wrong 7 The conduct of the present ministers upon ihepe great questions of ihe Clergf Reserve5, and the Ifniversitv, are but some of the maojr in which their nets show thn< the principles, and opinioos of their colleagues were a mnttf-r of perfect indifi'erence ioeaoh,so long as they were agreed u|i'in their o^ly essential point, namely, the tenure and emoluments of office. And if nn thtf great questions of social interest, to which I have referred, they were thus found wanting, how has it been as respects the agricultural and commercial interests of the Country 7 In what manner did they show ihemselveo equal to the position which they occupy, on the occaaion of the great change forced upc i ns by the altered poliey of the parent stale? A change v hich all saw coming with r sure and steady pace, except tht very minislers whose duly it was to have prepared the cou.'ry for the event. Let the uncertainty in which they kept ti,.^ Province, by ihn alow and vacillatinif ftepsi wiih which trKT moved in these matters— let iltr> manner in which they left an important provision. respecting; the duty on live stock imported from the United States, to be explained to the Home Government through the Military authorities, without one word for months together from the ProvincialGovernmeot explanatory of the reasons for the r Mention of such duly. Let their neglect of the post Office, and iheir present ill considered Tariff of Duties be .'oe testa by which their sufficiency be tried. In all these the ministry have shown an inaptitude and incapacity for public aflinirs, which haa made their in- cumbency cj* office little more than a series of blunders.aad ex- posed them session after settsionio the reproach of iheir frieoda, and the derision and almost pilyof their oppooenta. 1 have already necessarily had to speak of many iMtteio which equally claim attention in considering how for tbo manner in which the business of the country has been eonduet- ed by ministers entitles them to public confidence. It ia not, therefore, necessary that I should recur to those points ; but I will touch upon some few others. There is the Common- School Law — has their Legislation on that aobjeet given salisfaction 7 What have they done to remedy the acknow* IHged injustice of the present Assessment Law 7 What to reform the Court of Chancery 7 What to improve tbo Court of Appeals T All matters of the greaicsl importanc-*, and most of them calling loudly for pp>mpl . legislative interference. It is true ihey pasaed a Utatnet. Court Bill, and after in one Session making ihe office of Judge of that Conrt independent of the Crowo, they, the next, supported and passed a Bill to make those Judges dependent. Then there waa the attempt to deprive the women of the country of their Dower. Thia measure was introduced by the Solicitor General, who by some is consid- ered the real head of the Administra.ion. The point of lead- ership, like almost every other of importance, being considered by these gentlemen an opea question, if it be uot one of antagonism between the two learned Law Oflieerafor Upper Canada. Be that as it may, however, the measure waa supported by four Cabinet Mir sters, on a division of 14 to 39. They have passed, to be sure, aome firts for the amendment of the law, such as the Fines an "coveriea* Act: the Prescription Act, and aome others, wt; whatevai' place Ihey may fill on the Sutute Book of theProvin:c, consist of mere reprinu of late Acts of the Imperial Parliomenk upon these subjects. But where ia there any great original mt um of iknr owi t ^ lo ihtir LrglilMlM fiir Lowtr CwMdt, ii bu bM> Tuilhiiat ia iIm miimm. FiiM baildiig ap lod ihra pilliaidawa, ■• ii ikteu* of ih* Haii- •inliiiM, liki ebildrra pltyiaf «i etrd hnmt i ud apM ibt wbot*! pfodoeiag notluaf bai wntnal ditaaiiiCwdoa la thai aNliaa of ibo Pioflaoo. Agaia, how hava thrjr OMd iht power which ihfir nnatl B^ioriljr gt*e iham in eoBdoeliaglb* barioMf of Ihc HoaatT Look al Uio prncMdingt lo lappKa* taqairjr iate lb* Moa- tml, I<«di, and oiber elaeiieaa. Looli ai iheir ceadael itaptoiiaf ih> Taoanejr ia ihoafat for Slmeoa, Iheir refgaal of|>«p*n, and Iheir praleeliea of Ihe Comminioaer of Cfown Laadt from ihe eoedemaalion which the Admiaicira- lioa of hia depannteai meiited. Tbcf haf« aoi ooljr freaily iaereaaed ihc patroaaga of iha CrowB bnl ii ii perfceilf aolortona Ihat ihcra naver waa a paiiod ia which that pairooaga waa mora anaorapaloaaljr made aae of, aoi merely with the aaoal Icaaiag towaid party iaMtalK bai for Ihe parchaae of that aopport, bj which alaaa ihair political tiiataace waa, weak after week, prolonged. I do iMt hewerer by any meana pnMa to ba*« goae ercT all the poiata n'pea which ihe preaeat PrOTiacial Miaiatir an open to condcmaatian. I might hare dwell apoa Ibefr illegal deaiiag wiih the pnUie properly by the iaaoe of Laad BcM to an eaormena amoaai ia direct denaaea ofoae Act of Paniainent, and npoo iheir neglect in not haTiag ib« eeana taken aa directed by aaother, aad npoa many otbett, bat ■either aptee nor lime permiia— eaoagh, hewaeer, haa I hoBo b«ea eaid, to ahew, not only ibnt I waa beaiHl to with- hold eon6denee from ihem aa one of the Repteaentalif ea of Ihe people orCanada, bnl thai there are ample gronnda for thai oniverMl eondemoatlon which even inoae who haee yielded ihem a party lapport admit ihem lo ba*« merited. I donbl not, that now ihai ihe^ ar« compelled to meet Ihe daeioraat the h-Minga, there ntll of abpndanee of promiiea both from Ihem and ihair anpportcra aa to what ihey iQeao lO do bereaflrr. But let Ihe eoonlry reeolleci ihc promiaen which were made al ihe lail elreiion. Lei ihem remember all ihal wai pmrniied reepeeiing ihe opening of Ihe UniTer- aily and other liberal mraiore* and compare ihoee magnificent promiaea with ihe Mininerial performaneea, and then jndge BOW far, after pail experience, promiiea from a^ch a qnaner can be depended npon. Dm it la aomelimea aaked what hare the Libcrala doaa for the coonity I Let the qnealioner look back into the hieiory of ihe laat thirty yean. le it not lo their exertion* ihat the people aie indebted for the recog- nilton of Iheir righia aa Briiiih aebjeela to a practical iailarace npon the adminiairaiion of their goeemmeni— For their Mnnieipal Conncila, nnd ilirongb litem for the eoalrol and management ol iheir looul taxee— For a Common School aynem, by which £90,000 of the public reeenae ia applied annaally to ihia important roeani of aoeial improve- mcnt— For the independence of their Jad g ea For aa elee- tioa law, admitted e>en by our opponenii lo bo a eut im- proTemeol fin Ihe old ayalem — For ihe Marriage Act— and in Acl for all ihe oiher real ameliorationa in onr Ijowa and Inalilaliona, from ihe repeal of the odiona Ooorlay Act, down to the preaent tine. All which meaanrea ii iheir tarn met wiib a vigorona, and for a loag lime nic- eeaafal oppoaiiioo from the pirly now in power. He there- lore who will look Idio Ibe past hiitory of ihe conntry with Iha eaadoar of a faithful aearcher after Imth, will baee no oecaaion lo repeat the qneiiion — What haTc the Liberal party done for the cnnntn' 1 lien aa rrgarda the (uinre. My paat eoniae, and ihe re- marka which the tapice already ivferrrd lo baee oalleil forth, might perbipa for the moat part anffiec. Bnl before eoneloding I will ren^trk, that aa regaida the great fnadamentila of ihe Conaitlnilon, I believe them lo be now aellled ; and lhai heocefoih we ihall have no moi« Repreaeniaiirei of the Sorereign miikiag Ihe doctrinea of the CiharleMi and the Jameeea, the alandard by lyhich to goeem Brilieli aubjecta in Ihe nir.eieenlh eentnry, bat Ihal beaeeibrih their viceregal goTcrnmenii will be dialingniabed by ndherence to the conatilntional principVa acknowledged Sallpartieaia England. Principlea which, relieviag her ijealy'a Repreaeniaiite from the ineldiona poeilion of tha head of a party, will render him, aa be ahonld be the cotmnoo F'alher of the whole people : not aa waa well aaid by the piaaent Ooeemor General in hia apeech al Hamilton, n mere pageant, bnl a lieing ipirit and the con- necting link which binda, and will 1 troal. coatinne to bind thia great Colony to the parent Mate in alTeotionaie and proaperoninnion. Aa reapeeta the important qaeation of the Male of tha RepreaeniatioB, I am of opinion that ihe preaent nnmber of RapreaentatiTea ia loo email lor ao exteaaiee a Prorince. And while I do not beliere that exact equality, by which aaeh member wonid alwaya bo Ihe Repreaenlatire of a pre- ciaaly eqnal nambet of Ihe popnlalion, lo be allainable, area if practically expadieat. I am of opinion ihal a mnch M««r approach to aach eqaalily ia aepeaaary, before Ibe PtiliaaMl saa ha traly aaid to repreaaai tha p«bH« opia- ion pf Caaada. Aa reapeeta Edaaaiioa, I am for leaeiag li, more partial- latly ia iia clemeatary branch, aa mnch order ihe diiceiioa •a/«o«irqal of Faraaia aa ia eonaiileni with a oaeliil ■aifomily, aad tha practicil working of the eyatem. Aad while I would be liir from rejreting what w» good in iho iaatililioaa of ether cooniriea, let the form of their gor- aiamaala be what it may, I am not prepared lo admit ihat the iaflaeaca of a central Executive ahonld be predominant ia every echool room in the country, or that the Slate aboaki aaarp the place of ihe parent of the child. In Ilia aeaae aaderalood either byeomeofihe free nitiona of aniiqaily, or by aoma of the detpotic govemmenta of modem Slaropo. I ahoild, however, endeavour lo place Kdacalioa . in alt ila braachea, within ibe reach of the whole commaa- ily— aad lo Ibiaend I would not only preaerve the appropri- ■tloa already made, bnt I woald aeek every opponanily af iamcaaiag aad enlarging the meana by which the kaow- ledge, the iatalligeaee and mental improvement ao eaaaatial lo Ibe waltara of a free people, mighl be advanced aad a- leaded. Then aa reapeeta that portion of ihia imponani qaaa- tion, which ia involve(<. in the eonaiiinlion of ihe Vniveraily of Kiig'a Collage i while I am adveree lo the deMroeliea •f Ihal valaaUa iiMiintion by the panitioo of ita endow- raank I am lor plaeiag it npon a liberal fooling, by which it will be relieved o'' Ihal character of rxclgaiveneaa trbioh IMW atlacbea to it, and rendered iaatmmenlal ia dilTiiaing Iha hiaaainga of a high atindard of edocaiioa ihioiigheai Iha Province. I am, therefore, not in favonr of the Bill of tha preaani MiaiMry, which I am aaiiified ia nothing bnt • delaaioa and a aaare, and which when the ttaie of the el- dewmral coCMa lo be fally examined, will be found to leave ■elhiag far the Grammar Bchooli which I am peraaadad have been referred to in it, merely for the purpow of trying h( thnt meaaa, to catch acme breath of popular favour. Bat if tha eadowment la to be diverted from in original poipoaa, I am then for aneh an applioaiion of it, aa will render il laally available lo Ihe people, by appropriating not merely an IHaaoryand anreal enrplui, but the whole endowment to Iha Grammar aad Common Sehoola. J^ repi4a the Agricultnral and Commercial inlercMa of the conntry, I am in favor of thai freedom of trade and ■avigation which will prevent the gnat mace of onr popnla- lion from paying tribute to pariicniar aeclioni of it. Aa regarda the Judiciary,— I am deiirona of aeeing the Uoan oTChancery put npon a footing better adapted lo ihe eoadilioa and wnnia of the country, and Ihe Conn of Appenia ao arnngcd aa to mike the paaaing ihrongL it aome- Ihtpg mora Ihaa a mere form, preparatory to the expenaive. pfoceai of aa appeal to England. Thie, al Irut aa regaida appeala at Commoa Law, la now the only pnrpoae that II Theae meaaarea with all practical economy in the pnblic expendiiare, and aoch an application of the reaonreea of the Province, aa may beat advaace iia general proaperity, with onl partiality to oae aeeiion over another,— a Poet O^ce K tern,— an improved adminiitration of the Crown Landa paitineW,— the relieving the Lnmber Trade from that Texatioaa interference which haa been the subject of ao mnch eomplaiat ia the Lumbering aectione of the Province ( aach allenlion to ihe iipporiant aubjeel of Emigration, aa nay, aa fat aa poatible, cava na from a recurrence of the calaniiiea of the laai aeaaon, and provide for the aeitle- ment of our wild landa, with a healthy aad proaperona popnlalion— F look npon a> of the highrat importance to the intereala of the Province. Theae, with othera thai might hameationed, open a large field for the active energiea of a alTongandvigonna admiaialration, auch an adminiairaiion I am qcairoaa to aee in office, and to anpport lo the atmoat (if my power. Jkjt to ipyaeid I have no dcaire for place, and my paM life abowa that I would neither accept nor retain it at the aacri- fiee of my principlea. But a Canadian, by both birth and adncation, with all that ia most near and dear lo me bound up with the fortnnea of the Ptvvince, and without a ahilling'a worth of property in any other conntry in the worid, I do reel I deep intereat in iia proaperity, and in Ihe happincaa of ita people. The extent to which I may have il in my power lo he naefnl in forwarding Iheae great objecia will, of eonrae, greatly depend npon the coming eontral. That conical, I have evtiy eonfiiiencc will reanit in the ancceca of the great eaaae in which we have been ao longengaged. Bnl letevery maa ramamber, that he haa hie own indivioaal part to perform in the atraggle, and that that part will not be performed by a mere recoiding of hia vote, but that hia country baa a right lo every exertion he may have it in hia power to make, lo I have tha honor to be, Gentlemen, Tonr moat obedient hnmble aervant, ROBERT BALDW^r. TeistM, 8ih Deeeqiber, 1847..