The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-10 00:00:00

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ment and that of their family ? We must admit the right
of the Imperial Parliament to intervene in the distressful
position in which the House of Assembly has left the Pro-
vince. We should blame that blind majority which
has forced an intervention which they might and should
have prevented. We should loudly protest against all
advice teaching smuggling and resistance to the legally
constituted authorities, advice which unprincipled men have
for some time given to the people—and finally, we should
loudly declare our attachment to the British Empire, and
how happy we are in being enabled to live under her just
and liberal institutions.
The first resolution was then moved by duels QUENSEL,
Esq. The resolution is as follows:
" That the unjustifiable refusal of the House of Assem-
bly of Lower Canada to make the necessary appropriations
for the administration of justice, and the support of the
Civil Government of this Province, has been the principal
cause of the resolutions brought forward by his Majesty's
Ministers, and adopted by the Imperial Parliament."
This resolution having been read, A. GUGY, Esq., Advo-
cate, of Quebec, Member of the Provincial Parliament for
Sherbrooke, being called, spoke, in French, nearly as
lows :—Fellow Citizens,—Within the last few days, events
have occurred with such astonishing rapidity, the anarchi-
cal party have become so audacious, have exhibited such
en appearance of strength, that the friends of order have
considered it incumbent on them to throw off their usual
lethargy, in order to declare their opinions, and to support
the Government. These, Gentlemen, are the causes of
your meeting—this is the end and object of this assembly.
The House of Assembly, the body of which I am a Mem-
ber, has offered the revolting spectacle of a deliberate re-
fusal to pay its debts, on pretext that an elective council is
necessary to the welfiere of the people. lam not friendly
to imperial intervention, but the present is an extreme
case, and no other remedy could be found. I shall not
avail myself of the absence of colleagues to touch upon any
other subjects ; I shall restrict myself to the question of
finance. I declare here, as I have already done in the
House, that that body lays claim to nothing less than infal-
libility. The position which it has taken is calculated to
work great injury.—(Loud and continued cheers.) The
intervention complained of originated in these measures,
and is the cause of the distress now so generally prevalent.
We have about half a million of hard dollars in our coffers
—a sum which, were it in circulation, would produce great
and manifest advantages. The capitalist is paralysed, the
merchant can neither buy nor sell, the artisan is unem-
ployed, the labourer without work. But if the House of
Assembly had been willing to pay its debts, these funds
would have been now in circulation, and all those evils
must have been diminished—every branch of induetry
would have revived, and we should have been exempted
from the intervention of which our adversaries affect to
complain. In fine, Gentlemen, such is the evil, and it
lies at the door of the House. Such also is the remedy,
and although the Assembly denied the remedy, the Imee-
rial Parliament has afforded it. Yet, we seek not to abo-
lish the House ; we desire merely to recal it to a sense of
duty, that it may adhere to the course pointed out by the
true interests of the people. While we reject its claim to
infallibility, we equally deny its right to commit suicide,
and we declare, as we are entitled to do, that as the ser-
vant of the people and not its master, it is bound to pro-
ceed with the work of legislation, and make laws applicable
to our social state. The House of Assembly cermet at-
tempt to cope with the mother country. It must not in-
dulge in delusions and chimeras. It is bound to attend
to our roads, to encourage public improvements of all kinds.
It ought to protect our agriculture, to support our com-
merce, and foster every branch of industry.—(Loud cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
The second resolution was then offered by W. Robert-
son, Esq., M.D., with a few remarks, and seconded by C.
S. De Bleury, Esq., M.P.P. " That this meeting highly
disapproves of the outrageous proceedings of the majority
of the House of Assembly in their express refusal to pro-
ceed with the public business, in their declared resolve not
to co-operate with the Government, and in their fixed de-
termination to continue the course of policy pursued by them,
all which-are productive of great evil to the province gene•
rally, ruinous to the commerce of the country, and fatal to
the interests of the agricultural and labouring- classes."
On this resolution, ADAM Timer, Esq., spoke nearly as
follows :—I rejoice to think that there are so many thou-
semi citizens in Montreal—for many thousands, I am con-
fident, at this moment stand before and around me—who
are not afraid to be stigmatised by the organs of s despi-
cable faction as illiberals, as bureaucrats, as coercionists. To
be styled illiberals, forsooth, by those, who maintain, that
they alone, as the representatives of the great body of the
people, have any right to freedom of action, freedom of
speech or freedom of thought ! To he styled bureaucrats,
forsooth, by those, who, through violence, perjury and trea-
son, are striving to wrest from the leeitimate authorities the
reins of the provincial g-ovenment ! To be styled coercionists,
by those who, for the last 10, or, I may say, 20 years, have
been labouring to coerce into their measures all the branches
of the Government, and the Legislature, and all classes of
their fellow-subjects within the province ! I shall piss in
silent contempt the absurd and dishoaest charges of illibe-
rality and bureaucracy, which have been so freely and so
frequently hurled at us ; and :us your time is valuable, I
shall confine myself entirely to the charge of coercion, as
being more peculiarly connected with the resolution, which
I have the honour of illustrating and enforcing. Hal Eng-
lish Ministers been as fond of coereinz, as they have been of
conceding, the paltry faction which we have this day as-
sembled to oppose, would, ere now, have been crippled,
prostrated, and trampled in congenial mire. But, oa the
contrary, new concessions have provoked new demands ;
conciliation on the one side has emboldened coercion on the
other ; Cabinet Ministers and Colonial Governors seem to
have been created only fur submission, and patriotic repre-
sentatives of the people to have been created only for sedi-
tion. What public man or what public body have not our
patriots, during these many years past, coerced, or attempted
to coerce? By an organised system of slender and starva-
tion, they have attempted to coerce every provincial servant
of his Majesty, whether known to he innocent or suspected
to be guilty. By similar meanss, they have attempted, but
without a shadow of success-1 say this with pride es a
member of the same profession—to coerce the judiciary, on
whose integrity and independence rest the rights of us all.
They have attempted to coerce the Imperial Parliament
into a sacrifice of the Eastern Townships in general, and
the British American Land Company in particular. They
have, last of all, attempted to coerce every man in time Pro-
vince, who values law as the guardian of property, liberty
and life, by annulling the Constitution and extinguishing the
legislature. Eighteen months ago, when we last met toge-
ther at Tattersall's, we were apparently aiming at the ends
of a party, against the King's Ministers, the King's Repre-
sentative, and the King's Commissioners ; but the false
move of our enemies has placed us on higher and hslier
ground. You stand lucre as the champions of the Constitu-
tion, the avengers of the King, the conservators of the em-
pire. If you quailed not then, will you quail now ? No,
gentlemen ; but you will turn to your enemies the same
steady and firm front as the sea-girt homes of ourselves and
our fathers turn to the billows of the ocean.

This resolution also baying been carried by acclamation,
P. E. LucitEnE, Esq., came forward as the proposer of the
third resolution, on which he made a short but appropriate
address in both languages. The Resolution was seconded
by S. BAGG, Esq., and read as follows :—" That this meet-
ing cannot too forcibly express its abhorrence of the im-
moral and disorganising effect of the Resolutions adopted,
and measures recommended, at public meetings reocntly
held in various parts of this Province ; and that this meet-
ing reprobates them as detrimental to the welfare of the
country, and directly opposed to the sentiments of fidelity
to his Majesty and devotion to his Government, generally
entertained by his loyal Canadian subjects throughout the
province."

C. SWEENEY, Esq., spoke on the third resolution as fol-
lows :—Gentlemen, on an occasion like the present, in the
midst of a vast assembly-Itninnated by one spirit, and in-
tent on one object--I feel myself irresistibly impelled to say
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heard few words in favour of the resolution that you have
heard read. It, embraces, as you must have observed, two
distinct propositions. Ist. The expression of our abhor.
ranee of the destructive and disorganising effect of the re-
solutions adopted and the measures recommended at public
meetings recently held in various parts of this province.
2dly. To express our reprobation of them as detrimental to
the welfare of this country, and directly opposed to the sen-
timents of fidelity to his Majesty, and devotion to his Govern.
ment generally entertained by his loyal Canadian subjects
throughout this province. On the first head it will not be
necessary for me long to dwell or detain your attention.
The gentlemen who preside at this meeting, and the speakers
who have preceded me have, with talents far beyond any I
can lay claim to, and in language more forcible than I pos-
sess, completely unmasked the treasonous and traitorous
designs of that faction from which these resolutions emanate.