The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-11 00:00:00

No. XLVII.

COPY OP A DISPATCH FROM LORD OLENELG TO LIEUTENANT-
GENERAL SIR JOHN COLBORNE, K.C.8., DATED DOWNING-
STREET, DEC. 6, 1837.
Sir—My dispatch of the 27th ultimo will have apprised you'
of the approaching retirement of the Earl of Gosfoad from
the Government of Lower Canada, an event which, by the
terms of his Lordship's Commission, will devolve upon you
the temporary administration of the affairs of that province.
It is at once my duty and my anxious desire to relieve you,
as far as possible, from the very arduous responsibility attendant
upon the discharge of that duty at the present moment. I do
not, however, propose to enter upon any. statement of the
course to be pursued respecting those questions of permanent
policy which have been agitated between the Executive Go-
vernment and the House of General Assembly. All such
discussions, however important, are for the present superseded
by the }argent necessity which has arisen for maintaining the
public pace and restoring the authority of the law. To that
one great object your undivided attention will be given, and
to that alone will my present communication be confined.
I enumerate in the margin the series of Lord Gosford's dis-
patches, which describe the gradual but rapid advance of the
enemies of peace and order, from complaints urged at least
under the forms of the Constitution to the very verge of rebel-
lion. The conclusion from the whole of this intelligence is
inevitable, that the leaders of the movement party are restrained
only by some remaining considerations of prudence from rais-
ing the standard of open insurrection. It is therefore neces-
sary to consider how this crisis is to be encountered.
You appear already to have concentrated upon the points
most exposed to danger every part of her Majesty's forces in
British North America which it has been possible to with-
draw from the adjacent provinces. Arrangements have been
made for increasing, if neccessary, the number of troops under
your command with the return of the spring. In the mean-

time, I trust that your present fore' will be sufficient to awe
the seditious, and to suppress any victual rising which the civil
power may be unable to control. If, however, your strength
should be inadequate to these Objects, you will of course avail
yourself of the ♦oluntary seal of suck of her Majesty's loyal
subjects as may be willing to serve under your authority, and
to submit themselves entirely to your orders.
The first and highest prerogative as id duty of the Crown is
the protection of those who maintain . their allegiance against
the enemies of order and peace. To repress by arms any in-
surrection or rebellion to which the civil power cannot be suc-
cessfully opposed, is therefore a legitimate exercise of the royal
authority ; and, in the attainment st' f this object, the proclarna •
tion of martial law may become hid ispensable.
It is superfluous to state with w'mat caution and reserve this
ultimate resource should be resonei I to, and that it ought to
be confined within the narrowest -limits which the necessity of
the case will admit. But if unlaappily the ease shall arise in
any part of Lower Canada, in which the protection of the
loyal and peaceable subjects of the Crown may require the
adoption of this extreme mess are, it must not be declined.
Reposing the utmost confidence in your prudence that such a
measure will not be needlessly taken, and relying on your firm-
ness that, if taken, it will be followed up with the requisite
energy, her Majesty's Government are fully prepared to assume
to themselves the responsibility of instructing you to employ it,
should you be deliberately convinced that the occasion impera-
tively demands it. They will, with confidence, look to Par-
liament for your indemnity and their own.
It might embarrass, but could hardly assist you, if I should
attempt to address to you any more detailed instructions for
your guidance in the present emergency. Her Majesty's Go-
vernment cheerfully commit to your hands the safety of the
important part of the dominions of the Crown over which
your authority extend. In the dischorg© of that trust, you
will have the highest claim to every degree of support which
it may be in our power to give. I have, &c.

No. LI.
COPY OF A DESPATCII PROM THE EARL OF GOSFORD TO LORD
GLENELG, DATED CASTLB OF ST. LEWIS, QISF,CEC, NOY. 22,
1837.

(No. 121.)
My Lord,—As the press of important business has left me
but half an hour to secure to-day's post, which is the last that
will be in time for the next packet that leaves New York for
England, and as I am aware that your Lordship must feel
anxious to be informed of the progress of events since my dis-
patch of the 9th instant, No. 116, reporting the collision be-
tween the opposing parties at Montreal. on the 6th, I hasten
to transmit the accompanying documents, six in number, as
the shortest and best mode of conveying to you the most de-
tailed account of what has since taken place ; and, although
some of these are newspaper reports, they contain an accurate
and full representaton of recent occurrences.
Of the twenty-six individuals against whom warrants for
high treason have been issued, nine have been taken, and are
now confined in the Montreal gaol. Two were rescued near
Longucuil, as your Lordship will perceive from the accom-
panying papers, by an armed force, who fired upon and
wounded four of the mounted police. The rest of the ac-
cused, including Messrs. Papineau and O'Callaghan, have
not yet been found. Some of them, it is supposed, have fled
into the adjoining states; but Mr. Papineau is not of the num-
ber, although it is uncertain where he is.
Upon the advice of my Council, and the representations of
the Attorney-General, that the success of his initia-
tory legal proceedings would be hazarded, and he was
unwilling therefore to incur the risk of commencing them,
SO loaf? as certain iudividuals remained in the magistracy
for Montreal,' I at once issued a new commission of the
peece for that district, omitting the names of the objec-
tionable justices, and inserting others in their place; and I
have authorized the formation of an armed volunteer corps
in the eastern townships, to the extent of 800 men. '1 hese
decisive measures, and the desertion of the leading agitators
in the moment of danger, will, I trust, open the eyes of the
deluded habitants, and eventually restore public tranquillity
and good order, without my being obliged to act upon the
report of the Executive Council of the 20th instant, for de-
claring parts of the district of Montreal in a state of insur-
rection and rebellion.

Five individuals, including Mr. Morin, the Mernter, were
lately arrested in this city for spditious practices, but they have
been admitted to bail by the Chief Justice of the Province, the
accus,d in 500/., with two sureties, each in 2501.

Enclosure 1, in No. 51.

REPORT FROM THE ATTORNEY AND SOLICITOR-GENERALS, RE-
SPECTING PROCEEDINGS IN TIM DISTRICT OF MONTREAL.
Montreal, November 18, 1837,

That our undivided attention has been since devoted to the
attainment of such evidence as would authorize the arrest of
those political incendiaries to whose machinations the present
alarming state of this city and district is to be attributed.
Having at length accomplished this important object, by the
asfAstanee of Messrs. Curillier and Penn, two of the magis-
trates of this district, to whom the depositions and accom-
panying documents were submitted, with our opinion, that the
charges contained in them amounted to high treason against
the parties implicated therein, warrants were issued for their
apprehension to the number of twenty-six. The names of
these individuals are contained in Appendix, letter A.
The high constable and special constables to whom the exe-
cution of this duty was confided, succeeded in arresting in the
night of the 16th instant, and lodging in the common gaol of
this district, the six persons named in Appendix B.
Warrants were simultaneously issued for the arrest of Drs.
Darignault and LiermAis, and P. P. D'Emary, notary-public,
and entrusted to a body of mounted police, who, accompanied
by a Magistrate, ware dispatched that night, by way of Lon-
gueuil and Chambly, to their respective residences. It
is to be regretted that the object of this expedition has
been_frustrated; the police were successful in apprehending
two of the accused, but upon their return to Montreal, when
within two miles of Longucuil, they were intercepted by a
large body of armed inhabitants, who, firing upon them from
behind the fences and a barn which bordered the road,
whee they were themselves unassailable, compelled the
pace to abandon their prisoners. Depositions having been
made to this effect, and it having been deemed expedient to
reinforce the garrison of Chambly with four companies of the
Royals, under Lieutenant-Colonel Wetherall, and two pieces
of artillery, a party of mounted police, accompanied by the
deputy sheriff, two magistrates, and a constable, have been
dispatched with the military, under instructions to recapture
the prisoners, if practicable, and, further, to arrest any indi-
viduais who might be identified as having aided and abetted
in a treasonable rescue. In the course of yesterday Dr. Lion-
nais, one of the accused, who was absent from his house on
Thursday night, was arrested in the city and committed to the
common gaol.
Awaiting further intelligence, we have the honour,
(Signed) C. I. OYDEN, Attorney-General.
M. 0' SULLI VA N, Solicitor- General.

Appendix (A.) to the Attcrnny and Solicitor-Generals' Re-
port, dated November 18, 1837.
*J. F. B. Lionnais. Louis Perrault.
P. P. Demaray. Thomas S. Brown.
Jos. F. Dairgnon. *J. Dubue.
Cyrille H. 0. Cote, M.P v. Ed. E. Rodier, M.P P.
J. Gagnon. Edmund B. O'Callaghan,
*Louis M. Veger, NI. P. F. M. P. P.
P. Arniot, M. P. P. *A. Simard.
Jos. T. Drolet, st P. P. A. G au% in.
*Charles A. Liblane. L. Gauthier.
F. Tavernier. R. Desriviers.
Louis J. Papineau, M. r. P. J. Girouard, M. r. P.
Amury Girud. A. OuiEnet.
W. Nelson. *G. M. Boucherville.
N. B. Those who have a star against their names heve been
arrested, and are in gaol.

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