The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-02 00:00:00

!wo, to hear of such a result, in the event of the garri
son holding out till after the appearance of SCOTT, 01
the Buffalo frontier.

We congratulate Ministers, and all who entertain the
slightest solicitude for the el!-being of the inhabitants
of Upper Canada, upon the; reeal Sir FRANCIS BOND
HEAD from the Government of that Province. After

his Nlessage of the 2Sth of December to the Provin-
cial Parliament—published in our columns of this
day, from our second edition of yesterday-4t would
be an insult not only to the dignity, but to the com-
mon sense of the nation, to continue even fur a day
such an officer at the head of a Provincial Govern-
ment. Never wax there produced a stronger,
fuller, or be:ter authenticated record of the in-
capacity of a civil Governor than this docu-
ment furnishes against the individual who framed
and delivered it. Had we not the evidence of
the official Gazelle for the fact, we would not believe
that a person could be found out of Bedlam capable
of acting, under similar circumstances as Sir F.
B. HEAD states, he acted in the following passage
:
" As soon as this conspiracy became known to me, I deter-
mined that for the public good I would allow it to work its
own cure; but as I felt convinced that that cure would never
be admitted to be perfect if her Majesty's troops were required
to take any part in the contest, I cheerfully approved of their
leaving the province, in order that the people of Upper
Canada, in a state of uncontrolled independence, might be
allowed another opportunity of unequivocally demonstrating
whether they would support me or desert me in the determi-
nation I had evinced to maintain for them the British Con-
stitution inviolate.'
Besides parting with the troops, I further resolved to
place in the hands of the civil portion of the community all
the muskets (about 4,000) which the Government had in
store, and I accordingly delivered them over to the custody of
the mayor, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of Toronto.
" Without either soldiers or weapons to enforce.my cause,
I allowed the leader of the intended insurrection a full
opportunity to make his intended experiment—l freely al-
lowed him to write what he chose, say what he chose, and do
what he chose; I allowed him to assemble his deluded ad-
herents for the purpose of drill; I even allowed them un-
opposed to assemble with loaded fire-arms, and in spite of
t e remonstrances which, from almost every district in the
Province, I received
.from the peaceable portion of the com-
munity, I allowed him to niche deliberate preparations for
revolt; for I freely confess that I did underrate the degree of
audacity and cruelty which these armed insulters of the law
were prepared, as events have proved, to exhibit. It did not
seem to me credible, that in the bosom of this peaceful
country, where every one was enjoying the protection of
equal laws and reaping the fruit of his labours almost un-
diminished by taxes, any number of persons could be found
willing to assail the lives, plunder the property of their un-
offending fellow-subjects, and to attempt the destruction of a
Gol ernment from which they had received nothing but
good.
" The ultimate object of the conspiracy was veiled uner a
mysterious secrecy, which I had no desire to penetrate; and, relying
implicitly on the people, so little did I inquire into it, that I was actu.
tually in bed and asleep when I was awakened by a messenger, who
abruptly informed me that a numerous body of armed rebels had been
congregated by their leader—that the murder of a veteran officer of
distinction, a settler in the province, had already been committed, and
that the assailants were within an hour's march of Toronto."
We defy the world to produce an instance of lament-
able official incapacity equal to this. Upon his own
showing, Sir FRANCIS HEAD—to prove to England
of course that honest Sancho Panza was nothing to
him as a Governor—actually winked at, and en-
couraged the rebellion in the Upper Province
He deprived himself of men and arms—he al-
lowed the rebels to drill their troops with loaded
muskets---and, as a climax to this official ex-
hibition of rashness and folly, he was caught
sleeping in his bed at the instant his capital was
invaded ! After such a confession no person
can think of charging the rebels with crimes
resulting from such a display of official presumption ;
and if the Government were not dead to all sense of

justice, it would not hesitate a moment in orderin; the
recal of the silliest Knight that has figured in the
regions of fact or fiction since the (lays of Don
QuixoTTE—::had that object not been already accom-
plished.

We have rcaion to believe that the Tories meditate
a pitched battle against the Government on the Par-
liamentary Electors and Freemen Bill in Committee.
As this Bill is extremely short we will copy it, in order
that our readers may exactly understand its provisions,
and afterwards the objects of the " amendments" that
will be moved upon it:—