The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-06 00:00:00

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TH.E SUN, -LONDON; SATIT-RDA V, JANITARA! 6, 1838
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POLITICAL CONSISTENCY.
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'111114: REVENUE FOR THE YEAR, AND -QUARTER -7-------------" ‘T" )" ''' 183
TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN.
SIR,-Having seen seen the name of an individual figuring, as No. 1.-An AL,:tract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of January, 1837, ar.d sth of January, 1838, shewing the Increase or
the Chairman of Mr. Leader', Committee, and charging that
Hon. Gentleman with misrepresenting the opinions of his Decrease on each head thereof.
f April 5, QUARTERS ENDED 1 YEAR I QUARTERS ENDED YEAR Year ended Jan. b. 1 Quarter ended Jan. 5.
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constituents; such charge comes with very ill grace, when __._
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July 5, i Oct. 10, , Jan. 5, 1 Jan. 5, April 5, ' July 5, 1 Oct. 19, Jan. 5, Jan 5,
rease. Decrease, i Increase. I Decrease.
every pcVOn paying the least attention to reports of the late
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Parliament, must have been quite aware of that
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opinions respecting the Canadas. As most Cghearilrtmleemnan'osf 1 .. .. -
"date.l DOtles 0 417 6'4 -'in' 2, - ' ~1 ~o 7 02;) 3 121 126 9931 (8, 3 6A) 701 --.- .- -.
Coramittus are acquainted avid the opinions of the candidate Sugar Duty appltca.le to
Custt,ms.-Cons,,ll
Consolidated Fund.
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they are supporting, the ignorance exhibited by this individual Sugar Ditty applicuble to
Supples 503,3q .. 1,333,'91 772,173 ii;(3,403 . 1,5n5,034 593,570 ..- . -..- - --
exceeds anything before heard of. This gentleman at ono
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time figured as a Tory of the old school, but finding popular Total Customs 4,44 ,9,18 4,842,c,g 43,33,3,777 4,0,39,993 i 1P,710,410 ! 4,41e,r,05 4,430,1A5 5,436,116 4,521,978 18,0-,,,i,-.264•,: 1 Total CUstonls ...... 900,1.56 455,340 -.
and
in favour of Relorm, he became an Ultra-Radical ; Stairs ~c ,93,312 3,215, o 3,8112,9211 3,60+,7+,4 i 1 ~744,17.1 i 4934043 ‘2,1163,5F4 3,10.5,4r4•,,f11 11, /9;033 1 Excise ........ .;;;. 949,536 212,800
1,6117,Cm 3,734 go 1,714.741 1,573,52., 1 6,7A,42.1 1 1,618,162 1,647,039 1,62 ,•,52 1,514, r, 0 6,1.3 ~ 1.51 IStamp5... ... .
and now finding the Canada rebellion is not even popular Taxes 1'187,564 18,,,064 1,571,1:.0 334,857 I,' 94,6 m ! 3,9- 9,7F1 1 1P1,219 1,604,409 30-,0.,2 4579,029 3,6,',748 ITaxes 12,01'1 .15 623
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with the party he has courted with such zeal, he recommends Post Office
...... ... 366,001 376,000 399,000 3-.k!,00+3 i 1,4 0,i101) 1 367,000 35%737 418,006 37ti,003 1,517,743 1 Post-office 27,743 27,000 -
Miscellaneous ............................. 1,,743
5,727 0,701 ' 174 34,9(13 Aliscellaneous 5;304 9,699
great caution. to be observed at a public meeting., and like the 7,,,74 6,240 9,i73 ! 40,9,:0 1 26,134
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faded Glory of Westminster becomes Conservative ; and in Total Ordinary Revenue.. I 8,582,941 11,747,347 10,700,674 11,400,764 ' 41,431,026 ' 8,443,9ra 10,- 12,11 11,192,634 11,61:3,744 i 42,03,002
the event of another election, will in all In:T.resLar(l,[her Moneys, includ-
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probability be fiuuring
on the Committee of some such Right Honourable as Sir G. lii,'Prutbil'AZll:3 of Ad'es I 1 ,
Imprest ,e.• olnrt
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Murry}', Sir Robert Peel, or some Ultra-Tory candidate for 5... .................. L's, 702 101 5;6 M 2.53 : 187 995 540,5;8 1 159,171 270,110 9.00,531 298__,183 1t,!7,6' 9 i Mone3l 2*.0,n71
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WeStmiuSter. Total Income__ ............ 9,682,543 11,046,935 112,40,927 ' 11,54Q,759 : 45,001,1;4 , 8,622, ,:i4 1,',83,5,9 11,603110'F5 I 1,',01,!'t32 i 43,100,,11 I 275,814 . 2,11'6,1 7 180,533 267,360
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Deduct Do.
- solidated Fund .. . ................. . . 5 -541 883 7,122,995 x,068 917 6,1.3,535 29,296,3-0 5,780,320 7,251,669 8,712,C9-2 11,01 1,312 0,75 ,0‘29 I , . crease.
WINDSOR-FRIDAY. Ditto, to pay off' Exchequer Bills. ''
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i Deduct increase 2-,5,,41-1 26;,340
charged on Sugar Dutv ... . ..
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Viscount Melbourne arrived at the Castle yesterday. means of the Year .................... 2,901,660 4,795,910 4,811,!-.83 3,165,204 t 15,601,q c 4 1 2,341,8r8 3,731,911 2,9:30,473 2,790,'390 12,344,7,0 , • Increase on:
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At the Royal dinner last night, there were present, the
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t0ta1..................... 9,t'82,543 1 11,849935 1 12680,1P7 11,568,759 f 45,001,!(4 1; 8,f,22,134 10; 8.3,58.) 11f 9'065 1 11,801,!i30 r 43, I 00,s il li Year 1 . i 1,S;)0, 5.t "213,173
Queen, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Countess______________
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MulgTave, Lady Mary StOpford.
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Viscount Melbourne, Hon.
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Viscount Melbourne arrived at the Castle yesterday.
At the Royal dinner last night, there were present, the
Queen, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Countess
MulgTave, Lady Mary Stopford, Viscount Melbourne, Hon.
Colonel and Mrs. Grey, Hon. Mrs. Campbell, lion. Misses
Murray, Leycester, and Davys, Broness Lebzen, Viscount
Torrington, the Hon. William Cowper, and the Hon. Colonel
Cavendish. After dinner, litr Majesty's private band per-
formed as usual in the music room. This band is composed
of seventeen persons, who all perform on wind instruments.
Viscount Melbourne left the Castle this morning for town.
Lordiflill this day, after a long audience of the Queen, left
also for town.

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sth Jan

1.37, 1837,

Quarters ended Jan. a.

INCO3IE.

Quarters ended Jan. 5.

Customs.—Consolidated Duties
Sugar appl,cable to the
Consolidaed Fund

3,629,709

Total Customs

3,6.9,709

Her Majesty was occupied during the whole of this morning
with State affairs, and could not, therefore, have gone cut had
the weather been favourable, but a thick fog has prevailed since
last night, which seems likely to continue.
The Hon. Mrs. Grey left to-day for town,

Excise
Stamps
Taxes
Post Office
Aliseellace.ous

3,5'0,8'14
1,511,400
I, 19,02'z
3:(1,o00
2;3,91.

To Cash brought to this Account to
replace the like sum issued, or to
be issued, out of the Consolidated
Fund in Ireland, ibr Supply and
other Services

I ,f344,3,::2

10,993,`283

69:3,,A

150,000

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THE CANADAS.

ABSTRACT OF THE OFFICIAL AND DOCU-
MENTARY HISTORY OF THE CANADAS,
FROM THE TIME OF THEIR CESSION IN
1763, DOWN TO THE PRESENT PERIOD, IN-
CLUDING THE, REPORTS LAID BEFORE
PARLIAMENT IN 1837.
, The following extracts from a letter written in 1765, by
Governor Murray, to the Lords of Trade and Plantations,
describe the character of the English settlers and the Cana-
dians:—

" The towns of Quebec and Montreal contain about 14,700
inhabitants. The savages, who are called Roman Catholics,
being within the limits of the province, consist of 7,400 souls,
so that the whole, exclusive of the King's troops, amount to
76,2.75 souls, of which in the parishes are 19 Protestant fami-
lies, the rest of that persuasion are traders, mechanics, and
publicans, who reside in the lower towns of Quebec and Mon-
treal. All have their fortunes to make, and I fear few are so-
licitous about the means, when the end can be attained. I re-
port them to be, in general, the most immoral collection of
men I ever knew—of course, little calculated to make the new
subjects enamoured with our laws, religion, and customs, and
far less adapted to enforce those laws which are to govern them.
" On the other, the Canadians, accustomed to arbitrary,
and a sort of military Government, are a frugal, industrious,
and moral race of men, who, from the just and mild treatment
they met with from his Majesty's military officers who ruled the
country for four years, until the establishment of civil govern-
ment, had greatly got the better- of the natural antipathy they
had to their conquerors.
" As they have been taught to respect their superiors, and
arc not yet intoxicated with the abuse of liberty, they are
shocked at the insults which their noblesse and the King's
officers have received from the English traders and lawyers
since the civil government took place.
" The improper choice and numbers of the civil officers sent
out of England increased the inquietude of the colony. Instead
of men of genius and untainted morals, the very reverse were
appointed to the must important offices, and it was impossible
to communicate through them those impressions of the dignity •
of the Government by which alone mankind can be held toge
ther in society.
" I glory in having been accused of warmth and firmness
in protecting the King's Canadian subjects, and of doing the
utmost in my power to gain to my Royal master the affections
of that brave hardy people whose emigration, if ever it should
happen, will he an irreparable loss to this empire."
One of the strongest bonds by which the conquest' of
Canada was secured to England was the indignation of the
Canadians at the rapacity, peculation, and frauds of the
civil administration of Fiance, the Intendant-general having
defrausled the colony of 400,0001.; which debt fell upon the
province.
The " Quebec Act," passed in 1776, placsd Canada in a
situation entirely different from any other Britith colony. By
allowing them their own customs, the use of their own lan-
guage in the Courts, the security of the Catholic Church,
with all its revenues and the maintenance of the seignorial
tenures, the Canadians were seemed in their loyalty to the
British Crown, whilst the insurgents of B.itisi; origin in
the neighbouring colonies threw off their connexion with
the parent stilt,. They had thus been only sixteen yea s
subjects of England, and yet, although France took the part
of the United States, they remained during the seven years'
war of the American revolution the most steadfast allies Eng-
land has ever had.
In 1791 the " Constitutional Act," divided the province of
Quebec into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada,
and gave to each a separate Legislative Government, consist-
ing ofGovernor, Council, and House of Assembly. The
re a
object of the Government in passing this Act was to allow the
Canadians the benefits of their own establishments and laws,
and to confide to themselves such alterations in either as now
circumstances might render expedient.
In 1796 Genet al Prescott was appointed Governor. During
his admiaistration much abuse occurred in the granting of
Crown lands, and the members of the land-granting depart-
ment having managed to grant each other large tracts of the
most valuable lands, to the injury of vast numbers of settlers
and (migrants, Governor Prescott and the Chief-Justice,
Osgood, disagreed openly and violently on this subject.
In 1810 Sir James Craig, the Governor, having been led
into odious measures by his council, actuated by mercenary
motives, dissolved the Assembly, which had expelled the
Judges. The Judges had interfered in the elections, and took
their seats in the House of Assembly. A proclamation Has
published, stating that the country was in revolt, and the cu-
rates of all the parishes were compelled to read the document
to the people.
In the late war between England and the United States
Sir George Prevost pry jrcted the proclamation of martial law;
but found that it would destroy the confidence of the Cana-
dians; and, inde;cl, without the consent of the Provincial Le-
gislature, no Executive Government can ever establish a prac-
tical martial law.
In 1819, under the Duke of Richmond, the Legislature
agreed to pay the civil list of the province, and out of this
measure arose those financial questions which have been the
origin of the present controversy.
The presumptive cause of the discontent which arose is at-
tributed to the Legislature agreeing to pay the civil list, and
the Clown accepting the same without any specific constitu-
t:onal stipulation at the time. The Legislative Assembly, on
the desth of George 111., came to a resolution to appropriate
in separate items the whole revenue of the province, amouut-
ing to 140,000/., including about 34,0004 of annual permit•
vent revenue, and a small her.ditary revenue of about 3,4001,
both hitherto received and distributed at the pleasure of the
Executive.
The Crown, however, claimed the exclusive right of distri-
buting the later sums, amounting together to nearly 38,000/.
" on the ground that the Quebec Act of 1774 and the Ccnsti-
tutional Act of 179 t imposed on th Lords Commissioners of
the 'Treasury the duty of appropriating the revenue granted
t v his Majesty by the first of those statutes, and that whilst the
ltw should continue unaltered by the same authority by which
it was framed, his Majesty's Government e. as not authorized
t replace tise revenue under the contruul of the Legislature
of the province."
Lord Dalt nisie, on his return to Canada in 1825, dissolved
the Legislature, and refus •d to approve of the appointment of
M. Papineau as the Speaker of the new House. The House
refused to elect al>, other, and it was prorogued accordingly.
87,000 of the inhabitants petitiotird the King, and charged the
Governor-Geis. ral " with arbitrary conduct, with applying
public money without legal appropriation, will violent pro.o-
gations and dissolutions of the Assembly, with continuing the
Receiver-General in olEce after he was known to be insolvent,
and a defaulter to the amount of 96,000/., and with allowing
similar abuses with • regard to Sheriffs; with dismissing the
principal militia officers fur the constitutional exercise of their
rights ; with the sudden and extensive remodelling of the
commission of the peace, to serve," they alleged, " political
purposes ; and with a vexatious system of prosecmienfor libel
at the instance of the Attorney-General."
The aff its of Canada were now submitted to a CommitVe
,f the House of Commons. Their report recommended, " That
;t a ill he advantageous that 'he declaratory enactnimit in the
Tenure Arit respecting lands held in free or common souage
should be retained, that mortgages should be special, and that
in proceedings for the csinvey once of land, the simplest and
least expensive forms should be adopted, upon the principle isf
the law of• England ; that a registration of deeds relating to
sueeage land should be established ; that means should la•
frund of bringing into effective operation the clauses in the
Tenure Act; and they eatertain no doubt oh the expediency
of retaining the seignorial rights of the Crown, in the hope of
deriving a profit from them; that ssme competent jurisdiction
hould r stablished to try aid deride causes arsang out of
,
this description of property-; and that circuit courts should be
instituted within the townships for the same purposes; that
he Cat.ael,an3 of French extraction should in no dega, e he
listurl.ed in the peaceful enjoyment of their icligion, laws, and
eivileges, as secured to thorn by the British Acts of Par-
liament.
" Tiuit, although from the opinion given by the Law Ocers
of the Csown, the Committee mutt conclude that the legal
ight of appropsisting the revenues arising from the Act of
i 7
1 44 is they ace prepared to say, this
erea rest j
ereattitisfthe tllirCwprf°9Ynit;,te W94hl be best promoted by
placing the receipt and espenditmo pf the #4olp pgblip