The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-02 00:00:00

WAR 1 N CANADA

" PROVINCE OF LOWER CANADA.
" GOSFORD.
His Excellency the Right Hon. Archibald Earl of Gosford,
Baron Worlington of Beecles, in the county of Suffolk,
Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over
the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, Vice. Admiral
of the same, and one of her Majesty's Most Hon. P, ivy
' Council, &c.

" A PROCLAMATION.
" Whereas in certain counties of the district of Montreal
disaffection to the Government of our Gracious Sovereign
Queen Victoria has unequivocally declared itself, and divers
outrages upon the persons and properties of her Majesty's
loyal subjects have been recently perpetrated therein; and
whereas prisoners arrested on charges of high treason have
been rescued from the hands of justice, and the troops of her
Majesty in the lawful discharge of their duty, while aiding
the civil authorities, have been assailed and fired upon by
bands of armed peasantry; and whereas it is notorious that
the present blind and fatal excitement in that district is to
be attributed to the machinations of a few evil-minded and
designing men, who have imposed upon the credulity of an
unsuspicious peasantry, end by plausible misrepresentation
and wilful calumny—by practising upon their fears and in-
flaming their passions—by appealing to national distinctions,
and exciting political prejudices, which it has been the un-
abated endeavour of the British Government to extinguish,
Lave at length succeeded in implicating a part of an hitherto
Peaceable and loyal population in the first excesses of a reck-
less and hopeless revolt; as the Representative of our Mo=t
Gracious Sovereign, I now most solemnly address myself to
the inhabitants of th;s province, but more especially to the
misguided and inconsiderate population en the river Riebilieu,
in the district of Montreal. I address myself to your good
sense and to your personal experience of the benefits you have
received and of the tranquillity you have so long enjoyed under
the British Government. You possess the religion, the lan-
guage, the laws, and the institutions guaranteed to you nearly
70 years since. You know not the burden of taxes. The
expense of your military defence is defrayed by Great Britain.
The prosperity and happiness which have hitherto pervaded
this province proclaim honourably and undeniably the
political wisdom which watches over your safety, encourages
your commerce, and fosters your rising industry. The
spontaneous confidence of the British Parliament bestowed on
you a Constitution. Your representatives complained of
grievances, their complaints were promptly and fully inves-
gated ; grievances which were proved to exist were removed I
a'. once, redress the mcst ample, but unavoidably gradual,
was unreservedly promised, and, up to this moment, that pro-
mise has been scrupulously observed. But the demands of
your leaders ore insstiable, the language of Reforns has
speciously concealed the designs of revolution. I have
thus far tleemed it my duty to explain the injustice and in-
admissibility of the objects for which your leaders contend,
and for the attainment of a hich they would wantonly sacri-
fice you and your families. The traitorous designs of these
political agitators have been at length unmasked. I now,
therefore, call upon those who have been thus far deluded to
listen to the language of reason, sincerity, and truth. Listen
to the exhortations of your respectable and trustworthy
Clergy. Listen to the representations of those worthy and
loyal proprietors, whose interests are identified with your
own, and whose prosperity, in common with yours, must ever
be graduated and governed by the internal tranquillity of
this province. Return to that allegiance Jeasytur Sovereign
which you have now, for the first time, violated; and to that'
obedience to the law which you have hitherto invariably main-
tained. Spurn from you your insidious advisers. Reject
with abhorrence their self-interested and treasonable coun-
sels. Leave them to that retribution which inevitably awai's
them. Retire to your homes and to the bosoms of your fa-
milies ; rest assured that a powerful and merciful Govern-
ment is more desirous to forget than to resent injuries, and
that within that sanctuary you will experience no molesta-
tion. And further, by and with the advice and consent of
her Majesty's Executive Council of and for the Province of
Lower Canada, I, the said Archibald, Earl of Gosford, do
hereby call unnn all her Majesty's loyal subjects in this pro-
vince to be prepared at all times to maintain against all
aggressors the authority of our Sovereign Lady the Queen,
and to counteract the rebellious designs of the disaffected in
this province. The dearest rights and privileges of British
subjects, their laws and institutions, have been openly and au-
daciously assailed. They will remember that those sentiments,
of loyalty and honour which were the pride of their forefathers
are the inheritance of their children ; and in defending their
allegiance to their gracious Queen, and the connexion which
has so long existed between this favoured colony and Great
Britain, they will rush forward as one man to prove their gra-
titude for the blessings they enjoy, and their unswerving de-
terminatien to maintain them unimpaired.
" Given under my hand and seal at arms, at the Castle of
St. Lewis, in the city of Quebec, the 29th day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1637, and in the first year of her Ma-
jesty's reign.

By h's Excellency's command,
" E. DALY, Secretary of the Province."
ARMY—THE TROOPS FOR CANADA.
The following may be taken as a pretty correct enumeration
of the force intended to he embarked for this particular ser-
vice, and we are led to beliore that all arc to proceed to Hali-
fax as soon as the means of tralfport in ships of war can be
provided :_.

One regiment of cayalry, augmented to
93d Highlanders, augmented strength 6OO
Brigade of Guard, say 2,000
rcgt. fromcst augmented strength GOO
23d Fusiliers and 71st Light Infantry, augmented
strength
1,‘)00
Augmentation of 100 rank and file to all regiments
in Canada, Nova Scotia, aid New Brunswick—
namely, Ist Ro3a!s, 15th, 24th, 32d, 34th, 43d,
66th, 83d, and 8sth

Total
The 11th and 73d regiments, ordered home from the Medi-
terranean, are to land at Gibraltar, there to awat instructions,
in case their services should also be required in Canada.
The Inconstant has proceeded to Cork, and on her arrival
there will take on board 250 rank and file of the 93d High-
landers; the remainder of the regiment will follow as other
vessels arrive.
Tw•o companies of artillery are also, it is said, under orders
for the same destination.
Eight hundred of the Grenadier Guards, and the same
number of the Coldstreams, received orders yesterday morn-
ing, at eight o'clock, to hold themselves in readiness to em-
bark for Canada, it is supposed in the course of the week.

'rom the Dublin Evening Post of Saturday.)
We understand that several regiments, including three or
.'our •
1101% stationed in Ireland, which fortunately can well be
spared, have received orders of readiness to proceed to
Halifax. We have not yet ascertained the numbers of all the
regiments; but it is certain, we believe, that the 23d Fusi-
!cers, the 71st Light Infantry, aad the 931 Highlanders, are
included. The 93d, which goes out early next month, is to
replace one of the regiments which left Nova Scotia for Lower
Canada on the breaking out of the insurrection.
We further learn, that Major-General Si; William M'flcan,
while on his way to Limerick, to take the command of that
district, as successor to Major L'Estrange, yesterday received
an order from the Horse Guards to proceed forthwith to Cork,
to hold himself in readiness by the 3d January to sail for Ha-
lifax. Sir William, we have learned, is to be second in com-
mand to Sir John Colborne, in Lower Canada.
It is said that Sir F. Stoven, who is now attached to the
Royal Household, is to go out as Adjutant-General. The
Ilona Colonel Grey, Equerry to the Queen, goes out early in
the spring with his regiment, the 71st light infantry.
An order has issued from the Horse Guards, cancelling the
leave of all officers whose regiments are serving now in Ca•
nada. They are to proceed .aithout delay, via New York, to
Join their respective corps.
In letters which have reached this country, dated the 30th
ult., it is stated that the St. Lawrence was then open as far
up as Montreal ; but even if this be correct, we cannot sup-
pose it at all likely that the navigation could have continued
free for more than a week or two longer. In ordinary wea-
ther the St. Lawrence is frozen early in November, and con-
tinues so until May, Of courfe the troops now about to be
sent out will rendezvous at Halifax.
We learn from Portsmouth that a ship of war, the Incon-
stant, wzis about to proceed to the north coast of Spaia, with
1,000 stand of arms and accoutrements : and it was rumoured
that the marine battalion at Passages, which has been under

The following details relative to the rebellion in Lower
Canada, have come to hand. The dates from Montreal
are to the 6th instant on which day the bearer of the Govern-
ment despatches, from whom the intelligence was obtained,
left Montreal:—
The rebels had taken alarm at the activity exhibited in the
ineration of volunteer corps, as well in Upper as Lower Ca-
nada, to oppose them. Out of the British veterans who, after
having commuted their pensions, had emigrated to Canada,
two fine battalioes, quite ready for service, had been formed.
The militia were preparing for action by repeated drilling. At
Montreal the chief preparations were making by the four com-
panies of Montreal light infantry, consisting of the St. Anne's
invincibles, the Royal Irish Company, and the Royal Scots
Company. Considerable surprise had been excited in Que-
bec by the arrival of the lst division of the 43d Regiment
from Halifax, it not being expected that the journey could be
performed in so short a period. About 1,00 militia were
ready for service at Quebec. Two steam-boats had also been
engaged to cruise off the St. Lawrence, for the purpose of hold-
ingcommunication with any British vessels of Ivor should they ar-
rive off, either with troops or despatches. Full pay and rations
had been ordered for 10 companies of volunteer militia until the
Ist of June next. It had been ordered, if necessary, to sur-
render the Parliament House for the use of the troops. At a
meeting of many French Canadians in Montreal, resolutions
had been passed expressive of their attachment to the British
Government. At St. Eustache the military had come in col-
lision with a body of the rebels, and bad completely defeated
them, taking one small six-pounder, which had been used for-
merly by the troops under General Burgoyne, and two guns
made of hiccory wood, bound with iron hoops, and capable of
being fired eight or ten rounds. The rebels seemed to have
plenty of cannon balls, but few small shot and little gun-
powder; indeed to such shifts had they been put for the
former, that some supplies captured by Colonel Wetherall
consisted of barrels filled with bits of chain, brokonknife
blades, and similar materials as its substitute. The energy of
Sir John Colborne and Colonel Wetherell is said to have
saved the colony from a long civil war. The body of a Lieu-
tenant had been found, after a long search, concealed under a
hillock of stones. His head appears to have been battered
to pieces, as the features were not to be recognised, and no
other part of his body was injured.
The following proclamation bad been issued by Lord Gas
ford :