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he had it en authority that that individual was compelled
to burn h s journal. Now, for h mself,jhe hoped that
the stet- tnents of such a system of tpanny were not
correct; but he thought he had made out a case
culling for a disproval of the charges contained
in the's, papers, to wbirh he had referred. In
the fishery interests the con. piny were oho
at one time chargeable with the most selfish proceedings;
but their efforts to monopolise the whole of the trade
were defeated. And now, he would ask, what could be
the object of greeting to the company Vancouver's
land ?—(Hear, hear.) An island in which interests
might be established which would go far to break up the
mine pet), of the Hudson's Bay Company, a, .d put an
end to the evils which he had pointed out to the House. It
was said that the Hudson's Bay Company had an invest-
ment of 400,0001., which might be applied to the pur-
poses of colonising and establishing Vancouver's Island;
but he denied, however wealthy the company might be
individually, and he admitted they were so in many in-
stances, that their capital could be so applied. Looking a
I ttle further into the consideration of this question, he
found that the governor and the magistrates of the island
were to be named and appointed by ties Hudson's Bay
Company. Ile thought that it would be most unwise to
give to the company the appointment of the public ser-
vants in the island. He admired as much t s any man
could feee institutions, and rejoiced to see them extended
to settlements; but while he said that, he must at the
same time say, that a free constitution was not all thati
was necessary to a new settlement. The Noble Lord
then referred the attention of the House to Vancouver's
description of the island, from which it would appear
tbat it abounds in the most fertile tracts of land, the
richest mines, the molt valuable timber, rivers teeming
with fish, and inexhaustible resources; and also to a
more recent and corroborative account of its rich value,
from the pen of a gentleman who, in his communication
hesitated not to say that Earl Grey ought to be impeached
for handing over so valuable an appendage of the British
dominions to the Hudson's Bay Company. It was of the,
greatest importance that there should be a free and in-
dependent colony established in Vancouver's Island. It
was no answer to this consideration to say, that Van-
ceuvsr's Fiend was at 'a great distance from England,
and that therefore it was not of that consequence to Eng-
land which its advocates urged; but this matter of distance
would very soon be settled, for the increased facilities of
communication would materially shorten the distance be-
tween this country and Vancouver's Island. The Noble
Lord then adverted to the advantages of the colony, and
said that these advantages were overlooked by England,
and the control of the colony handed over to the cruel
care of the Hudson's Bay Company. The Noble Lord
then read a letter from Mr. Ward, the Secretary of the
Admiralty, to the Colonial-office, calling the attention of
that department to the t ffect of the existence of coal in
Vancouver's Island, and suggesting that means should be
taken to secure the right of this article to the Crown.
The Colonial-office, in reply, said when the proper time
arrived the suggestion contained in Mr. Ward's letter in
respect to coal would be attended to. But what was the
result ? Why, that the whole of the right in reference
to coals and minerals in the colony had been handed over
to the Hudson's Bay Company, to the prejudice of the
Crown. The Noble Lord then referred to the high charge
for land in Vancouver's Island, and asked, if it was likely
emigrants would give a high price for land in that colony
when they could, within a few miles cf it, get land for
ss. 3d. an acre ? But he was told that the charter
was to be forfeited if no colony was to be founded in
Vancouver's Island within five years. Now, if the Com-
pany transferred Puget Sound establishment to Van-
couver's Island, would not that be sufficient to meet the
supposed security in the charter, namely, that the Crown
could come in and purchase the colony from the Hudson's
Bay Company: Now, he contended that the sum which
would be paid them in such a case would be a premium
upon the bad government of the Hudson's Bay Company
of the island in question.
Mr. LABOUCHERE explained.
Mr. LiUME seconded the motion. He said he was
anxious to say a few words upon the question. He
thought the conduct of the Colonial•effice was wrong
throughout the whole affair. He did not blame the
Hudson's Bay Company, for their object was to promote
their own interests. The main obje ct of the company
was to prevent colonization, because their profits were
derived from it as a hunting ground, for the collection
of furs. The course of the company had been mono-
poly, and he therefore consider, d this a most unfortunate
attempt to entrust this company with the powers given
to them by this charter. He condemned the Govern-
ment for aIL wing the company to make out their own
case for the opinion of the law officers of the Crown.
and still more for refusing to produce this case, and the
opinion given upon it by the law officers. This was
most injudicious after what had taken place with regard
to Prince Edward's Island. It Vancouver's Island was
not colonized this country would have no port on that
entire coast where an English ship could be protected,
and he therefore thought the conduct of the Government
in this case was most culpable. Ile supported the mo-
tion, and would willingly go further, and agree to a vote
of conch mnation.
Mr. HAWES had risen to reply, when, upon the mo-
tion of an Hon. Member, the House was counted, and
there being but thirty-seven Members present the House
adjourned at a Quarter to Nine o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 19.
CANADA.
Lord BROUGHAM rose to move the following re•
solutions t—" That by an Act passed in the Parliament
of Canada, intituted An Act to provide for the indem-
nification of parties in Lower Canada whose property
was destroyed during the rebellion in the years 1837
and 1838,' no security is afforded against compens
sation for losses sustained in the rebellion in Canada
in 1837 and 1838, being given to persons engaged
in the said rebellion. That it is just and necessary
either by recommending a further and amending Bill to
the Legtsliture of Canada or by such other means as
may be effectual, to provide security against any com-
pensation for losses sustained in the said rebellion being
given to persons engaged in having aided or abetted the
same." The late affairs of the province of Canada had
caused great interest, not only at home but in our colonies.
Without any further preface to the observations which
he was about to make, .and notwithstanding the able
discussion which that question had undergone by judi-
cious men elsewhere, he should proceed to remind the
House shortly of the history of the colony of Upper and
and Lower Canada. It would be remembered that by
the peace of Canada in 1762, negotiated by his
Noble Friend s father, we having wrested from the
Freeek by force of arms the province of Canada.
that province had, by the peace of Paris, been ceded to
us, and had continued ever since, by a tenure more or less
nominal, or more or less real, to be one of the posses-
sions of the British Crown. The settlers of that pro-
v:nce were, of course, French, and their descendants,
who were now three or four times the number of British
subjects in the province, were, to all intents and pur-
poses, equally French. In Upper Canada, on the con-
trary, the inhabitants were, with a small exception,
entirely British settlers or of British descent, the pro-
vinee having been mainly settled during or after the
American revolutionary war, when many loyalist
Americans quitted the United' States, disliking, from
their attachment to monarchical institutions and their
loyalty to the British Crown, to remain under the domi-
nion of a Government which had thrown aside both.
Of all the men whose opinions were strongly tinctured
with the most vehement desire of monarchical Govern-
ment, and with the warmest sense of duty, allegiance,
and loyalty to their Prince, he might venture to say that
the American loyalists had at all times proved themselves
to be among the first.—(Hear, hear.) Accordingly they
did not charge their minds with the sky under which
they began to live, they did not alter their opinions,
modify their principles, or reverse their feelings of
loyal attachment to the Crown of England, when
they removed from America to Canada, but they rather,
on the contrary, cherished more nearly and more
warmly the same feelings which caused their emigration,
and, having left their homes, where they had been born,
and having, as it were, transferred their household gods
to a foreign soil, they clasped the more eagerly to their
bosoms those principles which had led to their quitting
their native soil. Such, then, as was their orign, so was
their progress—such as they were at first distinguished
above all men by their love of their mother country, by
their scrupulous attachment and the zealous performance
of their duties to that mother country and their Sove-
reign, so throughout, in good fortune and in bad, had
they always been faithful subjects of their Sovereign, and
d.yoted anherents to the cause of the parent state. He
instituted no unjust comparison between them and their
fellow-subjects, the French inhabitants of Canada, in
putting forward their claims to the respect and sympathy
of the Houre, yet he could not help adverting to the na-
tional distinction between the two classes of the Cana-
dians. The one at all times, in good and bad fortune,
the attached subjects of the British Crown, and by
blood, laneuage, religion, manners, institutions, and
laws, Englishmen at their hearths and in their hearts;
while the others, in every one of these respects,
as well as by descent Frenchmen, although by ac-
accident—by the chances of war—they had become
British subjects. Nevertheless, these French fellow-
subjects of our had, generally speaking, he felt bound
to say, behaved like peaceable subject of the Crown,
_co: and
shown no want of loyalty in their demeanour, a
summation much to be rejoiced in r
notconsummation occasioned,
yet facilitated by the fact, that that kind of union
motherin
country and the
elsewhere
probably, if not caused, yet continued
which subsists between the
taken leave to call the
improper federal union;
colonies, which he had
therewas
always on the part
of the Government a great force, a great power, or
influence, both of treasure and
of
troops
sby
country, which
and
dby
land possessed by d
theo
mother
weight,
authority a d as n o
of tro
made it impossible to say that the mother country de-
pended on the coheres ; as the Government of the
;nether
of the cit c g
ouzens ntryat depended on the consent and goodwill
the subjects of the Crown at
ie,
home, and, conseqw ally, the French Canadians, knew full
well whose authority she had, or, as their Liturgy said,
'‘ duly considering whose authority she had," also duly
considering what power she had of maintaining that au-
therity, arid duly consid-ring that at all times the fleets
and esrmies of England, and the treasures of England,
wielded by th'e Biitish Goverment, in concert with the
British Parliament, and with the consent of the British
People, were ready to stiff revolt in all parts of her vast
coleniul dominions—considering, he repeated, all these
things, the French Canadians had exhibited at least an
apparent loyalty, and thus tor many 3 ears, had any out-
breek in the colony been prevented. But the time was
approaching when attempts a ere at last apprehended, and
some idea of a severance of the present connexion
might enter the minds of the Lower Province, and on:
happily it proved true that in the years 1837 and 1838,
a serious attempt was trade, not arising from say part
cuter grievance, not excited by any act of real or soF;
posed oppression, but more probably from the difference
of feeling o the colonists towards one another, er.l. call
dte.
wards the mother country, and rebellion, for he could
it by no other name, of a very serious nature, broke out
u Wads. lit was found . that. a op.spiraPY . bad