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The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Prisoners
hereinafter named (the same having been filed in the Court)
are appointed to be heard at the Court-house, in Portugal_
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on Friday, Dec. 11, 1835,
at Nine o'clock in the Forenoon.
Brashier, E. J., Blandford-street, Portman-square, boot-maker.
Ross, J. R., Arundel-street, Strand, attorney's clerk.
Iredale, H., Dorset-mews East, Dorset-street, 'Mary-le-Strand,

bricklayer.
Alexander, R., Old Compton-street, Soho, publisher of the East
India Magazine.
King, J. P., Baltic-place, near the St. Helena Tea-gardens, Re-
therhithe, cooper.
Dent, J. T., Rutland-street, Sidney-square, Commercial-road,

general-post letter-carrier. . '
Saxon, T., Oxford-street, china-dealer.
Green, S., Macclesfield-street, North, City-road, brace-maker.
Boaden, J.,Waterloo-bridge-road, Lambeth, author.
West, J. ~ Albany-road, Newington-green, painter.
Cock, F., Princes-terrace, York-street, Lambeth, plumber.
Butcher, J., of the Red Lion, Walton•heath, near Reigate, stage-
coachman.

GRETNA-GREEN PA RSON.—Peter Moodie, who has
married thousands, and yet lived single all.his days, is now
getting old and stiff ; still he can perform the ceremony
with as much life as ever. Sixty-eight years have now fur-
rowed his brow, and silvered his locks, which once hung
in graceful ringlets over his fine turned forehead—the
hand of time has pressed heavy on his shoulder, and corn- ,
pelled him to stoop, although he struggled manfully to
retain his perpendicular position—the cold winds of ad-
versity too, have sometimes cruelly chilled his wrinkled
cheek—his whole countenance wears marks of thought-
fulness and decay—still this is only when " OUT of his
element," or, in other words, when sober. Set a little of
the aqua vita before him, and let on the "steam," then
the meek looks of thg resigned Christian vanish like smoke
—his soul mounts to his eyes—the ardour of youth re-
animates his frame, and all the vigour of manhood re-
turns, as he "fights his battles o'er again," and narrates
his deeds of noble daring achieved in the Peninsular war.
His habiliments, which have seen service, are generally of
the sable .hue ;- at the present time, however, he sports a
large black velvet hunting frock coat, with white. buttons,
which has been made for some sturdy carle of more colossal
dimensions than its present owner. At au early age Peter
was enrolled under the banners of King Crispin, and, for a
while, stuck to the last with great assiduity ; but being
of a spirity nature he grew sick of the profession of the
" gentle craft," and ambitious of soaring to higher honours
than a mere Knight of the Birse, he threw down the awl
and took up the sword, and enlisted into the Berwickshire
Volunteers. About this time Peter's conduct happening
to come in contact with a certain conzmandment, and dread-.
ing less tha btAlets of the French than the anathemas of the
priest, be bade farewell to bonnie Twecdside ; and hoisted
sail for the Peninsula, where he enlisted, and remained till the
peace. The stirring times of war over, Peter returned to
the borne of his fathers. Hisjunds soon become low, and
Peter found it necessary to do something to keep soul and
body together. He looked about—Cupid was kindling
such flames in the hearts of the neighbouring swains that
Hymen could not manage his business without an assist-
ant—this was the lucky moment—Peter commenced the
trade, and being of an engaging manner, he became, and
still is, a great favourite with all the young ladies in the
place—competition fled, and Peter was left the undisputed
lord of the field. He does things very quietly,
and is co
obliging, that should any couple have commetic,2d dinner
before the blessing was asked, he'll date as far back as the
circumstances may require.--.-Dun!flies Courier.

PROVINCIAL PARL/AMENT OF

LOWER CANADA.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.—ROUTINE BUSINESS.
FRIDAY, Nov. 6, 1835.
ADDRESS
To his Excellency the Right Hon. Archibald Earl of Gos-
ford, Baron Worlingham, of Beeeles, in the county of
Suffolk, Captain- General and Governor-in-Chief in and over
the provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, Vice-Admiral
of the same, and ono of His Majesty's Most Hon. Privy
Council, &c.
May it please your Excellency,
We, His Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects, the Com-
mons of Lower Canada, in Provincial Parliament assem-
bled, humbly thank your Excellency for your speech at the
opening of the present Session.
We congratulate your Excellency on his Majesty's de-
termination to call to the head of the Government of this
province, in the person of your Excellency, a distinguished
individual, whose habits and former station have, indepen-
dently of his other qualifications, rendered him more able
to accomplish this important change. We congratulate
your Excellency iu like manner on your safe arrival

among us.
It is indeed under no ordinary circumstances that your
Excellency has assumed the reins of adrxinistration.. Th
Government has not for some time past sufficiently pos-
sessed the confidence of this House and of the people to
fulfil the purposes of its institution. In this state of things,
it was in conformity to the ancient custom of Parliament,
and in the spirit of the Gofistitution itselfras well as for-the
advantage of his Majesty's subjects and cf the Govern-
ment in this province, that this House adopted constitu-
tional means for obtaining the redress of grievances and
abuses. We shall see with pleasure that his Majesty's Go-
vernment has acquired that practical and local knowledge
of the province which is necessary for the discernment of
the most appropriate remedies. It is therefore with feel-
ings of hope that we contemplate the extensive powers,
attributions, and circumstances with which your Excel-
lency has commenced the arduous duties of your exalted
office.

Bearing in mind the distinction pointed out by your Ex.
cellency, with regard to the application of the remedies in
question, we are firmly convinced of your Excellency's just
and liberal intentions in the administration.of the executive
power. In those cases where your ExcellenCy may be
called upon to act jointly with the provincial Legislature, or
with this House in particular, we shall always be disposed
to co-operate in every measure which may tend to the wel-
fare of this province. With regard to the bills which may
require to ,be passed or sanctioned by the' authorities in
England, we have already on more than one occasion made
known our desires and wishes to his Majesty's Govern-
ment. We are firmly persuaded that the result of the at-
tention which has lately bean given to the desires and re-
peated claims of this House and of the people will be an
entire conviction of their justice, and that they will be
granted
.to their fullest extent.
We ought. not to fail to declare most respectfully to
yoUr Excellency, that the great body of the people of this
province, without distinction, consider the extension of the
electiVe principle, and. its application to the constitution of
the Legislative Council in particular—the repeal of the
the Acts passed in Great Britain on matters concerning
the internal goiernment of the province, and fully within
the jurisdiction of the provincial Parliament, as well as of
the privileges conferred by such Acts, and the full and un-
restrained enjoyment on the part of the Legislature and of
this House of their legislative and constitutional rights, as
being essential to the prosperity, welfare, and happiness of
his Majesty's faithful Canadian subjects, and as being ne-
cessary to insure their confidence in his government, and
their future welfare and contentment under it, and to re-
move the causes which have been obstacles thereto. And
we also most respectfully pray your Excellency that in
those future communications to which you have alluded
between your Excellency and his Most Gracious Majesty
or his Government on the subject of the great interests of
this province, your Excellency will be pleased not to lose
sight of this firm conviction on the part of the people, which
we feel in common with them.
The desire manifested by your Excellency to obtain the
good will of the Canadians of all ranks and classes, and the
confidence and respect of the representatives of the people,
is our. warranty of your Excellency's intention to do all in
your power for the welfare of the country. SVe thank your
Excellency for your declaration, that as head of the provin-
cial Legislature, you will co-operate with us in the redress
of every evil which it may be necessary to correct.
His Majesty's Government must have been long con-
vinced that the circumstances mentioned by your Excel-
lency, as being of a nature for some time practically to ex-
clude the majority of the inhabitants of this province from
a due participation in the powers and advantages of office,
rested on an incorrect appreciation of their sentiments. The
people have defended the country in time of war ; they re-
fused to accede to the appeal made to them by the former
British colonies on this Continent, at the period which pre-
ceded the independence of those colonies ; they preserved
their confidence in his Majesty's Government in times of
difficulty, and under Administrations which trampled on
their dearest rights ; they have, by their representatives,
laboured to insure to all classes of their fellow-subjects,
without distinction, a participation in all the political and
natural advantages of the country ; and firmly to establish
in this province the constitutional and Parliamentary law of
Great Britain, and such other portions of its institutions as
appeared to the people to be salutary and protecting, and
consonant to their wants. It is therefore with satisfaction
that we have heard your Excellency disclaim, on the part
of his Majesty and of the British people, the motives to
which the practice heretofore followed has been necessarily
attributed. We welcome with a like feeling your Excel-
lency's declaration, that your instructions enjoin upon you
the utmost impartiality, and an entire disregard of unjust
distinctions.
We thank your Excellency for the frank and open avowal
of the salutary principle that' in every country to be ac-
ceptable to the great body of the people is one of the most
essential elements of fitness for public station. We shall
rejoice to hear that arrangements have been adopted to lay
before the competent authorities a more particular account
than heretofore of the exercise of the Royal authority in the
appointments to public office in this province. We perfectly
appreciate the motives by which his Majesty is actuated ;
yet we cannot but feel some anxiety, lest the too frequent
appeal to his Majesty should in certain cases have an effect
contrary to his gracious intentions.
It will be of the greatest advantage that the cumulation
of incompatible offices in the same person should be com-
pletely remedied. Your Excellency cannot fail to remember
that the particular cases to which you have been pleased to
declare that your attention has been already given were
among others, provided against by a bill passed by the two
Houses of the Provincial Parliament, and subsequently
taken into consideration by his Majesty's Government. This
circumstance, and the complaints which have uniformly been
made on this subject,.would have led us to hope that your
Excellency would have been invested with the powers neces-
sary to enable your Excellency forthwith to-carry into effect
your determination on the subject of the salutary separation
of the principal component parts of the Government. We
should be happy to see established that responsibility .on
the part of the executive power in this province to the
Legislature thereof, and to this House in particular, which
is happily established in the United Kingdom, and imparts
strength and security to 'its institutions. We, moreover,
confidently hope that the arrangements your Excellency
has been pleased to mention will be speedily carried into
effect. Your Excellency has also been pleased to declare
to us, that your views are not confined to these cases, and
that no union of incompatible or incongruous offices will be
willingly acquiesced in by your Excellency.
The intentions announced by your Excellency to commu-
nicate to this House by the Executive all despatches, ac-
counts, papers, and information of which, in the course of
our deliberations, we may have need, are of a nature to
call for our particular acknowledgments. ;: we duly appre-
ciate the fears of his Majesty's Government that we may
have been exposed to some inconveniences arising from
this source. We expect the greatest advantage from the
unreserved assistance which -your Excellency has been
pleased to .promise us, with regard particularly to every
thing connected with the revenue and finance ; and we hope
that, with your Excellency's aid, the enquiries which this.
House will continue and institute will have a happy effect
on the legislation and on the future welfare of the country.
We venture to hope that those enquiries, in conjunction
with those which this House has already made, will furnish:
extensive information on the statistics of the province, and
may aid your Excellency in collecting the information and
forming the opinions which your Excellency has announced
your intention of transmitting to his Majesty's GovernMent.
BY abandoning the too frequent practice of reserving
Bills for the signification of his Majesty's pleasure, and that
of dela) ing the communications of the Royal pleasure, as
well. with .regard to such Bills as to the addresses of this
House, the executive authorities will concur in consolidating
in the province itself an effective and regular GovernMent„
adapted to provide in the best manner for the wants of its
inhabitants. This amelioration of the practice on thisi sub-

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jcct may also be especially favourable to the establishment
of colleges and schools for the advancement of Christia❑
knowledge and sound learning, unattended by those delays
which your Excellency believes that under a contrary system
the greatest zeal or activity in his Majesty's servi:!!- would
be insufficient to obviate. The deep and personal interest
which his Majesty deigns to take in the of of this pro-

vince have happily suggested to him a measure which we
cannot but applaud.

His Majesty's displeasure, announced beforehand by
your Excellency, at any conduct on the part of the Go-
vernment liable to the imputation of giving to the English
an undue preference over the French language, of calling
upon the Judges for extra judicial opinions on questions
which may subsequently come befcire them for decision, or
of interfering in the elections of the Representatives of the
people, will be one of the elements of order and security,
and we are persuaded that your Excellency can have no
motive for not giving the fullest effect to his Majesty's in-
junctions on this head.

With respect to the idea of any undue partiality to the Eng-
lish language over that which makes part of the laws and
institutions, guaranteed in the most solemn • manner to his

Majesty's Canadian subjects, we learn with pleasure that

his Majesty disapproves, and is desirous to prevent, the

adoption of any practice which would deprive either class
9of his subjects of the use of the langua-re with which early

habits and education have rendered them most familiar.

We flatter ourselves that the due consideration which your
Excellency will doubtless bestow as to the fitness of the
persons to compose the tribuniils, ad fill the several pub-
lic offices, will suffice for the future to insure respect for
the incontestable rights of all classes of the inhabitants of
this country.
We shall give our earnest attention to the subject of the
fees demanded by divers public functionaries, with a view to
revise and regulate the same by the supreme authority of
the law. His Majesty may be assured that we shall be
guided in this behalf by the nature of the services to be re-
munerated, the state and circumstances of the province, and
the various considerations due to the interests of all por-
tions of the public weal, and to the advancement of the
moral condition and of the industry of the people.
We shall accept with pleasure your Excellency's co-ope-
ration with this House in an inquiry into the practice and
proceedings of the superior tribunals, with a view to ensure
their conformity to the law, and to render them more prompt
and methodical, as well as less expensive. We hope that the
same good understanding will continue to exist between your
Excellency and this House, if any bills on this subject should
be brought before the Provincial Parliament.
On the subject of the Clergy reserves, we regret that
we have to state to your Excellency that, notwithstanding
the benevolent intentions of his Majesty's Government, of
which your Excellency is pleased to assure us, our appre-
hensions have been justified by the disposal of a conside-
rable portion of the waste lands, in the manner which we
had foreseen. As we have already expressed our opinion
to his Majesty's Government on this-head, we shall confine
ourselves to assuring your Excellency, that we shall enter
zealously into the examination of the whole question, with
the hope of being able to agree to the views of his Ma-
jesty's Government—at the same time that we shall res-
pect the rights of all parties, and maintain the common,
or individual interests—of all the inhabitants of this
Province.

We thank your Excellency for having recognized: the
constitutional privileges of this House with regard to its
contingent expenses.
The declaration of his Most Gracious Majesty, whereby
we are led to hope that, the legitimate control of the repre-
sentatives of the people will be exercised over all public
monies payable to his Majesty, or to his officers in the pro-
vince, whether arising from taxes or from any other Cana-
dian source, carries with it the admission of an incontestable
and essential principle, calculated to insure that efficiency
and responsibility which are so much to be desired in the
Government, and to maintain that constitutional control
which the people have a right to exercise, by their repre-
sentatives, over every branch of the executive government.
On this head, which embraces a vast number of matters of
detail, we shall receive with respect, and will take into our
most serious consideration, every communication from his
Majesty's Government, or from your Excellency, which
you may be pleased to make to us ; and we trust that they
will 1(41(1 to facilitate at an early period the conclusive and
satisfactory settlement of all financial differences. Our
labours on this subject will be conducted with the same un-
ceasing diligence which your Excellency is pleased to pro-
mise to bestow on it.

We shall receive in the same spirit the accounts neces-
sary to show thd financial state of the pros ince, with such
estimates and explanation as your Excellency may be pleased
to lay before us.

All matters of this nature are so essentially connected
with the interests of our constituents and the peculiar pri-
vileges of this House, that we cannot fail to be guided in
our determination respecting them by what we believe to be
the constitutional privileges of this branch of the Legisla-
ture, and for the welfare of the province.
The request made by your Excellency in consequence of
measures heretofore adopted by the executive power, and
with regard to which we have already humbly expressed our
opinions to his Majesty's Government, is so intimately con-
nected with the same rights and privileges, that it will be
our duty to take it into consideration with the same views
and sentiments.
We ought, however, to express to your Excellency our
conviction, that the application of any sums of money sub-
ject to the control of this House, without the consent of the
representatives of the people, would tend to create an ob-
stacle in the arrangements contemplated by his Majesty's
Government, and which we desire with much sincerity to
see completed.
We are thankful to Providence for having exempted
this province, during the summer of the present year, from
the ravages of the scourge which had necessitated sanatory
precautions on an extensive scale. The discontinuance by
your Excellency of some of these precautions at an earlier
period than usual appears to us to have been conformable to
the circumstances under which it took place. We shall not
fail to make good any just and reasonable expenses incurred
in carrying the said precautions into effect. We shall also
take into consideration the expediency of indemnifying the
proprietor of Grosse Isle, and of purchasing it for the public
uses of the province.
The judicial decision of the suit instituted by the Crown
against the late Receiver-General, which your Excellency
has announced to us, adds to the hope we entertain that
the right of the province to be- reimbursed will be
acted upon.
We shall give our attention to the useful statutes which
have recently expired. We shall also continue our deli-
berations on the question of prisons and prison discipline,
and on the expediency of adopting some more effectual
methods than at present exist for the suppression of crime.
Any sufficient and constitutional measures tending to faci-
litate the exercise of the right of this House to the control
of the whole revenue raised in this province shall be re-
ceived by us with a due appreciation of the motives by which
it shall have been dictated, and of the advantages to be de-
rived from it. Every communication on this subject will be
received with respect, and examined with attention.
The questions connected with the internal government of
this province will continue to form one of the subjects of
our labours, and we hope that with the intentions mani-
fested by his Majesty's Government, the bills which may
from time to time be passed by this House on the various
matters connected with those questions will be productive
of results advantageous to the country. We confidently
expect the same results in those matters which are more
especially within the province of his Majesty's Government.
We pray to be allowed to assure your Excellency, that
the representations which have been made by this House.
and by the people on the subject of the present constitution
of the Legislature of this province were so made after ma-
ture deliberation, and a most careful consideration of the
principles of government and of past events. With a con-
scientious conviction of its necessity, and in our desire to
establish harmony between the high constituted authorities
in this province, and to insure the happiness of its inhabi-
tants for a long period to come as a portion of the empire
over which his Most Gracious Majesty presides, we have
prayed for the extension °kite elective principle to the
Legislative Council. The general opinion of the people
gives additional strength to our conviction, that no arrange-
ment of a merely administrative and temporary nature
could produce that harmony which, in common with your
Excellency, we have so much at heart, with a view to the
full and effective representation • in the Legislature of the
country of the rights, interests, desires, and wants of the
. • people thereof.
Your Excellency cannot doubt our earnest desire to la-
bour for the happiness of the people with those disposi-
tions and sentiments with which the high trust vested in
us ought to inspire us. Elected by the people of this
province, from among whom we come, and into the midst
of whom we are to return to partake their lot, we cannot
fail at all times to feel an anxious desire to promote the
welfare of all, and to see the Legislature contribute effec-
tively to the advancement of the public prosperity.
We thank your Excellency for the declaration that there

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is no esign to disturb the form of society in this pr :-
wince, or the rights of any of the inhabitants, and that;
the great interests of agriculture and commerce ate sure
of just protection. We feel flattered by Vie manner in
which your Excellency has already appreciated the moral
and social institutions of this country, and we trust that:
your Excellency will be daily- mora and more d
of the public and private virtues of its inhabitants, of all
classes and of all origins. The qualities of
atnhtesht
priest-
hoodta of all denominations are are ee
we shall continue to possess those , 0 cuat
assure yoar Excellency that we slim, apply ourse;rc., as
we have heretofore done, to the fuf&ment of
towards all with brotherly impartiality ; a.nd we trust that
our fellow-subjects from different portions- ..°f the
empire who have come to settle among us t~;ill find litre
all that protection which is requisite to theft ,happiness
and the encouragement of their industry, and that .th!'ir ef-
forts will, jointly with ours, tend to, promote the coLnmon
welfare of all.
With regard to the opinions expressed by the great b,3dy-
of the people, and by this House, on the public affairs of
this province, your Excellency will perceive that they have.
not been, and are not, founded in any manner on distinc,
tions of nation or origin, and that the due appreciation of
this fact cannot but tend to create a firm conviction of that
wish to do equal justice to all, of which we humbly be-
lieve that the representatives of the people of this pro-
vince have given ample proof. We believe that the House:
of Assembly, in fact as well as in principle, represents the
interests and wishes of the great body of the inhabitants of
this province of every origin ; and, animated as we are by
the consciousness of the duties which this pokion imposes
on us, there is no class of our fellow-sulljects, of whatever
origin, persuasion, or opinion they may be, to whom we arc
not disposed to afford equal aid and protection. •
We duly appreciate the advantages which, Providence
has bestowed on this Country,' and We entertain doubt of
the high degree of prosperity and ha:piipess4o Mich its in-
habitants might attain under an 'et,ligbtioned, liberal, and
protecting Government. We confiaKtly-Axpect to attain
to a Government of this nature, whieli Shall be A pledge to
us for our future enjoyment of all the ,blessings •ti.t which
we look forward, through the firmness of the people: and
attention given to the interests of the country lay-.lls.,,Pil-
lesty's Government., Wry also ealterta7n the hope,
With the intentions expiisied.by your Excellency, this great
work of liberty and peace be accomplished under.your
Excellency's Administration.

The following is the reply of his Excelkncy :
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the. House of As-
sembly—
" I thank you for this address, and especially for the flatter-
ing and kind manner in which you have spoken of myself.
It will be my constant study to adhere faithfully to the line
of conduct which I stated to you at the opening of this Ses-
sion, and I shall feel truly rejoiced to 'find that course promote
the good understanding which. it is so desirable to see re-
established in this province."

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

ADDRESS IN ANSWER TO HIS EXCELLENCY'S SPEECH.

The House went into Committee to consider the Ad-
dress drafted by the Special Committ:26 appointed for that
purpose.___ . .

Mr. `YELLS was•called to the CLuir.

•Mr. Malux then rose and said that, considering Mem-
bers had been a sufficient lime in possession of the printed
copies of the Address to form their opinions, he would not
trouble the Committee by catering into any explanation,
but would merely ask that it be read paragraph by para-
graph, and the question of concurrence put on each.
The two first paragraphs were concurred in without
discussion. _ _ _

The third paragraph having been read,
Mr. Ceernaer rose and said that he had an amend-
ment to offer on this paragraph. He felt convinced that
the Commissioners should be explicitly acknowledged by
the House of Assembly. Complaints of grievances had
proceeded from that House to England, and from various
ether quaiters petitions for the redress of grievances had
been transmitted to the Imperial Parliament. The Commis-
sioners had been sent out to this province with full power to
investigate all these complaints of grievances, and con-
sequently he felt it highly necessary that the 'Commis-
sion should be acknowledged by the House of Assem-
bly. He would therefore move an amendment to the third
paragraph, that all the words after " Government," inclu-
sively, to the end of the paragraph, should be struck out,
and the following substituted :—" I'Ve consider it a proof
of the wisdom and magnanimity with which his Majesty lids
listened to our complaints, that a Commission, of which
your Excellency is the head, has been appointed far the
purpose of inquiring, fully, and upon the spot, into the
complaints which have been made ; and we confidently hope
that the conclusions to which the Commissioners will come,
and the final result of their labours, will be satisfactory to
all classes of his Majesty's subjects."
The motion having been put from the Chair, cries of
" Question, question I" arose ; upon which
Mr. PAPINEAU rose and said, that it would be difficult
to conceive that- th4lion. Member= (Clapham) had moved
his amendment in good faith, solely for the purpose of ac-
knowledging the Commission, when he proposed to strike
out of the Address one of its most material parts—the por-
tion which complained of the excessive evils conferred on
the province by the late. Administration, and stating that
the representatives of the people had been forced to adopt
the (lender ressort—the most powerful measure which
they could constitutionally adopt—that of refusing the
supplies. The amendment was. an indirect censure upon
the House, and the House, by adopting it, would lose, the
fruits of its labour for such a long time past. It could
hardly be expected that the House would be content with
basing merely got rid of the late odious Administration ;
it would be necessary for it still to reiterate its complaints,
although a new Administration had been sent out to the
province. With respect to this new Administration, as the
Hon. Measlier (Clapham) had provoked a discussion,
which perhaps it would have been more prudent not to
• arouse, he (Mr. Papineau) considered it necessary to exa-
mine en entire the nature and tenor of the first communi-
cation which had been made from that new Administration
to the House. In the first place, he would say that his
Excellency's speech was veryfialkur, but from the general
tone in which it was couched, and from the concession of
several important points, there was much ground for satis-
faction. If there was anything to be displeased at, it was
more on account of the omissions than anything objection-
able in it. On the whole, he considered that it contained
much cause for congratulation to the friends of the coun-
try ; and the apparent sincerity of the words of the speech,
in the name of his Majesty's Government, and in his Ex-
cellency's name with respect to his own sentiments, gave
the House a right to interpret it in the most favourable
manner for the province. It was a point of great impor-
tance gained=one which had been combated for the last
twenty years with a spirit of hostility to the established
rights of the people almost unparalleled—the formal admis-
sion of the fact that the House ought to have the most un-
disputed and uncontrolled disposal of the whole of the public
revenue. This was so much gained, although, after all, he
(Mr. Papineau) did not consider it of very great moment
being a mere acknowledgment of what was right, and one
which would have long since been conceded if the country
had not been cursed with Governors who made a laugh-
ing stock of the instructions received by them from his
Majesty's Government. This question had-been reduced to
its simplest form, in a dispatch from Sir George Murray to
Sir James Kempf., and if the solid principles inculcated in
that dispatch had been acted upon by the Provincial, Admi-
nistration, from that day the House of Assembly would
hare been vested with the unqualified control of .the public
revenue and salaries of public officers. On looking closely
into the concessions-made in other parts of the .speech, it
would be observed that they were all of a similar nature ;
they had all been inculcated in the dispatches transmitted
from the Colonial Office, but the most precise instructions
had been only playthings in the hands of cm rupt Governors
and their creatures. In the same manlier had the dispatch
of Lord Goderich, recommending the Governor of this pro-
vince to be more impartial in the distribution of offices, been
treated in the hands of Lord Aylmer and his favourites,
and offices were distributed after the reception of that dis-
patch with a more disgraceful partiality than before. Nearly
all the individuals appointed to office within the last two
years were the most abject and contemptible flatterers, and
the most bitter enemies of the majority of the people.
As one of the most prominent of these disgraceful appoint-
ments, he would instance that of Mr. Samuel Gale, who,
one of the most bitter enemies of the people, and who had
frequently expressed his contempt and hatred of the laws of
the country, had been appointed to administer those laws.
It was to Judge Gale who had, as far back as 182'2, carried
on his odious power more than any one else, that the dis-
tinction of national origin was owing. It was principally
by Judge Gale's agency that a petition was got up, pray-
ing for that anomalous measure, the union of Upper and
Lower. Canada. It was in consequence of his misrepre-
sentations that the British Ministry had lent an car to that
project. That project was, however, abandoned and dis-
countenanced by Lord Bathurst, who stated that he had
been led to believe in its expediency by its having been re-
presented to bins that the provinces, if divided, would be-
come an easier prey to the Americans than if they were
united. When, therefore, that project was abandoned, the
persons in this province who had advocated it, and been
guilty of such vile misrepresentations to effect their object,
ought to have been deemed unworthy of confidence ; but,
instead of that, favours had been heaped upon those indi-
viduals by the Colonial Administration, and they became
the fawning favourites of the Executive. Could they,
therefore, be convinced that anything but deception was
meant in the promises. held out to the, people of thia pro-
vince, when such men, as Judge Gale, the ci-devant At-
torney-Gerierah and the present Attorney-General had
been all appointed to office, apparently for no other reason

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