The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-19 00:00:00

THE COLONIES.

CANADA: -
(nem the-Quebec Gazettes 22d Oct. to 15th Nov. 1821.)
MOSTnEAr., OCT. 20.—We understand that the. survey re-
qtiired by the 6th Article of the Treaty of Ghent ha.S.been com-
pleted last season by the commission superintended by Mr.
Barclay ;. that the Commissioners of both nations agreed to
meet at Utica on the 23d ult. for the purpose of comparing the
results of their respective operations; but that our Commis-
sioner having fallen sick, their rendezvous was differed and
shifted to New York, where it has produced nothing decisive of
the Boundary Line, which must therefore be submitted to the
arbitration of some friendly Sovereign.
STEAM BOAT IMPROVEMENT.—A steam-boat with a
double revolving engine has commenced running betwixt Med-
ford and Boston. Her speed is stated at eight miles an hour,
and the peculiar construction of her boiler allows it to be above
deck, leaving the hold unoccupied, and free from heat and dan-
ger. The inventor haS obtained a patent.
KINGSTON, U.C. OCT. 19.—The Steam-boat Frontenac
made her last trip across the Lake for the Season on the Bth in-
stant. We are informed that she has been laid up earlier than.
usual this season for the purpose of undergoing sonte repairs.
In order to heave her down, it will be necessary to take out.
some parts of. the machinery—and it wag deniidered• mere
visable to perform this indispensible work at present aan in
the spring. The Steam-boat was launched in the year 1816,
and has continued to ply on the lake since that period, without
having her bottom examined, a circumstance which is rather
unusual on fresh water, and which proves the superior style in
which she was constructed.!

Since the commencement of the month, the weather has been
very boisterous, and much rain has fallen, accompanied occa-
sionally with thunder and lightning. Dunng the List few days
we have been visited by frost, and received timely warning to
defend ourselves against the rigour of winter.
[From the Kingston Chronicle, Oct- 19.]
" We learn that it is contemplated to call together our Le-
gislature on the 21st of November. It is rumoured that the
early period of the meeting is rendered necessary by the un-
•propitious result of the conferences held at Montreal in the
course of the summer by the Commissioners of the Provinces.
So far from making any arrangement, or seeming to desire it,
it is said that the Commissioners of the Lower Province, in a
spirit which, most assuredly, cannot be called iunicable, refused
even to pay over the arrearages which are undeniably due to Up-
per Canada. It would appear, they think that as they hold the
purse strings, they can starve our Government into acquiescence
with any terms they may see fit to dictate. It is, however, con-
solatory to know, that there is a tribunal to which we can ap-
peal, and to whose award the Legislature of Lower Canada
must submit—that this tribunal will protect our rights and de-
cide on the conflicting pretensions of the provinces with uner-
ring justice and impartiality."
The last of the above paragraphs is a sample of the man-
ner in which public affairs are, not unfrequently, treated in the
newspapers.
" Far from making any arrangement, or seeming to desire
it." Was the writer one of the Commissioners of Upper Ca-
nada ? In that case, how can he venture to decide against the
Commissioners of dower Canada, in a matter wherein his own
conduct may be concerned ? If he is not one of the Commis-
sioners, then what can he know of the seeming desire of the
Lower Canada Commissioners ?

44 In a spirit which, most assuredly, cannot be called amica-
ble, they refused even to pay over the arrearages which are un-
deniably due to Upper Canada." Again, what does the writer
know of the spirit in which the Lower Canada Commissioners
acted ? •By their refusal to pay over what was undeniably due ?
But there could be no question of paying over or even recom-
mending the paying over any thing. The law under which the
Lower Canada Commissioners acted, gave them no such power,
nor was it necessary. It only empowered them to enter into a
Provisional Agreement with the Upper Canada Commissioners
subject to the ratification of the Legislature. When such 'an
Agreement shall have been entered-into, and ratified, it may
then perhaps be said that something is undeniably due. If
there were any arrearages under former agreements, it is obvi-
ously the business of the respective Governments, to whom
alone, belongs the execution of the laws, to see them paid over.
It has, however, been publicly asserted here, that so far from
these being any such arrearages, a settlement in full has actually
been made. To impute dishonesty and injustice, (for such we
should have no hesitation in qualifying the withholding unde-
niable arrearages, or availing oneself of what the writer calls
" holding the purse strings," to extort unfair terms) is but a
poor support to those who have no facts to allege in their favour.
It is only proving that they have the misfortune to be deficient
in character or understanding, of in both. The Legislature of
Lower Canada must indeed submit to whatsoever :s just and
right ; it must submit to the Acts of the British Parliament,
from which its holds its authority ; and it never can be sup-
posed that these Acts will be founded on any thing but on the
forms and substance of British Justice, with a MI regard to
those principles which Parliament has solemnly recorded in the
Statute Book for its guidance, whenever the Colonies arc con-
cerned.
It is not easy to account for the clamour which has been kept
up in Upper Canada, on the subject of duties levied in Lower
Canada on goods which it is supposed afterwards go into Upper
Canada for consumption. It has always been understood that
the Legislature of Lower Canada early oisclaimed any intention
of profiting by citifies ultimately paid by Upper Canada consu-
mers, (although it might assuredly have maintained a contrary
doctrine respecting all goods imported for sale in this. Province),
and that the continuing to levy and pay over these duties, which
in the first instance at least, in great part, certainly come out of
the pocket of the subject here, was a boon granted to Upper
Canada at its particular request, most assuredly under its sanc-
tion. The Legislature of Lower Canada appears to be suffici-
ently jealous of its right of levying and appropriating to the
public uses the monies which come out of tile pocket of the sub-
ject in this Province, and it ought not to he supposed that it is
so lost to all sense of justice as to wish to deprive others of a
right which :t so highly esteems. When the matter comes
to be sifted to the bottom, it will probably be found that the
clamour has been without any justifiable foundation.l
MONTREAL, OCT. '24.—FIRE.—On Sunday last, about
half an hour before midnight, a fire was perceived to have
broken out in St. Maurice-street, Recollect Suburbs, in a
wooden house belonging to Doctor Munro, and occupied by
Mrs. Arnold ; the building was consumed to the ground, with
every thing it contained, the occupiers saving themselves with
difficulty. A street being on one side, and a small house on
the other, which was pulled down, stopped the spreadingof the
flames. It' is suspected to have been the act of an incendiary,
as au attempt to set fire to the same house is said to have been
made some weeks ago. Doctor Munro's house was insured at
the Quebec Office for 2001. and the other for 301. at the Phoenix
Office. a .

INQuEsT.“—Last Sunday morning an Inquest was held on
the body of a man found dead in a lane leading from the main
street of Quebec Suburbs, partly naked and severely bruised.—
Cries of murder had been heard at midnight on Saturday • but,
the street being frequented by loose characters;m one hadriutde-
any movement towards the assistance of the exelaimant. The
verdict was—" Death by the combined effect of intoxication,
bruises, and cold." The name of the deceased was John
Mitchel ; his native place Exeter, in Devonshire, England ;
and his avocation, cake-selling. This is the fifth inquest that
has been held on the body of persons dead through drunken-
ness, within the last fortnight.—(Herald.)
MONTREAL, OCT. 27.—Last Thursday, Lajennesse, the
person whom we some time ago mentioned to have killed a man
in the State of Vermont, and to have fled into and been appre-
hended here, was delivered up to the United States authorities.
This is as it should be ; for when malefactors find that they are
deprived of a secure place of, refuge, it is presumed they will
abstain from the commission of the graver species of crime :
and the refuse of the one territory no longer resorting to the
other, reciprocal opinion will probably be mice favourable.
A person was committed to gaol a few days since, upon sus-
picion of having set fire to the house of Doctor Munroe, which.
was burnt last Sunday night.
Provincial Secretary's Office,
Quebec, Oct. 23, 1821.
His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has . been pleased to
cause to be issued a new anti General Commission of the Pea6e
for the District of Montreal, thereby
annulling the former com-
mission and appointing. the following persona Justices of the
Peace fur the said District :

QUORUM. •
The Members of the Legislative and Executive Council, 'the
Judges of the Courts of KingS Bench, and the Judge of the In-
ferior District of Gaspe and ThomasNi 'Cord; Jeau M. Monde-
let, John Fletcher, J. T. Taschereau; Patrick Murray,- Paul
Lacroix; Alex. Henry, Louis Marchand, Isaac Winslow ckrke,
Jcseph Turgeon, Pierre Guerout, Pierre Grist:, Lcuis Guy,

Francois Desrivierea, Jean Bouthillier, ' intrkois Rolland, J.
_Philippe -Leprohon, H. St. George Dupre;.Thoi. Porteous, Ni-
cholas E. L. Dumont,. 'Joseph De Labroqueriei..Robert Jones,
Joseph Edouard. Fanbati/t, George Cook, Henry •M'Kebzie,
James Finlay, Francois Xavier Malhiot, Pierre de Boucher-n/le.
Archibald N. 111`Leod, Hyacmthe St. Germain, 'Charles Fre-
Mont, William Robertson, Hughes Heney, Francois HenryLa-
, tocque.:HOnble.. Henry Byng; -GeOrge Garden, Sanniel4.}er-
rard, John Forsyth, Toussaint. Pothier,,Pierre De Rociteblave,
Francis Badgley, Samuel Hatt, James Hughes, Calvin ,May,
Alexander Wilson; Philip. Luke, Barthelemy Rocher, '1 lchel
Turgeon, Jacob Oldham, Alexander Mabbut, Philip Byrne,
Samuel Willard, Antoine Filion, Jonas Abbot, Wm. Kelly,
Joseph Douaire Bondy, Joel Ives, John Savage, J. Baker,
Richard Adams, Philemon Wright, William Leon
Lalanne, John M'Cullum, . Charles Kilburn, Henry Cull,
Ezra Ball, Rene De .Labruere, James Milne, Scraphin Chet-
rier, Timothy RoSe, Salait Pomeroy, Lawrence kidd,
Macrae, • Bonaventure Pallet, Jacques Archambault, Paul
Theophile Pinsonault, Andre Dominique Pombzun, Joseph
Porlie, Charles Fremont, John Yule, Louis. Deioisgne, Paul
Whitney, Aaron Martindale, Joseph Senet, Louis Raymond,.
Joseph Cartier, Senior, Elisha Gustin, Ignace Raiierine, Wil-
liam Smith, Archibald Mc. Milian, Francois St. Onge, Wil-
liam Bowron, .Joseph Brunelle Francois flyadnihe Seguin,
Dominique Duchehaeme, Jeane Baptiste Fournier, Vincent
Dtifort, Ignace Gaucher Gamlin, Jean Barbcau, Pierre• Weil-
brenner, . Joseph Vigneau, .Henry B. Brewster, John gnat -
Wells, Henry Crebassa, Alexander Brown, Henry Duverart,
Angus Shaw, John Gray, Thomas Thais, Robert Gillespie,
Joseph Lamotte, Thomas Blackwood, Thomas Andrew Tur-
ner, James Millar, James Leslie, John Finley, Derick As.•
trom, William Armstrong, George Btuk, George BradfOra,
Joseph Cartier, Junior, Ephraim Birch, William Blanchard,
Joseph Beauttiont, L. M. R. Barbier, Hugh Caldwirlt,_ Martel
De Vienne, Hughes Lemoine de Martigny, :Conrad-Derrick,
Jean Baptiste De Loriniier Junior, William Grannis, Robert
Hoyle, ;fan J. Joint, Thomas Jobson,' David Ltili in, Adam
Charles Muir, George H. Monk, Roderick Morrison, Martin
Strong Parker, Julien Poirier, William Pardy, Thomas
Russel, Norman Stuart, Junior, Micah Townsend, Robert
Vincent, James NVitford, Stephen "Yarwood, James Brown,
Jean Baptiste Hertel, De Rouville, Donald Duff, Francois
Victoire Malhoit, Louis Checout Duvert, John Le Breton,
and Daniel De Hertel.

KiwisTox, (U. C.) OCT. 12.—The County Agricultural
Meeting, held on Monday last, at Waterloo, was more fully
attended than the previously bad state of the weather had led
us to anticipate. The manner, also, in which all parts of
the proceedings were conducted, the cordiality every where ex-
hibited, and the spirit of emulation excited among the vari-
ous competitors, lead us to indulge an expectation that the
society, thus auspiciously entering on its career, will not, like
too many other societies in this country, languish, and after
some well-meant, though unavailing efforts on the part of
a few individuals, sink into the silent gulph of oblivion.-
-We think we discovered in the countenances of the far-
mers present on this occasion evidence that the Agricul-
tural Society of the County of Frontenac would --experzence
a better fate, and that instead of suffering. a speedy disso-
lution it would acquire strength, and eventually produce an
important and most beneficial change in our modes of hue-
bandry. The good market afforded by this town and garrison,
and the ready sales for their productions, which the proximity
of the Frontenac farmers will always enable them to com-
mand, would, it might be imagined, be alone a sufficient sti-
mulus to enlarged enterprise, to the adoption of improvements
in agriculture, sanctioned by the experienceof other counttles,
and to the introduction into the County of superior breeds
of cattle. Yet the reverse proves to be the fact—for our far-
mers 2 obtaining their lands either as a gift from the Crown,or
a price altogether insignificant, and living free from taxation
without any anxiety respecting the means of subsistence, er
any ambition to rise beyond their actual condition, rest con-
tented with their lot, and jog along sluggishly from year to
year in the same unwearied track. If they can manage to chase
the gaunt spectre Want, away from their cottage doors, they
reach the summit,of their sublunary desires, and while they
quietly transmit their lands to children inheriting similar
feelings and habits, they, generally neither-n*llo improve
their cattle, obtain better implements of husbandry,-nor culti-
vate their fields with greater skilfulness. To alter these fixel-
habits of the people is of course no easy task, though the utility,
and indeed the necessity, of the work is self-evilent.
[To be continued.]