The Sun.
London, England, 1810-06-23 00:00:00

CANAn

t The following has been in our posSeSsion several days, but
we have- not had room to admit it. 1 t is, however, so in-
teresting in itself, and so honourable to the person from
whom it issued, -that we consider it al'out duty to insert it.]

" By his Excellency J. H. Craig, Captain General
and Governor in Chief of Canada, Upper Ca-
nada, and-their Dependencies.
A PROCLANIATION.

"- Whereas divers wicked, seditious, and trea-
sonable writings have been printed, ,published, and
dispersed in this Province, with the care and Go-
vernment of which I am entrusted'; and whereas
such writings have been expressly circulated to mis-
lead his Majesty's good subjects, to impress their
•Minds with mistrust and jealousy .of his Majesty's
Government, to alienate their affeetions from his
Majesty's person, and to bring into contempt and
vilny the administration of justice, and of the Go-
vervinent of are country; and whereas, in the
prosecution of these wicked and traitorous purposes,
their authors and abettors have not scrupled audaci-
ously to advance the most gross and daring fal,e-
hoods, whilst the industry that has been employed
in dispersing and disseminating them atsa very great
expellee, but the source of which /is not known,
strongly evinces the perseverance and iniplaca:;ility-
with which it is intended that these purposes should
be pursued ; and whereas, consistently with that
duty which I owe to his Majesty, and thatatfectinn
and regard with which I view the welfare and pros--
perity of the inhabitants of this colony, it 'was no,
poSsible for me any longer to disregard • or: suffer
prattices so direCtly tending to subvett the,Govetn-
ment of the former, and, to destroy the happiness of
the latter; I do, -therefore, hereby announce, with-
the advice and Concurrence of his Mijesty's Exectl-
- Council; that, with the . same advice and con-
currence, measures have been adopted, and that,
due information having been given to three of his
-Majesty's said Executive Counsellors, warrants, as
by law authorized, have been issued, under which
some of the authors, printers, and publishers of
the writings aforesaid, have been, apprehended and
secured.

" Deeply impressed with a desire to promote, in
all respects, the welfare and happiness of -the good
people of this Province, and acting under the in-
structions of the most benevolent and beSt of Sove-
reigns, whose faithful servant I have been for nearly',
as 7long a period as the oldest inhabitant has been
his subject, and whose highest. displeasure.' should
incur, if I made any other than that happiness and
Welfare the whole of my condua, it would indeed .
be, with a very sincere concern, that 1 should find
'reason to believe-that the arts of these factious .and
designing men had produced any effea, and that
doubts and jealousies should have sound their way,
and have established-
,themselves in the minds of
deluded 'persons. , •
fc To these, if any such there be, and;. in-deed,
-
to-the public in, general,. I would recallaheilistory
of. the whole period, during which they,-have been
under his Majesty's Government. Let them,le:-.,
-member the state they were in when thef became
British suhje&s ; and let them. bear in their re4;017
lection the progressive. advances they have made to'
the wealth, happineas.
.security, end nnbentided
liberty which they now enjoy. During the fifty.
years they have been under the. British dominion,
has one act of oppression,-has one instance of arbi-
trary: imptisonment, or of violation of property,
occurred ? Have you, in any one instance, or
under any one circumstance, been disturbed in the
free and •uncontrouled enjoyment of your religion;
and lastly, while ad Europe has been deluged -in
blood, and while various of his Majesty's other co-
lonies. and possessions have, at times, experienced
the herrors of war, and some even under the vicis-
situdes of that state,- have undergone a deprivation-
of tire inestimable.happiness of living under British
Laws and British Govtrtnnent, by becoming a prey
to temporary conquest—have you not enjoyed the
most perfect security and tranquility, under the
powerful prOtection of the same Government, whose
fostering and paternal care has been equally em-
ployed in promoting your internal welfare
" WhLt then can be:the means used by these evil-
disposed and wicked persons, by which they can
hOpe bring about their traitorous and ambitious
designs ? By what arguments can they expel, that
a people, in the enjoyment of everrblessing that can
contribute to happiness in this wprld, shall renounce
that happiness to embrace their views ? I3y what
-argument can they expect that a brave and loyal
people, hitherto impressed with the warmest and
sincerest attachment to the best of Kings, whose
whole reign has been one stiles of benefits bestowed
on them, shall abandon that loyalty,' and become
monsters of ingratitude, fit to be' held-up -to file
detestation of the world, to promote their projeas
It is trtie, the most base and diabblicat- falsehoods
are insidiously promulgated and. sdiSseininated: -In
one part, it is announced as my intention to em-
body and make soldiers of you, and that having
applied to the late House of Representatives to
enable them to assemble 12,000 of you for that.pur-
pose, and
,they-having declined 'to do so, I had
therefore dissolved them. This. is not only direly
false, such an idea never hating entered into my
mind, nor the slightest mention having ever been
made of it ;--.--but it is doubly wicked and atrocioui,
because it has been advanced by persons who must
have been supposed to speak with certainty on, the
subject, and was, therefore, the more calculated to
impose upon you. .

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In 'another part you are told, that wanted to
tax your lands, and that the late House of Assembly
would consent only to tax wine; and upon 'that ac-
count, I had dissolved the House. Inliabitafitt 'of
St. Denis ! this is also dieeetly false. I
.never had
the most distant idea of ybu at 'all; such had
never even been for a moment the subject of my 'de-
liberation's ;acid when the late House offered to pay
the Civil List, I could nut have taken any step in a
matter of such -'importanCe -writhut the 'King's in-
structions ; and therefore, it was still long before we
came to the.cotpiiikration of how it was.to• be paid.
In truth, not one word was ever, to my knowledge,
mentioned on the st:bjedt. -
" 'in tither part, despairink of. producing 'in-
stances from what I hare done, 'recourse is had to
la hat I intend to do; -and it is boldly told you that
1 tIICALI to oppress you. Base and • daring fabrica-

'llished by WILLIAM AR MI GE R SCR I PPS, South Molton.street, Groltirmor 14uare.
For the Peer, tenets:lt:lr the Editor, &c. (post,tiriitt), must be addressed.