The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-20 00:00:00

AWFUL SUDDEN DEATH.

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On Wednesday the Conference of the Wesleyan
Methodists closed its sittings, having continued
17 days. Since that of 1817, 26 preachers had
died. The close of the present one was marked
by the sudden death of the Rev. IV. -BE,sStwELL,
one of the members. About three o'clock on
Thursday morning Mr. B. left the house, where
be had lodged, to meet the Western Mail. He
bad not walked above 200 yards when he was
seized with a fit of apoplexy, and on the approach
of the patrole, he was found standing with his
hands upon his knees. On being asktd his coat,-
plaint, he said, " lam very ill indeed; take hold
of me, Watch." He then, in a voice almost in-
articulate, explained that he came from Mr. SIG..
STOWS, and wished to be taken hack again. Un.
conscious of his extreme weakness, he attempted
to walk, assisted by the patrole, one of whom
took hold of him at each side but the effort was
more than lie could bear, and after having taken ti
single step,.he stood again hi•his former position,
saying he felt himself the most easy in that state.
He then fell upon his knees, and said, 1 shall
not be long here," These were his last words,
and by the time that he could be conveyed to Mr.
StosToN's, the vital flame, which fee a few. MO.
mews continued to quiver in the socket, became
extinct.- He had breathed his last —Mr. Bam‘t-
WELL was a man of respectable talents as a Mi-
nister, and had laboured many years with almost
unexampled diligence, zeal, and usefuluess.--
(Hull Packet, Aug. 17 )

We understand that tare Memoirs of Count De
Las Casas, the Companion of INApot,EON, will be
published in London and IVelinar on the ISt of
September. Besides the LettertOLOrd BATIJURST,
written trom Frankfort, it will comprise the Se-
cret Correspondence of Count LAS CASAS with
LUCIEN BUONAPARTR. discovered and seized by
Sir HUDSON Lowe, a copy of which, it appears,
the Authorhadpreserred among his papers, and
u;ought with him to Europe.

THE COLONIES.

[From The Quebec Gazette]

UPPIi.;R. CANADA.

ITOUSE-OF ASSEMBLY, THURSDAY, MARCH 24.
The tolloving Resolutions were sent down
fromtie Legislative Council :
'I he Honourable the Legislative Council, in
consideration of the resolutions of the House of
Aisrntbly*, delivered yesterday at the bar of this
11,,tise by two of its Members,
Resolved, 'That the Legislative Council and
11,nise of Assembly of the Province of Upper Ca-
Latta are co-ordinate branches of a limited Le-
gislature, constituted by the Statute enacted in
the 31st year of his Majesty's reign.
That all powers, immunities, and privileges of
either branch, are derived from that Statute, 'and
extended to their respective advice and consent to
his Majesty to make laws not repugnant to that
act, for the peace, welfare, and good government
of the Province.
That in adopting the order and course of pro-
ceeding to advise and consent to laws, this Hoose
does not assume the powers, authority., and pri-
vileges of the Upper House of Parliament, grown
out of the practice of ages, and unsuitable to the
circenwseces of this colony.
That the House of Assembly, adopting as its
type the Commons House of Parliament, and
claiming all the powers, immunities, and privi-
leges thereof, is not justified by-the words or spi-
rit of its constitution, more than the Legislative
Council would be justified to assume to itself and
its Members the powers, immunities, and privi-
leges of the Upper House of Parlietnent.
That the origin o: all supplies in either House,
or exclusively in the House of Assembly, must be
indifferent, so long as either House retains the
power of rejection ; that the exercise of the right
to emend an original bill is equally indifferent,
except that without the exercise of the right, or
the resort to amicable conference between the
two Houses, time is wasted and the public ser-
vice (Hayed.
That the House of Assembly did, by resolutions
delivered at the bar of this House, declare, that it
would not accede to any conference on the sub-
ject of a Money Bill.
That the amenthnent made to. the Bill, entitled
". An Act to make further provision' for regulat-
ing the trade between this Province and the
United States of America," by the- Legislative
Council, were to conform to a national regulation
of trade, imparted to both Houses of his Majes-
ty's Government, to reduce the burtheus of the
people, of whom the individuals of this House are
a .part, only distinguished by the duty imposed
upon them in their legislative capacity, to protect,
defend, and support the interest of the whole.
That having no means of interchanging opi-
nion with the House of Assembly, but by wkiy of
conference or amendments, the Legislative Coun-
cil does not consider it reasonable that such
amendments should be treated as a breach of pri-
vilege ; and that baring declared by esolu-
lions transmitted to the House of Assembly, that
it would forbear amendments to Money Bills,
such resolutions ought to afford reasonable satis-
faction to that House (even if its privileges had
been violated), and restore the course and harmony
of proceeding in the public business.
That these Resolutions be communicated by
the'proper officer of this House to the House of
Assembly, and that the same, together with the
resolutions of the House of Assembly of the 19th
and 23d instant, delivered at the Witt of this
House, and the first resolutions of this House
thereupon, be printed.
Legislative Council Chamber, March 24,1818.
Resolved Nem. Con.—Thm this House in per-
sisting in their right to reject all amendments
made by the I-lon. the Legislative Council, to
Bills for raising and appropriating monies, and
to decline all conferences thereon-, are assuming;
to themselves no new•privilege, but are only ad-
hering to the form-of proceedimg which has been
maintained from the first est ablishment of the
Provincial Legislature, and in which they have
taken for their guide the representative form of
the Constitution of the Mother Country;by which
that of this Province is modelled, and by which
the Legislative Council have, in all their proceed-
ing., equally governed themselves, whatever it
May snit their present purpose to disclaim.
Resolved, Neat. Con.—That as this House de-
sire to make no innovation, so they are determin-
ed to stiffer none, bet will persist in maintaining
in all their deliberations those rules they have
found established, and which, being coeval with
their constitution, they consider it would be as
inconsistent with their duty as it is repugnant to
their inclinations to abandon.
It was then ordered that the speeches of his
Excellency John Graves Sirncoe, Esq. at the open-
ing and prorogation of the first. Parliament of this
Province, together with the answers thereto, be
inserted in the Journals of the House.

To his Royal Highness GEORGE PRINCE of WALrs, Regent
of the ['tilted Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.
,May it plca,e your Royal Highness,
We, his Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects
the Commons House of Assembly of Upper Ca-
nada in Parliamen'. assembled, humbly beg. leave
to ad:lress your Royal Highness, with feelings of
the most unfeigned duty and respect, and to ex-
) Fess, in the name of the people of this Province,
t eir grateful sense of the blessings entailed upon
them and their posterity by your Royal House,
giving to them, in the plenitude of its powers
and privileges, the very image and transcript of
the glorious Constitution of Great Britain, which
has withstood ti►e shock of Empires, the test of
fi;4'rs, and stands toweringly elevate►! to the highest
pitch of glory under the auspices of your illust;•i-
ous Pace.
-f-JA not the people of this Colony the best of
all pro4s to offer to your Royal Highness, of the
sincerity of their professions of personal attach.,
Tnrt►t---i•atl not,the blood of their Youths flowed
freely on.the.very ground given to their loyal and
pAqiotic :fathers—had they not at the hazard of
life and property made good beyond dispute, ;he

These Resolutions are in a preceding Paper, which has
nut yet reached us.

solemn pledlie of faith and loyalty to the parent
coontry, they might have shrunk back from .7
seetions doubtful, because untried—the ohjeirtion
however does.. not exist—and they claim the
high consideration, privileges, and immunities of
British subjects.
Having thus humbly laid open to your Royal
Highness the undisgoised effusion of Our hearts,
we beseech your Royal Highness's attention to
the declaration of his Excellency John Graves
Simcoe, in his Speech from the Throne, at the
opening of the first Session of the Legislature of
this Province ; at which important crisis, in lan-
goage the most emphatical and enthusias:ic, he
pronodgated the Constitution given to Upper
Canada, by the wisdom and beneficence of the
Parliament of Great Britain, and which was fully
and exultingly recognized, by the answer to his
speech by the Legislative Council, through their
enlightened Speaker, the late Chief Justice Os-
goode. The expression of public sentiment upon
that occasion, characterized the people on whom
the gracious (moo was bestowed. And we, the
Representatives of that people, jealous of the trea-
sure, and onwilling to yield op the slightest par-
ticle of the sacred trust, or to disgrace by posila-
nimity the public spirit of the country, humbly
submit to your Royal H ghness tin abstrac• of
the proceedings of the present Session of the Le-
gislature of this Province, wherein your Royal
Highoess's faithful Commons conceive their con-
stitutional rights anti privileges have been vitally
assailed by the resolutions of the Honourable
Legislative Council; delivered to the Speaker of
Commons House 'of Assembly, and evidently
intended to limit and depreciate in public estima-
tion its functions, by the avowal of their consi-
deration of its powers, as resolved by them, and
to he printed, with a view, no doubt, of being bla-
zoned to-the world.
The consequent interruption of harmonious in-
tercourse indicated by the Legislative Council,
could not otherwise but tend to pit nn end to
public business, and to prevent the Commons
House of Assembly from prom:Wing by hill a sup-
ply to meet the excess of the eivil expenditure of'
the Administration of the Government of this
Province, as required of them, byi a message, dur-
ing time present Session, communicated by his Ma-
jesty's Representatives ; nor could any other
means be adopted on the part of the Commons,
to meet the exigence, without recourse to prac-
tice not unfrequent in their Parliamentary usage,
of voting the amount by address. The answer
received by his Majesty's faithful Commons, in
reply-from the Administrator of the Goveroment,
as recorded in their Journals, they do not hesitate
to consider ill-advised, as the service for which
the vote was provided was that of the actual sub-
ject of the message from the Crown, to which no
possible doubt of the approbation of the Legisla•
tore could have been contemplated ; it,' however,
strongly marks in a national and constitutional
point of %new the evil that Most ever result from
the Legislative and Executive functions' being
waterially vested in the same persons, as is orvor-
tonately the case in this Province, where is Ma-
jesty's Executive Council is 'almost wholly Com-
posed of the- Legislatim e Body, and.consisiine only
of the Deputy SuperintenAlYstWreivenil oft he lodian
Department, the Receiver• General, and the In-
spector-General, the Chief Justice, the Speaker
of the Legislative Council, anti the Hon. and
Rev. ChaplWn of that House. -
His Majesty's faithful Commons of Upper Ca-
nada, having thus performed -time imperious duty
which their peculiar circumstances called for. have
only further to implore of your Royal Highness
to give their representation the mature reflection
that is due to its importance, as his Majesty's
faithful Commons are sanguine in the hope, that
the voice of your Royal Highness will approbate
their resolutions, and firm determination to pre-
serve inviolate their civil and constitutional rights
in their tidiest amplification
Commons House of Assembly March 30,1818.
This Address WAS followed by another to the
Administrator, requesting him to forward the
same.

To His Honour Samuel Smith, Esq. Administrator of the
Government of Upper Canada.

M-ay it please your Himont.,
We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal sub-
jects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in Provin-
cial Parliament assembled, having resolved that
an Humble Address be presented to his Roy►l
Highness the Prince Regent, humbly beg leave to
play that your Honour will be pleased to transmit
the same to his Royal Highness.
MARCH 30, 1818.—To which the Administra-
tor was pleased to make the following Reply :
Gentlemen,---I cannot undertake to transmit to
his Royal Highness the Prince Regent any Ad-
dress of the purport of which I am not informed
in the usual manner, by a copy or the origi-
nal.
Government House, March 31, 1518.

After which no further b►►siness was transacted
by the Commons, except to instruct their Speaker
to forward a ►luplicate of all their papers to their
Provincial Agent in England.