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the Provincial Govemment. The supply which for
the revenues of the Province was enormous was et-
cordNgly granted without inquiry, and as after-
wards turned out upon a very fallacious estimate
submitted.to the House by the Lieutenant-Governor.
While the enquiry subsequently entered into was
going on, the Governor came down to the House,
and in the following speech, the insulting irony of
which- cannot bemistaken, put an end to the Session :
01 Honourable Goadetnes er tie Legislative Conseil and
Gendenum of the House of Amentbir,
a'The Session of the Provincial Legislature having
been protracted by an unusual interruption of buss-
nets at its commencement, your lover absence front
your Amos must be too greet a sacrifte for the objects
which may remain to occupy your attention.
I have therefore come to close the Session and
permit you to return to your homes.
In accepting, in the name of his Majesty, the
supply for defraying the deficiency of the funds which
have hitherto served to meet the charges of the admi-
nistration of justice and support of the civil govern-
ment. I have great satisfaction in acknowledging the
readiness manifested to meet this exigence."
have already detailed five of the objects under con-
sideration, but there was another of vital importance
to the colony, and:of the utmost consequence to the
mother country, viz. the improvement of the Navi-
gation' of the Saint Lawrence, for which purpose
a bill was at the time in progress through the House.
There woe also several bills for providing ways and
means to meet the supply which having been amen-
ded by the Legislative Council had been introduced
in a new shape in the Lower House, and were in pro-
gress when the House was prorogued. Yet these were
the subjects so unimportant, when put in competi-
tion with the detention of the Members from their
homes !
The House was prorogued Int the 7th of April,
Sl7. Mr. Gourlay arrived in Upper Canada in June.
He found the Province in a ferment, occasioned, as
you have justly stated, by the prorogat,ion of the
House while engaged in this Enquiry, and clamo-
rous on the subject of arrears of Pay, Grants of
Land, and non-payment of compensation for losses.
The discontent of the people was in no small degree
aggravated by the contrast which their situation pre-
sented to that of some of their fellow-citizens who

had,dtring the war, deserted to the enemy. The
men who had acted the part of traitors to their King,
they saw amply indemnified by an American Com-
pensation Act for every sacrifice they bad made,
sql.ile the majority who had remained behind stead-
fast and ardent in their loyalty, were left to find the
reward of that loyalty, in protracted suffering and
contumelious neglect. Treason they beheld paid
with the price of loyalty, and loyalty insulted by
treatment due to treason alone. _

In this situation it was, that despairing of being
able to obtain jtistice through any other medium, they
adopted with avidity the plan proposed by Mr. Gour-
lay, of meeting in their respective Townships, and of
chusing Delegates to act fur them in a General Con-
♦ention, to consider of and represent their grievances.
I am, Sir, your's, CA.II.BDIENBI3., •
London, 22d Oct. 1318.
AFFENDIX. OF DOCUMENTS ENCLOSED IN THE
PRECEDING.
No. L—NOTI GE.

Lieutenant-Governor's Office, York, 10th Nov. ISIS.
Ilis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased,
under authority of hie Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,
to appoint Commissioners to assemble at York the 2d day of
January next, to receive Claims from his Majesty's Subjects for
Losses occasioned by the Enemy, his Majesty s Troop., or the
Indians, in defence of the Province; all which Claims, properly
authenticated, must be transmitted to the Liewtenant. Governor's
Office More the 2d d.iy of February next, accompanied by a
Certificate that the Claimant has received no Compensation
whatever for any part of the Loss stated in his Claims.
(Signed) Was. Maalox, Secretary.

No. II.—REVENUE.

Resolved—_at, That by the 6th George 11. chap. 15, the 4th
George 111. chap. 15, 6th George 111. chip. 52, and 14th Geo.
111. chap. 88, certain Duties were impo.t..l and collected on cer-
tain articles itrmorted info this Province, and on Licenses to 80-12 i
-12i I Spirituous Liquors and %Voles.
2. That the Duties levied anal collected under the 14th Gco.
111. were, by the said Act, appropriated to defray the expense
of the Administration of Justice and support of the Civil Go-
vernment of the Province of Quebec.
5. That the Province of Upper Canada was, at the time of
passing the said Act, an integral part of the Province of Quebec;
arod that the said Duties art applicable to the same purposes
within this Province, as within the late Province of Quebec, or
I.ow Er Canada.
4. That the Duties levied or collected in Lower Canada, un-
der the above recited Acts, on articles consumed in Upper Ca-
nada, did amount,
141, thst year ending ilst December, 1814, to .£14,983 9 Ile
I)itto, ditto 1811, to 9,776 6 10
Dim), ditto 1610, to 9,416 17 10

£34,176 14 7;

Average of three years £11,392 4 10;
S. Tkat Ut Duties levied under the said Acts in Upper Canada,
araounool.

the year coding 31ot Dezember, 1314, to 1548 4 0
l'ato, ditto 1815, 1,569 19 11
Ditto, ditto 1818, 1,322 14 8

Total

ar3,ssB 1$ 7

Average of three years 41,179 15 10
6. That tile per a take allowed to the Receiver-Genera for
the care of the Public Mnney
For the years:tains 314 December, 1614, was X 300 0 0
Ditto, ditto - 1615, 1,336 10 0
Ditto, ditto 1616, 1,105 10 0

.11,1150 0 0
Y. That the total rams levied on articles consumed in Upper
Canada, under British Acts of Parliament,
Amounted in 1824, to - - £15,810 13 Ili
In 1815, to - - - 11,346 6 9
In 1816, to - - - 10,849 IS AI
s. That the Crown Revenue applicable ty the A.dadnietration
of Justice, and support of the Civil Government in Upper Ca-
nada, was in • 1815, exclusive of fines and forfeitures—.
Dudes as above stated • £15,629 14 0
Receiver-General's allowance in

1816
Duties as above

- 300 0 0...15,939 14 0
11,346 6 9

Recelyer-General's allowance 1,366 10 0—...4a6e2 is g
Appropriation for 1817 - 8,281 0 0
Dutits in 1917 - 10,849 19 6
1,195 10 0
2,225 0 0-411,540 0 6

I allowance