Star.
London, England, 1826-01-05 00:00:00

CANADA PAPERS.

The Montreal Herald of the 30:b of November' con-
tains the f.ilowing news from Upper Canada, relative
to the fire at Miramichi.

UPPER CANADA HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.
YORK. New. 14, 1825. •

11,1 ESS AG ES.
P. ILLtiILATIO,
" The Lieutenant• Governor, feeling persuaded that
the sympathy of the House of Assembly will have been
excited by the distress ng accounts which have very
recently been publi,hed of the injury sCstaineJ by the
inhabitants of N.:w Brunswick from fires, which have
'laid waste large tracks r f country,
.and re.luceil the
inhabitants of several towns and villages to great dis-
tress, is desirous to assure the House that I.e will be
happy to concur in any measure that the Legislature
may have in their power to adopt, for tha purpose of
alleviating in some degree the sufferings of their fellow-
suLjects 'rho have been visited 'with so afflicting
a calamity."

GOVERNMENT-HOUSE, Nov. 13, 1825..

a P. :tiA ITILAMD,

64 The Lieutenant G tvcrnor, thinks proper to call
the attention of the House of Assembly to a subject
which he has long recorded as nne of much importance
to the province, and of particular interest to a large
portion of its inhabitants.
The House of Assembly is aware that of those per-
sons who have come to this province from foreign cones
tries, and more especially at an early period of the
settlement, many had been citizens of tbe.United States
of America, and subjects of that Government..
" Whatever diffekcnce of opinion may have formerly
prevailed with respect to the civil rights of persons so
situated, from the circumstance of the United States of
Amer ca having once been British colonies, the solemn
decision of the question in the mother country, whose
laws we have adopted, leaves no room for doubt ; and
these ial.atitants of the province ate exposed 'to the in-
convenience of findi ig those tights .deisitd, which they
have hitherto enjnyed, bin which, whenever they may
be questioned, must be decided upon by those to whom
the administration of justice is committed according to
law, and w ithout regard to inconveniences which might
be much regretted.
" There are also in this province a number of emi- -
grants from other foreign countries, and many dis-
charged soldier s of foreign corps, who not having strictly
complied with the- provisions of those British statutes
under which they might have been entitled to the pri-
vileges of sublOcts, are equally, by law, exposed to the
danger of beintregarded as aliens. .
" ()f all the persons thus situated, the greater part
became inhabitants with the knowledge of the Govern-
ment. Between ti`rose and others it does not appear ne-
cessary to disctimMate. In the persuasion that they
might all be safely received and acknowledged as sub-
ject:, with no other qualifications than those which the
legislature of this province has frOm time to time
thought it eitped:ent to impose, the Lieutenant G .ver-
nor has earnestly pressed the subject upon the conside-
ration of his Majesty's G.,vernment, and has it now in
,his power to c.-mmunicate to the House of Assembly,
that he has received his Majesty's express' sanction to
assent to an enactment which may afford relief to such
persons as are now in the province: and the Lieutenant-
Governor doubts not that a subject so important will
receive the early and at motive • consiXeration of the
House of Assembly." •
NovaMaza I6,—The Attorney-General bron !ht up
the Petitions of the inhabitants of York, of the age sts
the Rost India Company, and of the President and
Directors of the Welland Canal Company.
Upon the motion of Mr. Ralph, Messrs. Attorney-
G neral and-Hamilton were, appointed a Committee to