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London, England, 1818-12-01 00:00:00

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five pomaded, he offensive to tlii seriaed spirit
theGgverruedst itself, Wale vulgar
aillict to gales& ...i •
The answer of tho.Conentong goo 'it a step far-
. . They Jituosed to assert,. that "the usual and
_ eitsistitatimml mode -of upped for realer supposed
grievances has ever been open to the people of the
province, antknaver refused or even appealed to."—
The Gentlemen of the Commons House of Upper,
Canada could not have ventured on any assertion
reeve unfortunate. It recall to mind a circumstance
in the history of their last Session, which for the
sake of their.legislative character they should endea-
vour to hide'in everlasting oblivion. The real truth

'." LONI)0144
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:-.l.olinitT.TOECElgligt 1, 418.
TIM Fur*
iCj a' STOCKS TIMIS DAT •T-TOSIALTZ O'CLOCK :
it Gent. Reduced 77* lifiess.4 per Cent. Cons. 78
s. for Amnia, 790—.4 pat Ceot 87
r-Ct.951 96-3 per Cent. Navy 10815
a Bonds 84 83 pro.—Omniusts 1 I discount.
begun: Nis 18 40 pre. •

'.morning Consols had another advance, being
that the natal and constitutional mode of appeal for
ire at 794- ; they, however, fell to 79j, but the a ot _
grievances has not ken open to the people.
aka looked exceedingly well, and much business
--The Coalitions House of Assembly had, by the
done The public appear to entertain great
stupid blunder of first voting the supplies req
fidentle, as scarcely any Stock is brought to
ekes but by the Jobbers. .'"The immense uteri by Guyeguuleotr and them Proceeding to debate about
Jays and Fridays on fbreigo the grievances of the Province, sewn up the •
ally advanced ow Tues
Exchange, is new, „sow in the
pa. which they constitutionally held in their hands for a
see of Stock in the English Fend* nod to this, ni iild'au f the latter: and the felineretovernor taking
way be attributed the pewit -The cm:l-advantage, as we think, very anwiedy, of this igno-
ssioners gave 78 for Reduced, and Aftme served nosaat PreriP426cY as their part, as soon as he had
essaily by the jobbers. •
soc got what he wanted, did not give the_Commons an
" opportunity of deliberating about what they
We have received,. Me New-York, nu. bat forthwith -dismissed them to their .
opening of the Parliament of Uppert andilae. aZ :fire People of Upper. kebkit
on the lfth 1)1 October. The' Session was with strong hopes, of The adimiama tieskiiidempal#
opened by a short speech from the new Governor, in the Legislature foe their idgiCireansi.O
lilir .
Paanual we MAITLAND, is which his Excellency thus completely defeated by tilet font of titan
Iwgis-
"evened inehe following terms to The recent Con- Ware; and theierme it was, that baiting lost the
ttion, assembled by the inflaenceof Mr. GOURL AY, usual Constitutional opportunity of obtaining re-
.' a redress of grievances •'. dress, and being for more than a tear without any
•
• -.44 Is the worn of you, inveldidall.r. win, I doubt not, Sitting Parliament to appeal to, they were thiven to
,at a jest Indignation of any attempt width may tend to es- the mode of Petitioning in Townships, and by a Ge-
&swum", and to organize aediairna*. Should it aPPnr to neral C,Onvention of Delegates from these Tovraships.
that a cinereatiaa of Delegates cannot exist without danger
Of the legality of this Convention we say nothing ;
the Constitution, in framing a law of prevention, your die_
relocate wisdom will be careful that k shall sot unwarily tree. but that there *me ri,reroirg °maiden for it, every rea-
-1,. on that sacred: sight of the sab}ett; to seek a redledi of hie losable man must be perfectly *Misted.
trances by psdtien." * • * ' 4 Enough, we think, may be gathered from the
To this passage the Legislative Council'reysqued,l 'ttirit of this answer of the Commons of Upper C
words which, with a very proper and custciatart nada to spew, that it forms 'but a ivry imperfect re-
7etion, were merely an echo to those of his Ex- presentation of the elisiing State of feeling among the
*tr. But the Commons House of Assembly, people of that Province; and the wisest thing
aid with an excess of zeal in favour of the Exe- the new Governor perhaps could do, seeing that this.
, which it is unpleasant to recognize in the ini- is so manifestly the case, would be, to clear the we.
y proceeding of any popular representative fora better representation, by dismissing them •
/, were not content with following the prudent new to their homes, andfor. ever. '
mple set them by the elder brittle, of the Legis- •
are; but launch out in their answer into a strain A list is given in the American Papers of priry.
animadversion andlbuse which appears to us not teens fitted out in the port of Baltimore, and carrying
out of plum than it is grossly unwarranted. on a warfare against the Spaniards itid Portuguese,
following is this part of their answer: tinier letters of marque, issued either by the Patriots
We feel c-jesst issdignatlan at the systematic attempts that or by ARTIGAS: The aggregate is eleven vessels,
shove sale to excite diagetent. and ergeelee Mi lsuAis .earrying in the whole 155 guns, and employing 1500
haw eskers erldlet the usual and ceendtecioest nestle of men. This list, it sheodd be observed, is allowed to
salfornilor "Pc.ed grievaliws has "Sr IN" 61".1111 tit be defective in the .number, and is estimated wi-
re* if MY pellelecit sod ma" Nara,4ol era! Mal"- ...revels( Anisth - half the
and deeply Miens dist die buldloci dailies of ens bedew -.---- "ode rietmaliT
•-d&mid have stmisard.a A- - the Alvan a/
in thet aetwitel.
' settles* er

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in the Ws&

Allindilidengllolllooll haw inns ;WI loyal .
iffaisay. We reonathse Ifw leis topaorod hod soh, ap-
ed to on fathers as a reams for solksforloyekyood not a
Meaty its soarlon. In the auras of waslosasdnatioo should
WON to Ms House, that s consoodos of tapas moat
t without diner to the conedtudoo lo fronting a hvf if
litho, re win carefony dkdogulsit bermes such COMM.
and the lawnd act Isf the subject in peddeming for a redsvos
al or knaginarf grievances, that sacred right of every British
ijeet whkh we will ever hold inviohbk."
Now it will be observed, that the Houle of ASieM•
AT bete assume that, as an existing fact in that
odja T, which the Governor only alluded to in the
antstegesseral and hypothetical terms. His Excellency
mpe4 thet they weadd all times feel " a just indig-
idou at any attempt which may excite discontent,
le-organise sedition." As a general proposition
itching could be more unobjectionable, and the Le-
Motive Council accordingly adopt it without the
lemma qualification.—" We shall at all times feel
Mt. in4sPa
tido." &c. Not so, however, the.tem-
ions Home of Assembly. They feel, they say,
let indignation at the systematic attempts that have
ers 'trade .ta mate discontent and organize sedition
this happy Colony." The Governor only spoke
'such attempts suppositiously ; but the Gentlemen
'the Commons, less scrupulous, are pleased to as-
em it as a positive fact, without any report of a
Oommittee of Enquiry, or any sort of, distinct evi-
dence whatever being laid before them to warrant them
lithe assertion that such attempts actually have been
made. Not only is this assertion rash and gratuitous,
• pointed, as every person must see it is, at the re-
• gtemißts at reform made by Mr. GOURLAY, It is
unwarranted. Mr. GOURLAY, as our Readers
aware, has undergone two prosecutions for these
attempts; and in both he has been acquitted by a
• of his country of the seditious intention impu-
to him It is calumnious, therefore, in the Com-
'non: to pronounce that to be an attempt to organize
sedition, which the proper judicial authorities of the'
country have declared was not so.
Th4Commons are pleased farther to call the Co-
bay ",a happy Colony." A happy Colony, indeed,
which for a twelvemonth past has, to thiobservation
f the whole world, been agitated by civil dissentious
which almost every township without-exception
had its aseethig and petition tor redress of griev-
pees,—in which, as has been acknowledged on all
ands, many great and serious grievances do exist,
are actually in a course of being redressed by
Executive! Such gross and palpable delusion
the Commons of Upper Canada here wish to be
guilty of can never come to good ; and must, we are

The faniviag remarks appear
bakiligincer of the 416th Odoleirs:
K .
Commies at the State of Mauls, in farads( their
eguesueduo, ham declared, that • no puma limit he imprisoned
for debt, unless apes the Maned to delver up his estate for the
benefit of his creditors, I. seek miaow as shah be Meacrthed by
I •
kw, or he geese wide theft I. strong Priataiption of fraud.'
Mr the maagnic deer of the fatally Jaulatnamed whet ethers
bare recoiled hen, in respect to dear roaakes tit debtor sal,
ereditar ; as the neat youngest (111tesisappi) has done in regard to
awry. If these experiments succeed, It ixte be hoped that the
mama of the Coafederation will mot be tea proud to follow
the examples thus sett'

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morn-
ing ; but are altogether barren of ►mportant matter.
Neither the Duke of Riots:Am; nor the Duke of
Waz.s.incrroir had then arrived, but were daily ez.
pected. The Five per Cents. keep their ground at
69 francs and upwards. On Friday they closed at
69 francs 90 cents.

We learn with pleasure, that the amount of the
hop Duty on the growth of the present year, is no
less a min than £346,015 Bs. 6id. The tax being
stational: such an amount of duty can only indi-
cate the abudance of the article, and is therefore