North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-07-03
UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
rARL prRHANs REPORT.

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e~uaAea than this ssulv Ear If DoThem.
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vet %euiifrlv tnuntsnt 81 ihc pefprtfsl'"h
a #av sfeat. of uncommon crrd, hr a.
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she pomsi5au al . efes, mau. Sane iot'vi'
ioas Operations 90 the Gal us3c, mace
Iehn George Ismhian yrfy wealthy com
moart-a matpsge with TIE daughter n'
F.a Gfey. pume Minister ol England,
v,a8e HIN the Ear oi Dnrham. An expires.
.ion that he favored lrieun.al Par0antrnis'
household sutfsge, and vote By hs'nl
made him the hope oi the English hsd''
GAIA. and the danger uf permitting a peer
10 encourage such h~eiefodoxies, made MN
tho bought up Of the present English
Dynasiy. To Canada he was sent lsst
spfing with foil powers To heal oil breaches,
DO, the youngQuern having ~ her mature
wisdom srcn dt 10 ~disappfove of hes bfs'
scts. he spif,,edly threw up hts commission
and returned home. without saying "by
your~l essc;" for which conduct her majesty
uas r~raeiously pleased 10 read him a lee
tufe in matfonly form.
Upon this he publishes to the world a
TPNHFt NH WHICH We law Ivy 49, "NE
tn show that the Govcfnmento The British
North American Colonies has been far
more abominabie, odI0us and dcsolallhg 10
ia action. than ever the malconients re-
prrxentrd. A mystery involves the man
nef IN which this omlnous Document became
public property, fnf before cher MaJesty's
Mia.siefs'' had an opportunity otsuPprrss'
ing il all London found il IN the newspa'
prfs. and although Lord Durham, and
msoy " noble Lords" and - honorable gen
menu in both houses OF Parliament, deni-
cd nil agency, and noble Lords aud honor
able gentlemen "oppoSite," were " per-
ircily satisfied with the explanations Of
their a. noble and honorable friend, 7" some
noble Lord" OF honorable gentleman
must nevertheless, haze snrreptiIious'y
furnished a copy 10 the printers.
Instead of importing Jack asses to Amer
ica like Commodore Elliot, Lord Durham
imported in bis suite q considerable amonni
of cheap talent. That is cheap TO the pos
SCISSORS al home, because the want OF
character, prevented them from employing
IL: though il might be extremely valuable
abroad. For instance, his Lotdship's legal
aNNRefF WI. nfAtit u IN'sFH VI L'NHe ~
dustrv, and ctuditIon, had through some
misinterpretation of the text which author
ises a man TO clesve to his wife, by mis-
take cleared 10 his rifles sister, which To
the scandal of the nation, led Ia an un-
sremly exposure before the House Of
Lords; and Edward Gibbon Wakefield,
another attachc, a man of great literary
sttainments, is mere generally known
for having passed two years of p%hlIosophi-
cal retirement in Newgate prison, as a
corrective hint 10 a bachelor of forty, for
ahductiog from a boarding school, Miss
Turner, an heiress of thirteen. These
and others are the painters who portrayed
the pictures OF colonial misrule, Generally
correct. though some old women's stories
are in,roduced) TO which Lord Durham's
signature is affixed. Ii is however but
Justice 10 his Lordship TO say that though
his delines,ions, and arguments fully sub
stanliaie the positions Of the revolution
lists, his conclusions with true John Bull
ohsiinacy, are often against them; and
whenever Canadians of French descent
are mentioned; the preludices of his Lord
ships English education, could not have
shown themselves more miserably con-
trmbtibie, and low, had he drunk porter
oil his days, 10 the bottom Of one Of his
own coal pits.
During the protracted struggle for Col
onial reform, the Federalist newspapers Of
the Union. ever anxious 10 exalt Great
Britain, ever anxious TO degrade America,
invariably re-echoed The Tory cry, that
no real grievances were known in the
Colonies excep, what existed in the brains
Of designing ~demagogues; but now with
out retracting their long repeated ribsldry,
they beprsise an English Lord Tor certify
ing that 50 far from exaggeration, the
whole OF the denominations were not told.
There are in the Union many refugees,
men standing high as they ever must stand,
in the affection of their countrymen, who
driven abroad with a price upon their
heads; their property devastated, and their
families beggared; only escaped a scahnld
at home, 10 await a seyerer TRIAL among
strangers-the shafts OF calumny-diciion-
aries have been ransaeked for opprohrious
epitheisi To these men it must be a con-
ISOLATION, and q triumph to behold applause
showered upon an English lord, for SIM
ply Publishing a faithful p~sraphrasc from
their w writings, and remonsirances.-
No man acquainted with history, can read
Durham's report without deciding tha, the
grievances at the northern provinces are