Circular
Subtitle: Sir, I am directed by the committee appointed to watch over the interests of the petitioners, to request that you will ... obtain the signatures of the inhabitants of your neighbourhood, to an address of thanks to His Majesty ... for the recent despatches from Lord Goderich, His Majesty's colonial secretary ...
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1833
Place of publication: York [Toronto, Ont.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Politics and government
Other titles: Sir, I am directed by the committee appointed to watch over the interests of the petitioners ...
Notes: Form letter, with blanks to be filled in by hand. Pages [2-4] blank.

Dated: York, May 3rd, 1833.

The letter closes with the following sentence: The obvious necessity of all this will appear to you, when you are informed that since the removal from office of the attorney and solicitor generals, messrs. Boulton and Hagerman, their friends are secretly circulating a petition in their favour to have them reinstated to office ...

Boulton and Hagerman objected to the reception given William Lyon Mackenzie and his grievances by the colonial secretary, Lord Goderich in 1832. In November of that year, when Britain advised Lieutenant Governor Colborne to institute political reforms, the Legislative Council refused, and in April 1833 Boulton and Hagerman were dismissed from their offices by the imperial government. Cf. DCB IX 69.