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    ' fcet it go / W ^ ck > not sec the necessity of this surrender of fruits of victory : and as to the bloody work of the former respondent we should say , ' The widest province of our empire werfc too dearly purchased at your price / We will shape the question

    in another form . —Here is Lower Canada , an extensive country , as you well know ; a portion comprising about one-fiftieth of its territory is at present peopled , and partially cultivated ; we have given this portion the exclusive legislative powers over the whole , aund thrs legislature would absorb the executive . * Would absorb the executive , * we say ; for there constitutional privilege' of

    refusing the supplies is become , not ' the exception , but the rule of their conduct : for a period of five years successively they have acted up to their constitution , and now they are disposed to offer a like period of rebellious sessions . We apprehend an answer might be returned in this form : ' You have given to one county out of fifty , not a charter of old customs , as was accorded to Kent by the

    Saxon and Norman conquerors respectively , ( we say Saxon and Norman' advisedly , but will not farther enter here into the antiquity of gavelkind , ) but you have given them their ancient dominion , where the forty-nine other counties were unprovided with a population to secure the law of the land as paramount , and to secure

    the integrity of your kingdom or viceroyalty . There are only two alternatives : the one is to re-unite the two provinces of Canada under one legislature , ( to which both will say , No , ) the other to All up with a British population the forty-nine parts of Lower Ctt&aaa which remain untenanted . This is the common sense

    view of the case ; in this way were the old and new population of Europe , upon the overthrow of the Roman empire , united in the several states ; we see this in the state of landed property in England , the common tenure , ( first soccage , then military services , ) pervading the entirety , while isolated manors , boroughs , and gavtlkind aitfricts point to the remnant of ancient proprietors . And

    Wfe are of opinion that this plan of following up civilization in the Canadian province , subject to the British Crown , should be immediatel y put into active execution , notwithstanding the reluctance of the French minority to its adoption . Cut the question of grievances is not to be thus abruptly diamtaied , although their remountrunces point to results which must Wtorovided for , we mibmit , according to the above

    recommendation , ibe principal grievance of the French Canadians is that of indemnity for loftnet * during the American war , withhold though promtfttd , ascertained by n royal commiAftion , of which Lord St 0 ttl&y wan a member with Mr . Gait an active coadjutor , but Hot liquidated , nor in progn »»« to bo paid . They have been cfefttttd of & I arc * part , not of tho pay for th * services of tho *> fftUimt and noble * ubject » ami allie * , but of the restoration of p t * f > # rty deteriorated or dettrqytd by th « havoc of w * ur btrtWten tta * 1 & *( jtbh and th » A ^ mbrloim *?« t e » trnon th * G * iuuli * n Ito ntid *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 536, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/36/