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    the country . The party of the Legislative Council ate usually uncommonly pathetic in their lamentations over the ignorance of the Canadian population . The true worth of their hypocritical whining is here made manifest . They talk of ignorance , and deprecate it , so long as such talk forwards , or seems to forward , their paltry purposes . They willingly do all they can to foster and continue ignorance , the moment that by so doing the same vile ends may be served . "—p . 38 .

    " The moment the Instruction ? were published , every body , including the Ministry and their friends , seemed at once to conclude that something like this would be the result . When they sent their Commission out , being well aware of what instructions they had given tD them , they must have expected this same event from the commencement . Lord Gosford , while speaking of his liberal instructions , while Endeavouring by his personal behaviour to gain over the members of the Assembly , must all along have been conscious that if his instructions had been published all his hopes of success would have been destroyed . I leave it to casuists more acute and learned than myself to determine whether this conduct was honest ; it is easy for any one

    of common understanding to determine whether it was prudent . To one who professes not to be instructed in diplomatic scheming , such artifice appears wholly unjustifiable ; and the keeping back the Instructions little better than an attempt at deception . It was , however , a deception evidently destined to fail . The folly then of the proceeding

    quite equalled Us dishonesty . l The mission of the Commissioners , together with that of Lord Gosford , is in my judgment ended . The sooner they leave Canada the better for all parties . They are now merely a useless expense , and their labours will of necessity be thrown away . Lord Gosford will not be able to regain public confidence by anything but a very explicit declaration in favour of an Elective Council ; and this , I am inclined to believe , he will not be willing to make . ' * —pp . 39 40 .

    The Assembly also agreed to a petition to the King and to both Houses of Parliament , reiterating their demands for an elective second chamber , for full control of their lands and revenues , and for a recognition of the principle o f * non-interference in their internal affairs by the Home Government . Not content with thus demanding an Elective Council of the

    Imperial Parliament , the last Act of the Assembly * was to introduce a Bill to abolish the present irresponsible Council and to substitute one in accordance with the wishes and opinions of the people . In adopting this course , it appears to us the Canadian Assembly has done wisely . The Act conferring an Assembly and Council on each of the two Canadas has been repeatedly modified by Provincial Statutes , and there is no reason why the desired change should not be carried through

    • The Assembly hud not been prorogued , but the momborB , finding nothing more * to do , bud absented themselves so us to lenve no quorum . 'Ibis i . s not dangerous to the population party , inasmuch as the official party are too insignificant to muko u ijuoruin .

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    264 State of the Canadas

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/4/