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owt to the Canadian lakes , during the late war , with a supply of ir ^ fix w ^ . ter for the force aflo at upon them . I tem : let it be knaw n thalb when the boundaryt line between Canada and the States was $ xed by commissioners , where one part of the water-way was un *
navigable * and the other favourable to navigation , the British frontier was carefully excluded from the line where navigation begins to be practicable . Then the ' North-East Boundary * when is the ^ ward to be parried int o e ffect ? But why particu ? larize misconduct ? The timber of Canada had been cut to the
full extent that was practicable for the purposes of traffic in that commodity , ( until the ' lumberer' turn to the Ottawa , ) and tfye traders wished to turn a penny without being troubled to look for a marketable commodity . They apply for exclusive patronage , —tjie Colonial Office are confronted with tables showing the magnitude of Canadian exports in this particular , and have no means of a& ? certaining when this had passed its maximum , and why ; but astounded by the magnitude of the protecting duty , they give the
order for its discontinuance , in order to square a theory of frpe trade , ( had they asked the dealers what quality of timber they had to sell , they would have silenced remonstrance , ) and giying $ rebuff , and it is no mistake / they drive the monopolists to Faj > liament ; and menxbers get away from debate after the hour qf usual repose , but not before they had snored loudly on the ques ? tion ; then there is a division in which Whig and Tory tremble for place ; and then no more is recollected of Canadian timber .
With such leaders it is not to be wondered at that the British public are misinformed on Canadian statistics . They are not much assisted by what has been published by private hand on faf subject . Mr . Bliss ' s tables display much industry ; but who pan fail to discover an advocate for the monopoly in th ^ frarner of a schedule headed the Timber Trade , or , Produce of th ? forest , which includes every mill and other building in the interior of the province , all the new ships , ail the peltry , in fact , almost every article of commerce or wealth which is not born in the sea > ( ther ~ e
is also a display of the decrease of the fisheries on the coast since the peace and free competition , ) or the produce of arable land ? We have also surveys of the surface pf the land , if we CQ u }^ l rely upon them ; but land agents and land proprietors are not ^ pt toweigh their own localities with others in an even balance . Wlujn
London and York ( of England ) were a fortnight ' s journpy apart , the two cities were in a happy state of ignorance respecting each other ' s pretensions ; we suppose that until steam has contracted the transit across the Atlantic , an , d Bngji $ hmen h ^ ve se ^ n tue province with their own eyes , they will still doubt , like the Secretary of Downing Street , whether Lake Erie contains fresh or SMjdt
W ^ ter , Ignorance is ever associated with pride . The old country assumes the airs of a ped ^ goguej . pofi , pohs tljp new , and syjpjgjj-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 531, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/31/
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