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We must , however , claim to break through any more fornttd introduction to our notices of Canada , leaving prejudice to his own dark corner , and enlightening- oar readers in our own way . That therm have been , and should continue to be , blunders in the
Colonial Office , will not be doubted . For what magic can there be in the place-giving majority of a debate in Parliament , which shall make some winner in an argument on a point of etiquette , or some Wielded of oratory from the schools , suddenly possessed of all the particulars of the history and statistics of the East and West Indies , of all the British Isles in the Pacific , and all its cities and
townships across the Atlantic ? But , as we have exemplified in the outset , there has been more than the usual share of statesmanlike ignorance in the management of our relations with Canada . We have , however , to warn our readers that they be not misled hi reading a catalogue of the grievances of the French Canadians
since the fall of Quebec , as a statement of those at present complained of ; nor the promises of extinct Tory ministers , as contracts to be enforced without a re-claim of all that State owes to England ; nor the indefeasible rights of a sovereign state , as things to be surrendered until a re-conquest has pulled down the British flag from the forts of the Saint Lawrence .
The question is how we are to govern the colony of Lower Canada , —how to dispose of above halfamillion of Britishsubjects . Have they not a charter ? True ; but when that was granted , Canada or Acadie was a united province consisting of 300 , 000 square miles ; but now two-thirds of this quantity , with a population of about half a million , have a separate legislature from the remainder , who , ( the Lower Canadians , ) as it is well known , are
generally & French community , ( though emigration to the eastern townships in the inland portion of Lower Canada is rapidly diminishing the preponderaney of an anti-national caste ) ; so that , admitting a case of general discontent at our administration under the charter , ( which , for the sake of argument only , we do allow , ) the question remains , how is Lower Canada to be kept quiet ?
We should be answered by their neighbours of the surrounding British provinces , ( as we nave frequently heard those provincials express themselves , ) ' Bring the militia down the Ottawa , let the New Brunswickers pass their border , and we' 11 soon make a settlement of the stiff-necked Frenchmen . ' Again : we shall be answered by a tourist , an officer now or late in the British service ,
of military colonisation to draughts of the married and sober soldiery , sent with their adjutant or quarter-master , and subject to the k order * of the day / we should not object to such a nucleus of civilisation ; but heaven forefend that a province &hooJd be spread with a flock of wild recruit * , < warping on the east wind / making the land one camp , and permitting th « monopoly of the- commissariat , instead of thronging te > communities of market towns , and cities with five harbours .
Many very useful hints , independent of the prevailing- theories , are contained hi the aboVe work . The postage from Canada , which is the principal medium tor com municatUg healthy views on einufratioti to the classes most to be ) benefited by it , should be placed on a very liberal rooting .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/35/
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