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* &&i r > imn"tethr ¥# t <* fctfc £ (^^ ' ^ 450 , 000 to 150 * 000 * A 4 * eww » g tM *; ftftwfte j ^ f ^ % ^« % «^| fut ^ i ^>^^ % <^ % >^ r ^ tiir ^ c ^^ ¥ t 4 ^ ftlo ^ 5 » 4 . 1 ± art ; Bii « tt »^^ rity of jtersmis of Bmfthi& 4 gfti srt ^ agatttst th ^ co ^ niel o % a ^ c % The larger the number thejr fclaittr « & : < British / 5 the niota comfftdfel ^ d t ^ gf it inak e agafcwft th ^ m in thfeir attetfipfc to show that it is "tW jtffevetffc&i Of tfite Frtftch G « toaffians' ^ -to us £ your ** tfior ' 6
* WMtt—df whifch vte hferir . Mamy of Jrotir readers ati-ey dottbrtfcg * , « # We that -the ? * French Caiiadiaii ^ inhabit the sei gntiries ^* -th £ tirftish , itfthl afe called the townships . Now ; to bfcar otit your tftiflidPfc tietr rf the ease , it ^ otfW be necessa ry to show that the S&d t < y ** Wh ? p ltih& \ ntants h&re not jdihe& their French bt-ethrea Wl ttMr ee * ttjilAints and derriands . What is the fact ? In sotri £ of
t } & iftrg& $ ibttritlesr itthabited by persons ^^ teaking ^ the Bngligli langtiftgfe ; M ^ iriber * in fayfttfr of at * elective council wfere fretiirnted bj ^ Waj 6 titi ^ of two to one ; and in the cdunfcy of SheTbrook ^ whibh # < 4 t totfridfcf ^ ed thfe ^ trott ^ -hold of Colonial Toryism , the < € dftdtithttettal ^ Mtfmb&ra preratled by a very small majority tffiiy . Now it is this reftitmitig spirit of thef British inhabitants 6 f Jubvrer to
Canada which ha ^ rHiuced the tninority ihe tniserabk ? plight ^ lith 1 mite exhibited . It is cottiposed , not arthe bligarehy de-^ te tfi h 6 belteted—^ -not as the author of the article in ydtir Last Wiiiriber has assumed—of the British population , but of the official p « H ^ aftd thfeir ft ^ r adherents . i Tstrtf ftyr yb nf author ' s remedy . Irt dnswer tc ^ a question , ^ Horiv fe LKywer Canada to be ketrt qtiiet ? ' he says , * ¦ We should be
sxi-* to&e& by their itejghbottrs of the surrounding British provineea , ( as we have frequentl y heard those provincials express thfcrtl-HthmJ <* Briitg the triiiitia down the Ottawa , let the New Bruns-WJckert baL ^ their botder , and we'll soon make a settlement df th [^ « ltm-nfecVecl Ffetehmen . "' I propose tto show that the Minister tfflo should rely on the co-operation of the several colonial tttiMtik c&jps ag ^ in ^ t the people of Canada , would certainly make */ * «^ ttlehient of the stiff-nee&fed Frenchmen , but it would not be
1 A IM ^ f tititltter anticipated by your author ; and for the very simple ifedWrth ^ hdt thfr trias » Of the people in neatly ( if not quite ) all the Ctf&h&s ^ VM ^ kthi # e with their brethren in Lower Canad a , and ¦ ftfli Aifttuifly making gitnllaf demands of the Imperial
Qorernm * itt : -Vttyfefr CMhilAa ha ^ passed a stron g resolutidn agaittftt the institution of the GotirieM , &ti& iri favour of co-operation with the lower province . In Nova Scotia the expediency of rendering the CtoMfcils ^ ledtive Was discussed in 1834 , when one of the law dfktstifti of the Gwmtk * ven , adtmHted that such a measure was
njtaettfety to gire indepdndfertce tx ?* t ^ m bod y in question . lit New 0 tuft « wiek , Newfoundland , and Prince Edward ' s Island , thir peopl # * a *^ also ttt ^ ar # ith the Ideal Authorities . In the Assembly SjftWa fimt-named teplony &Mpplien havp teeen refi » ied as in Lower C ™ ftl , *^ a m * ™ tnB ^ pbUjtiAtotf ptiblte ittktekitlW * » hsrle f b ^ rti held ^ W ^' oW % ^ p «^^ Jltf ttttM inoemgilitffef ^^ Mrrtt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 618, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/54/
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