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It appeared afterwards , that thia was a mere trick on the part of the right honourable Secretary . Not only were the people discontented , but Mr . Stanley was perfectly aware of their discontent . When out of office , he had corresponded with them on the subject ; had excited them to demand redress ;
and had even pointed out the course to be purgued . " The legislative council , " Baid Mr . Stanley , in a letter addressed to the Reformers of Upper Canada in 1829 , " is at the root of all the evils complained of in both the provinces ; " and speaking of the course to be pursued , the letter continues , " a constitutional mode is open to the people , of addressing for the
removal of the advisers of the crown ( Mr . Stanley was not then in place ) , and re / using . supplies , if necessary to support their wishes . " Yet , in the face of this accurate knowledge of the state of opinion in Upper Canada , does the same Mr . Stanley afterwards make a false declaration , for the obvious purpose of keeping from the public eye a part of hie doings as Colonial Secretary .
The labours of the committee were but of small avail to the people of Lower Canada . By one of the meanest subter * fuges ever resorted to by a colonial minister , Mr . Stanley ' s successor , Mr . Rice , procured the suppression of the evidence . He sought a conference with the two Canadian delegates ,
Messrs . Viger and Morin . At this conference , which took place on the 22 nd of June , he made the fairest profession * of a conciliatory disposition towards Canada ; professed great respect for the functions of the Assembly , equal in fact to that which he entertained towards the House of Commons ;
and only seven days after penned a despatch to Lord Aylmer , violating every promise he had made , and leaving the whole question in a much worse state , as far as facility of nettlement ia concerned—than he had found it . The consequences may be easily conceived . The deceived people of the Canadaa became highly excited . An election
was about to take place in both provinces , and there seemed to he a general determination so to order matters that the result should impress vipon this government a clear conception of the intensity and unanimity of popular opinion . The result corresponded with this determination . In Lower Canada , the advocates of an elective council nunikr no less
than Neventy-nine out of eighty-eight , of which the Assembly is composed , and in Upper Canada , their strength is thirty-five out of fifty-nine . In Lower Canada , so impatient were the people that an * Th « minutes of this conform *)* , together with tbe despatch in question , were printed tud <* by mdo , and circulated among lucvubers , Tbe capias w % je transmitted Dy post from Gravesend , as tbe easiest mode of conveyance , and heii o * the paper was called the letter from " Mr . Rice ' a Gravesepd correspondent . '
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Recent Occurrence in Canada . 107
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/43/
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