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expression of their wishes should be transmitted to England without delay , that a convention of the leading members of the Assembly assembled at Montreal in the December following , jvhereat a petition , reiterating their complaints , was unanimously adopted . In this petition the former petition was confirmed , and some grievances of recent occurrence were
complained of ; the vicious constitution of the Legislative Councils was again stated as the main cause of most of the evils they suffered ; and the petitioners prayed , " that the Legislative Council as at present constituted be abolished ; and that the people of this province be empowered to elect the second branch of the legislature in future , as the only means of producing that harmony without which internal peace and good government cannot exist . "
This petition , which was subsequently adopted by the House of Assembly , was presented to the House of Commons , on the 9 t , h of March last , b y Mr . Roebuck , and on the 20 th to the House of Lords , by Lord Brougham . In the House of Commons considerable discussion took place ; and it ended by a declaration by Sir Robert Peel , that his Majesty had been advised to send out a High Commissioner to investigate the grievances of the Lower Canadians on the spot .
For some time after , the Royal Commissionership went begging . It was offered to several , who refused it at once . Lord Canterbury accepted it at first , but after living a day or two under its dignity he threw it up , alarmed at the difficulties it would entail upon him . Lord Amherst was the next , but in
the mean time the change of Ministry took place , and so great was the delay of the present Colonial Secretary in completing the arrangements , that there was time to hear the objections of the Canadian people to Lord Amherst , and it was convenientl y managed that he should resign . It was then determined to send tnree Commissioners instead of one , and on or about the
21 st of July the Pique , freighted with the Commissioners already named , sailed from Portsmouth , and after a passage of about a month landed her charge at Quebec . The reader must not be surprised to learn that the people of Canada received the Commissioners with distrust . Each sue *
ceeding governor , during a long series of years , had been sent out to Canada with instructions to pursue a conciliatory lino of policy * In the first instance this had imposed upon the people , and for a time the new governor had almost invariably been
popular . But this popularity was usually of short duration . Governor after governor had submitted his judgment to the dotniTiion of the organ of the obnoxious class—the Executive Council ; and it was by no means an unwarrantable inference , that Lord Gosford might possibly pursue the same course .
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108 Recent Occurrences in Canada .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/44/
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