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Several injudicious though trifling acts of Lord Gosfbrd tended to strengthen this want of confidence on the part of the people . In the first place theobnoxiousExecutiveCouncillors , of whose
conduct and influence the people had complained , were sworn in anew by his lordship . A part of the duty of the Executive Council is to act as a privy council to the governor ; and the people regarded the above act as a determination on the part of the Governor and Commissioners to receive as their advisers these
obnoxious persons . As if to strengthen this suspicion , the proceeding was not only unnecessary but it was illegal , inasmuch as it is only in the event of the demise of the crown that such a course is prescribed by law . A letter , written in Canada , remarking on this inadvertency—for it was probably no moresays : " he has committed himself with the public by appearing to choose these old vipers as his own councillors , ana so
encouraging the faction of the officials to hope that their reign will be perpetual . " The next injudicious act committed by Lord Gosford was attending a political ball given by the bureaucratic * party to Lord Aylmer previous to his departure . Of this party , Lord
AyJmer was for the time the idol . He had served their purpose by opposing himself to the wishes of the people on all occasions , and to do him outward honour whilst they inwardly despised him , was part of their selfish policy . It was of course important to this party to obtain the new Governor ' s apparent sanction of the course Lord Aylmer had pursued , and they therefore respectfully (/) invited Lord Gosfbrd to do honour to the
occasion . His Lordship , inadvertently it is presumed , accepted their invitation . In the mean time one of the other Commissioners , mixing more among-different classes of the community than his confreres , saw the bait in time to enable Lord Gosford , in some degree , to correct the error into which he had fallen . The mode in which he escaped from the difficulty is thus related in a letter dated Montreal , 19 th Sept : —
* The ball g iven to Lord and Lady Aylmer took place on the 15 th , Lord Gosford und Sir George Gipps were prebeut a » expected , but thev remained only an hour . They had the prudence to retire before supper , and thus avoided drinking Lord Aylmer ' s health . Sir Charles Grey did better . He remained iii Montreal , and thus avoided giving any countenance to this party compliment to the late obnoxious governor . It was a great weakness in Lord Gosfbrd to go to this ball . I am willing to believe that his Lordship acted from ignorance
without having duly deliberated on hi » own singularl y delicate potation and the temper of the people . It is to be hoped that this will be the last of his bevues . " >
• Bureaucracy is the name given by the Canadians to the local government . It is some times called a clerkarchy .
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Recent Occurrences in Canada . 109
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/45/
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