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Bt ! tt this was a trifling error—a mere btvue , as the writer culls it , compared with that into which his Lordshi p subsequently fell in consequence of abandoning himself to the influence of the Canadian " oligarchy . " The facts are these . In the summer of 1834 , Lord Grosfbrd ' s predecessor , Lord Aylmer ,
appointed to the office of judge a man who had been a violent partisan of the official party under the governorshi p of the Earl of Dalhousie . This man gave evidence before the Canada Committee of 1828 , and so illiberal and partisan-like in its character was that evidence , that a mark was set against his name at the Colonial office , as being unfit for an office of trust ; at least such is Mr . Rice ' s account of the matter . When the news
of this appointment reached England in the autumn of 1834 , Mr . Rice , then Colonial Secretary , addressed a despatch to Lord A y lmer , saying that he could not confirm Mr . Gale ' s appointment ; of course it was the duty of Lord Aylmer to appoint some other person to the bench , but it so happens that despatches are always sent by the post-office packets , which , are usuall y three or four weeks longer in delivering their letters than the New York " line of packets . " The consequence was ,
th&t Lord Aylmer heard of the change of Ministry before he got Mr . Rice ' s despatch , and being under the domination of the Canadian officials , he disregarded the command of the ex-minister "Rice . As a reward for thus disobeying the home government—as a revrard for having brought Canada almost to a state of rebellion , Lord Ayhner has been appointed
Commander-in-Chief in Ireland by a Government of which Mr . Rice still forms a part . Self-esteem must certainly be a quality totally absent from Mr . Rice ' s mind . No sooner were the Tories in power than the Earl of Aberdeen confirmed or allowed the appointment of this most obnoxious of judges . When the Whigs returned to office it was of course expected by the Canadians that the original despatch of Mr . Rice would tc
be enforced . " That despatch , " said they , has destroyed Mr . Justice Gale ' s moral influence , by virtually declaring him unworthy of the confidence of his Majesty , and now that the Minister who penned the despatch is again in power we shall without doubt be relieved . " This expectation was further confirmed bv Mr . Rice ' s speech of the 9 tn of March last , which
reiterated the denunciation of Gale a 9 an improper person to occupy the bench ; yet when Mr . Rice and his party again returned to office nothing more was heard of the improper appointment , until the discontent of the people of Canada was agfein excited by the third injudicious act of Lord Goaford ; which we shall relate in the language of the Canadian writer
already quoted : — " tor my part , I fear that we shall be forced , by the imbecility or want of tact of the present incumbent , into unwilling opposition before
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110 Recent Occurrence * in Canada .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/46/
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