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many weeks . He appears to Vie gradually falling into th « me * he » of the official party . You will scarcely believe that any man could be guilty of the egregious folly I am about to relate . It teems that Valli&re , the judge at Three Rivera ( who , by-tbe-by , is a regular political turncoat ) , being ill , sent notice to the governor to have another judge appointed pro ternpore in his place , to preside at the approach . ter m .
in ^ Gosfoid , instead of taking the advice , or , at all events , the opinion of some of the friends of the country , wrote to Reid , our partisan Chief Justice . Here was a glorious opportunity of involving the governor , not to be neglected . Accordingly Reid wrote to say that Gale was the only man «« he could spare . " Gale was accordingly appointed , and thus Gosford has been dragged into a quasi approval of the original appointment of this man to the bench , though condemned by Rice in his place in the House . 41
On learningthecircumstance , Papineau , who was in Quebec , waited on the governor , unfolded to him Gale ' s political character , and the causes that led to the Assembly ' s petition against the nomination , and acquainted him with Rice ' s declaration in the House of Commons . Of all these circumstances Lord Gosford said he was ignorant . " This is the third time that Gosford has committed himself . "Montreal . Oct . 12 .
In another appointment the governor , Lord Gosford , does not appear to have been more happy . A Mr . Davidson , who is one of the most bitter of the party opposed to the Assembly and people , has been appointed to the office of Under ( Civil ) Secretary to the governor . The Canadian letter writer ' s reflections on this appointment and its consequences will serve to show the effects of these mistakes on the minds of the people of Canada .
" In conversation , Gipps and Grey talk of the case of the Constitutionalists as glibly as though they had been born and bred colonial shopocrats . All their absurd fallacies have evidently made their way into the Commissioners' minds without examination , eveu to the original fallacy , which has been over and over again demolished . We tnow the several statements of the facts disproving the fallacy , have been read by Gipps , yet he surrenders his judgment to tbe persons by whom he is surrounded . I fear he is already completely prejudiced against the Canadians and Liberals ; and how should it be otherwise , when
Davidson , who shared CaldwelTs plunder , is undersecretary to th « governor ? This man is brother-in . law to Caldwell and Bo wen , and is the prince of intriguers . Being under Walcot , of course Wai cot sees only with his eyes , and hears only with his ear * . Ogdeo and other supporters of Ay liner are at the office every day ; of course , Gosfoid only does the will of the ofticiaU , and thus the systenu works /* - —Montreal * Oct . 12 .
The " conversations" above alluded to ^ may , perhaps , seem but trifling matters , scarcely worth recording , but it must be borne in mind that Lord Gosford 'went among a people in a peculiar state of political excitement—a people who had been over and over again deceived by professions similar to those
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Recent Occurrences in Canada . Ill
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/47/
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