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Canada Tenures Act > —and the British American Lawd Oom ^ pany ' a « Act * Of tkese , Mr . Roebuck ( who , in the ixrt ^ trval between < the delivery of his speech , and the saiiia £ of tthe Pique , had been requested to act as agent to the Assembly arid people of Canada ) demanded the immediate repeal , as a " pirelH minary step to the operations of the royal commission , in order that the people of Canada might have some evidence of the
sincere desire of ministers to do them justice . Two other preliminaries demanded by Mr . Roebuck at the same time , were , first a guarantee that the revenues of the province should not again be seized by order of the colonial minister , without the authority of the Assembly of Canada ; and second , that an inquiry into the constitution of the legislative council should be included in the instructions given to the royal commisstofrers . None of these demands were complied with .
The meeting of the provincial parliament was looked for by all parties with intense anxiety . The liberal ' p&f ( $ Jneluding tfie great majority of the Assembly ( say seventy-i ^ ije or eighty , out of eighty-eight ) , did not certainly expect / iuucJJL from the Commission ; on the other hand , the colonial officials had not much io congratulate themselves upon . It had been
officially signified to them , that many of the abuses by which they profited , would be inquired into ; and several trivialcircumstances were by them also considered as boding tlietn no good . Lord Aylmer , among other modes of playing into their hands , had refused to grant a warrant for the advaribe of the money for the contingent expenses of the House of Assembly . The effect of this had been to put a partial stop
to the business of legislation . The officials desired a continuance of this course , and the papers devoted to their cause tit first boldly asserted that the said expenses would aot be granted ; as the Session approached however , it was stated they would be granted , but with such obnoxious conditions that the Assembly would be compelled to refuse to accept them . The day before the meeting of the provincial parliament ,. the
" Constitutionalists , " as they call themselves , ventured to address his lordship , praying him not to grant the contingencies . His Lordship told them that the course to be adopted , with regard to the contingencies , had been already determined on ,
and that in twenty-four hours the intentions oi government would be communicated to the Assembly . This waft a severe rebuff to the anti-popular party , whose fury was thereby excited in an extraordinary degree . At length the day of the meeting of the provincial paclMoment came . It was of course expected tbat one of the earliest
acts of the governor would be to lay before the legislature a copy of the royal instructions to the ComiaiB&ionew * Tm& was not done . Lord Gosford ' a speech did not inaU > ri « Uy differ
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/49/
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