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STATE OF THE CANADAS—RECENT EVENTS
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We have more than once deemed it necessary to call the attention of our readers to the critical state of the Canadas .
Our February number contained a sketch of the early proceedings of the Canadian Commissioners , of the opening of the provincial parliament , of the hopes , expectations , and views of the people , and generally of the relations subsisting between the representatives of the people and the executive at the date
of the latest intelligence then received ; namely the latter end of December . We are now reminded by the receipt of a pamphlet * on the subject by Mr . Roebuck , that the three months succeeding our last notice have been productive of events , altering very materially the position in which Lord Gosford stood with relation to the Canadian people .
It will be remembered that previous to the departure of the Commission , Mr . Roebuck , speaking the sentiments of the Canadian Assembly , demanded of the colonial minister " certain preliminaries in order to create a feeling of perfect confidence as to the real objects intended by the Commission , " as the Assembly was desirous of meeting the Commission " in a spirit of wise conciliation . "* f These preliminaries are detailed in our Februarv number .
With Mr . Roebuck ' s communication before him " the minister could not plead ignorance of the circumstances , respecting which he was about to give instructions to the Commissioners ^" With full information relative to the demand of the people of Canada , the Instructions to the Commissioners were framed , but they were carefully kept from the eve of the public until "let out" in the manner to be presently related . In the conduct of the colonial office towards the people of Canada and towards their ajjent Mr . Roebuck , we have a specimen of the most disgraceful ilisin ^ enuousness . Firs t it was stated by ^ ir George Grey in the House of Commons , " That as it would be more respectful to the House of Assembly to
communicate these Instructions in the first place to them , he proposed not to lay thein on the Table of the House of Commons until the Commissioners had arrived in Canada , and the Governor had communicated with the provincial legislature . So soon as it should be the case , he promised to publish the Instructions given to the Commissioners . —Pamphlet , p . 35 .
* Existing difficulties in the government of the Cumulus—by J . A . Hut-buck , April * 6 , \ S 36—p , 68 . t Existing difficulties — Appendix , p . ol . t Mr . Roebuck ' s Pamphlet , p . ;> 4 ,
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State Of The Canadas—Recent Events
STATE OF THE CANADAS—RECENT EVENTS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/1/
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