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By errata ed to int me pelure, apon a ] 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 j^ r y^i^^^e^i^^^ 3W|i|ier Can^Hat EXT RAOKDINARY. ~ TORON'J'O. WEONESENkY, 20ih APRIL, 1836. JUS atitiiarita. Toronto, Wedne8DA.y, 20th AprU, 1B36. Tbi% (lay at four o'tloch Mil ExcEt.l.CNcr die LrEir- TEXANiT CiOVEliNOH proceeded in State, from the G(»vem- nteiit House tii (lie Ctn ober of tlie IIondrajii.I': tlic Lf.gislative Cuum;ii., wlier« being arrived, anri seated oil tlie TiiAOMij (li« Geiitlentttn U«>terof the Black Rod \y»i mmM will) a mefisBge from His ExcEi^r.EKCY to the Hot'Sfi of A-ssfiMBLY, coinmaiidinc their atlenrlanre — I nc luciiiiii'ia pn-biiK bfiriif I'onie up arrordiiiglvi Hl3 Ekcki^LCNCV, was. pleased to proixiguo \ht Sessitm of the Lcgi^luiwe. with (he foliowing< SPEECH : Honorable Getttlimenof tht LtgislaXiv Council: anif, Gtntl^mtH of the House of Atsembly.: Before 1 release you from the Fjegishitive duties in which' you have beei' respectively engaged, I cDosider it nereuary, to recapitulate the priiicipai events of this 3e»- lion. You are perfectly aware thai fur many years the Houte o( AtseiQbly of Upper Canada have inu'dly compiaiHed of what they term their " Grieviincc»," an.; that al the end of your last Session these romplaints having been referred to » " Cnminittee of Giicvajices" were, by the As>embly, '• ordered to be printed in pamphlet form." In pnrsuaiice of this order, a volume contiiniiig 570 pages, was for- wardtid to, and received by, His Miijesty's Government, as ronlaiiiiog the sum total of the coiDplaints of ihe l>coplt> of this I'l'ovince. WhetliCT the m -re order for printing this Iteport of ihi. Coniniiliwfe, could, be legally considered as sanctioning it \vitlnh«ir,opiuioos, I hiive lo dc ineni, than it was determined ihtt lli« Grievances it detailed should immediately b« effectually corrected; and nrcurd- ingly Instructions were drawn out by His Mnjeniv's Secre- tary of Stale for th« Colonies, in which tach subjert ol roinplaiiit was sepasately considered, and a remedy ordered for IIS correction: and I have only to refer lo'ihosn In- „ ... strclions, to |)r«ivc the generosity with which His Mnjestv I " *""'"' '"* S"'"' "•"w «"'< ^•»'"l f>'eling of the peopK overlooked certain language coniaincd in^ht Hi-port, anij jjl ""'J "'''-'c^" f*"*'''* «bich I firmly believe will eventually the liberalily with which llo wni graciously pleaned to ' '" '" '■"'■•" direct that impani.il juitioe sIluuUl ii^ odiUMiiklcrtd to Him Sitbjecls in this Fruviiice. His Majesty's Govematieni having determined that I should be selected to Carry these reMiedial rteawres i»to effect, I wailed upon the Colonial SeBreta»y of Slate, (to wliom, as well as to almost every other Member of the Goveinmeni, I was a total stranger,) and respectfully beggetl leave to decline the duty, truly urging as my rea- son, ifiat having dedicated my whole mind to a humble but important service, in which I was intently engaged, it Wits more congenial to my disposition lo remain amontf the yeomanry and labouring classes of my own Country, than lo be appointed lo the nation of Lieutenant Goveriwr of Upper Canada. HisMajckly's Government having bu^en pleased to repeal their request. I felt it impossible no'. I<» accede to i , and I ai cordingly received the Insteuclioni whicli had u-en framed; and having had the honor of an interview with His Majesty, durinir which, in an impressive manner which lean never forget, He imposed upon me His t>.....rcr J.. -^ .i^ «-..lvi Jiis;l«c lu liU ijiltijrcls In this Province, I left England with a 6rm determination to carry tlie reniediar measure* with whii li I \Vas entrusted, into full effect. 1 arrived at this Capiiftl on the 33J of Junuary lasr, iMd ion the 27th ( diliven'd a Sfieech iu which 1 informed yoti, 1 1 would submit in a Mef)«age the answer whii'h HisIVIajesiy had been ple^^sed to give lo the- s««Veriil' Addresses and Repri-senialioiig wliicli pnicerded from the I wo HruiichiM of ihe liegislatiire during the Inst Session. I added, ihat'afs' regarded myself, I li»-ii«-lg. in Detpatiheti dated tlit' S^hnr Kibruary, of which the following aru etirauts. '• Und^r these ciicunniance* I consider that liie great " danger 1 h:ive to avoid is the sliuiitisl n|ieinpl to con- " ciliale any party — ijutt the only rniirsc for nie lo adopt " is, |o art fearlessly, niidi'.guisedly, and siraighl rnt, alihnugh the principal complaints in the Grievance Report still re- mained unnoticed and unredressed. During these discussions I purposely refrained from having much communication Hilh the old supporters of the Govern- ment ; because I was desirous to shew those Mho termed thprn^elves Reformers, that I continued, as I had arrived, unbiassed and unprejudiced ; and desiring to give ihem a still further proof that 1 would go any reasonable length to give fair power to their party, I added three Gentlemen lo tile Executive Council, all of wliutii were avowed Re- formers. With the assistance of these Gentlemen— with His Ma- jesty's Itislruciions befure ox — and with my own determi- nation lo do justice lo the Inloibiianls of this Country, I cerluinly considered that tlie triumph uf the Reform vthich had been solicited, was now about to be established, and that the grievances under which the people uf this Province were said to labour, would consecutively be considered and redressed. But to my uuer astonislnnent these Gen- tlemen, instead of assisting me in Reform, before ihey were a fortnight in my service, officially combined together in an unprecedented endi^avour lo assume the Responsi- bility I owed to the Pjople of Upper Cpinada as well as to our Sovereign, and they concluded a formal doctimem which they addresed to me on this subject, by a request thai if I deemed such a course not wise or admissible, they, who had been sworn before me to secrecy, might be al- lowed to address the people! and I must own, that the instant this demand reached me, i was starilei', and filt it quite impossible to asseirt to the introduction of new principles, which to my judgment a|>pcared calculated to shake the fabric of the Consihution, and to lead to Revo- lution instead uf Reform. Without discussing the arguments of the Council, I will simply observe, that had 1 fell ever so much disposed t'> surrender to them my station of Lieutenant Governor and to act subserviently to their advice ; — had I felt ever so willitig obediently to dismiss from office whomsoever they shoirhl condemn, and lo herp patronage and preferment upon whomsoever they might recommend ;•— had I frit it adviseable to place ihe Crown Landj at their disposal, and to refer the petitions and personal applications of the Inha- bhants of the remote Counties to iheir decisioii ; I pos- sessed neither power nor authority to do st>.— In fact, I was no more able to divest myself of responsibility, than a criminal lias power to divert from himself upon another, the setitence of the Law : and though, under ihe pretence of adhering to what is called "the image and transcript" of the British Constitntion in this Province, it was declared that the Executive Council must be regarded as a Cabinet, biites of a Cabinet than 1 bad power to create myself King of the Province — than I hud power to convert the Legislative Council into an Hereditary Nobility— or than I had power to decree that this. Colony of the British Einpire should henceforward be a KlNQUOM. From totiil inability therefore, as uell as froM other reasons, I explained lo my Council, in courteous langiiage, thai I could not accede to their views ; and it being evidently necessary for the Public Service that we should separate, I fell it was fur them rather than forme lo retire. I received their resignations inth regret; and, that I entertained no vindictive feelings, will be proved by the fact, that I immediately wrote to Lord Glenelg, begging His Lordship most earnestly not to dismiss from their offices any of these individuals on account nf thie embarrass- ment they had caused to me. On the day the Council left mo, I Appointed in their stead four Gentlemen of high character, tntitled by their integrity and abilities lo my iniplicii confidence ; and with their assistance 1 once agnin determined lo carry promptly into effect those remedial measures of His Majesty's Gov- ernment which had been sulirited by the Grievance Report. However, a new and unexpected embarrassment was now offered to me by the House of Assembly, who, to my astonishment, not only n quested to be informed of the i^a- sons, why my Executive Council had resigned, but who I have learned, actually suspended all business until my reply was received ! As the Lieutenatit Governor of this Province is author- ised by His Majesty, in case of death or resignation, to name, pro tempore, the inilividuuls, he may think most proper to appoint to his' Council, 1 might cy, cy, might be al- st own, that the starilei', and filt oductiuo of new red calculated to to lead to Revo- le Council, I will much disposed !*> nt Governor and lad I fell ever so whomsoever they ! and preferment 1;— had 1 felt it !ieir disposal, and tinnt of the Inha- deciotoh ; I pos- lit so.— In f«f I, I nnsibiliiy, than a elf upon another, nder ihe pretence e and transcript" re,\i was declared ded as a Cabinet, jt-wiih ihf atiyt.. to create myself er to convert the !9obirny — or than ny of ihe British DOM. 11 as froM other' urti^nus langiiage, -s ; and it being e that we should i» fur ine to retire, ■et ; and, that I be proved by the jlenelg, begging sniiss from their nfitiieembarrass- ppninted in their tniitltd by their Sdence ; and » jih tarry promptly 3 Miijesty's Gov- irievaiice Heport. assmeiil nas now »ly, who, 10 my urmcd of the lya- sigiied, but who utiness until my dvince is ntiihor- >r resignation, to mny tjiinlt most 1 ciinstitutionally ttilimit to eitlifr ir t'xcrrisiiig this •St desire, which llie wishes of the (he iDrrespnn- (iicssnge which *' With these sentiments, I transmit to the House of " Assembly Uie ducnments they have requested, feeling *' confident, that 1 can giv6 (hem no surer proof of my de- "sire to preserve their privileges inviolate than by proT- '* ing to litem, that 1 am equally determined to maintain "the rights and prerogatives of the Crown, one of the " most prominent of which U, that which I have Just " assumed, of naming those Councillors in whom 1 coiisci- " entiously believe I can confide. " For thrir acts T deliberately declare myself to be " responMble, but tli?y are not rejponsible for mine, and " cannot be, because beinr sworn to silence, they are de- " prived by tliiis firt, as well as by (he Consdtuiiun, of all " power td del'end ifH-oiselves." The ifoiise of Assembly referred the whole subject In a Committee, which, contrary to. customary form, made its existence linown to me, by appljring directly to tne, instead of ihrcjgh the House, for other documents and informa- lion, which 1 immediately forwarded, without objecting to the ir^cgalariiy of the application ; and the House, to my great surprise, prematurely passed its sentence upon die lubject, in an address, in which it declared to me, its " deep regret that I liad consented to accept the tender " of resigiiation of the late Council." The following extract from my reply to this lii^eitpected decision, will sufficiently explain the amidable desire I still eiltenained, to afford all reasonable satisfaction. " The whole correspondence I forward to the Hoiise of " Assembly, with an earnest desire, that, regardless of my " opinion, the question may be fairly di.<.cussed." " In the station I tiold, I form one branch, out of three, '* of the Ijegislatnre ; and ( claim for myself freedom of " thought as firmly as I wish that the other two branches '* If I should see myself in the wrong, I will at once '* acknowledge my error; but, if I should feel it my duty ■* to maintain my opinion, the House must know that there " exists a consiiiutioiial tribunal, competent to award its " decisioA ; and to (hat tribunal I am ever ready most " respectfully to bow." Having thus thrown myself upon the integrity of the House of Assembly, I might reasonably have expected that II favourable constriii-tioo would hiive been placed upini my words and acts, and that the itispositiou which t had evinced to ^flord the most ample information, and to meet as far as my duly would admit, the expectations and desires of the Assembly, would have been duly appreciated ; the events, however, which soon after iranispired, and the addresses which were presented to me in this City, and from other places in the vicinity, conveyed to me the un- welcome informiiiion that efforts were being made, under the pretence of *' the Constitution being in danger," lu mislead the public mind, and to induce a belief ihal I, as Lieutenant Governor, had declared an opinion in favour of an arbitrary and irresponsible Government— that I had shewn an entire disregard of the sentiments and feelings of the people whom I had been sent to govern — and that, ihrrefore, the inhabitants nf this country could never be contented or prosperous under my Administration. Seve- ral petitions, purporting to be addressed to the Hou^e of Assembly, and a[)parently forwarded by Members nf tlmi House to individu lis in the coumry, with a view to obiain signatures, having been returned lotheGovernuieni OfTue, they were eipected to address their Representatives fur that object. Now, it will scarcely be credited that While I wa'; thus assailed— while placards declared that the Cunstiiution took in danger, merely because I had maintained, that ihd I.ieu- tenaii'. Governor, and not his Executive Council, Was res- ponsible for his conduct, — tliere existed in the Grievance Report the following explanation of the relative du'ies of the Lieutenant Governor and of his Executive Council. " It appears," say the Grievance Committee, " ihnt it is " the duly of the Lieutenant Governor to take the opinion " of the Executive Council only in such cases, as he ^hall " be required to do so by his instructions t'lom the Iinpe- " ri\rse it has been to them, il will be out of my power to assist them ; — that if they insist on turning away the reduiidani wealth as well as the labourers of the Mother C«>uniry to the United Statesi, I shall be unable tn prevent them ; — in short, that if iliey actvAlly would rather remain as they are, than become wealthy, tuk they might bp, my anxiety, to enrich them must prove fruitless. On the other side, whenever ihey shall be di^po^rd IQ join heart and hanii witli me, in loyaUypromolii^g (bept^e and prosperity of the Province, they shall find me faithfully devoted to their service. In ibo mean while I will, c^ro- fully guard the Constitution of lim counny, nmribey. iH«y firmly rely that 1 will put down promptly, as i ha<).e ajlr«i)ijy donjP, the slightest attempt to invade it^ With inward pleasure, I have received, evidence of the invincible re-action that is hourly taking place in the puh- lic mind, and for the sake of the Province rather than for my own, I hail the manly British feeling, which in every direction I see, as it were, ri«>ing out of the ground, deter- mined to shield me from insult, and to cheer and accom- pany me in my progress towards Reform. 1 have detained you longer than is customary, but the unprecedented events of this Session, have made il neces- sary lo ao so. R. Stanton, Printer tu the King's Most LxcsLLtNT Majesty, «