A Narrative

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J. Murray, 1839 - Canada - 526 pages
 

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Page 44 - Honourable gentlemen of the Legislative Council and gentlemen of the House of Assembly : — I have...
Page 26 - May it please Your Excellency, we, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, humbly...
Page 460 - Governor, they believed to be practically needless ; and who should support Sir F. Head in those economical reforms which the country desired, far more than political changes — reforms, for the sake of which alone political changes had been sought. In a number of other instances, too, the elections were carried by the unscrupulous exercise of the influence of the Government, and by a display of violence on the part of the Tories, who were emboldened by the countenance afforded to them by the authorities.
Page 96 - I have the honour to enclose to your Lordship a report of the manner in which the troops are distributed among the squadron under my orders, together with a list of convoy. Everything is now embarked belonging to General Ross...
Page 2 - THERE is hardly any man in modern times, with the exception, perhaps, of Lord Somers, who fills so large a space in our history, and of whom we know so little, as Lord Chatham; and yet he is the person to whom every one would at once point, if desired to name the most successful statesman and most brilliant orator that this country ever produced.
Page 95 - My Lord, — I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of a letter addressed to the Secretary of State at Washington by the Consul of the United States at Kio Janeiro, Mr.
Page 13 - Forces therein &c., &c., &c. May it please Your Excellency. We His Majesty's dutiful and Loyal Subjects the...
Page 464 - The bench, the magistracy, the high offices of the episcopal church, and a great part of the legal profession, are tilled by the adherents of this party : by grant or purchase, they have acquired nearly the whole of the waste lands of the province ; they are allpowerful in the chartered banks, and, till lately, shared among themselves almost exclusively, all offices of trust and profit.
Page 219 - My Lord, — I have the honour to transmit to your lordship the return of the killed and wounded in the action of the 5th inst.
Page 66 - May it please your Excellency, " We, his majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada, in provincial parliament assembled...

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