5. That the great expenditure of the British Government, in behalf of Canada, and the protection afforded to its trade, by enhancing the price of property-giving exchangeable value to otherwise useless productions-and increasing the rate of profit, should induce the Canadians more to appreciate the civil immunities and pecuniary advantages derived from British connexion, than to cavil at the provisions of such laws as the Government may have deemed it expedient at different periods to promulgate, and to sow dissensions and cherish intemperate passions, to the total neglect of the consideration and adoption of such measures as might be best suited to advance the prosperity of the province.

6. That the House of Assembly, during the reign of the late King, offered to provide for the whole expense of the civil Government; that this was necessarily rejected, as the grant was to have been limited to one year, and as its acceptance would have implied the renunciation of the Crown's rights, to have disposed of the appropriated revenue, derived from the act 14th Geo. III. c. 88.

7. That the House of Assembly arrogated to themselves the functions of the Executive Government, by annually attempting to apportion the amount of the salaries of the judges, and the other officers of the civil Government.

8. That the House of Assembly, under the influence of their Speaker, Mr Papineau * and others, refused to grant the civil list as required;

*The Speaker elect, who has been disallowed by the Governor at the opening of the new Parliament.

that the Government was prevented from accepting of it with the unconstitutional conditions attached to its vote, and was in consequence reduced to the alternative of dissolving the Parliament, without receiving the supplies, that the sense of the people might be taken upon the conduct of their representatives, and of authorizing, upon its own responsibility, such disbursements of the public money as the exigencies of the civil administration required.

The Canadians, on the other hand, maintain1. That granting a representative constitution to Canada necessarily conferred all the privileges and functions belonging to such a system of Government; that it is the inherent right of the Commons to originate money grants to the Crown, and that the exclusive possession of this privilege is the principal guarantee of a free constitution.

2. That, at all events, it is the duty and the privilege of the Legislature, and especially of the Commons, to controul and regulate the expenditure of the public money derived from themselves; that they are not debarred from the exercise of this right by the Act 14. Geo. III. c. 88, which directs generally the application of the taxes it imposes to the support of the civil administration; and that, therefore, they are entitled to exercise their discretion in the apportionment of this, or of any other fund raised by their own authority, among the different officers of government.

3. That they cannot be equitably required to grant the civil list during the King's life, as in England, because, by the act already recited, the British Parliament imposes a portion of the taxes

which provides for its support, and because the act in question may be qualified or repealed at the pleasure of that Parliament; that, as the constitutional act reserves the right to the mother country, of regulating the navigation and commerce of the colony, the amount of the duties imposed by the provincial Legislature itself, for the maintenance of the civil Government, is subject to the variations which any change in these regulations may cause; and that, in consequence, the House of Assembly cannot be consistently required to pledge itself for a permanent revenue, which it might not always have the means of providing.

4. That the analogy of the civil list, as granted by the British Parliament to the King, did not apply, since it was first given upon the accession of George III. in lieu of the hereditary and other specific revenues belonging to the Crown, the controul of which reverted to the Commons-that, in Canada, the Crown, besides retaining its hereditary revenue, derived nearly one half of the taxes, paid by the people, from an act of the British Parliament-that, in consequence, the analogy cited remained unappropriate, so long as the rights and privileges inherent in the Canadian constitution continued to be exercised by the mother country.

5. That the civil list of Great Britain, did not exceed one sixtieth portion of the annual supplies; that the commons of Canada had no supplies to grant, save such as the disbursements on account of the civil list required, excepting a few for local purposes and that, should the whole supplies be permanently granted, the principal privilege of the

commons would be surrendered, and the balance of the constitution overturned.

6. That it is a necessary corollary of the propositions, that the commons originate money grants— fix their amount—and that, in the circumstances of Canada, such must be annual, that they must annually determine the amount of the specific items, which the whole civil list embraces, or in other words, annually vote the amount of the salaries of the judges and other officers of the crown.

7. That in Great Britain, the Judges hold their offices for life, or good behaviour, and can only be removed by impeachment, or by the addresses of the two Houses of Parliament, while in Canada, they are arbitrarily removeable by the crownthat being dependent on the Crown for their continuance in office, it becomes necessary they should be dependent on the commons for the enjoyment of their salaries.

8. That the Legislatures of Upper and Lower Canada having disagreed in attempting to apportion the funds due to each province, derived from duties imposed by themselves, allowed a temporary act to expire enacting the payment of a portion of such duties-that the British Parliament by act 3. of the present King, c. 119, renewed the imposition of this tax, in total defiance of the 18. Geo. III. c. 12., and of the constitutional act of 1791, renouncing the right to impose duties or assessments payable in any colony of British America, excepting such as applied to the regulation of navigation and commerce-and that, the Act 3. Geo. IV. c. 119, being in total violation of the national faith, ought to be repealed.

9. That the great mass of the population being

Canadian, the English settlers being for the most part confined to the large towns, a most unequal division of the offices in the gift of the crown in Lower Canada, among English and Canadians, takes place that the British ministry retain chiefly these appointments in their own hands, leaving few in the gift of the governor-that while they do not complain of military and clerical appointments being confined to the English, they consider, upon the whole, that the following distribution is unfair:

These appear to be all, or at least the chief topics of difference between the Lower Province and the mother country, and were all subjected to discussion in the Legislature in the course of the Session.

The government was of opinion, that the re