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OF THE

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

LEGISLATURE OF LOWER CANADA

IN THE SESSION OF 1831;

by Amired Stuart

WITH AN

APPENDIX

CONTAINING SOME IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS

NOW FIRST GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Ημεις δε ουδ' αυτοι φαμεν επι τῷ ὑπο τουτων ὑβριζεσθαι κατοικισαι,
αλλ' επι τῷ ἡγεμονες τε είναι και τα εικοτα θαυμαζεσθαι. αι γουν
αλλαι αποικιαι τιμωσιν ἡμας, και μαλιστα ὑπ ̓ αποίκων στεργόμεθα,
και δηλον ότι ει τοις πλεοσιν αρεσκοντες εσμεν, τοισδ' αν μόνοις ουκ
ορθώς απαρεσκοιμεν.—THUCYDIDES.

Nec me fallit, ut in corporibus hominum, sic in animis multiplici passione affectis,
medicamenta verborum multis inefficacia visum iri. Sed nec illud quoque me præterit,
ut invisibiles animorum morbos, sic invisibilia esse remedia. Falsis opinionibus cir-
cumventi, veris sententiis liberandi sunt, ut qui audendio ceciderant audendio consur-
gant.-PETRARCA,

Montreal:

PUBLISHED BY THOMAS A. STARKE.

1832.

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6-On the First Report of the Committee of Grievances. The sub-
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15-On the second Report of the Committee of Grievances. The Sus-
pension of the Attorney General from Office by His Excellency
Lord Aylmer,..........................

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THE LATE SESSION

OF THE

PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT.

NO. I.

INTRODUCTION.

Nil admirari prope res est una Numici
Solaque quæ possit facere et servare beatum.-HORACE.

THE opening of the Session of the Provincial Parliament which has just closed its labours, was looked forward to by all those who had given any attention to the public affairs of the Province, with more than ordinary interest.

The reins of government had just been assumed by the nobleman now at its head, and possessing, as he was understood to do, explicit instructions upon the principal subject of controversy in the Colonial Legislature, it was anticipated that the communication through him, of the views of his Majesty's Government, would relieve the several branches of the Legislature from the uncertainty which had hitherto most unaccountably been allowed to exist upon this head, and which there was reason to believe had widened a breach that might otherwise have been prevented, and might now, it was hoped, be at last repaired. Nor were there wanting other subjects to which the public attention had been for several years past called, and in relation to which diversities of opinion had existed, that in like manner could not fail to occupy

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