. A history of Canada for high schools and academies. the position of the Councilreceived a severe blow in the failure of the receiver-general,Sir John Caldwell. He had been appointed by the governor;and no security had been exacted of him that he should provefaithful to his trust. The Crown, not having taken security, wasthus morally responsible to the province. Caldwell could notaccount for some ^96,000 of the funds of the province, whichhad passed into his hands. In spite of this notorious defalca-tion, he retained his seat in the Executive; and the ])eoplefound a new and potent weapon to t
. A history of Canada for high schools and academies. the position of the Councilreceived a severe blow in the failure of the receiver-general,Sir John Caldwell. He had been appointed by the governor;and no security had been exacted of him that he should provefaithful to his trust. The Crown, not having taken security, wasthus morally responsible to the province. Caldwell could notaccount for some ^96,000 of the funds of the province, whichhad passed into his hands. In spite of this notorious defalca-tion, he retained his seat in the Executive; and the ])eoplefound a new and potent weapon to their hand. As the publicwrath boiled higher and higher, Lord Dalhousie was discreetenough to go away on leave of absence, and his place was tem-porarily filled by a more politic leader. Sir Francis Burton. Heat once acknowledged the claim of the Assembly to control thePermanent Revenue ; and the indignation died down. On Dal-housies return, however, the storm blew up again with increasingmenace. That obstinate nobleman flouted all the claims of the. LOUIS PAPINEAU THE CANADA COMMITTEE. 26$ Assembly, and displayed active hostility toward its leaders, whowere Papineau for the French section, and Doctor Wolfred Nelsonfor the smaller but not less dissatisfied English section. The nextstep in the struggle was reached in 1827, when, after a generalelection, the governor-general refused to accept Papineau asspeaker of the new House. Then the province hummed withexcitement, and all legislation came to an end. The peoplegathered in angry knots. Mass meetings were held in the cities ;and huge petitions, stating grievances and asking for the recallof the governor-general, were posted in haste to England. As Upper Canada was at the same time besieging the homegovernment with like petitions, the state of affairs attracted anxiousattention in England. Parliament appointed a Canada xhe CanadaCommittee to examine the points at issue. The report Committee,of this committee (1828) was hailed in
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