An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ad beeninduced to make a confession of their guilt, they were sentenced to besent to Bermuda, and there kept in sti-ict surveillance. Should they atany time return to Canada without permission from the governor, theywould be punishable by death. Papineau, and others who had escaped,received the same sentence. This measure produced much excitementin the British Parliament. Lord Bro
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ad beeninduced to make a confession of their guilt, they were sentenced to besent to Bermuda, and there kept in sti-ict surveillance. Should they atany time return to Canada without permission from the governor, theywould be punishable by death. Papineau, and others who had escaped,received the same sentence. This measure produced much excitementin the British Parliament. Lord Brougham declared it illegal, as itcondemned to death without trial, and to transportation to a colonywhich was not within the governor-generars jurisdiction. As the cir-cumstances of the case were, however, extraordinary, he proposed a voteof indemnity, in favour of the governor-general. Lord Durhams mea-sures were accordingly annulled. On receiving information of theseacts, the governor-general, deeply mortified, publicly announced his in-tention to resign. He did not even follow the customary routine of re-qutsting permission from the crown, and waiting until he had received if EARL or DURHAM, GOV EE NOR. 779. T 0 H O N T O. and in announcing the disallowance of his ordinance, he commented onthe decision of Parliament with a severity which was considered irregu-lar, as it tended to compromise the royal authority. On the 1st of November, two days before the last-mentioned insurrection, he sailed fromQuebec, and on the 26th landed at Plymouth. During the winter of 1838 and the ensuing summer, (1839,) the Ca^nadian provinces were tolerably tranquil. Much interest was excitedby the proposal for a union between Upper and Lower Canada—a mea-sure warmly recommended by Lord Durham. A proposition to thateffect was before the British ministry in 1839, and the House of x\s-sembly in the upper province was favourably disposed toward it. Butobjections from other quarters caused its postpo
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