. A history of Canada and of the other British provinces of North America . proposwlchanges were sent to England j and various schemes for tlijsettlement of the question were, under strong influences, suIj*mitted to the British ministry. At length, Lord Grenville, tli sColonial minister, sent to Lord Dorchester, in 1789, the dra-lof a new constitution for Canada, which proposed to dividethe Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, aoi * At the peace of 1783, Massachusetts, Virginia and New York adoptedmeasures of unexcueable severity [towards the Loyalist^J. In the lattorState such was
. A history of Canada and of the other British provinces of North America . proposwlchanges were sent to England j and various schemes for tlijsettlement of the question were, under strong influences, suIj*mitted to the British ministry. At length, Lord Grenville, tli sColonial minister, sent to Lord Dorchester, in 1789, the dra-lof a new constitution for Canada, which proposed to dividethe Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, aoi * At the peace of 1783, Massachusetts, Virginia and New York adoptedmeasures of unexcueable severity [towards the Loyalist^J. In the lattorState such was the violence manifested, that in August, 1768, Sir GuyCarleton wrote to the president of Congress that the Loyalists conceivethe safety cf their lives dt-pends on uiy removing them.—Sabines Ame-rican Loyalists, 1864; vol. I, pp. 89,90. (Sabine is an American writer.) QuKsnoira.—<jrive an account of the sorrender of Gen. Comwallis atlorktown. What ia Bald of the Loyalists and of their persecutions^(live a eketcli of tbe proposed changes ia t^ nnnf^tntinn of C;hap. Xl-1791.] SKETCn OF BRITISH RULE. Jo give to each section a Legislative Council and House ofAssembly, with a local government ofits own. Lord Dorchester opposed thedivision of the province j but, nevertheless, the bill was introduced in-to the House of Commons by theyounger Pitt.* After much opposi-tion it was finally passed in , under the celebrated constitu-tional act of this year, representativegovernment, in a modified form, wasfor the first time introduced into thetwo Canadas simultaneously, and gave very great the same year the famous Clergy Reserve Act was passedin England. This Act set apart one seventh of the unsurveyedlands of the Province ^ for the support of a Protestant Clergy;and authorized the governor of either Province to establishrectories and endow them. This act becanie afterwards afruitful source of agitation and discontent in Upper Canada. 12. Arrival
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