This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...and if the people are not free and happy the Council is to blame, not the Act."1 Haldimand found himself called upon to govern with the aid of a legislative body, appointed by the king, and limited to twenty-three members, but even among these he found opponents of the Quebec Act. One called Allsopp headed the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...and if the people are not free and happy the Council is to blame, not the Act."1 Haldimand found himself called upon to govern with the aid of a legislative body, appointed by the king, and limited to twenty-three members, but even among these he found opponents of the Quebec Act. One called Allsopp headed the opposition, and exerted himself to make matters as uncomfortable for the present governor as he had done for his two predecessors. It was not until 1783 that Haldimand had him suspended for sedition. The colonial secretary under the French regime had found it profitable to keep governor and intendant at sword's points, so that the one might act as a check on the other, but the British minister encouraged private individuals to recount their grievances directly to himself. Thus Haldimand was surrounded with spies who knew that their calum - Finlay, to Nepean, October 22nd, 1784. nies would always obtain a hearing if presented in a manner flattering to the home government. No mean judge of men, the governor soon lost confidence in the attorney-general, and had such grave doubts of the loyalty of some of his councillors that he wrote to Germaine that he might be obliged to act more than he could wish upon his own responsibility. In his judgment it seemed unwise to lay before the council certain orders he had received from England relating to alterations in the laws of property, calculated to favour the old subjects at the expense of the new, for he said: --"A happier moment than the present is to be wished for undertaking this business." He tried to form a privy council with members he could trust, but the opposition wrote to the minister that His Excellency was withholding his instructions, and Germaine forthwith notified the governor...
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