ery
panel of the carriage driven in.'--Mac Mullen, p. 511.

[6] In the midst of this time of anxiety and even of danger to himself and
his family, his eldest son was born at Monklands, on May 16. Her
Majesty was graciously pleased to become godmother to the child, who
was christened Victor Alexander.

[7] The motives, he afterwards said, which induced him to abstain from
forcing his way into Montreal, might be correctly stated in the words
of the Duke of Wellington, who, when asked why he did not go to the
city in 1830, is reported to have answered, 'I would have gone if the
law had been equal to protect me, but that was not the case. Fifty
dragoons would have done it, but that was a military force. If firing
had begun, who could tell when it would end? one guilty person would
fall and ten innocent be destroyed. Would this have been wise or
humane for a little bravado, or that the country might not be alarmed
for a day or two?'

[8] His valued Secretary, to whose personal recollections most of these
details are due.

[9] Some years afterwards, in the 'Address' already quoted, Mr. Gladstone
made something of an _amende_ for this attack; but he does not
appear to have been fully informed, even then, either as to the
intention with which the Act was framed, or as to the manner in which
it had been carried out.

[10] 'This,' observes Lord Grey, 'owing to the extreme forbearance of Lord
Elgin and his advisers, was the only life lost throughout these
unhappy disturbances.'

[11] Lord Grey's Colonial Policy, &c. i. 234. In 1858, however, this
'perambulating system' having proved expensive and inconvenient, the
Queen was asked to designate a permanent abode for the Legislature.
Her Majesty was graciously pleased to name Ottawa, the present capital
of the Dominion; and the selection of this central spot, with, its
singular facilities of communication, has greatly aided in the
consolidation of the province.

CHAPTER V.

ANNEXATION MOVEMENT--REMEDIAL MEASURES--REPEAL OF THE NAVIGATION LAWS--
RECIPROCITY WITH THE UNITED STATES--HISTORY OF THE TWO MEASURES--DUTY OF
SUPPORTING AUTHORITY--VIEWS ON COLONIAL GOVERNMENT--COLONIAL INTERESTS THE
SPORT OF HOME PARTIES--NO SEPARATION!--SELF-GOVERNMENT NOT NECESSARILY
REPUBLICAN--VALUE OF THE MONARCHICAL PRINCIPLE--DEFENCES OF THE COLONY.

[Sidenote: Annexation movement]