st Parliament and its work 309

Remarkable speech of Governor Simcoe at the close of the
Session, explanatory of our constitution of government 310

Change of the seat of government and reasons for it 311

Governor Simcoe's work and policy; removal to the West Indies,
and abandonment of his wise policy 311

Parliament meets at Niagara until 1797; its legislation;
Governor Simcoe's successor, the Hon. Peter Russell and
General Hunter; population of Upper Canada in 1800 312

Legislation, progress, trade, custom-houses 313

Provision for one Grammar School Master in each of the
eight districts 314

Emigration; legislation; experience of the country during
sixteen years under the new constitution 314

State of the country in 1809 314

Anticipated hostilities between Great Britain and the United
States; concluding remarks on this period of Canadian history 315

CHAPTER XLVII.

WAR OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN, FROM
1812 TO 1815 316-317

Introductory and general remarks; illustrations of true
loyalty; war struggles of England for human liberty when the
United States joined the tyrant of Europe in war and invaded
Canada; comparative population of Canada and the United States;
Canada, almost unaided, successfully resists the eleven invasions
of the United States against her; phases of the war against her 316

CHAPTER XLVIII.

DECLARATION OF WAR BY THE UNITED STATES AGAINST BRITAIN,
AND PREPARATIONS FOR THE INVASION OF CANADA 318-330

The alleged and real causes of the war; the Democratic
party in the United States always hostile to England and her
colonies, and sympathisers with every raid against Canada 318

Two alleged causes for the war by the United States; Berlin
decrees, and answers to them by British Orders in Council--results 319

Collusion between Napoleon and the President of the United
States against England; seduction and desertion of British sailors
(nearly 10,000) besides soldiers; the justice and acknowledged right
of the British claims, and injustice and unreasonableness of the
Madison Governme