. In that address it is stated that--

During a long period of years, and in nine successive sessions of
the Provincial Parliament, the representatives of the people of
Upper Canada, with an unanimity seldom exhibited in a deliberative
body, declared their opposition to religious endowments.... The
address further pointed out that the wishes of the people were
thwarted by the Legislative Council, a body containing a majority
avowedly favourable to the ascendancy of the Church of England.
That the Imperial Government, from time to time, invited the
Provincial Parliament to legislate on the subject of these
reserves, disclaiming on the part of the Crown any desire for the
superiority of one or more particular Churches; that Your Majesty's
Government, in declining to advise the Royal assent being given to
a Bill, passed by a majority of one, for investing the power of
disposing of the reserves in the Imperial Parliament, admitted that
from its inaccurate information as to the wants and general
opinions of society (in which the Imperial Parliament was
unavoidably deficient), the question would be more satisfactorily
settled by the Provincial Legislature; that subsequently to the
withholding of the Royal assent from the last-mentioned Bill, the
Imperial Parliament passed an Act disposing of the proceeds of the
clergy reserves in a manner entirely contrary to the formerly
repeatedly expressed wishes of the Upper Canadian people, as
declared through their representatives, and acknowledged as such in
a message sent to the Provincial Parliament by command of Your
Majesty's Royal predecessor.

That we are humbly of opinion that the legal or constitutional
impediments which stood in the way of provincial legislation on
this subject should have been removed by an Act of the Imperial
Parliament; but that the appropriation of revenues derived from the
investment of the proceeds of the public lands of Canada, by the
Imperial Parliament, will never cease to be a source of discontent
to Your Majesty's loyal subjects in this Province; and that when
all the circumstances connected with this question are taken into
consideration, no religious denomination can be held to have such
vested interest in the revenue derived from the proceeds of the
said clergy reserve