ference between an English Reformer and an avowed
English Radical as there is between a Canadian Reformer and an avowed
Canadian Republican. In the interests of the Methodists, therefore,
religiously and politically, the allusion to Mr. Hume was justifiable
and necessary. Dr. Ryerson continues:--

I may mention that so strongly impressed was I with these views, that in
an interview which I had with Mr. Secretary Stanley, a few days before
the Clergy Reserve petitions were presented by Mr. Hume, I remarked that
the people of Upper Canada, not being acquainted with public men in
England, had sent them to the care of a gentleman of influence in the
financial affairs of Great Britain, but that I was apprehensive that he
was not the best qualified to advocate a purely legal and religious
question. Mr. Secretary Stanley smilingly interrupted me by asking "Is
it Hume?" I replied, "It is, but I hope this circumstance will not have
the least influence upon your mind, Mr. Secretary Stanley, in giving the
subject that important and full consideration which its great importance
demands." Mr. Stanley replied: "No, Mr. Ryerson, be assured that the
subject will not be in the least prejudiced in my mind by any
circumstance of that kind; but I shall give it the most important and
grave consideration."

_May 24th._--Within three months after Dr. Ryerson had stated these
facts in regard to Mr. Hume, overwhelming evidence of the correctness of
his statement that Mr. Hume was unfit to act as a representative, in the
British Parliament, of the people of Upper Canada, was given by Mr. Hume
himself in a letter addressed to Mr. W. L. Mackenzie, dated 29th March,
1834. In that letter Mr. Hume stated that Mr. Mackenzie's

Election to, and subsequent ejection from the Legislature, must
hasten that crisis which is fast approaching in the affairs of the
Canadas, and which will terminate in independence and freedom from
the baneful domination of the mother country.

He also advised that

The proceedings between 1772 and 1782 in America ought not to be
forgotten; and to the honour of the Americans, for the interests of
the civilized world, let their conduct and the result be ever in
view.

Dr. Ryerson added: There is no mistaking the revolutionary and
treasonable character of this advice given to Canadians through Mr. W.
L. Mackenzie. Yet I have been denounced for exposing the designs of such
revolutionar