d out of the House of Assembly. How I have heard
Dr. Bunting, Mr. Beecham, and other members of the Committee at
home, say that Lord Glenelg is one of the best and ablest men of
the present day. At all events, after what we have obtained through
his Lordship's instrumentality, I think that silence on our part is
disgraceful--apart from considerations of local interests in this
battle for right and justice.

Two able and moderate advocates of the settlement of the clergy reserve
question were sent to England in 1837 to confer with Lord Glenelg on the
subject, viz.: Hon. William Morris on behalf of the Church of Scotland,
and Hon. W. H. Draper on behalf of the Church of England. In November of
that year Dr. Ryerson was requested to draw up a paper embodying the
opinions of the leading members of the Conference. This was done, and an
elaborate paper on the subject was published in the _Guardian_ of
January 17th, 1838.[91] Shortly afterwards Dr. Ryerson addressed a
letter to Lord Glenelg on the subject. I only insert the narrative part
of it, as follows:--

I was favoured with a conversation on the clergy reserve question
with Mr. [Sir James] Stephen, in accordance with your Lordship's
suggestion, the day before I left London for Canada (27th April,
1837). After my arrival in this Province it was unanimously agreed
to support the plan for the adjustment of that important and long
agitated question, which had been mentioned by Mr. Stephen, in the
interview referred to.

Sir F. B. Head set his face against it from the beginning, and did
not wish me to say anything about it publicly. The Attorney-General
acknowledged it was equitable, and did not make any serious
objection to it.[92]

Recently a meeting of our principal ministers took place in
Toronto, in order to consult upon the measures which it was
desirable to adopt in order to promote the settlement of the
question at the next session of Parliament. At the request of the
meeting, another gentleman and myself waited upon the Hon. Mr.
Draper (who had taken the most official part in previous sessions),
and showed him the resolutions agreed to. We stated that if it
would embarrass him in promoting the earliest settlement of the
question, we would desist from publishing anything on the subject.
He expressed himself as highly gratified at o