ediately
concerned in the latter than in the former.

FOOTNOTES:

[90] In his despatch to Lord Glenelg, giving an extract of his speech at
the opening of the ensuing session of the Legislature, Sir George Arthur
puts this idea in an official form. He says:--That such "a tribunal is
free from those local influences and excitement which operate too
powerfully here." In his seventh letter to Hon. W. H. Draper on the
clergy reserve question, dated January, 26th, 1839, Dr. Ryerson argues
the whole question of the re-investment of the reserves at length. He
also shows that so far from the "tribunal" here spoken of by Sir George
Arthur being a desirable one to adjudicate on this question, it would be
the very reverse.

It should be remembered that in more than one despatch the Colonial
Secretary held that the question was one to be settled by the
Provincial, rather than by the Imperial Parliament, and declined to
interfere with the rights of the Canadian Legislature in the matter.
This will be clearly shown in a subsequent chapter. Lord Glenelg's
utterances on this question are very emphatic, especially in his
despatch dated 5th December, 1835.

[91] The paper was signed by Rev. Messrs. Harvard, Case, Stinson, J.
Ryerson, W. Ryerson, E. Ryerson, Green, Evans, Jones, Wilkinson, Beatty,
and Wright. See also _Guardian_ of October 10th, 1838.

[92] In the _Guardian_ of September 12th, 1838, page 180, Dr. Ryerson
makes a fuller reference to this matter. Speaking of the Hume and
Roebuck letters (page 167), he says: I was indeed--what I never thought
of in London--applauded to satiety by the constitutional press of Upper
Canada [for these letters], and by many individuals, several of whom, on
my landing in Canada last year, gave me no small thanks for the results
of the election of 1836. But all that ceased within a week after my
return to Canada.... And why? Because I availed myself of the first
opportunity after my return to submit and press upon Sir Francis and the
Attorney-General and others, the importance and necessity of an early
and equitable settlement of the clergy reserve question, in order to
satisfy the expectations of thousands who had voted for constitutional
candidates.... The very moment it was seen that my views and intentions
on that subject remained unchanged, I saw a change in the expression of
countenances. Sir Francis, indeed, _never_ thanked me, for [the
letters]; he wished me to say nothing about the cl