or conquered by force. And beholding as we do, the flame of patriotism burning from one end of the Canadas to the other, we cannot but entertain the most pleasing anticipations. Our enemies have indeed said, that they can subdue this country by a proclamation; but it is our parts to prove to them that they are sadly mistaken; that the population is determinately hostile, and that the few who might be otherwise inclined, will find it their safety to be faithful." That this part of the address produced the most beneficial results, was pretty clearly proved by the timid and vacillating measures adopted by General Hull; the more so, as every day afforded fresh proof to that General, after he was fairly on British ground, that he had been grossly deceived by the representations which had induced him to believe that Canada was ripe for a revolt. proof that internal treachery was not one of the causes which were feared. The exigency of the time would have warranted the adoption of much more stringent measures; and had there been any real grounds to fear the settlers from the United States, whose inclinations, though in the main good, would be naturally with the interests of their native country, could have caused any danger, doubtless effective measures would have been adopted. The Legislature, however, knew their men, and trusted to Canadian loyalty. We shall shortly see the proofs that their confidence was not misplaced. “Remember, when you go forth to the combat, that you fight not for yourselves alone, but for the whole world. You are defeating the most formidable conspiracy against the civilization of man that ever was contrived; a conspiracy threatening greater barbarism and misery than followed the downfall of the Roman Empire-that now you have an opportunity of proving your at for the relief of oppressed nations, the last pillar of true liberty, and the last refuge of oppressed humanity. "Innumerable attempts will be made by falsehood, to detach you from your allegiance; for our enemies, in imitation of their Eu-tachment to the parent state which contends ropean master, trust more to treachery than to force; and they will, no doubt, make use of many of those lies, which unfortunately for the virtuous part of these states, and the peace and happiness of the world, had too much success during the American rebellion: they will tell you that they are come to give freedom-yes, the base slaves of the most contemptible faction that ever distracted the affairs of any nation-the minions of the very sycophants who lick the dust from the feet of Buonaparte, will tell you, that they are come to communicate the blessing of liberty to this Province; but you have only to look at your situation to put such hypocrites to confusion." "Trusting more to treachery than open hostility, our enemies have already spread their emissaries through the country to seduce our fellow subjects from their allegiance, by promises as false as the principles on which they are founded. A law has therefore been enacted for the speedy detection of such emissaries, and for their condign punishment on conviction-a law which it will not be easy to escape." The moderation of the different acts which were then passed, for the preservation and defence of the Province, is an additional "Persevere as you have begun, in your strict obedience to the laws and your attention to military discipline; deem no sacrifice too costly which secures the enjoyment of our happy constitution; follow, with your countrymen in Britain, the paths of virtue, and, like them, you shall triumph over all your unprincipled foes." Lower Canada. State of feeling in Having, we think, satisfactorily, though briefly, disposed of any question that may have arisen with respect to the loyalty of Upper Canadians, we will take a glance at the state of parties in Lower Canada, and examine into the reasons why the stain of disaffection should be supposed to rest any more on them, than on their brethren in the Upper Province. If there were grounds for apprehending that a feeling of disloyalty existed at all in Canada, reason would have at once suggested that in Lower Canada was the evil to be sought. Yet, on examination into this part of our subject, we find, that although Sir George Prevost had at this time a very delicate card to play with his House of their neighbours. On the 31st December, Assembly, he succeeded in obtaining from 1775, at the siege of Quebec, we find that them a Militia Act, which, though not almost to Lower Canadians alone was the affording all that was required, was still a successful resistance against the combined material point gained. 2,000 men were to attack of Generals Arnold and Montgomery, be balloted, to serve for three months, in attributable. "The party who defended the two successive summers. One reason why principal battery, consisted of CANADIAN more was not gained was, that an appre- MILITIA, with nine British seamen to work hension existed that Canadians might con- the guns." On no one occasion, in point of tract military habits, and enlist into the fact, can we detect the slightest trace of a service. This feeling, however, did not pre-hostile feeling towards the British Governvent the establishment of the Glengarry ment amongst Lower Canadians: in the Light Infantry,* who numbered, by the 1st present instance what is the result of our May, 1812, four hundred rank and file; and examination? we find that "four battalions we find, farther, that on Sir George Pre- of militia were instantly raised, and the vost's issuing orders to recruit for a still voltigeurs were organised and equipped in higher establishment, the officers engaged to the short space of six weeks by the liberality double the number, and did it. This does of the young Canadians: we find the Legisnot look like disaffection; and, whether we lature issuing government papers, bearing go still further east, or south, we trace the interest and payable in bills of Exchange in same spirit. We find two officers dividing England, to prevent specie from going to the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and enlist- United States; and again, are our old friends, ing Acadians, while Lieutenant McDonell the inhabitants of Quebec, found at their is reported as making great progress among post, guarding the citadel, proud of the duty, the Highland settlers on the coast and gulf. and of the consequence reposed on them. When we take all these circumstances, then, We think we need say no more on the head into consideration, we confess that we are of the loyalty of Lower Canada. at a loss to find any sounder reasons for imputing disaffection to Lower Canadians, than stration; 12th July, 1812, the American Ge we have found to exist among their brethren of the Upper Province; and although they were not called on, in the course of the events which followed, to make such sacrifices, or give such unequivocal proofs of their loyalty, as Upper Canadians; yet, we venture to assert, that the animus was there which would have proved that in both Provinces alike the same pure spirit of patriotism burned. First Hostile Demon 1812. On the 12th July, neral Hull, with a force of twenty-five hundred men crossed over to Sandwich from Detroit and planted the Amǝrican standard on Canadian soil, where he issued a proclamation,* inviting the inhabitants to join his standard. *PROCLAMATION. Inhabitants of Canada— 12th July, 1812. We cannot well see what reasons the rulers of the United States could have adduced for the United States have been driven to arms. After thirty years of peace and prosperity, arriving at a different conclusion. So far The injuries and aggressions, the insults and inback as that momentous period, when their dignities of Great Britain, have once more left fellow colonists threw off their allegiance to them no alternative but manly resistance, or unconditional submission. The army under the mother country, the French Canadians, my command has invaded your country. The though pressingly invited to assist, refused. standard of the Union now waves over the terThey were, even then, aware of the blessings ritory of Canada. To the peaceable, unoffending inhabitants it brings neither danger nor which they enjoyed under British Govern-difficulty. I come to find enemies, not to make ment, and willingly submitted to the Stamp Act, which caused so great a revolt amongst * Although the levies raised for the corps belonged generally to the Lower Province, yet strict geographical justice would assign these troops to the Upper Province. them. I come to protect, not to injure you. Separated by an immense ocean and an extensive wilderness from Great Britain, you have no participation in her councils, no interest in her conduct. You have felt her tyranny; you have seen her injustice; but I do not ask you to avenge the one, or to redress the other. CITIES AND TOWNS OF CANADA. LONDON. with societies innumerable, while there is no room to complain of the want of grist and saw mills, distilleries, foundries, tanneries or asheries. Labat's Brewery is too well known to all true lovers of malt to require particular notice; treble, double, or single X, are all to be had, and of a quality that would almost shake one's belief in the exclusive excellence of Hodgson or Bass's pale East India. London has been singularly unfortunate in element; on one occasion, the fire of 1845, one hundred and fifty large buildings were destroyed. The result of these repeated purifications has been that it contains fewer mean and shabby looking houses than most towns of similar importance. The town was first laid out in 1826, and increased so fast that an additional survey was found necessary in 1834, and at that time more land was added to the town plan, the limits of which now cover over 1400 acres. Of this quantity five acres were reserved for a grammar school, five for a market place, and ten for agricultural purposes, holding fairs, &c., this will eventually be of great benefit to the town. THE tourist unacquainted with the rapid growth of our towns in the west, will almost, on leaving Ingersol, in proceeding westward, come to the conclusion that he has left civilization behind. In proportion, therefore, will be his astonishment on emerging from a long pine tract, to see at some distance before him a large, well-built, and populous town. Yet respect to fires, and has four times, within the London, the capital of the County of Middle-last few years, suffered from the devouring sex, may lay claim to all, if not more, than this description. The town is finely situated, where the two branches of the Thames unite; and from its elevated position, is both healthy and picturesque. Taken from Askin's Hill, just above a sweep of the river, called the "Devil's Elbow," our sketch conveys a very fair, though not flattering, idea of London. Immediately in front is the railroad, with the new bridge crossing the stream, a little to the south-west of the Jail and Court House, on the right, the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church stand; the former the handsomest Gothic edifice in Canada West, was designed and erected by Mr. Thomas, architect in Toronto, the latter, also, a very fine church has been recently built, and is a Much, doubtless, of the prosperity, everycommodious and handsome structure. Lon- where visible, and the rapid increase in the don boasts in all of some thirteen or fourteen population (nearly six thousand), is to be attrichurches, and Baptists, Wesleyans, Congre-buted to London having been so long a miligationalists, Presbyterians, whether of the old tary station; but still, it is in the energy of form, the Free Kirk or Secession, Univesalists, the inhabitants and the productiveness of the and Colored Baptists have built, it would almost adjacent country, that the real cause is to be seem in a spirit of emulation, comfortable and found. The well-stocked shops and the exsubstantial brick or frame places of worship. peditious yet safe mode of doing business, have The Court House and Jail, which forms a long rendered London a place worthy of note very prominent object in our plate, is a fine in the far west, and speculation is even now pile of buildings and was erected at a cost of rife as to how the railroad will affect the inover six thousand pounds. A new Town terests of the town. There are always some Hall and Market House, a Mechanis' Institute, croakers to be found in every community, and and a very large Grammar School have also such individuals are at present busy with their been recently erected; a common brick school-prognostications that, as the railroad progresses house has been built by the Corporation, and the facilities of transportation are multiat an expense (says Smith's Canada) of seven-plied, so will the prosperity of this new thrive teen hundred pounds. The barracks, which ing town in the same ratio decrease; but the are roomy and commodious, are to the north same calculations were made years ago with of the town, and are not visible in our plate, respect to horses in Great Britain; yet as as they are situated just between the Court railroads increased, so did the number of House on the left and the Roman Catholic horses increase likewise; and, granting that Church on the right. There are flourishing one class of travellers will cease to stop in bank agencies and building societies here, London, in the same manner as business in; VOL. II. creases, so will it be found necesssary to have, likewise, an increase of travellers. Besides the Canadian Cockneys have too much enter prise amongst them not to make a fresh business if the old one diminishes, and we have very little doubt but that, so far from injuring the town, a railroad will only add fresh energy to the already wide-awake Lunnuners. THE CHRONICLES OF DREEPDAILY. No. IX. WHEREIN IS COMMENCED THE UNSURPASSED LONDON. FROM the earliest epoch of my conscious existence, I have had an unsatiable yearning to read of the exploits of murderers, robbers, foot pads, pirates and such like adventurous imitators, on a small scale, of Alexander the Great, and Napoleon Bonaparte, (so called, as Mr. Paumie tells me, because he conquered a good part of the world). Next to the life of Sir William Wallace, and the Gentle Shepherd, the books which I most delighted to study were the Newgate Calendar, and Hugo Arnot's Criminal Trials; and I often thought that if some warlock offered to bring before me the apparition of some illustrious notoriety of history, I should fix upon Robin Hood, or Sixteen-String-Jack in preference to any one else. As I was mentioning this weakness of mine one day to Quinten Quill, that obliging personage, who never was so happy as when ministering to our amusement, inquired at Mr. Paumie and myself whether we would like to witness the manner in which the thief-catchers of London perform their operations. "My reason for asking the question," quoth Quinten, "is that Mr. Noseannabem, a Bow-street detective is, this very afternoon, to be occupied in an attempt to discover the perpetrators of an extensive theft of sugar from a West Indian ship lying in one of the docks." The Dominie, who had but slender love for this department of the fine arts, declined the offer with befitting thanks, but I, as you may swear jumped at the same, like a lawyer at a fee, or a cock at a grosert. Accordingly having discussed a bit snack o'lunch, and may be a toothful of something stronger than water, in order, to steady our nerves, we set out for the Police office, where we found the manhunter just preparing to start upon his expedition. Mr. Noseannabem was a perfect model at once of strength and activity, conveying the impression, as Mr. Quill remarked, that his father might have been Hercules, and his mother the queen of all the rope dancers. Rather slender, than otherwise, so far as bulk was concerned, his muscles were as hard as cast metal, and he had an eye which seemed to pierce the person he looked upon like the sharpest gimlet. This said eye was never at rest for the minutest fraction of a second; nothing could escape its inquisition and feverish scrutiny. It was impossible for a windpropelled straw to cross his path without its found refuge, and I firmly believe that before course being traced to the nook where it I had been two minutes in his company he could have sworn correctly to the number of buttons on my coat and vest, and the sum total of darns which my every day breeches exhibited! Quinten having explained to this functionary, who was one of his intimate cronies, the errand upon which he had come, he, in the frankest manner agreed to gratify our wishes. The only stipulation which he made was that we should witness his proceedings from a distance, as if we had no cognizance of, or connexion with him, and on no account to volunteer either advice or assistance unless specially requested so to do. These terms, of course, were willingly acceded to, especially by your humble servant, more by token that, though by no means a coward, I am a prudent man, and have ever had a decided aversion to scald my fingers with the broth appertaining to other people! Having placed sundry pairs of hand-cuffs in his coat pocket, and seen that the flints of two pistols which he carried in his breast, were in business order, our friend invited us to accompany him in his campaign. Having reached the wharf where the plundered vessel lay, Mr. Noseannabem put a number of interrogatories to the skipper and his hands, but without being able to elicit anything like a clew to the depredators. In fact the sugar had been rav ished at mid-night which was two hours before the moon turned out of her hammock, and during the prevalence moreover, of one of those dour London fogs capable of being cut with a knife, like a kebboch of Dunlop cheese? Leaving the ship, about as wise as when he entered the same, the inquisitor began to look narrowly upon the contiguous stones of the street, as if in quest of some fine eyed needle. After a season he made signs to us to approach, and quietly directed our attention to a small train of sugar running from the river to the buildings fronting the same. This track be pursued for at least a couple of hours, fre quently losing trace of it altogether in mud and rubbish. In process of time his researches led him to the houses, and directing us to take up our station in a tap-room where we could observe without observation his cautious movements, he made a thorough survey of the various dwellings which surrounded the locality. Of a verity, some of these structures would not, from their appearance and general air, have been pronounced to be the chosen dwel ling-places of saints or honest men. There than he at once abandoned the controversy as was a glum, grewsome look about them, con- a bootless job. "Oh, it's you, Mr. Noseanveying irresistibly the idea that the frequent- nabem!" he exclaimed, with all the coolness ers thereof were more given to breaking the of an iced cucumber. "You have come about ten commandments than laying the founda- that ere sugar, I suppose? Well, well, there tion-stones of churches; and the parties who is no use making a poor mouth about the matswarmed in and out of the dirt-daubed doors, ter! It will only be a seven years' visit to tended to confirm the correctness of such an the other side of the big herring-pond! Theat impression. There were hook-nosed children me like a gentleman, and I will give you no of Abraham, laden with cast-off garments, in extra trouble!" The victor having assured every stage of decrepitude and decay; him that he would give him every reasonable randy-women, stoving and steaming with the indulgence, the vanquished knight pointed to fumes of adulterated gin;-and troops of wild, a recess at the head of his invaded couch, unpruned olive branches, nearly as naked as within which was found the abducted produce the rising generation of the Cannibal Islands, of the cane. The sugar had been carried off or the marble angels which flutter everlasting-in sacks, the leakage from which had led, as ly around the monuments in Westminster above narrated, to the discovery and appreAbbey, and whose faces, evidently, had never hension of its ravisher. been familiar with the virtues of soap and water. We could notice, from our stance, Mr. Noseannabem carefully inspecting the portals of these disreputable specimens of metropolitan architecture. He had evidently lost all traces of the luscious grains, and indeed looked as if on the eve of giving up his investigations in despair. At length a gleam of satisfaction became apparent on his anxious countenance, and in obedience to a wave of his hand, we settled for the brown-stout we had been imbibing, and joined the patient investigator, "Put your tongue," quoth he, "upon the handle of this door, and tell me what you discover!" Though inwardly scunnering at making such a use of my gustatorial member (as Mr. Paumie hath it) I was determined to obey orders without disputing them, and accordingly began licking the filthy dirt-encrusted nob of brass. No sooner had I done so, than I became aware of the presence of something sweet, which a more prolonged tasting convinced me was neither more nor less than genuine muscovado ! Having procured a jarvie (as our friend designated a hackney coach), the whole party Roderick M'Rogue (for so was the enthralled proceeded in state to the Guildhall, where Mr. freebooter named) was arraigned before the sitting magistrate, to answer for his somewhat irregular speculations in the grocery depart ment. Alderman Dip, who on this occasion occupied the throne of justice, was a little pugnosed, pot-bellied, bandy-legged specimen of humanity, sporting a brown wig and a pair of specs, the lenses whereof were of such preposterously gigantic dimensions that they might have served for the peep-glasses of a penny show! His manner was curt and cat-witted, which, if natural, was doubtless aggravated by the fact that he had just been on the point of seeking the solacement of dinner at the moment when Mr. Noseannabem required the assistance of his judicial functions. No sooner had the alderman been made aware, in answer to a question propounded to the manacled M'Rogue, that the worthy was. a native of North Britain, than his temper "Here lurks the thief!" whispered the ex-appeared to be tinctured with a tenfold meaalting terror-to-evil-doers, and forthwith sure of acidity! Oblivious of the dignity of motioning us to follow, he proceeded to ascend the tribunal on which he was perched, he a narrow and winding stair. At every door broke out into a perfect hurricane of abuse which we encountered in our upward, but far and vituperation against the luckless land of from heavenward progress, he pree'd the flavor cakes and everything connected therewith! of the sneck, till at length, smacking his lips, he Not a virtuous female, he asserted, could be exclaimed, "I will wager a guinea to a brass condescended upon between Peterhead and farthing that the fox is kennelled in this den!" Dumfries, and, as for the men, they were uni It was the work of a moment to break open versally thieves and cut-throats without a soli the door with a kick, which might have felled tary redeeming exception! The prisoner's an ox; and rushing into a small, ill-lighted, being a native of this unholy land was proof and abominably clatty room, the thief-taker presumptive of his guilt (continued anti-Sco threw himself upon a burly, red-haired giant, tus), sufficiently strong to warrant his.com measuring more than six feet three inches in mittal and conviction without further evi his stocking-soles, and had him firmly hand-dence; and he only wished that Roderick's. cuffed, before you could say Jack Robinson! entire countrymen sported but one neck, so The party thus unceremoniously roused that he could have the delectation of seeing it from a profound nap, at first showed tokens dislocated some fine morning in front of the of disputing the righteousness of his capture; debtors' door at Newgate! His lordship conbut no sooner did he recognise his conqueror cluded an address more emphatic than strictly |