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=Toronto:=

C. BLACKETT ROBINSON, 5 JORDAN STREET.

1885.

_Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1885,
by_ C. BLACKETT ROBINSON, _in the office of the Minister of
Agriculture._

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY ESTEEMED FRIEND,

GEORGE STEWART, JUN'R.

OF QUEBEC:

WHOSE RESEARCHES IN A KINDRED DIRECTION WILL ENABLE HIM TO

DO FULL JUSTICE TO WHATEVER IS MERITORIOUS IN IT; WHILE

HIS GENEROUS APPRECIATION OF THE EFFORTS OF HIS

LITERARY BRETHREN WILL RENDER HIM

INDULGENT TO ITS DEFECTS.

JOHN CHARLES DENT.

Toronto, 1885.

[Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors, including punctuation, have
been corrected. All other inconsistencies have been left as they were in
the original.]

CONTENTS.

PAGE.
CHAPTER I.
THE BANISHED BRITON 9

CHAPTER II.
A BILL OF PARTICULARS 46

CHAPTER III.
THE FAMILY COMPACT 71

CHAPTER IV.
FATHERS OF REFORM 96

CHAPTER V.
A "FREE AND UNFETTERED" PRESS 122

CHAPTER VI.
THE CASE OF CAPTAIN MATTHEWS 144

CHAPTER VII.
THE NIAGARA FALLS OUTRAGE 151

CHAPTER VIII.
THE "AMOVAL" OF MR. JUSTICE WILLIS 162

CHAPTER IX.
THE CASE OF FRANCIS COLLINS 195

CHAPTER X.
LIGHTS--OLD AND NEW 213

CHAPTER XI.
PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE 231

CHAPTER XII.
DISENFRANCHISEMENT 253

CHAPTER XIII.
MR. HUME'S "BANEFUL DOMINATION" LETTER 264

CHAPTER XIV.
"SEE, THE CONQUERING HERO COMES!" 282

CHAPTER XV.
"A TRIED REFORMER" 296

CHAPTER XVI.
THE TRIUMPHS OF A TRIED REFORMER 324

CHAPTER XVII.
REACTION 342

CHAPTER XVIII.
THE FORGING OF THE PIKES 354

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

John Rolph Frontispiece

David Gibson 284

THE STORY

OF

THE UPPER CANADIAN REBELLION.

CHAPTER I.

THE BANISHED BRITON.

[Sidenote: 1819]

In the afternoon of a warm and sultry day, towards the close of one of
the warmest and most sultry summers which Upper Canada has ever known,
an extraordinary trial took place at the court-house in the old town of
Niagara. The time was more than threesc