as so
much superior to that of Great Britain. The distinguished orator was
certainly more declamatory than argumentative, and he was repeatedly
called to order. It was alleged that Mr. Burke had no right to abuse
the governments of France and America, as the "Quebec Bill" only was
before the House. Nay, there was something like a scene. Mr. Burke
complained of having been deserted by those, with whom he formerly
acted, in his old age, and Mr. Fox, with tears in his eyes and strong
emotion, declared that he would esteem and venerate Burke to the end of
time. The same cries of "order," "order," "chair," "chair," "go on,"
"go on," that are heard in our most tumultuous debates, in the
Assembly, were frequent in the course of the debate, and Mr. Burke was
unable, on account of the tumult, to proceed with his account of "the
horrible and nefarious consequences flowing from the French idea of the
rights of man." The debating continued for a number of days, and the
Bill was read a third time on the 18th of May. When the report of the
Bill in Committee was brought up, on the 16th of May, the House divided
upon an amendment by Mr. Fox, to leave out the clause of hereditary
nobility, which amendment was lost by an adverse majority of
forty-nine. It was then moved, in amendment to the Bill, by Mr.
Chancellor Pitt, that the number of representatives in the Assemblies
should be fifty instead of thirty, but that motion was also lost by an
adverse majority of fifty-one.

The government of Upper Canada was assumed by General Simcoe, on the
8th of July, 1792. He carried out with him to Upper Canada the Act
constituting it into a province, and on the 18th of September he was
enabled to meet his Parliament. The capital of the Province was at
Newark, now Niagara. The seat of Government, according to the Duke de
la Rochefoucault Liancourt, who visited it in 1795, consisted of about
a hundred houses, "mostly very fine structures." Governor Simcoe
apparently did not occupy one of them, but a "miserable wooden
house,"--formerly occupied by the Commissaries, who resided there on
account of the navigation of the lake,--his guard consisting of four
soldiers, who every morning came from the fort, to which they returned
in the evening. It is difficult even to guess at the appearance of the
Parliament building. Assuredly it did not require to be of great size.
When the time arrived for opening the Session, only two, instead of
seven members of the L