The defalcation--Tea Smuggling 396
Free navigation of the St. Lawrence demanded 397
Pettishness of the Lower Canada Assembly 398
Occupations Taxed in Upper Canada 399
Drawbacks on Importations 400
The Clergy Reserves 401
Parliament Closed--Tyranny of Maitland 402
The Bidwells and Brodeurs of U.C. 403
W. L. Mackenzie--Appearance and Character 404
Mackenzie Persecuted 405
Press Muzzlings 406
Sir J. Robinson--Patience and Oppression 407
Recall of Sir P. Maitland 408
Matthews--Willis--Robinson 409
The Gentry of Canada 410
The Literary and Historical Society 411
Departure of Lord Dalhousie 412

PREFACE.

The beauty of a book, as of a picture, consists in the grouping of
images and in the arrangement of details. Not only has attitude and
grouping to be attended to by the painter, and by the narrator of
events, but attention must be paid to light and shade; and the same
subject is susceptible of being treated in many ways. When the idea
occurred to me of offering to the public of Canada a history of the
province, I was not ignorant of the existence of other histories.
Smith, Christie, Garneau, Gourlay, Martin and Murray, the narratives
of the Jesuit Fathers, Charlevoix, the Journals of Knox, and many
other histories and books, were more or less familiar to me; but there
was then no history, of _all_ Canada from the earliest period to
the present day so concisely written, and the various events and
personages, of which it is composed, so grouped together, as to
present an attractive and striking picture to the mind of every
reader. It was that want which I determined to supply, and with some
degree of earnestness the self-imposed task was undertaken. My plan
was _faintly_ to imitate the simple narrative style, the
conciseness, the picturesqueness, the eloquence, the poetry, and the
philosophic spirit of a history, the most remarkable of any
extant--that of the world. As Moses graphically and philosophically
has sketched the peopling of th