said Jonathan Sewell had counselled and
advised Sir James Henry Craig to remove and dismiss divers loyal and
deserving subjects, from offices of profit and emolument--now the head
and front of Mr. Sewell's offending has come nebulously to
light--without the semblance of reason to justify it; that to mark his
contempt for the representatives of the people and for the
constitution, he had procured the dismissal of Jean Antoine Panet,
Esquire, who then was, and for fifteen years preceding had been Speaker
of the Assembly, from his rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the militia,
without any reason to palliate or excuse the injustice; that he had
induced P. E. Desbarats, the law printer, to establish a newspaper
styled the "Vrai Canadien," for the purpose of vilifying such members
of the Assembly as were obnoxious to him; that with the view of
extinguishing the liberty of the press, and destroying, therefore,
effectually, the rights, liberty, and security of His Majesty's
subjects in the province, and suppressing all complaint of oppression,
he had, in March, 1810, advised and approved the sending of an armed
force to break open the dwelling house and printing office of one
Charles Lefrancois, there to arrest and imprison him, and seize and
bring away a printing press, with various private papers, which measure
of lawless violence was accordingly executed, the said press and papers
being then in the Court House of Quebec, with the knowledge and
approbation of the said Jonathan Sewell; that Jonathan Sewell had
advised the arrest of Messrs. Bedard, Blanchet and Taschereau, upon an
unfounded pretext; that Jonathan Sewell had instigated the oppression
of the old and infirm Francois Corbeil, by which the old man lost his
life; that Jonathan Sewell had instigated Sir James Henry Craig to
issue a proclamation causing the public to believe that Mr. Bedard had
been guilty of treason, and that the province was in a state
approaching to open rebellion; that Jonathan Sewell had read the wicked
proclamation in the Court House, to influence the Grand and Petty
Juries; that Jonathan Sewell had abused his powers simply with the view
of paving the way for American predominance in Canada; that with the
view of annexing Canada to the United States he had entered into a base
and wicked conspiracy with one John Henry, an adventurer of suspicious
character, for the purpose of sowing dissension among the subjects of
the government of the United States,