and producing a dismemberment of
the Union; and had given artful advice to Sir James Craig, inducing him
to send Henry, the adventurer, on a secret mission, which had exposed
His Majesty's government to imputations reflecting on its honor, and
that he had labored to promote disunion between the legislative Council
and Legislative Assembly, and had fomented dissensions in the province
to prevent a reliance on the loyalty and bravery of His Majesty's
Canadian subjects. Mr. Chief Justice Monk was impeached as an
accessory.

With the view of effectually prosecuting the impeachment, the House
appointed Mr. Stuart its agent, and directed him to proceed to England,
to press upon His Majesty's ministers the necessity of giving heed to
the business. L2,000 were awarded for the payment of the expenses of
Mr. Stuart, but the Council expunged the award from the revenue bill,
and there was no more about it, until the House went to the Castle with
their Speaker, who presented an address to the Governor General,
requesting him to transmit the impeachments, and suggested the
propriety of the Chief Justices being suspended from the exercise of
their powers until the pleasure of the Prince Regent could be
ascertained. Sir George Prevost was somewhat taken by surprise. He was
in an exceedingly delicate or rather interesting situation. It was an
unpleasant, if not a disagreeable part, which he was required to play.
It was, in a word, to make complaint to the Prince Regent of his
predecessor. Sir George, however, blandly said that he would take an
early opportunity of transmitting the address, with the articles of
accusation against the Chief Justices, to His Majesty. With regard to
the suggestion of the Honorable House of Assembly, concerning the
suspension of the Chief Justices, he did not consider it necessary to
go to that extreme. The Legislative Council had not even been consulted
with regard to the articles of accusation; and he could not think of
suspending two officers of such rank, on the complaint of only the
third branch of the legislature.

In the Assembly, when the Speaker had returned to the chair, there were
murmurs, both loud and deep. Mr. James Stuart, seconded by Louis Joseph
Papineau, both determined men, and of consummate ability, moved that
the charges exhibited by the Assembly against Jonathan Sewell and James
Monk, Esquires, were rightly denominated, Heads of Impeachment; that
the House had the right to advise the