worked, required
sharpening up. They had been handled. They had been in other hands than
his. They had apparently been rendered almost unfit for use. He would,
however, move for a call of the House, on the 21st of February. The
cards had been admirably shuffled. The Panets, Vanfelsons, Gugys,
Ogdens, Vezinas, Taschereaus, Malhiots, Cherriers, were all wonderfully
intermingled in an adverse vote. The motion was rejected by a vote of
23 nays to 10 yeas. Mr. Stuart tried the 20th of February. Still it
would not do. The Assembly had become suddenly tired of impeachments.
Again, the matter was tried on the following day, when the House
consented not to revive the impeachments but to reconsider the message
addressed to the Assembly on the 2nd of February last, by the late
Administrator-in-Chief. Mr. Stuart had some business to transact in
Montreal, and he left Quebec to attend to it. During his absence the
impeachments were forgotten; his measures were paralysed by _sub rosa_
negociation; Mr. Sewell was recompensed for the ill-treatment he had
experienced, and the government was relieved of anxiety. The Speaker of
the Assembly was informed that for this parliament as well as for the
last parliament he would be permitted to receive L1,000 a year, and
that Mr. Sewell, who, as Chief Justice, was Speaker of the Upper House,
might be recompensed for his ill-treatment, by the attachment of a
salary of L1,000 to an office which it was designed he should hold for
life. The Assembly, accordingly, applied to His Excellency to _allow_
their Speaker L1,000 a year, and to confer some signal mark of the
Royal favor on Dame Louise Philippe Badelard, widow of Mr. Speaker
Panet. His Excellency, the Governor, unhesitatingly complied with the
request of the Assembly, the more especially as on the request of the
Council he had consented to a similar salary being paid to their
Speaker, and he had further pleasure in authorising the payment of a
pension of L300 a year, to Dame Louise Philippe Badelard. The whole was
most cheerfully agreed to by all the parties interested, and thus was
the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada betrayed and dealt with for
the consideration of a few thousand pieces of silver. On the 17th of
March, Sir John Sherbrooke intimated by message that he had conferred
upon the two honorable Speakers the salaries of L1,000 each per annum.
Two days afterwards, Mr. Sherwood moved that the message of the late
Administrator-in-Chie