ons, and grossest abuse.

Dr. Ryerson had written to the Governor-General early in August on
several matters. He received a reply from Mr. Secretary Higginson on the
15th of that month. In it he says:--

The Governor-General looks forward to the pleasure of seeing you
soon, when he will have an opportunity of personally expressing his
warmest thanks for your admirable and unanswerable letters in
defence of the Queen's Government. His Excellency feels very much
indebted to you for the zeal and ability that enabled you to
perform, in so truly an efficient manner, the arduous task which
your patriotism and public spirit induced you to undertake. Upon
other important subjects adverted to in your letter, His Excellency
will be very happy to have personal communication with you when
you come down. Our object now is to complete the Council, as far as
may be practicable, without the body of the French party, who
doggedly refused to take part in any Administration of which
Messrs. Lafontaine and Baldwin are not members. Mr. William Smith,
of the Montreal Bar, accepts the Attorney-Generalship, for the
duties of which he is said to be well qualified. He is a Liberal in
politics, and has always been looked on as a friend of the French
party. The Hon. Mr. Morris is willing to take the
Receiver-Generalship, and I hope that Mr. W. H. Merritt will now
find himself at liberty to join the Council. The Crown Lands
Department will still remain unfilled; and perhaps it is well that
that door should be still kept open.

Mr. Billa [now Hon. Senator] Flint, of Belleville, in a letter dated
14th August, in correcting an error in one of Dr. Ryerson's Metcalfe
letters on a matter of fact, adds:--

I hope soon to read your pamphlet, but in not reading your letters
heretofore, I have been enabled to answer the attacks of your
enemies, not on the grounds of a consent, but upon other, and I
trust better ground, that of not condemning a man unheard, as is
the case in this part of the community, and as I have stated that
you must be near right from the fact that your enemies dare not
publish your productions.

With a view to aid Dr. Ryerson in his personal defence, Hon. Isaac
Buchanan wrote to him on the 22nd August, and said:--

As I think you may feel called on to answer the personal attacks
made