ciety in England; that the Canada Conference assumed no
responsibility in regard to the funds necessary to support these
missions; and that, in point of fact, they had cost the British
Methodists thousands of dollars over and above any grant received
from Lord Goderich as part of the general scheme for the support of
missionaries in the extended British Colonies.

Dr. Ryerson, in concluding these explanations, adds:--

We trust that every reader clearly perceives the unparalleled
parliamentary imposition that has been practised upon the public by
the "Grievance Committee," and their gross insinuations and
slanders against the Methodist ministers.

In 1836, the Report of the Grievance Committee came up in the House
again. On this subject Rev. John Ryerson wrote in March, 1836, to Dr.
Ryerson, in London, as follows:--

The altercations and quarrels which have taken place in the
Assembly this session on the part of Peter Perry and W. L.
Mackenzie, especially about the "Grievance Report," have raised you
much in the estimation of the people. The correctness of your views
and statements are now universally acknowledged, and your defamers
deserted by all candid men. Political things are looking very
favourable at the present time. The extremer of the Radical party
are going down headlong. May a gracious Providence speed them on
their journey!

To Mr. Perry, Dr. Ryerson replied fully and explicitly. He said:

Mr. Perry has charged me with departing from my former ground in
regard to an ecclesiastical establishment in Upper Canada. My
editorials and correspondence with Her Majesty's Government will be
considered conclusive evidence of the falsity of the charge, and
will again defeat the attempts of the enemies of Methodism to
destroy me and overthrow the Conference. Another cause of attack by
Mr. Perry is, that amongst several other suggestions which I took
the liberty to offer to Lord Glenelg, Colonial Secretary, was the
appointment of a certain gentleman of known popularity to the
Executive Council. Mr. Perry seemed to consider himself as a sort
of king in Lennox and Addington, and appears to regard it as an
infringement upon his sovereign prerogatives that I should be
stationed so near the borders of his empire as Kingston. But many
of his constituents can bear