s from the New York
Book Concern--which amounts to more than I obtained in England,
besides the mortification and mental suffering which I experienced
in my most unpleasant engagements, notwithstanding the sympathy and
never-to-be-forgotten kindness of many of my fathers and brethren
of the parent Connexion.

FOOTNOTES:

[48] Sir J. Campbell, afterwards Chief Justice, and Sir R. M. Rolfe,
afterwards a Baron of the Exchequer.

CHAPTER XVII.

1836.

Publication of The Hume and Roebuck Letters.

In a letter from London, dated 29th April, 1836, Dr. Ryerson said:--

This day week I went to the House of Commons to hear the debates on the
motions relative to the Canadas, of which Messrs. Roebuck and Hume had
given notice. As Mr. Roebuck was about to bring forward his motion, the
House of 202 members thinned to 50 or 60 members. Under these
circumstances he postponed it for a week, in the hope that a sufficient
number of members would give him an opportunity to make a speech in
return for the L1,100 a year paid to him as Agent of "the poor and
oppressed Canadians." When Mr. Hume brought forward his motion there
were only 43 members present. I thought how much Canada was benefitted
by such men who could only command the attention of 50 out of the 658
members of the House of Commons! I know not a man more disliked and
despised by all parties in the House than is Mr. Roebuck--a man who has
been employed to establish (as he says in one of his letters to Mr.
Papineau) a "pure democracy in the Canadas." One of the serious
drawbacks to the credit and interests of our country, amongst public and
business men of all parties in England, is their supposed connection
with such a restless political cynic as Mr. Roebuck, and such an
acknowledged and avowed colonial separationist as Mr. Hume.

In regard to these proceedings of Messrs. Hume and Roebuck, Dr. Ryerson
writes, in this part of the Story of his Life, as follows:--

It was during the early part of 1836 that I was accosted by almost every
gentleman to whom I was introduced in England with words, "You in Canada
are going to separate from England, and set up a republic for
yourselves!" I denied that there was any such feeling among the people
of Canada, who desired certain reforms, and redress of grievances, but
were as loyal as any people in England.

After the Canadian elections of 1836, Dr. Charles Duncombe (afterwards
leader of the rebel