intained.

In a subsequent letter to Dr. Ryerson his brother John said:

In fact there is no way of escape out of our troubles but for you
to take the _Guardian_. The feeling of dissatisfaction at the
present state of things is becoming exceedingly strong among the
preachers and people. I participate in their feelings.

Dr. Ryerson yielded to these appeals, and did write for the _Guardian_.
In a letter, dated Kingston, April 4th, he said:--

I have recently written at considerable length to Lord Glenelg
respecting the Academy and other local matters. What you say in
regard to myself, and my appointment next year, I feel to be a
delicate and difficult matter for me to speak on. In regard to
myself I have many conflicting thoughts. My feelings, and private
interests, are in favour of my remaining where I am, if I remain in
the Province. I have been very much cast down, and my mind has been
much agitated on the subject. For the present I am somewhat
relieved by the conclusion to which I have come, in accordance with
Dr. Clarke's "Advice to a Young Preacher," not to choose my own
appointment, but after making known any circumstances, which I may
feel it necessary to explain, to leave myself in the hands of God
and my brethren, as I have done during the former years of my
ministry. If the Lord, therefore, will give me grace, I am resolved
to stand on the old Methodistic ground in the matter of appointment
to the _Guardian_.

I thank you for Chief Justice Robinson's address at the trial of
the prisoners. It is good. My own views are in favour of lenity to
these prisoners. Punishments for political offences can never be
beneficial, when they are inflicted in opposition to public
sentiment and sympathy. In such a case it will defeat the object it
is intended to accomplish. It matters not whether that sentiment
and sympathy are right or wrong in the abstract; the effect of
doing violence to it will be the same. But I would not pander to
that feeling, how carefully soever one may be disposed to observe
its operations. The fact, however, is, that Sir Francis Head
deserves impeachment, just as much as Samuel Lount deserves
execution. Morally speaking, I cannot but regard Sir Francis as the
more guilty culprit of the two.

I admire, as a whole, Sir George Arth