f these lands, is given as follows:--

Mr. Pitt (House of Commons, 12th May, 1791), said that he gave the
Colonial Government and Council power, under the instructions of
His Majesty, to distribute out of a sum arising from the tithes for
land or possessions, and set apart for the maintenance and support
of a Protestant clergy. Another clause (he said) provided, for the
permanent support of the Protestant clergy, a seventh portion of
the lands to be granted in future. He declared that the meaning of
the Act was to enable the Governor to endow and to present the
Protestant clergy of the established church to such parsonage or
rectory as might be constituted or erected within every township or
parish, which now was, or might be formed; and to give to such
Protestant clergyman of the established church, a part, or the
whole, as the Governor thought proper, of the lands appropriated by
the Act. He further explained that this was done to encourage the
established church; and that possibly hereafter it might be
proposed to send a Bishop of the established church to sit in the
Legislative Council. (Parl. Reg., vol. 29, pp. 414, 415.)[86]

Mr. Fox was entirely opposed to these arrangements. He said: By the
Protestant clergy, he supposed to be understood not only the clergy
of the Church of England, but all descriptions of Protestants....
That the clergy should have one-seventh of all grants, he must
confess, appeared to him an absurd doctrine. If they were all of
the Church of England, this would not reconcile him to the measure.
The greater part of these Protestant clergy were not of the Church
of England; they were chiefly Protestant dissenters.... We were, by
this Bill, making a sort of provision for the Protestant clergy of
Canada [of one-seventh of the land] which was unknown to them in
every part of Europe; a provision, in his apprehension, which would
rather tend to corrupt than to benefit them. (Hansard, vol. 29,
1791, page 108.)

I have carefully gone through the whole of the debate on this subject,
but I cannot find one word in it which would indicate that Mr. Pitt, Mr.
Fox, or Mr. Burke (the chief speakers), entertained the idea that
endowing the clergy had any political significance as a precautionary
measure for ensuring the loyalty of the inhabitants. The opinion wa