hat hereafter "no tithes shall be claimed, demanded, or
received by any ecclesiastical parson, rector or vicar, of the
Protestant Church within this Province."

[83] Observations on the Provision made for the Maintenance of a
Protestant Clergy in the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, under the
31st Geo. III., cap. 31. By John Strachan, D.D., Archdeacon of York,
Upper Canada, pp. 44. London, 1827.

[84] In a letter written by Dr. Ryerson in 1851, he criticised a similar
statement then made by Bishop Strachan. He pointed out that Washington
and other leaders of the revolution were staunch churchmen.

[85] In no part of Mr. Pitt's remarks on the Bill setting apart land for
the Protestant Clergy do I find any intimation of the kind mentioned by
Bishop Strachan. Governor Simcoe, however, held these views, which by
mistake the Bishop may have attributed to Mr. Pitt. (See next page.)--H.

[86] An Apology for the Church of England in the Canadas, etc. By a
Protestant of the Established Church of England. Kingston, U.C., 1826,
page 11.

[87] It was in the discussion on this Bill that the long personal
friendship which had existed between Fox and Burke was brought to an
abrupt termination.--H.

[88] In 1830, Presbyterian ministers not of the Church of Scotland,
were, on petition to that effect (signed by Rev. W. Smart, Moderator,
and Rev. W. Bell, Presbytery Clerk), placed on the same footing as the
ministers of the Kirk.--H.

[89] This was abundantly proved afterwards. In the following Parliament
an amended bill was carried, by a majority of one vote, in the House of
Assembly to place the proceeds of the reserves at the disposal of the
British Parliament. Petitions were at once sent to the Queen to induce
her to assent to this bill, and the Bishop went to England to present
them. Sir George Arthur also lent his aid for the same object. The
scheme failed, however, on technical grounds, but was successfully
revived the next year. (See _Guardian_ 1st January, 1840, and page
249.)--H.

CHAPTER XXIX.

1838.

The Clergy Reserve Controversy Renewed.

The question at issue, when the House of Assembly was elected in 1836
for the parliamentary term ending in 1839, was adroitly narrowed by Sir
F. B. Head to the simple one of loyalty to the Crown, or--as Dr.
Ryerson, in a letter to Hon. W. H. Draper (September, 1838), expressed
it--"Whether or not ... this Province would remain an integral part of
the British Empir