tent by silencing complaint.

These, with a reference to the embarrassed financial condition of the
Province, were the chief points to which Dr. Ryerson called the
attention of the Colonial Secretary in this elaborate letter.

On the 22nd of the same month (May) Dr. Ryerson addressed another
vigorous letter to Lord Normanby, on the clergy reserves and kindred
questions. "That letter," he says, he writes "with feelings which he has
no language to express."

The main points of the letter were as follows:--

1. For thirty years (up to 1820) nothing was heard of an ecclesiastical
establishment in the Province: all classes felt themselves equally free,
and were, therefore, equally contented and happy.

2. From the first open and unequivocal pretensions to a state
establishment being made, the inhabitants of Upper Canada, in every
constitutional way, have resisted and remonstrated against it.

3. Every appropriation and grant to the Episcopal clergy out of the
lands and funds of the Province has been made in the very teeth of the
country's remonstrance.

4. The utter powerlessness of the representative branch of the
Legislature has rendered the officers and dependents and partizans of
the Executive more and more despotic, overbearing, and reckless of the
feelings of the country.

5 This most blighting of all partizanship has been carried into every
department of the Executive Government--the magistracy, militia, and
even into the administration of justice. Its poison is working
throughout the whole body politic; it destroys the peace of the country;
rouses neighbour against neighbour; weakens the best social affections
of the human heart, and awakens its worst passions; and converts a
healthy and fertile province into a pandemonium of strife, discontent,
and civil commotion.

6. While upwards of $220,000 (besides lands) have been given to the
Episcopal clergy since 1827, the grants made by the Imperial Parliament
to the clergy of Upper Canada amount to over $400,000, being over
$620,000 in all.

7. A very large sum has been expended in the erection of Upper Canada
College, on the grounds of King's College, and with an endowment of
$8,000 or $10,000 a year. This institution is wholly under the
management of Episcopal clergymen, while the Upper Canada Academy, which
has been built at Cobourg by the Methodists at a cost of about $40,000,
could not without a severe struggle get even the $16,000 which were
directed to