JB/008/137/001

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1827 Sept. 10
Canada Petition

Written by Bowring 2 Oct. 1827.
There are Packets sailing
from Liverpool to New York
on the 1st: 8th, 15th & 22 of every
month. Bolton Ogden & Co
of Liverpool will send any
packets forward in my name.
This house at New York is
Ogden Ferguson & Co: who
are remarkably attentive
to any application.

Commencement

We, your Majesty, subjects of Upper and Lower
Canada beg leave to approach your Majestys the throne
with all reverence and in all humility to state our grievances
to approach your Majesty's throne, with the statement
of our grievances sufferings and the humble suggestion of the only
applicable effectual remedy.

It In by is by you Majesty personal character: by your Majestys constantly but of late more constantly
exemplified that they have been thus emboldened, thus to speak.
For this long time past
Distance from your
Majestys paternal
eyes of have subjected been subjecting
us to an enormous list
of grievances. All along
they have been growing,
till at length they are the weight
grown too heavy to of them is become too
bear oppressive to be
endured.

☞ Then go on to state the grievances under heads
without entering into details much detail.

☞ Consider of the order in which they may most clearly
and impressively expressed

☞ Consider whether for distinctness it may not be of use
to prefix a number to each head.

Then after praying emancipation in the least offensive
tones, and disdaining, in terms of purposed obscurity not offensive to the St's the design
or wish to join their Union, and undertaking to provide pensions of retreat for all civil
functionaries conclude this.

Conclusion

.... the image of Your Majesty Majesty's august person in the Chamber
of our Assembly will present to the view of the hold up to the admiration of the latest posterity
a Monarch by whom the first example of
magnanimity, in this most exalted and extensively
beneficial of all imaginable shapes, will ever have
been displayed.

☞ Last speak of rights nor of emancipation, in the government:
if of deliverance, only let it only be from the sufferings
produced by the functionaries on the spot.

Speak of detaching this province from the his Majesty's British Empire – disburthening
the Empire of it.

Identifier: | JB/008/137/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1827-09-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	137	Info in main headings field	canada petition
Image	001	Titles	commencement / conclusion
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	sir john bowring	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	3241
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