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<p>a public treasury well filled; and all this had<lb/> | |||
been done by the Dutch Governor Jansens,<lb/> | |||
without a shilling from the mother country for<lb/> | |||
several years, and while the trade of the colony<lb/> | |||
had been intercepted; yet that colony was<lb/> | |||
a constant drain on this country. In Ceylon<lb/> | |||
a was was carried on, which would, from<lb/> | |||
its commencement, cost the country one million<lb/> | |||
and a half. That morning advices had been<lb/> | |||
received from Lower Canada, that the<lb/> | |||
House of Assembly had refused to vote<lb/> | |||
the supplies proposed to them, stateing<lb/> | |||
that the internal improvement of the Province<lb/> | |||
is the first duty of the Legislature, and that<lb/> | |||
"that duty will be most efficiently performed<lb/> | |||
in reducing the overgrown bulk of the Civil<lb/> | |||
List of the Province, the progress of which, in<lb/> | |||
every species of public improvement, seems<lb/> | |||
to have been tardy, in the direct proportion of<lb/> | |||
the speed with which the expences have accumulated."<lb/> | |||
He was happy that the Assembly had done so; if they had not, the expenditure<lb/> | |||
of which they complained would<lb/> | |||
have destroyed all independance, and not a<lb/> | |||
word against the Government would have<lb/> | |||
been heard, except through the mouths of a<lb/> | |||
"factious Opposition".</p> | |||
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a public treasury well filled; and all this had
been done by the Dutch Governor Jansens,
without a shilling from the mother country for
several years, and while the trade of the colony
had been intercepted; yet that colony was
a constant drain on this country. In Ceylon
a was was carried on, which would, from
its commencement, cost the country one million
and a half. That morning advices had been
received from Lower Canada, that the
House of Assembly had refused to vote
the supplies proposed to them, stateing
that the internal improvement of the Province
is the first duty of the Legislature, and that
"that duty will be most efficiently performed
in reducing the overgrown bulk of the Civil
List of the Province, the progress of which, in
every species of public improvement, seems
to have been tardy, in the direct proportion of
the speed with which the expences have accumulated."
He was happy that the Assembly had done so; if they had not, the expenditure
of which they complained would
have destroyed all independance, and not a
word against the Government would have
been heard, except through the mouths of a
"factious Opposition".
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[[watermarks::I&M [Prince of Wales feathers] 1818]] |
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Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington |
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