Lord GOSFORD opened the session of the Parliament of Lower
Canada on the 22d of September. We subjoin the only passage of his speech which requires notice : it will be seen that his Ma- jesty wants money, and speaks fairly to the refractory Colonists, through his mouthpiece the Governor-in-Chief.
"Gentlemen of the House of Assembly—In compliance with the injunctions of his Majesty, I have again to recommend to your attention the Estimates for the current year. and also the accounts, showing the arrears due in respect to the civil Government, which were laid before you during the last session. The King has observed that you were induced in That session to grant Supplies only for six months, and to prefer the complaints contained in your address, appa- rently in consequence of the publication of a few detached passages from the in- structions to which I have alluded, and of inferences drawn from them, which a knowledge of their entire contents must be expected to remove. His Majesty thinks it therefore but just, that you should not be held to be committed to a course adopted under a misconception, but should have an opportunity of recon- sidering your conclusions, with the full information as to the views and intentions of his Government, which you will derive from the perusal of the whole of the documents to be laid before you ; and he trusts, upon your becoming acquainted with their general tenor and spirit, you will accede to the ap- plications which I made to you at the commencement of the last session, and which I am commanded now to renew, for payment of the arrears due on ac- count of the public service, and for the funds necessary to carry on the civil government of the province. That the business of Government cannot be car- ried on successfully whilst the salaries of the public servants remain unpaid, is too obvious, I hope, to leave room fur a suspicion on the mind of any one, that in making this renewed demand for the liquidation of these just claims, either his Majesty's Ministers in England, or I, who bear his delegated authority in this province, can have any views separate from the public good."
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