" The greatest enormity which Mr. Roebuck could lay to
tile cl arge of the Government was, that the Receiver-General of the province bad been a de- faulter to the extent of 100,000/. ; a circumstance that may ham a under any form of government, Republican as well as Monarchical."--- Coarirrs The Receiver- General was petted and patronized by the Govern- ment. No adequate measures were taken to compel him to refund the money he had purloined. The fact that out of so small a revenue as the Canadian, one of the officers of Government was suffered to appropriate 100,0001. to his own purposes, justified extre me jealousy on the part of the House of Assembly, in reference to the public money.
In reply to a long list of grievances relating to finance, ti e adminis- tration of justice, the misappropriation of public money, and the shutting up of public schools, all arising from the misrule of aft irre- sponsible faction, the Courier deems it sufficient to say-
" All these are perfectly general complaints, and relate, it is ph,in, to a new organization and new distribution of political power, and do not comprise one single personal grievance. They all turn on what Mr. Roebuck over and Over again called good gorernment."
General complaints, from their very nature, comprise a great many personal grievances ; and because they are general the rein edy should be extensive and radical. The mischiefs enumerated by Mn. Roebuck, arose from a vicious system ; and the only permanent eie e is to be found in substituting responsible for irresponsible govermint
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