tt t kingston chmonicie1 nec rege nec populo sed utroque woia x saturday june 6 1829 noxlix poetry f isle of beauty shades of evening close not oer us leave our lonely bafk awhile morn alas will not restore us yonder dim and distant isle still my fancy can discover sunny spots wbere friends may dwell darker shadows round us hover isle of beauty fare tbee well i tis the hour when happy faces smile around the tapers light who will fill our vacant places who will slog our 6ougs to night j through the mist that floats above us faintly sounds the vesper bell like a voice from those who love us breathing fondly fare thee well when the waves are round me breaking as i pco the deck alone and my eye in vain is seeking some green leaf to rest upon what would i not give to winder where my old companions dwell absence makes the heart grow fonder isle of beauty fare thee well for the kingston chronicle wn4pa watchman- jo x pro patkia i k tkt late session of the provincial parlia ment contihoed it is in proof by several deeds of estates it is immaterial whether before or after thecouquesl that the religous living in tl seminary of montreal are merely nrgotio rum gestores they aresodes ribed iu seve ral instruments of conveyance which mr maze res has perused in the course of busi ness these conveyers are said to bo fondex de la procuration de messiturcs ks ecclcsiistiquts du scminuire de st sulpict a paris it appears according to m lo binierfts own words that before the con quest the seminary of st sulpice at paris was a voluntary partnership among a num ber of clergy at paris who had engaged to gether iu buying aud selling that the joint house tt muutreal bad a share iu the joint house at paris iu a sort of mercantile way and an open account that after the con quest they dissolved the partuiship be cause the house at paris could not have a- ny right after the conquest in the effects and estates incauada they at paris says mr l trausferred what therefore they could not transfer having at that period as he admits oo property in the estate and only a share the whole ju moutreal to the religious there who probably were nl vraisemblablement says mr lmhbiuiere attornies of those at paris aud this was done by the latter upon paying a compen sation being the difference ofthe acount upou a balance thishfter all is out din as he says he has heard and believes and it stands against the evidence of mr- ma zeres if it were contradictory but it ap proves manifestly that the religious at montreal haveonly a coloured and osten- geutlotuan of undoubted veracity and knowledge who having had trausactioiis with puttier magulphi ihe hereon acting in the colony for the community of st sul- 1 pice at paris with a view to some pur chase the real proprietors were forced to l come forward and the uncertainty of the i title broke off the negotiation the evi dence of charlevoix also may be added in 1637 says he thcabho iuelus te turn ed with the deputies of the semiuary of st f sulpice at paris to take possession of the j island of montreal and to found a seining- l ry there by the french law it is clear i that no persons aliens not being natural- ized can hold lands so that by right of conquest agreeahle to mr lothbiuirres own idea for want of owners domiciled at the lime of the conquest these estates may be understood in poiut of law to he fallen to the crow in right of so vereigntt we have thus we think also made out a clear and strong case against the assem bly so far as respects their pretended right ofsuperintendance over the church or se minary of st sulpice at moutreal we have proved that whatever the alarm of the assembly may be iu consequence of the reports spread abroad in relation lo tlis subject the crown has a just right both by conquest and inheritance not only to enter into any negotiations that it may think proper with the present occupiers of be temporal property of the seminary but to assume the actual possession of that property with as little delay as the forms of legal proceedings can adroit of when this is done the assembly will find how vain and weak it is in them to presume to arbi trate gratuitously in entry matter and thing io which the rights of the crown or the in terests of the subject may be concerned this perhaps is one of those claims which sir george murray does not conceive ought to be yielded to the assembly or their ad herents at least we have no doubt it will be found to be so the long run connected with this subject are the re solu voted hy the a with the house in committee passed he following resolutions which were report ed to the house and concurred in and an address voted to his excellency founded on thens respect co the waste lands of the crown in the neighbourhood and district of three- rivers these lands but espftially that part of them comprised iu the lease of the forges of st maurice seem a great eye sore to the house of assembly but the reason is obvious perhaps the assembly cfrnceive that their electioneering influence is not sufficiently extensive in that part of the country yet without havitig re course to mr armours montreal alma nack the only book of the kind iu the pro vince worth referring to we believe that the solicitor general is the only con stitutional member returned by three rivers but that is enough the house has often felt the weight of mb ogoens metal it has too long been writhing under it and too frequently bleoched from the force of his opposition and raillery we are not however sufficiently acquaiuted with the village politicks of that part of the province to enable us to go into de tails it is enough for us to know that nothiug which the art the iut igue or the perseverence of a faction can effect will be left untried by the assembly io order to gain possession of all the influence and power vested by the constitution aud the rights of conquest iu the crown the reso lutions set forth that there is a good scar- c ity ofundinthe neighbourhood of three k iyer a i that nothing has teudod more to i niev the progress of industry and a- jcratuunw iu lb jistril of three itivers than the obstacles presented to the settle ment of the crownlands but in particu lar those comprised iu the lease of the for ges now nothing can be more absurd illfounded than such a statement compare for a moment the amount of the population of the district in question with the extent of its territory and you will see at a glaure that were the population a hundred times more ban it is there would be an adequate and sufficient quau- tiy of lauds without luy interference with the crownlauds find those belonging to the forges which is a mere bagatelle compa ratively speakiug look abroad towards the townships and behold the vast extent of unconceded territory lying waste and idle tiiere but the crowded population of three rivers will not travel so far the roads are too bad and that demon of the woods judge fletcher will immolate on the alter ot justice every man who does not properly respect the laws i oh no the canadians must have lauds at their doors whenever they want them they must not they cannot leave the old seiguioral neigh bourhood they must have the ancient te nure and les secours de la religion and the cures themselves like true pastoral guardians cannot consent to a separation from their flock as any one who peruses their letters to the special committee of the house of assembly on the crown lands will clearly see do any of the labouring classes go and establish themselves in the townships conceded in freeand common soccage and if they do not to what cause do you attribute it 1 say the assembly many of my young men answers the cure of st anne go and establish them selves in the seigniories of the districts of monti eal and three rivers but 1 know of none who have established themselves in the townships tins i attribute in ray humble opinion to two principal rea sons first because of the distance they ble that such a law should sometimes he prejudicial to the preservation of society stop the progress of colonies divert them from the end of their destination and era- lands in districts already overpeopled ami really where there are no lands to he giv en away on the part of the crown whate ver may be said of the seignories bute- i dually pave the way to their ruin strange ven if there had been such waste land we at it may seem this law is no other than the equal division of estates among chil dren or coheirs this law so consonant to nature ought to be abolished in aoieri- ca this division was necessaiy at the first formation of colonies immense tracts of iauds were to he cleared this could not he done without people nor could men who had quitted their owu couutry for want be any otherwise fixed in those distant aud than by assigning them a ask desert regions resolved 1 that throughout tie great er part of tne tract of country on the north side of lb river st lawrence extending from about five leagues above to about five leagues below the town or borough of threerivers the lauds conceded settled and partly under cultivation he within the distauceof ouo league or less from the said river reckoning from the bank thereof to the rear oflhe said lands and that the con cessions exteud to a somewhat greater distance only iu the fiefs aud seiguiores of tonoaucuur or point du lac of cap mag- deleine aud champlain o- fllf ttin ttnt kfrttt7 rt mi1i side of the river lying in the rear of iho lands now conceded settled and partly cultivated in the vicinity of threerivers and iu the seigniores aforesaid there is found immediately adjacent a tract of land of more than sixty square leagues which would he susceptible of being cleared culti vated and settled if it were conceded to the inhabitants and actual settlers of the vi cinity of threerivers who have for a long time past prayed for grants of laud iu the said tract aud who have up to the present time vainly endeavoured to obtain them 3 that the ohstacles presented to the settlement and cultivation of this tract of laud have essentially impeded the progress of industry and above all that of agricul ture iu the district of three rivers and ofthe resources of the town or borough of threerivers in particular 4 that one of the most powerful of these obstacles is the great extent of land comprised in the iease of the forges of st maurice 5 that it is necessary to take immedi ate steps for the removal of the obstacle to the granting and clearing of this tract 6 that it would be expedient to adopt measures to promote the settlement of that portiou of the province lying north of quebec now under the name ofthe kings posts now uncultivated by making grants to actual settlers and for the purpose cf encouraging free trade and industry there in mr viger reported the following an swer from his excelleucy to the address ou the subject of the waste and unconceded lauds in the leases of the forges of st maurice and kings posts gentlemen having every desire to promote the cul tivation and improvementof the province you will assure the house of assembly that my attention shall be given to the re moval as far as may depend on me of any impediments that may appear to me to exist to the formation of new settlements in the tracts of land meutioned in this ad dress castle of st lewis march 3d 1829 j vide letters des cures printed by the assembly in 1623 would find themselves from religious as- property had the government refused sistance its secours dt la religion and sccoudly because ofthe tenure and con ditions of the concessions in free and com mon soccage the cure of st joachin after alluding to the utter privation in the townships of all religious assistance says because as things are there they could not have a catholic establishment hut it would not he s were these crown lands conceded in fjkfrs the cure ofnarville reports that many are afraid of taking lands in the tiwnships from the dread of expatriating themselves the words which a cure of the name of painchaud puts into the mouth of his people are ie- markahle it christian prud n e thus to expose the aatwtifon of our children 1 l iiuiiii utttiir vvi wl vvt 1 p iv fy tko protestants and every disadvantage r us let us no longer he mid that the government isjustano impartial the cure of st rochdes autnets says we should have co submit lo pass our whole life among strangers brought up dtfcrently from ourselves aud possessing a different religion from ours n we would rather see our children always poor or at a vfeat distance from us if only settled in a gvigniorie than to see idem loaded nith jrhes in the midst of such dangers to their education and religion the canadians u not settle in the townships says the cure of st genieve until they can iip assured of having french canadians for neighbours with whom they could freely communicate the cure of boucher- vitle says thatthe canadians must not be drowned among too great a number of strangers the cure of st leon speaks tiddly and without reserve alluding to tha times previous to the conquest he characterizes them as those happy lilies that golden age of canada we jcifotv qot how old this venerable father of tlf church maybe but we presume that like the apostle paul he was bom as a mm out of due season in those happy dnys continues he the colonuts were attached to their kiug and country hot dw it is quite the contrary vie shall only add the words of oue more cure ivlio says the few young meu wlo tke new lauds prefer them close to tl eir pa rents and friends however bad tuesoil to gvtnt them lands they would have wan dered about from oue place to another they would bave begun to establish vari ous settlements aud have had the disap pointment to find that noue of them would attain to that decree of prosperity as to he- come useful to the mother couutry 11 but since inheritances too extensive at first have in proces of time been reduc ed by a series of successions aud by the suhdviaious of shares to such a compass as renders them fit tofacilitite cultivation since tliey have been so limited as uotto lie fallow for want ofbands pioportiouahle to their extent a further division of lands would again reduce ihem to nothing iu fii rope uu obscure man who has hut a few acres of land will mano that little os- tatc more advauugcous to inm lu propor tion than an opuleut man will the im mense property he is possessed of either by inheritance or chance in america the uature ofthe productions which were very valuable the uncertainty of the crops which are but few iu their kiud the quanti ty of slaves of cattle of utensils necessa ry for plantation all this require a large stock which they have not io tome and will soou waut in alt the colonies if the lands are parcelled cut and dirideu more and more by hereditary succession if a lather leaves au estate of thirty thousand litres or 1312 10s sterling a year and this estate is eqally divided be tween three children they will be ruined if they make three distiuct plantations the oue because he has beeu made te pay too much for the buildings and because he has too few negroes aud too little laid iu pro portion the other two because diey must build before they cau begiu upon fie culture of theii laud they will all ifl equally ruined il the whole plantation runaius iu the hands oi oue of the three li a coun try where a creditor is in a wirse stale than any other man estates havi risen to au immoderate value the possessor of the whole will be very fortunate if he is obliged to pay uo more fonuered than the net produce of the plautaiion now as die primary law of oor uature k the pro curing oi subsistence he ill bego by pro curing that without paying ns debts those will accumulate aud he v ill soou would the cauadiuos accept of grants in free and common soccage t by oo means they must have them en seigneurie or not have them at all but we trust that wbeu the crown comes to dispose of its lands it will never do so by this barbarous and ruinous tenure it cannot have a better warning in this respect than in the disincli nation of the seigniors themselves to eou- cede new lands knowing when a vassal deserts his farm the difficulty and expence of reinvesting themselves io their proper ly the latter almost in every cae a- mounting to ten or twelve pounds we repeat that we hope the crowu will never expose itself to such a destructive system as this and thai instead of doing so every possible meaos will be pursued for estab lishing a system of laws more conducive to the settlement of the proviuce and more consonant to the views of an enlightened and enterprizing people with regard in particnlarto the landscom- prized iu the lease ofthe forges of st mau rice nothing can be moreide wanton than to claim them for general indiscriminate distribution even were the soil as fertile as that of icden works of this kind can not be carried on without a great extent of territory containing both ore and fuel and as the forces of st maurice are the only permanent auf respeemuie uihuumi o of the kind in these provinces on an exten sive scale every facility and encouragement ought to he afforded to an undertaking so stupendous supposing then the lands around the forges to be setlled how are the proprietors to find ore aud firewood to make their charcoal and carry on all their necessary operations on a given lot of ground on which perhaps neither ore uor timber is to be found promttfuus and vulcan might iudecd carry on the business without such necessary materials but we do not ihink that the honourable matthew betthasas yet made any pretentions to equal the gods in power and invention ii is enough for him to keep the v orks iu op eration by human means alone without aiming at impossibilities it is very true that in all concessions of land the crown reserves to itself any mines or minerals that may be found thereon but iu the event of the lands iu question being settled who is to secure to the owner of the forges the peacea ble oiseasion uninterrupted enjoyment of new gaelic periodical to the editor of the montreal herald sir i enclose the pospectusof gaelic otund projected by tjie v rev principal band and to be con ducted by the rev or mleod of campsie and di dewar of lilusgow the distinguished talents o these gen tlemen and above all the heartfelt in terest which they have ever manifested in the improvement of the highland po pulation of great britain justly lead us io form the hghest expectation of iho literary character of ihe work and its- complete accommodation io the wants and the feelings of those for whom ii i intended sucli a journal cannot fail to be especially useful ro ibose who have emigrated from the h gmands of scoi- lindtothe british provinces of nols america itiuy of whom fionihe un favourable circumstances attending re cently settled countries must necessari ly be piecludedm a great measure fon religous and moral instruction commu nicated through oiher channels than the press the gaelic ournm cm- brucing subjects lending to promote iheir best interests suited loheir cbaraceia and habits connected w h their erlt- i mat bk i what a dreadful system of ignorance prejudice and bigotry is this is it ere any other couutry under heaven wbere such a become insolvent aud the confusion con sequent upon such a situation will end iu the ruin ol the whole family the only way to remedy these disor- coukl be tolerated isil pes- j dcrs is io abolish the equality of the divi- state of thing stole that this province cau prosper w such is the spirit that governs at once ile the people aud their instructors 3 they will have uo lauds at a distance butmutbe presented with them at the doors of iheir fathers and that en stigtiiort what ap athy what indolence what thoroughgo siouolland in this eulighteucd asegovern- meui should see ihj necessity of letting the colonies be note stocketl with tliiugs ihau with neu the wisdom of the legislature will doubtless find out some compensation for those it has injured and in some mea sure sacrificed the welfare ofthe commuji- ingindinerence to enterprise and indepevi- ty- they ought to be placed on fttsh denre whilst thousands from other coun tries cross seas aud traverse comments abandon forever the country of their birth the soil of their fathers their religion their laws and all the endearing ties v kindred and friendship in search of what the ca nadians refuse and despise even in their own native country aud at their doois this has been the bane of this province ever since il has been a proviuce afraid to lose sight oflhe hearth whereon they lands anil to subsist by their own labo liis is the only way to maintain this sh of men aud their industry would ope a fresh source of wealth io the slate this is true philosophy yet the system it deprecates is that which ohtaius through out the whole of the seignorial lands in this province aud however desirable rtio attempt has hitherto ever beeu made iby the introduction of primogeniture laws wi otherwise to get rid cf an incubus which were born the people have burrowed to- retards industry and presses he people to tether on the margins of the lakes and ri- i the very dust but besdes the evil etleru vers like so mauy rabbits iu a warrenuntil of this law in respect of industry aud colli- the community has at last become so nume rous as to leave little more room for a fami ly than the area of the wretched hut which shiehlsthem from the inclemency ofthe wea ther nor ill auy thing iuduce them to re move to a distance in order to make room or one another and establish their families on a new aud wider range of iudusiry and en- terprize nothing ministers more to this unfortunate state of things than that hide ous and destructive law of put tit ion which prevails in the country a law which at once annihilates the moderate laudable am bition ntural to man and that spirit of ho nesty freedom and independence ofseiguo- rial and ecclesiastical rule which should ever characterize an agricultural people and a law which we siucereiy regret has out been more particularly referred lo by the true friends of cauada in the late dis cussion of our affairs iu parliament- all writers agree in deprecating this law and nothing has been more detrimental to the french colonies as au obstacle to the clearing and cultivation of more lands than the law of partition as it now exists in this province its injurious effects are so strongly painted by the abbe raynal that we cannot refrain from citing his opinion and observations at large as conclusive on the subject 11 it is scarce credible that a law seem ingly dictated by nature a law which oc curs instantly to every just and good man which leaves uo doubt on the mind as to vatiou its demoralizing consequences are doubly alarming there are many parish es and seignories iu ibis proviuce which twenty or thirty years ago were occupied these mines and minerals as well as ready access to them the crown in all the might of its power and prerogative could notdo this without having recourse to a process so tedious and measures so dilato ry as al once to ruin the works and destroy their acknowledged utility iu the couotry hut fortuuatcly the seutiments of the crowu are uo more iu uuison with those of the assembly with respect to this sub ject than many others and iheiuegrily ofthe lands around st maurice has ever been an object of cure aud attention on the part of government fci very govei uor who comes to the couutry is instructed to this effect this the assembly are well aware of for their owu journals hear wit ness of the fact and therefore no one can be at a loss todiscoverat ooce the iu solence aud impudence of their beggarly addresses with respect to these lands the following are the instructions to lord dorchester aud though we have no ac cess to the archives at quebec yet we be lieve we are correct in asserting that the present instructions are iu the same terms and whereas it appears from the repre sentations of our late governor of the dis trict of threerivers thatthe iron works of saint maurice in that district are of great consequence to our service il is therefore our will and pleasure that no tart of the lauds upon which the said iron works were carried on or from which the ore used in such works are procured or which shall appear to he necessary aud convenient for lhat establishment or for producing a necessary supply of wood coru and hay or for pasture for cattle be granted to auy private person whatever and also that as large a district of land as conveniently may be adjacent to any ly- above what may hove purposes be by a sober iudustvious and moral yeomau- round 9fti jroq works 0 ry who are now m consequence of the partition laws infested with a rabble pea santry the most dissolute dissipated and iudoleut a brood of young rascals who are too lazy to work and too proud to beg who destroy the peace of society by the evil effects of idle habits and break the the hearts of their very parents by claims the most wauton and unjust upon their lands and other property we appeal to every lawyer in the province whether it is not a common thing and almost a mat ter of every days occurrence to see father and son mother aud daughter in hostile and opposing attitudes on either side ofthe bar if this system continue by the young men ofthe country beio either prevented or discouraged from establishing themselves at a distance from their fathers on free aud common soccage lands this province from being the most peaceful and moral in the british empire will become the most wretched riotous aud mendicant in truth the partition laws is a school of immorali ty and mendicity neither ireland nor italy can be compared to us we shall outstrip hem both in all the vices peculiar to au overcrowded and povertystrikeu population wherefore then all this noise and da- i i s is s c i p ne he necessary for the a- reserved for our use to he disposed of in such manner as we shall hereafter direct and appoint we think it would be quite superfluous to say more oo tbistopick we have already said somewhat on the subject ofthe education and were about to treat of it more at large in this placein defence of the royal institution from the calumnies of the house of assembly hut at the moment the quebec gazette of the 16th of april containing a most able and excellent document on ihis subject was put into our hands which we make uo apolo- for preusenting entire to our readers they will learn from it that there is no institu tion however pure and respectable no characters however sacred unimpeach able that cau escape the malice aud deri sion of the assembly ill the country never learn the exteut and danger ol the pretensions of this faction the follow ing is the substance of the document allu ded to as addressed by ihe board of the royal institution to his excellency sir jahes kemt to be continued b m recollect ons u presented in a language on many ac counts dear to ihein and which ihey best understand if extensively ciicn- i tiled wll evienly contribute greatly to the removal of m my disadvantages under wheh the h ghland settlers in these piovnces laboui and will lend o piesuive that attachment to their country thu loyalty to their king that vcneiiuion for iheir religion which form so prominent features in their cha racter the first number was io have been issued on the first day of may ind i bave no doubt its appearance w i be hailed with joy not only by the highlander in his native glens but by his no less destitute countrymen in ihe forests of british america conceiving thatthe above prospec tus must be interesting to a numerous class of your readers hope you will give it a place in your extensively cir culated journal and i shall feel oblig ed also o the editor of any other pa per who in this respect will imitate your example and perform what i conceive io be a benefit to many of our country men i am st your obeoient servant alex matheson by advices of the 24th march there was then ready for publication a sketch bouk collection in the gae lic edited by ihe rev dr mleod and undertaken at the request of the general assembly for the use of ihe vuefre schools ibose who wish to order some copies of the sketch book or io become subscribers lo the gaelic journd will be so good as to intimate iheir intention as early as possible to the rev alex matheson minister of st andrews church montreal the price of the sketch book has not been yel ascertained here- tkn into ac count the average rate of exchange the difference of currency and ihe expens es of importation it is estimated that the journal and sermons will not exceed one shilling currency if a sufficient number of subscribers be obtainedmea- sureswill be taken oinsurethe ry in canada nearly as regularly as they are published in britain should this notice meet the eye of ihe rev james ngregor the author of some gaelic poems hymns mr matheson would be happy to learn where to address a letter to mr m- greeor montreal 27th may 1829 vide journals of the assembly for 1823 appendix t prospectus of a gaelic journal and notice of original gaelic sermons to be publish ed monthly the highlands and islands of scot land are computed to contain a populati on of upwards of 400000 of whom most speak the gaelic language of the latter number a very large propor- liou has by the efforts of education societies been taught to read their na tive tongue but from the total want of a gaelic literature and from their ignorance ofthe english language ihey have hitherto been excluded from every source of instruction by books the proposed journal has been piojected by the rev principal baird of edinburgh in the hopt of contributing to the re moval of so great a disadvantage from this large and valuable population the plan ofthe journal now an nounced will be carefully adapted lo ihe present state ofthe people for whom it is intended it will consist of a se- a