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anglais, et par la Gazette de Québec, « publié par autorité », étaient renvoyés par le Spectator au gouverneur même^[1]. Les autorités avaient cru voir « dans les écrits foudroyants qui paraissaient tous les jours dans le Canadian Spectator^[2] », l’idée fixe, le dessein formel et prémédité, de faire tomber dans le mépris et la haine du peuple l’administration du gouvernement et de la justice. Le grand-jury d’une cour d’Oyer et Terminer, tenue à Mont-réal, au commencement de novembre, avait rapporté comme fondés deux actes d’accusation pour libelle contre l’éditeur et l’imprimeur. Déjà des cours de justice avaient été exhortées, indirectement au moins, à juger d’une manière plutôt que d’une autre ; mais pour la première fois, peut-être, en Canada, on vit des jurés et des juges loués ou blâmés à outrance, en conséquence de leurs décisions. Les très estimables grands-jurés de la cour du banc du roi^[3], qui avaient rejetté tous

↑ “The official Gazette talks of the Speaker (of a House of Assembly) being an organ of “conciliation”… Is it conciliation with his Excellency ? What conciliation can be hoped for with an administration which for seven years had been violating the laws, violating the constitutional rights of the country ? Which has transacted with the ministers in England to declare against us, which has vowed an interminable war to our rights ; which has dishonored and defamed the Lieutenant Governor… which had refused communications of necessary documents on important subjects ; which had defamed, insulted, injured the représentative body… What hope of conciliation, remains with such an administration, which revives military ordinances against the plainest rules of legal construction, travels about thanking any half dozen of remote, fawning or designing individuals… There can be little doubt that such an administration will be considered as a nuisance by the Britisli Government, and that its own follies and misconduct will if the country co-operate with firm and décisive measures, speedily extinguish.” — 7 novembre.
↑ Comme dit le Spectateur Canadien.
↑ MM. Samuel Hatt, président, T. Blackwood, P. de Rocheblave, P. M’Giill, Jean Dessaulles, Adam L. Macnider, E. N. L. Dumont, John Molson, E. A. Laroque, J. Leslie, J. B. R. H. de Rouville, J. Miller, J. Deligny, L. Kidd, A. Fillion, J. Masson, W. Peddie, J. M’Gill-Desrivieres, George

[1] “The official Gazette talks of the Speaker (of a House of Assembly) being an organ of “conciliation”… Is it conciliation with his Excellency ? What conciliation can be hoped for with an administration which for seven years had been violating the laws, violating the constitutional rights of the country ? Which has transacted with the ministers in England to declare against us, which has vowed an interminable war to our rights ; which has dishonored and defamed the Lieutenant Governor… which had refused communications of necessary documents on important subjects ; which had defamed, insulted, injured the représentative body… What hope of conciliation, remains with such an administration, which revives military ordinances against the plainest rules of legal construction, travels about thanking any half dozen of remote, fawning or designing individuals… There can be little doubt that such an administration will be considered as a nuisance by the Britisli Government, and that its own follies and misconduct will if the country co-operate with firm and décisive measures, speedily extinguish.” — 7 novembre.

[2] Comme dit le Spectateur Canadien.

[p297-3] MM. Samuel Hatt, président, T. Blackwood, P. de Rocheblave, P. M’Giill, Jean Dessaulles, Adam L. Macnider, E. N. L. Dumont, John Molson, E. A. Laroque, J. Leslie, J. B. R. H. de Rouville, J. Miller, J. Deligny, L. Kidd, A. Fillion, J. Masson, W. Peddie, J. M’Gill-Desrivieres, George

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