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the suspension of the Habeas Corpus, I regret to say, was likewise lost by 
a very trifling majority. A strong sentiment now prevails that war 
is not likely to occur with the United States, which I believe tended to in- 
fluence the vote of the members. I mean of such who tho’ honest are 
by their ignorance easily betrayed into error.” ? 
Meanwhile Michael Smith, an itinerant Baptist preacher from 
Pennsylvania, who had beena resident of the London District since 1808, 
was busily engaged in collecting material for a description of the province 
for which he appears to have obtained the approval of Lieutenant 
Governor Gore. He had made arrangements for printing his book at 
Buffalo and much of the copy was ready when the war began and 
delayed publication but added material. Late in the autumn of 1812, 
Smith with other aliens who desired to leave the country was ordered 
from York to Kingston. On the 26th of December, he appeared before 
the Board of Examiners at the latter place and upon stating that he was 
a native of the township of Radnor in the county of Chester in Pennsyl- 
vania and although a resident of Upper Canada for more than three 
years, had never taken the oath of allegiance, received permission to 
return to the United States.’ 
In April 1813, his book was printed at Hartford, Conn. It was 
entitled “A Geographical View of the Province of Upper Canada and 
promiscuous remarks upon the government. In two parts with an 
appendix containing a complete description of the Niagara Falls and re- 
marks relative to the situation of the inhabitants respecting the war.” 
This little volume, of which a thousand copies were published, sold so 
readily that a second edition of three thousand copies was printed at 
New York a few months later.? 

1 Brock to Prevost, February 25, 1812, Can. Arch. C 676, p. 92. 
2 Proceedings of the Board of Examiners, December 26, 1812, Can. Arch. 
Sundries, U.C. 1812. 
8 In all Smith published six editions of his work which he diligently revised and 
expanded, and twenty thousand copies were printed. Their titles are as follows:— 
1. “A Geographical View of the Province of Upper Canada and promiscuous 
remarks upon the government. In two parts with an appendix containing a com- 
plete description of Niagara Falls and remarks relative to the situation of the in- 
habitants respecting the war. Hartford, printed for the author by Hale and Hosmer. 
1813.” Pp. V. and 101. The preface is dated at Winchester, April 16, 1813. 
2. A second edition under the same title with the addition of these words 
“and a concise history of its progress to the present day.” New York, printed for 
the author by Pelsue and Gould, August, 1813. Pp. 119. A few paragraphs at the 
end of the first edition commenting favorably on the conduct of the Indians were 
omitted and some minor changes made in the text elsewhere. 
