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3s, 6d. for every kicking, and 5s for every horsewhipping: and it is 

 further Resolved, that an Address of condolence be presented to our 

 loyal and patriotic captain George Hamilton, for the additional loss 

 recently sustained in the wreck of his curricle, on the road between 

 Belleville and little York, from want of his horses having the accom- 

 plishment he so elegantly recommends "of giving a long pull, a strong 

 pull and a pull both together" which deprived this committee of the 

 benefit of his transcendant abilities, and himself the opportunity of 

 displaying his dignified oratory. 



Resolved, that it is proved to the satisfaction of this meeting, 

 by the evidence of Mr. Gourlay, and by inspection of his person, 

 that the inhabitants of the Midland, Johnstown and Eastern Dis- 

 tricts, are violent friends to their King, Country and Constitution, 

 and therefore deserve the marked disrespect of every well wisher of 

 our great cause. 



Resolved that it is a grievance that our streets are not paved — 

 that we have no city as large as New- York — that all our English and 

 Scotchmen are not Yankees — and that Canada is not somewhere in 

 the Genesee country. 



Resolved, that little York is a great nuisance. 



Resolved, that it is a grievance that all the people of the lower 

 Districts have not more money and less wit. 



Resolved, that it is a grievance that the government is admin- 

 istered in the manner it is — upon which it was moved in amendment by 

 Mr. Gourlay and voted by acclamation as the unanimous sense of the 

 Representatives, that it is a much greater grievance, that there is any 

 government at all. 



Resolved, that it is the opinion of this meeting, that the Attorney 

 General has been guilty of gross derelection of duty, and brought 

 down upon himself the odium and contempt of the most respectable 

 body of the community, and particularly of the members comprizing 

 this convention, in assuming the power of proceeding ex officio against 

 the first and only champion of Democracy, Liberty and Equality, 

 that has appeared since the time of our much lamented friends, 

 Wilcox, Mallory and Maracle. 



Resolved, that it is a grievance, that there are no more griev- 

 ances. 



Resolved, that for the redress of all these grievances, and par- 

 ticularly of the last. His Royal Highness be specially requested by 

 Amos Ansley to appoint him Lieutenant-Governor, Mr. Barnabas 

 Bidwell Receiver-General, Mr. Casey Chief-Justice, Mr. Washburn 

 Attorney-General, Mr. Patrick Strange Secretary of the Province, 



