74 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Mr. James Durant Inspector of Public Accounts, and Mr. Gourlay 

 Superintendent-General of all Departments, with a general exemption 

 from all prosecutions for all felonies, treasons, libels and seditions. 



Resolved that the Rev. Dr. Stachan be commanded to desist 

 from instilling into the minds of the Youth of this Province the 

 pernicious principles of loyalty and attachment to the Constitution, 

 and that Mr. Amos Ansley, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Kerr be directed 

 to afïord such encouragement as their friends will warrant, to Mr. 

 Hone, to return with them to this Province to bring up our Children 

 in the way of piety and virtue. 



That Amos Ansley make it a point with His Royal Highness the 

 Prince Regent that little York shall be blown to atoms — that Major 

 Simons' half pay shall be struck off and transferred to Captain William 

 Kerr as a matter of Justice — that Mr. Gourlay's letters from his dear 

 wife be forwarded by a Special Messenger once a week, and that hence- 

 forth to preserve purity of morals and decency, order and decorum 

 throughout the Province, Mr. Robt. Gourlay have absolute control 

 over the Press, that nobody's lies, and scurrility may be published 

 but his own, or that of his intimate friends." 



The Meeting then adjourned to Tuesday. 

 Endorsed by Ansley. 



"Received this from the Hands of Ezekel Benson at York, U.C., 

 this 22d day of Feby. 1818. 



Amos Ansley. 



We Never were Rebels and Never will Be. 



We wish to reap the frutes of Our Labour and keep the King's 

 peace. 



Amos Ansley. 

 Kingston, 



August the 2d 1818 



Let us pass over a score of years — Gourlay had been banished, 

 had gone to the old Land, deluged King and Parliament with Petitions, 

 horsewhipped Henry Brougham in the Lobby of the House of Com- 

 mons, remained in prison at Cold Bath Fields for many months 

 because on principle he would not give bail or allow his friends to bail 

 him, worked on the road as a pauper where he had been a prosperous 

 farmer, contemplated suicide but compromised by some more petitions, 

 returned to this Continent the Neptunian and Banished Briton, 

 repudiated Mackenzie and all his works, and came to Upper Canada 

 in 1838 to see Lord Durham, then on his mission of enquiry and 

 conciliation. Failing to see Lord Durham he consoled himself by 

 writing a lampoon on him. 



