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to Canadian affairs. It is dated Lambton Castle, Dec. 26tli, 1834, 

 and is addressed to S. W. Phillips, Esq. It must speak for itself. 

 " Sir," it says, " I have the honour to transmit to you an Address 

 to the King from the Inhabitants of Oban, which I beg you to lay 

 before the Home Secretary for presentation to His Majesty. Your 

 obedient servant, Durham." 



The name of Sir Francis Head suggests that of William Lyon 

 McKenzie. I have Mr. McKenzie's autograph signature in a copy 

 of Story's Laws of the United States, captured at Montgomery's 

 on Yonge Street in 1837. Leaves are turned down at the Act of 

 1794 to establish the Post Office and Post Roads within the United 

 States; and in the Act of 1799 to regulate the Collection of Duties 

 on Imports and Tonnage. I have also his name subsci"ibed with his 

 own hand to Scrip for One Dollar, issued by the Provisional Govern- 

 ment of Upper Canada in 1837, at l^avy Island. I copy the 

 document, which is a printed form only partially filled up : ( David 

 Gibson's autograph also appears thereon.) "$1. Provisional Govern- 

 ment of Upper Canada, No. 252. Navy Island, Upper Canada, 

 Dec. 27, 1837. Four months after date, the Provisional Government 



of Upper Canada promise to pay to or order, at the City Hall, 



Toronto, One Dollar, for value received. Wm. L. McKemzie, Chair- 

 man ^j)ro tern. Ex. Com. Entex-ed by the Secretary, P. H. Watson. 

 Examined by the Comptroller, David Gibson." I preserve likewise 

 a blank commission in the "Patriot Army," organized along the 

 frontier in the United States in 1839, ready-signed by H. PIand, 

 Commander-in-Chief of the North- Western Army on Patriot Service 

 in Upper Canada, and endorsed by " John Montgomery," President 

 of the Grand Eagle Chapter of Upper Canada on Patriot Executive 

 Duty, Windsor, Upper Canada, Sep. 26, 1839. Robert Robertson, 

 Secretary. A rude woodcut adorns the fly-leaf of this paper of an 

 Eagle soaring aloft and carrying in its claws the British Lion. At 

 the side is the motto "Liberty or Death." 



W. Lyon McKenzie's name recalls to Upper Canadians that of 

 Joseph Hume, and his often-quoted letter to Mr. McKenzie on the 

 " baneful domination of the mother- country." I introduce here a 

 note of Mr. Hume's, wholly creditable to him but on quite a foreign 

 subject. It is a communication addressed to a young protege or 

 relative named Crow, who had been a little wild. The tenor of the 

 document enables us at once to conceive the case. I copy the original. 



