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implore may be for a while extended to it, will augment tliat produce 

 on wliicli the union of this country with Great Britain and the pre- 

 servation of Her Majesty's sovereignty may ultimately depend. I 

 am almost ashamed of using this metaphorical language, but it is that 

 of the age." 



He then gives his experience as dei'ived from a late excursion 

 through the settlements ; and he expresses the fear, if institutions of 

 education and religion continue to be withheld, the inhabitants will 

 at no distant day be desiroiis of migrating back again to the United 

 States. 



"There has nothing," he says, "in my late progress, given me 

 equal uneasiness with the general application of all ranks of the most 

 loyal inhabitants of the Province, that I would obtain for them 

 churches and ministers. They say that the rising generation is 

 rapidly returning to barbarism. They state that the Sabbath, so 

 wisely set apart for devotion, is literally unknown to their children^ 

 who are busily employed in searching for amusements in which they 

 may consume that day. And it is of serious consideration, that on 

 the approach of the settlements of the United States to our frontiers, 

 particularly on the St. Lawrence, these people, who by experience 

 have found that schools and churches are essential to their rapid 

 establishment, may probably allure many of our most respectable 

 settlers to emigrate to them, while in this respect we suffer a 

 disgraceful deficiency." 



He next alludes to some views of his in regard to the possible 

 future restoration of unity between two religious parties subsisting 

 in the community both of the United States and Upper Canada, 

 and the happy political results that might accrue from such restora- 

 tion. His views on this head he strongly adheres to, although he is 

 awai'e they are in danger of being misapprehended. 



" A principal foundation," he says, " of the wise and necessary 

 friendship of Great Britain with these her legitimate descendants, I 

 have heretofore pointed out, as to be deduced from the most intimate 

 union and reconcilement between the English Episcopal Church and 

 that of the Independent form of worship used in the New England 

 Provinces — an emanation from the English Church, as all theii 

 authors avow, and principally originating from the liarsh measures 

 of the secular power which the English Church once exercised, but 

 which is now no more. Though my ideas on this subject, my Lordy 



