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Ono Tons Racists: IN CANADA.

Bonnet I". Conant—This persecuted individual is at length-likely to procure justice, after twenty-two years banishment front the province, under an illegal finances It is only necessary to publish the Report ofthe Select Committee of the House of Assembly, and to,call, attention to it, without comment, as it is plain and forcible of itself The committee consisted of Messrs. Dunlap, Neilsott, Morin, Steele, Viger, and Price. ‘

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The Select Committee on the Petition of Robert F. Gourlay, beg leave to maks the following report: Your committee having investigated the petition, and

examined witnesses in relation to the same, and pro-

cured'afiidevits from persons cognizant of the matters andgcllcgatiotls contained therein, find the following faetgto be fully proven :

“ The petitioner, Mr. Gourlrty, first visited Canada in

the year l8l7, where he acquired property by marriage,

and also by purchase—and commenced statistical en- quiries on the capabilities ofthe province—in the course of which he became aware of the existence of various abuses. He then proposed that a commission should be applointed to proceed to Great Britain to have these

a sea rectified, and held public meetings for that pur-

, accounts of the proceedings at which were published in a pamphlet, which was generally approved of by the people of the province—hut by those irt power, was considered as having a seditious tendency, and he was therefore arrested and put upon his trial for sedition at Kingston; but being acquitted, he was

short distance from the shore. we had to steer ; light.

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the opposing forces. The officer consented that I should hgetthe skttl'to git-there, and that Lett 4 should" accom-

‘ni'el‘ " " 1 ‘, x P "11's.. dark before we stay-ted; sojdsrk, that when a with star. It was in the month of January, and bitterly cold: Lott took one car, Ithe other, and there we pull? ’ a ainstthe deep, dark, rapid current of the Niagara. heiee was grinding along the shores, a line of light against a massofblackness—the watch-fires were gleam- ing'all ionod Navy Island. Grand Islaudvloomed darkly above, and below, thundered the cataract. The sllght- est accident—the loss of an oar, the breaking of '8 "I" lock, wouldhave made its foam that night our wtt‘tdlng sheet. -' . q We pulled on, this bold otttflw and I, talking or the prospects of the Patriot cause. It was hard and unusual work, and my hands became blistered. Suddenly we heard the noise of cars. Lett crouched and liston like a wild beast—l tried in vain to pierce the darkness. At that moment the skiff grounded on a sand bar. and

1 It a I) so: had time; O'Mauer.itithinkpftqur WWW”?! ’ General two. note.

illiizg-g’reaches will be practicable liygtd-morrow eycntng,

the boat hailed us. It was an ‘awkward afi'air. If“ was a British boat, we should both be killed or taken prisoners, and I was not likely to fare any the better. for being on the Niagara at nigltt, in such company- “Who goes there 1" hailed the unseen stranger. “th0 goes there I" I cried, having as good a right to ball as the other, whoever it was. “Iqul round, or we’ll fire,’ was the answer. This was argument, unanswerable In fact, and pushing 03', we went, and found It was an armed barge from Navy Island, and of course filled With our friends; They were aground, bttt we helped them off, and with muffled oars they went on their expedition _and we on ours. “Had they been British, Lett,” said I, "what would you have done T” ‘

“Swatnped their boat, if I could," said he, gone over the falls together.” . A nice chap this for a sailing party on the Niagara, thought I. ~ Still steering as well as we could by star- light, the roar of the falls and the watch-fires, we strug- gled slowly up the river, and without any more advert- tures reached the lowest point of Grand Island. We hid the little skid in the bushes and starter] for the Ame- rican quarter-s, where Colonel Ayres was stationed with two companies oftnilitia, in some log houses, to protect the neutrality. It was about a halfa mile, and when we got there, I found that Lett was perfectly at home, and apparently on the most intimate terms with the officers and privates. They gave us some supper, fried beef steaks, bread, and tea without milk, and we made ourselves very comfortable.

All at once we were startled by the heavy booming of a thirty-two pounder—another and another, and we rushed intd’ the open air.

What ascene opened to us. The moon had risen, and the broad Niagara was glittering in her beams,down to the cloud of spray that rises eternally from the falls. The British batteries had opened for two miles along the river. Every battery was ill sight; we could see the flash of every gun, and even the matches before they touched the priming, and could hear the shot crashing in the timber. Once in a while a dozen guns, fired in rapid succession, would blaze out from Navy Islam], which was also itt full view ; then the English mortars would throw a few shells, and I could see them burst from the mortars, follow them by the lighted fuse through the air till they exploded, sometimes an hundred feet high, sometimes after they had struck the ground, with a report as loud as that with which they started. Then a

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again tried at Brockville with a similar result. He then had to proceed to New York on business, his return was‘itnprisoned in the gaol at Niagara, where ill-treatment in being confined in a cell for five weeks in the dogodays,—-debarred from the sight of or communication with his friends, his counsel, or the magistrates of the district, threw both his body and mind into such a state as to render him totally unfit to defend himself upon his trial, or even to comprehend his arraignment. The result of the trial was, that he was banished the province for life, under pain of death, should he rcturn,—his alleged crime being that he neglected to quit the country upon the order of two Legislative Councillors, acting under an unjust construc- tion of an unconstitutional statute, most illegally ex- ercised.

Your committee do not thing it necessary to com- ment on such proceedings.

From the evidence adduced, which will be found in the appendix to this report, your committee are of opinion that the arrest and imprisonment of the petition- er in Niagara in lSl9, was illegal, unconStitutional, and without the possibility of excuse or palliation.— That debarring him from an interview with his friends or counsel, was also illegal, unjust and unconstitutional. That preventin magistrates of a county or district from visiting the so of that county or district, is a violation of all propriety, and if persisted in, would lead to the most, pernicious consequences.

Your committee are further of opinion. that the Crown should repudiate the transactions by which the

itioner has been persecuted to his ruin, and that the

gislsture should declare his sentence of banishment null and void, compensating him for the losses he has sustained by the unwarrantable exercise of authority. In the mean time that some allowance may be made to htm to_ defray his personal expenses, while in attendance begore the Legislature defending the rights of a British It) i I.

e committee further state that they are in posses- sion of proofs, that during the late rebellion, Mr. Gour- lay, being then a resident in the United States, furnished Str 1". 3. Head with the most important intelligence of the movements of the brigands, organised for the attack of Upper Canada, a service which ought not to be for- gotten, nor pass unrewarded.

A Ntcu'r wt'rtt Len, rue Ou-raxw.

The first time I ever saw Lett, was on Navy Island. lie looked to me a large, strong, coarse featured, sandy haired fellow, with an expression that'- might be an union of ferocity and cunning, but easily mistaken for heaviness and stupidity. I had dined on pork and beans with Van Reusalaer and staff, had walked about the Island, sntv the preparationstnadev to resist invasion, and as night had, prepared to return to the American shore, to Scblosser, in a small skiff, with one of the oficers.‘ ' ’ ' ' '

Lott was the man chosen to accompany us, assistin ""108. Ind return with the boat. It was a strong cur- rent, and hard rowing. and when’sve arrived at Schlosser it wasrnoarlydark. That night, from some information obtamed during the. day, it was conjectured that the British would'm‘ake‘ a grand attack upon the Island, and perhapsventure_to attempt alanding, as their num- was now three tunes those on Navy Island. This "tall! attack I was anxroustn see, and the best possible

half dozen rockets, each large enough to cut down a good sized tree, would go roaring across the river and crash among the trees.

I stood in the cold night air and saw this cannonade for two hours, and it was the grandest sight I ever beheld. Strange to say, on the Patriot side not a single man was injured that night, by over three hundred shot and shell, the batteries directed by experienced engi- neers. They told me afterwards, that they dodged lively among the big forest trees—U. S. Paper.

Tut: ABUNDANCE IN THE WEST. The following, from the llufialo Advertiser, will give our readers some idea of the abundance ofthe crop in the country bordering on the great Lakes :—

A gentleman who has for a great number of years been largely engaged in forwarding business on the canal and lakes, had occasion a short time since to go to Chicago. In the steam boat he fell in with 8. Chi- cago man, who appeared by no means inclined to dis- parage the business and prospects of his town. Among other things, he said that betweenJhe close of the navi- gation this season and its opening next spring, no less than three hundred thousand bushels of wheat would be received and stored at Chicago alone. This seemed so incredible, that it was received with a strong expres- sion of disbelief, and the conversation at last ended in the making a bet of $500, that the Chicago man’s statement would not prove true. On arriving at that port, our forwarding friend mentioned the matter to his agents and correspondents there, who assured him that according to their best information, the amount of wheat in store at Chicago next spring, would not fall short of four hundred thousand bushels, and the upshot of the matter was, he backed straight out of his bet.

We learn that wheat is brought into Chicago from a distance of I50 miles, and the procession of lateams, as they come in, to an eastern man, is a very novel and Interesting sight. The wheat is carried in large wag- gons called “ Prairie Schooners.” Each caravan—for, from the various sections ofthe country, they go in numbers sufiiciently large to be entitled to that ap- pellation, has its captain. They camp out at nights, and each man carries food for himself and team, so that a fortnight’s journey is made at little or no expense save that of time. On arriving at the suburbs of the town, the captain goes in with a sample of his grain. A bar- gain is made for the whole brought by the caravan, and the next day, with the money in his pockets, or in goods for his family, each countryman is winding his way homeward. °

At Michigan city, and other principal towns on Lake Michigan, the same scene isdaily exhibited. An immense amount of surplus produce is already accumu- lated at ports on the lake, but not a bushel comparatively wrll reach the easternmarkets this season. The price of flour there will be ruled by the supply furnished b the eastern States and Ohio. Are not the essterz people directly interested in so improving the harbours of Lake Michigan, that the products of the upper

Lake country shall not, as now h ‘ back from market! , e necessarily kep‘

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time— ours, doc. we Shflnsnglcfigssefzpyyout regiment out, if you prefer some” e ‘l) n 'with me —'.——-” “ My-dear general, dare Tons‘knfofgugh a favour?” ‘t Well, co‘me along: 051 y reinember that, although ttiny dpvppop .Et‘ytnllnj’rvev enggea‘gey 0,!” cannot promise you any tntng o o, “ afiemoon 0 horses ready; let’s away. It was in ;e lain be- the following day that we rode Into the, :rgenpd armies fore Ciudad Rodrigo, sand tn.whtcht e a t d

assembled to the number of twelve thousan

my: desire loud booming of the atege artillery ‘lziedn heard by me for some horns before; but 110th ms"Ions ing this prelude and my’ “ 'htgh wrought expec we]; I was far from anticip, the» magnificent spec ts which burst upon my“ fished VleW. Tth as; wt:r calm and still: a clear blue wmtry sky stretc t; oyea head, but, below, the dense blue smoke of the dc champ:i nuns rolled in mighty volumes along the cart ,ban: Entirely concealed the lower part of the fortreSS; a pm this the tall towers and battleme-nted parapetsxosp trip: the thin transparent sky, like fairy palaces. , mght flush bf flame would now and then burst forth from t walls, and a clanging crash of the brass metal be hear ,

other sounds, save when a loud cheer would burst iron; the trenches; while the clattcring‘ fall of masonry, an

the crumbling stones as they rolled down, bespoke, thfi reason of the cry. The utmost actwttylprevatled'on 3“

sides ; troops pressed forward to the reliefs In the para - lels; ammunition waggons moved to the front; general and staff ofiicers rode furiously about the plain; and all betokened that the hour of attack was not for distant. While all parties were anxiously awaiting the decision of our chief, the general order was made known, whtch, after briefly detailing the necessary arrangements,cou- cluded with the emphatic words, ‘.»‘ Ciudad Rodrigo must be stormedto-night." All speculation as to the troops to be engagedjn this daring enterprise, was soon at an end; for, with his characteristic sense of duty,

Lord Wellington made no invidious selection, but merely commanded that the attack should be made by what- ever divisions might chance to be that day in the trenches. Upon the third and light divisions, therefore, this glorious task devolved; the former was to attack the main breach: to Crawford's division was assigned the, if possible, more difficult enterprise of carrying the lesser one; while Pack’s Portuguese brigade were to menace the convent of La Caridad by a feinf attack, to be converted into a real one if circumstances should permit. The decision, however matured and compre- hensive in all its details, was finally adopted so suddenly that at ery stafi officer upon the ground was actively engaged during the entire evening in conveying the orders to the different regiments. As the day drew to a close the cannonade slackened on either side, a solitary gun would be heard at intervals, and, in the calm still ness around, its booming thunder re-echoed along the valleys of the Sierra; but, as the moon rose and night set in, these were no longer heard, and a perfect still- ness and tranquillity prevailed around. Even in the trenches, crowded with armed and anxious soldiers, not a whisper was heard; and, amid that mighty host which filled the plain, the. tramp of a patrol could be distinctly noted, and the hoarse voice of the French sentry upon the walls, telling that all was well in Ciudad Rodrigo. The massive fortress looming larger as "8 dark shadow stock out from the sky, was still as the grave; while in the greater breach a faint light was seen to twinkle for a moment, and then suddenly to disappear, leaving all gloomy and dark as before—From Charles O’ZlIallcy. THE STORMING or CIUDAD Ronmoo.-—Whatever the levity of the previous moment, the scene before us now repressed it efi'ectually. The deep-toned bell of the cathedral tolled seven, and scarcely were its notes dying away in the distance when the march of the columns was heard stealing along the ground. A low murmur- iug whisper ran alongthe advanced files of the forlorn hope; stocks were loosened, packs and knapsacks thrown to the ground; each man pressed his cap more firmly down upon his brow, and, with lip compressed and steadfast eye, waited for the word to move. It came at last: the word “march!” passed in whispers from rank to rank, and the dark mass moved on; what a moment was that, as we advanced to the foot of the breach! The consciousness that, at the same instant from different points of that vast plain, similar parties were moving on ; the feeling that, at a Word, the flame of the artillery and the flash of the steel would spring from that dense cloud, and death and carnage in every shape our imagination can conceive be dealt on all sides. The hurried fitful thought of home; the years long past, compressed into one minute’s space; the last adieu to all we’ve loved, mingling with the muttered prayer to heaVen, while high above all, the deep pervading sense that earth has no temptation strong enough to turn u from that path whose ending might be a sepulchré Each heart was too full for words. We followed noise- lessly along the turf, the dark figure of our leader cruid- mg us through the gloom. On arriving at the ditcli-the party With the ladders moved to the front. Already some ltay packs were thrown in, and theiforlorn hope sprang forward. All was still and silent as the grave. “Quietly, my men—quietly I” said M‘Kinuon; “ don"t press.” Scarcer had he spoke when a musket, whose charge, contrary to orders, had not been drawn, went off. The whizzmg bullet could not have struck the wall, when suddenly a bright flame burst forth from the ramparts. and shot upwards towards the sky. For an instant the whole scene before us was bright as uoohda On one side the dark ranks and glistening bayonets the enemy ; on the other the red uniformsoof the British. columns 2‘ compressed like some solid wall the t . ed alon h lai ‘ ' ’ y 8 Hitch. , gt 6 P n- A deafening roll of musquetr fr ‘he 9""?me fight a“Bounced that the third divisidn vii: already .tn action, while the loud cry of'our leader’as hi sprang Into the trench, summoned us to the ch e The leading sections, not waittn for the ladders ‘arge' ed down, others pressed rapid y,“behind th ’JumP‘ loud rumbl‘ ’ . em’ When a . mg thunder crept along the earth a h' ' crackling noise followed, and from the d ,k d'mmg forked and livid lightning burst like the lid“ ftch a mica'ao' and“ mid“ exPIOded. ’Hundreds oflitftellgntind rena es scattere a - v - - game moment; the aig'digtaflktlegdrgvfiflii titre ‘gm'md at the the musketry plied incessantly from the Whlzzmg fuses: man of the leading company of the stor'waus’ and every ,0 - . , more was blown I pieces. While the dreadful c t ~ A tug before our eyes the d'fl' a utmphe was'enam- , I erent assaults were made on