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Page 498 - Report of a Select Committee of the House of Assembly, on the Political State of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada.
Page 487 - A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE SETTLEMENT OF UPPER CANADA BY THE UE LOYALISTS AND SCOTCH HIGHLANDERS, IN 1783...
Page 76 - Major Hindman, and the whole of the artillery under the command of that excellent officer, displayed a degree of gallantry and good conduct not to be surpassed. The particular situation of captain Towson, and the much lamented captain Williams and lieutenant M'Donough, and that of lieutenant Watmough, as already described, with their respective commands, rendered them most conspicuous.
Page 168 - We were provided with three horses, on one of which my mother rode, carrying her infant, with all the table furniture and cooking utensils. On another were packed the stores of provisions, the plough irons and other agricultural tools. The third horse was rigged out with a...
Page 506 - A letter to Her Majesty the British Queen, with letters to Lord Durham, Lord Glenelg and Sir George Arthur : To which is added an appendix embracing a report of the testimony taken on the trial of the writer by a court martial, at Toronto in Upper Canada.
Page 473 - The Celebrated Letter of Joseph Hume, Esq., MP, to William Lyon Mackenzie, Esq., Mayor of Toronto, Declaratory of a Design to " Free these Provinces from the baneful Domination of the Mother Country." With the Comments of the Press of Upper Canada on the Pernicious and Treasonable Tendency of that Letter, and the Speeches, Resolutions and Amendments of the Common Council of this city, Which were the result of a Motion of that body to disavow all participation in the sentiments of Mr. Hume.
Page 195 - Whisky, therefore, was the most important item of remittance to pay for their salt, sugar and iron. The people had cultivated their land for years at the peril of their lives, with little or no protection from the Federal government; and when, by extraordinary efforts, they were enabled to raise a little more grain than their immediate wants required, they were met with a law restraining them in the liberty of doing what they pleased with the surplus. The people of Western Pennsylvania regarded a...
Page 75 - The charge was gallantly made by captain Foster and major Hall, but owing to the narrowness of the passage up to the bastion, admitting only two or three men a-breast, it failed. It was often repeated, and as often checked.
Page 5 - Aurelius, and that they had cut the nose off, clipt the laurels that were wreathed round his head, and drove a musket Bullet part of the way through his Head, and otherwise disfigured it, and that it was carried to Moore's tavern, adjoining Fort Washington, on New York Island, in order to be fixed on a Spike on the Truck of that Flagstaff as soon...
Page 197 - Schlosser ; then boats constructed to carry it to Black Rock. There another vessel was required to transport it to Erie. The road to the head of French creek had to be improved and the salt carried in wagons across the portage ; and, finally, boats provided to float it to Pittsburgh.