that harmony and good understanding between the several branches of the Legislature, which is so essentially necessary to give full effect to the advantages of the Constitution you have the happiness to possess, and for the preservation of which, as by law established, it is, I am well convinced, equally the interest of every Canadian subject of his Majesty to pray fervently to Almighty God. The Revenue. House of Assembly, Mr Secretary Gleeg presented the following message from the Governor : AYLMER, Governor in Chief. The Governor in Chief has received from the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, his Majesty's commands to make the following communication to the House of Assembly, with a view to the final adjustment of the question of Finance, which has so long engaged the attention of the Legislature of this province. gether with all fines and forfeitures levied under the authority of such acts. His Majesty relying on the liberality and justice of the Legislature of Lower Canada, invites them to consider the propriety of making some settled provision for such portion of the expenses of the Civil Government of the province as may, upon examination, appear to require an arrangement of a more permanent nature than those supplies which it belongs to the Legislature to determine by annual votes. His Majesty has directed to be prepared and laid before the House of Assembly, an estimate of the sums required for that purpose; and in directing the preparation of that estimate, his Majesty has been guided by a wish, never absent from his heart, to call upon his faithful subjects for no other supply than such as may appear to be required for the due execution of those services which it is proposed to charge upon the Civil List. His Majesty concedes the disposal of those Revenues with cordial good will, and cannot doubt that it will be met with a reciprocal feeling by the Representatives of a loyal and attached people. His Majesty taking into consideration the best mode of con- The Revenues to be given up, tributing to the prosperity and taken upon the average of the contentment of his faithful sub- last two years, amount to thirtyjects of the province of Lower eight thousand one hundred and Canada, places at the disposal of twentyfive pounds currency, and the Legislature, all his Majesty's the amount of the Civil List, acinterest in those taxes which are cording to the estimate herewith now levied in the province, by transmitted, amounts to nineteen virtue of different acts of the thousand five hundred pounds. British Parliament, and which are It is not, however, necessary appropriated by the Treasury un- to call upon the Legislature to der his Majesty's commands, to- grant the whole sum of nineteen thousand five hundred pounds, will, moreover, most willingly inasmuch as by the provincial act of the 35th of Geo. III, the sum of five thousand pounds is permanently granted towards the maintenance of the Civil Government; the moderate sum of fourteen thousand five hundred pounds, is therefore all that is deemed necessary to ask for the completion of the proposed arrangement. It is proposed that the duration of the Civil List should be for the life of his Majesty. It is hoped that the arrangements thus detailed will be received in the spirit in which they are dictated, a spirit of conciliation and confidence. His Majesty is prepared to surrender a large and increasing Revenue; he asks in return for a fixed and moderate Civil List, much less in amount than the Revenue given up; and the settlement of this long agitated question, will be deemed by his Majesty one of the happiest events of his reign, the glory of which, the people of Canada may be assured, will be the promotion of the happiness and content of all classes of his subjects in every quarter of the globe. The Governor-in-Chief having thus obeyed the commands he has received, in making the foregoing communication to the House of Assembly, desires to add that if in the course of their proceedings on this important question, they should deem it expedient to require explanations from him on the subject of it, he will at all times be ready to afford such explanations; and he supply any further information they may desire to have, to the utmost extent compatible with his duty to his Sovereign. Proposed Civil List. Castle of St Lewis, Quebec, 23d February, 1831. Class No. 1.-Governor's salary £4500, Civil Secretary £500, Contingencies £300; total, £5300. Class No. 2.-Chief Justice £1500, ditto, Montreal £1,200, 6 Puisné Judges £900 each, £5400, Resident Judge at 3 Rivers £900, 2 Provincial Judges £1000, Judge of Vice Admiralty £200, Attorney General £300, Solicitor General £200, Allowances for Judges for Circuits £275, Contingencies £475;, total £11,450. Class No. 3.Pensions £1000, Miscellaneous £1750; total £2750. Total 3 Classes, sterling, £19,500. Statement of the average net produce of the Revenues, under the following heads, founded of the receipts of the two last years, after deducting the proportion for Upper Canada:-Customs under imperial act, 14 Geo. III. c. 88, £31,742, licenses under ditto £2200. Do. under provincial act 41st, Geo. III. £62, Customs under ditto, £3735, Fine and Forfeitures 386; total Currency £38,125. JOSEPH CARY, Inspector General Public Provincial Accounts. Second Message, Feb. 25. AYLMER, Governor-in-Chief. The Governor-in-Chief having in his message of 23d instant, communicated to the House of 1. Rents, Jesuits, Estates. Assembly the commands of his Majesty, received through the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, regarding the question of Finance which has for so long a period engaged their attention, thinks it necessary to enumerate in detail the several branches of Revenue which it is deemed expedient to exempt from the operation of the proposed arrangement. This further communication appears to his Excellency to be the more desirable as it will remove all grounds for future discussion when the adjustment of the main question shall have taken place, and as it will enable the House of Assembly to enter upon the consideration of this important topic with a full and precise understanding of the views of his Majesty's Government; these views are now exhibited by the Governor-in-Chief to the House of Assembly in that spirit of frankness and good faith which characterizes the instructions he has received, and which cannot fail to improve the confidence of the House of Assembly in the good intentions of his Majesty's Government. The Revenues to which the Governor-in-Chief alludes are the Casual and Territorial Revenues of the Crown, and are classed nuder the following heads, viz. 2. Rent of the King's Posts. 3. Forges of St Maurice. 4. Rent of King's Wharf. 5. Droit de Quint. 6. Lods et Ventes. 7. Land Fund. 8. Timber Fund. If the Funds derived from these sources operated in any degree as a tax upon the people, or tended either in their nature, or in the mode of their collection, to impede or impair the prosperity of the province, his Majesty's Government would have hesitated in proposing to retain them at the disposal of the Crown. They stand, however, upon a perfectly different ground from taxes, properly so called. They are enjoyed by the Crown, by virtue of the Royal prerogative, and are neither more nor less than the proceeds of landed property, which legally and constitutionally belongs to the Sovereign on the throne; and as long as they are applied, not to undue purposes of mere patronage, but to objects which are closely connected with the public interests of the province, it is not easy to conceive upon what grounds of abstract propriety, or of constitutional jealousy, the application of them according to his Majesty's commands, under responsible advice, can be impugned. Castle of St Lewis, Quebec, 25th Feb. 1831. LEGISLATURE OF UPPER CANADA.-PROVINCIAL REVENUE. Copy of a Message sent down to the House of Assembly by the Lieutenant Governor, February 28, 1831. J. COLBORNE. The Lieutenant Governor has the satisfaction to inform the House of Assembly, that the King places at the disposal of the provincial Legislature, all his Majesty's interest in the duties which are collected under the British statute of the 14 Geo. III. chap. 88, and which have hitherto been applied to the support of the Civil Government by warrants of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury. His Majesty in conceding the complete disposal of this increasing revenue, has naturally the confident expectation, that so great a proof of his anxious desire to consult the wishes of his faithful and loyal subjects in Upper Canada, will be met with a reciprocal feel ing by their Representatives. The Lieutenant Governor is therefore instructed to acquaint the House, that his Majesty's Government trusts that the Legislature will think it indispensable that provision should be immediately made for the salaries of the Lieutenant Governor, the Judges and principal officers of the Government, and for such expenses of the Civil Government and administration of justice as may appear upon examination of the estimates in possession of the House, to require a more permanent arrangement than the supplies which are granted by annual vote. The sum of eight thousand pounds is deemed sufficient by his Majesty's Government for this important object, exclusive of the sum granted permanently by a provincial act, towards the main tenance of the Civil Government. The Revenue to be ceded cannot be calculated at less than eleven thousand five hundred pounds sterling, and it will be highly gratifying to the Lieutenant Governor to concur in any measure that may accelerate the final arrangements proposed by his Majesty's Government to give effect to his Mathe decision of the British Parliajesty's gracious intentions, and to ment, when the Lords of the the obligation of appropriating in Treasury may be released from future the duties referred to in this communication. Constitutional Charter of the every other, that of constitutional French, As decreed on August 8, 1830, by the two Legislative Chambers, and presented for the acceptance of H. R. H. MONSEIGNEUR the Duke of Orleans, Lieutenant General of the Kingdom. THIS Charter is nothing but the ancient charter with the suppressions, the extensions and interpretations, adopted by both Chambers in favor of liberty. We publish it in the only text which now constitutes the public law of France; we have indicated by italics the order or amended article, and in notes have given the changes or suppressed articles. The whole preamble of the ancient charter was suppressed, as containing the principle of concession and octroi (grant,) incompatible with that of the acknowledgment of national power, from which alone all other powers legally emanate, and more than royalty. The following is the substitution of the preamble DECLARATION OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. The Chamber of Deputies, taking into consideration the imperious necessity which results from the events of the 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th of July, and the following days; and from the situation in which France is placed in consequence of the violation of the Constitutional Charter : Considering, moreover, that by this violation, and the heroic resistance of the citizens of Paris, his Majesty Charles X., his Royal Highness Louis-Antoine, dauphin, and all the members of the senior branch of the royal house are leaving, at this moment, the French territory: Declares that the Throne is |