which I owe to your lordship, as well as to myself, respectfully to request that your lordship will be pleased immediately to tender to her majesty my resignation of the station which I have the honour to hold. “My lord, I belong to no political party in England and even if I did, the British distinction between Whig and Tory, like our London fog, does not cross the Atlantic. The two parties here are constitutionalists on the one side, and democrats on the other. The dispute on this continent is not, as it is in England, which of two parties shall attain the honour of conducting the government of their sovereign, but here the great mass of society is striving to secure to their children the blessings of the British constitution, which a small party, from self-interested motives, is endeavouring to pull down. The idle, the profligate, and the unprincipled, see that democracy in the United States is rapidly hurrying to anarchy, and they well know, or rather they reckon, that anarchy, or in other words, plunder, is the shortest method of obtaining wealth."

His resignation was accepted; but before his successor arrived, the outbreak of treason occurred, by which all the pets of the colonial office became compromised; and individuals who had been recommended for promotion, had a price set upon their heads, as outlawed traitors. Among the baggage of the routed insurgents was found a banner, bearing the inscription, "Bidwell, and the Glorious Minority of 1837!" What a pity that he was not on the bench, to preside at the trials of the "discontented gentlemen," the ill success of whose recent exploit he must have so sincerely deplored! Verily, he would have been to them a "DANIEL come to judgment." But if Sir Francis kept him off the bench, it was his own prudence that kept him out of the dock; and he was too happy to come into an arrangement with his insulted governor, to expatriate himself from the colony for ever.

We cannot afford space to follow this interesting writer through the sequel of his work; and we feel the less regret on that account, because the events referred to are better known to the public than those incidents in his official intercourse with the authorities at home, which are now, for the first time, disclosed, and by which the true character of their colonial policy may be detected. But, to one circumstance we most allude, in the hope that what Sir Francis has written may be brought under the eye of some of our represen

tatives, in order to its being brought before parliament.

When he found that Navy Island had been seized upon by citizens of the United States; that artillery and muskets were brought against his province from their state arsenals; and that the island was regularly supplied, by boats from the American shore, with provisions and munitions of war; he, and the military authorities, with whom he deemed it right to take counsel, were decidedly of opinion that a naval force, or flotilla should be constituted, by which the left-handed hostility of of these mischievous intermeddlers might be defeated.

"Feeling that it would be unjust that, in the name of her majesty, I should require naval officers to leave the backwoods into which they had retired, without recognising them in the professional capacity in which I had especially called them into action, I directed my military secretary, Colonel Strachan, to forward to Colonel McNab a written communication, a copy of which is herewith enclosed, directing him to call upon such naval officers in the province as he might deem proper to select, to afford me their services, on the understanding that they would receive their full pay during the period they were thus publicly employed by me on her Majesty's service.

nication (which I at once think it right "In consequence of the above commuto acknowledge contains no authority

beyond what the Lords of the Admiralty may, from the emergency of the case, deem proper to conform to it) Colonel McNab called upon Captain Drew, R.N., to collect and command a flotilla of gunboats and other craft, to be immediately fitted out for the purpose of attacking Navy Island.”

The manner in which this gallant crew performed the services which had been assigned them, is well known. The following are the words in which the captain and his lieutenant, who was badly wounded, were recommended to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for some token that their services were not utterly disregarded.

"I therefore feel it my duty to request your lordship to lay my humble testimony of the merits of Captain Drew (whose intrepidity and generosity are beyond all praise) before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to whose liberal consideration I beg leave most earnestly, but respectfully, to recommend him.

"I also feel it my duty to bring before

their lordships' especial consideration the case of Lieutenant McCormack, who is still lying on his back, completely disabled, and I much fear that one of his five wounds will require the amputation of his left arm.

"This loss, to a backwoodsman, upon whose manual labour his family is dependent for support, is irreparable; and I feel confident that her Majesty's government will consider that, as it is highly advantageous that the Queen should be enabled to call upon the retired naval officers in this province whenever their professional services on the lakes may suddenly be required, so it is not only just, but politic, that, if disabled, they should not be allowed to suffer from pri

vations which might tend to deter others from following their noble and patriotic example."

In the following paragraph, the reader will see how far government thought fit to attend to this pressing application.

"In reading the foregoing despatch, as also the documents appended to it, the reader will, I think, join with me in regretting that, although this was the first naval victory in her Majesty's reign, my unceasing applications for the promotion of Captain Drew, and for a pension for Lieutenant M Cormack, neither of whom I had ever seen before they captured the Caroline, have been unavailing !"

We now have done. Our citations from the work before us have been sufficiently copious; but we can assure our readers that we practised no small self denial in resisting the temptations

which presented themselves for drawing upon them still more largely; as there is scarcely a page in which this able man does not convict his miserable antagonists, (we do not mean the traitors in the provinces, but their patrons in the cabinet,) of a weakness, a meanness, and a treachery, that is almost unexampled. We do not actic indiscretion in leaving the province quit him of a certain degree of romanin the defenceless state in which the insurgents found it. A wise general chance, is, we believe, an approved should leave as little as possible to maxim in war. thing that may be said against the folly And, allowing every of having suffered himself to be taken by surprise, we fully agree with the able editor of the Standard, that the Melbourne ministry must possess a charmed life, if they can survive the exposure contained in this publication. If they do, it is clear that our colonies are gone. And when we lose our colonies, in the present state of the world, our ships and our commerce must soon follow them. We patiently abide the arbitrament of public opinion upon this great question. Is Sir Francis to be quietly victimised? Or, is the detected incapacity, or profligacy of Glenelg and his associates to be visited with that condign and exemplary punishment, by which alone colonial loyalty can be re-assured, and colonial disaffection prevented? We know not how these questions may be answered; but this we do not hesitate to aver, that the true answer to them, whatever that may be, will determine the security, or the insecurity of our colonial empire.

Greece, Pictorial," Historical, and Descriptive, By Dr. Wordsworth. 1st Number. Orr and Co. London.

THE history of pictorial illustrations, from the uncouth and strange cuts on wood of the fifteenth century, to the elegant and expensive engravings of the present day, would form a curious and interesting subject. After a partial decline, the taste for ornamental or descriptive embellishment seems to be prevailing, and too often, indeed, costly works are published, the beauty of whose ornaments can be the only inducement to the purchaser. This cannot be said of the very beautiful and highly instructive work before us. The engravings on steel equal any hitherto produced in that line of art, and many

of those on wood are superior to every thing of the kind we have seen.

Dr. Wordsworth has already gained high reputation for great learning and deep research, for ingenious criticism, and accurate observation. The scholar, the critic, and the general reader, will alike expect, that whatever came from so accomplished a writer, should claim the highest attention; and the perusal of this number will greatly increase their respect for the author's eminent talents. The subject of Grecian geography is treated in a perspicuous and accurate method; dry as the matter generally is, Dr. Wordsworth has enlivened it by the insertion of legendary tales of that olden time, when all was mys