an importance and influence in the deliberations of that Body which must to a certain extent restrain the freedom of debate, create jealousies and distrusts in the minds of Members and their constituents, and lead to consequences highly prejudicial to the public interest and destructive to the harmony which for the necessary despatch of public business ought always to subsist between the Government and the House of Assembly.
Your Petitioners having thus discharged what the consider a duty to themselves and to the Province by declaring their objections to the proposed Union, humbly pray Your Honourable House, that should a Bill for uniting the Legislatures of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada be again introduced it may not be passed. But should Your Honourable House in your wisdom consider it necessary that it should be passed, that the clauses particularly pointed out as objectionable may first be expunged.
And your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.
Cornwall, Upper Canada.
December 4th, 1822.
Petition of the county of Glengarry, in the Eastern District of the Province of Upper Canada
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.
The Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the County of Glengarry, in the Eastern District of the Province of Upper Canada.
Most respectfully sheweth,
That your Petitioners having observed, through the medium of the public prints, that a Bill was introduced into Your Honourable House, during the last Session of Parliament,
