for the further decoration of buildings already sufficiently splendid, and the support of establishments already too munificently endowed, were devoted to the improvement of this portion of the British Colonies, a great benefit would speedily devolve on the people of England. If the extension of your commerce be desirable, if the enrichment of your remotest dependencies be an object worthy of regard,-if the possession of valuable territories, capable of receiving and sustaining millions of your overgrown population, now almost literally perishing for want of employment,-if these be advantages, and if Canada be worth the paternal care of your Government, why has she not experienced greater attention? Why does she not obtain a portion of that liberality which the Parliament of England so frequently and laudably displays? Let the dwellers in Great Britain and Ireland convince us, that, though we are separated from them by the Western Ocean, they regard us as members of the same family, and therefore entitled to their favourable consider ation. We already purchase from the merchants of Great Britain no inconsiderable portion of their manufactures, and were our condition improved we should soon be able to increase our amount of purchases; and in return we are competent to supply you as a nation with many articles of great utility, for which you now resort to foreign nations. We feel the most ardent attachment to your Government, your institutions, your laws, and, as such,

we think ourselves entitled to a greater share of your assistance than we have hitherto received.›

I do not mean to state, that we stand in particular need of pecuniary aid from England; but if the Supreme Government would direct its attention to the actual condition of the country, I have no doubt that means would be found, within the Upper Province alone, fully adequate to the accomplishment of every thing that is necessary for the improvement of its navigation, the repairing and cutting of roads, and the erection of public works for the protection of our trade, liberty, and independence.

In the two following pages I have exhibited a plan of one of the new townships of the Upper Province, and have distinguished the lots which are set apart by authority, under the title of "Crown" and "Clergy RESERVES:" On the former of these I shall proceed to offer some observations connected with the improvement of Upper Canada.

Concessions.

There are already no less than 232 organized townships in the Upper Province, which contain upwards of 18,000,000 acres of land, two-sevenths of which are reserved,-one seventh, for the support of a Protestant Clergy, and the other seventh, under the appellation of" crown reserves." Although both these reserves tend to impede the present improvement of the country, remaining as they do almost wholly uncultivated, I have no wish to see those diminished which have, in my pinion, been wisely set apart for the support of the Clergy. But as I can neither perceive the necessity nor the expediency of the crown-reserves lying in the possession of the Government, I most heartily wish, not merely to witness their diminution, but also their total resignation into the hands of purchasers. Many of these reserved lands are in the best-situated and most fertile townships in the Province, and, if offered for sale, would readily meet with purchasers.

The total amount of crown lands, now in the province, is upwards of 2,500,000 acres. If the government would consent to dispose of these lands, in lots of 200 acres, to persons desirous of purchasing, and would extend the same privilege to such of the inhabitants of the United States as would, on becoming proprietors, take the oath of allegiance to his Majesty and reside in the country, every acre of these reserves would be bought up before the expiration of three years; and a fund would by this means be created, sufficient for the