[5] ’Cabs, caleches, and everything that would run were at once launched in
    pursuit, and crossing his route, the Governor-General’s carriage was
    bitterly assailed in the main street of the St. Lawrence suburbs.  The
    good and rapid driving of his postilions enabled him to clear the
    desperate mob, but not till the head of his brother, Colonel Bruce,
    had been cut, injuries inflicted on the chief of police.  Colonel
    Ermatanger, and on Captain Jones, commanding the escort, and every
    panel of the carriage driven in.’—­Mac Mullen, p. 511.

[6] In the midst of this time of anxiety and even of danger to himself and
    his family, his eldest son was born at Monklands, on May 16.  Her
    Majesty was graciously pleased to become godmother to the child, who
    was christened Victor Alexander.

[7] The motives, he afterwards said, which induced him to abstain from
    forcing his way into Montreal, might be correctly stated in the words
    of the Duke of Wellington, who, when asked why he did not go to the
    city in 1830, is reported to have answered, ’I would have gone if the
    law had been equal to protect me, but that was not the case.  Fifty
    dragoons would have done it, but that was a military force.  If firing
    had begun, who could tell when it would end? one guilty person would
    fall and ten innocent be destroyed.  Would this have been wise or
    humane for a little bravado, or that the country might not be alarmed
    for a day or two?’

[8] His valued Secretary, to whose personal recollections most of these
    details are due.

[9] Some years afterwards, in the ‘Address’ already quoted, Mr. Gladstone
    made something of an amende for this attack; but he does not
    appear to have been fully informed, even then, either as to the
    intention with which the Act was framed, or as to the manner in which
    it had been carried out.

[10] ‘This,’ observes Lord Grey, ’owing to the extreme forbearance of Lord
    Elgin and his advisers, was the only life lost throughout these
    unhappy disturbances.’

[11] Lord Grey’s Colonial Policy, &c. i. 234.  In 1858, however, this
    ‘perambulating system’ having proved expensive and inconvenient, the
    Queen was asked to designate a permanent abode for the Legislature. 
    Her Majesty was graciously pleased to name Ottawa, the present capital
    of the Dominion; and the selection of this central spot, with, its
    singular facilities of communication, has greatly aided in the
    consolidation of the province.

CHAPTER V.

ANNEXATION MOVEMENT—­REMEDIAL MEASURES—­REPEAL OF THE NAVIGATION LAWS—­
RECIPROCITY WITH THE UNITED STATES—­HISTORY OF THE TWO MEASURES—­DUTY OF
SUPPORTING AUTHORITY—­VIEWS ON COLONIAL GOVERNMENT—­COLONIAL INTERESTS THE
SPORT OF HOME PARTIES—­NO SEPARATION!—­SELF-GOVERNMENT NOT NECESSARILY
REPUBLICAN—­VALUE OF THE MONARCHICAL PRINCIPLE—­DEFENCES OF THE COLONY.