[2] (Publisher’s Note: Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, by ROBERT GRANT HALIBURTON, at the Department of Agriculture.) [3] The only references to him in Scott’s “Memorials of the Haliburtons” (printed privately in 1820 to show that that family had become extinct in the male line) are, “killed on parade at Madras by a fanatical Sepoy,” and “he was the last survivor in the male line of the Haliburtons of Newmains and Mertoun.” Mill speaks of his death, and says that “the name of Haliburton was long remembered by the Madras Sepoys.” There is no tablet to his memory in the burial place of his family. [4] The sword of Tippoo Sahib, taken from his dead body by Capt. Neville, after the famous charge of his regiment at Seringapatam, which earned for them the name of “the Terror of India,” is now in the possession of Sir Arthur Haliburton, G.C.B. [5] With the permission of Mr. Henry J. Morgan, portions of this paper are reproduced, in an abridged form, from his “Bibliotheca Canadensis,” published in 1887. [6] He left two sons and five daughters. [7] Tome XXVI, 307 (1841). [8] It could not have been conveniently _pigeon-holed_, for it required six men to carry it; but we may assume that it never got farther than the Home Office, and that Her Majesty never heard of it, and therefore never replied to it. The petition was written by the truest friend the colonies have ever had—one who died in harness while working in their cause—the late C. W. Eddy, who informed the writer that the Disintegration party had for a time so effectually “captured” the Royal Colonial Institute, of which he was Secretary, that the Council refused to allow the petition to lie on the table of the reading-room on the ground that it was “revolutionary!” So unsatisfactory was their conduct as late as 1872, that another colonial society would have been founded, had not the colonial element gained the day in the Institute. How far the petition was “revolutionary” may be seen from the following extracts: “We beg to represent to your Majesty that we have heard with regret and alarm that your Majesty has been advised to consent to give up the colonies, containing millions of acres of unoccupied land, which might be employed profitably both to the colonies and to ourselves as a field for emigration. We respectfully submit that your Majesty’s colonial possessions were won for your Majesty, and settled by the valor and enterprise and the treasure of the English people; and that, having thus become part of the national freehold and inheritance of your Majesty’s subjects, they are held in trust by your Majesty, and ought not to be surrendered, but transmitted to your Majesty’s successors, as they were received by your Majesty.”