The petition, after urging that by proclamation the mother country and the colonies should be declared to be one Empire, adds, “we would also submit that your Majesty might call to your Privy Council representatives from the colonies for the purpose of consultation on the affairs of the more distant parts of your Majesty’s dominion.” [9] Morgan’s _Bibliotheca Canadensis_, p. 169. TRANSCRIBER NOTES Obvious printer errors have been corrected. Some illustrations have been moved to coincide with the text. A cover was created for this ebook. [The end of _A Sketch of the Life and Times of Judge Haliburton_, by Robert Grant Haliburton] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Sketch in the Life and Times of Judge Haliburton, by Robert Grant Haliburton