8 James Stuart L.J. Papineau Sauveuse de Beaujeu Aug. Richer James Fraser George Platt 9 James Stuart L.J. Papineau L. Roi Portelance August Richer F. Souligny John Molson 10 Joseph Perrault L.J. Papineau Hughes Heney Joseph Valois George Garden Thomas Busby 11 Joseph Perrault L.J. Papineau Hughes Heney Joseph Valois George Garden Thomas Thain 12 Joseph Perrault L.J. Papineau Hughes Heney Joseph Valois P. de Rocheblave James Leslie 13 Joseph Perrault L.J. Papineau Hughes Heney Joseph Valois Robert Nelson James Leslie CHAPTER XVI MURMURS OF REVOLUTION RACE AND CLASS ANTAGONISM “CANADA TRADE ACTS”--LORD DALHOUSIE BANQUETED AFTER BEING RECALLED--MOVEMENT TO JOIN MONTREAL AS A PORT TO UPPER CANADA--THE GOVERNOR ALLEGED TO BE A TOOL--EXECUTIVE COUNCIL--RIOTOUS ELECTION AT MONTREAL--DR. TRACY VERSUS STANLEY BAGG--THE MILITARY FIRE--THE “MINERVE” VERSUS THE GAZETTE AND HERALD--THE CHOLERA OF 1832--MURMURS OF THE COMING REVOLT--MONTREAL PETITION FOR AND AGAINST CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES--MR. NELSON BREAKS WITH PAPINEAU--THE NINETY-TWO RESOLUTIONS--MR. ROEBUCK, AGENT FOR THE REFORM PARTY, ADVOCATES SELF-GOVERNMENT--FRENCH-CANADIAN EXTREMISTS--THE ELECTIONS--PUBLIC MEETING OF “MEN OF BRITISH AND IRISH DESCENT”--TWO DIVERGENT MENTALITIES--THE CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATIONS--PETITIONS TO LONDON--LORD GOSFORD APPOINTED ROYAL COMMISSIONER--HIS POLICY OF CONCILIATION REJECTED--MR. PAPINEAU INTRANSIGEANT--RAISING VOLUNTEER CORPS FORBIDDEN--THE DORIC CLUB--“RESPONSIBLE” GOVERNMENT DEMANDED. The bill for the proposed union, shorn of the notion of union, came up in the Imperial parliament and passed as the “Canadian Trade Acts.” Its object was to secure Upper Canada from the possible injustice and caprice of the legislature of Lower Canada and the imposition and payment of duties. The act was challenged in the house of Quebec, but to no avail. In 1824 the president of the United States claimed the free navigation of the St. Lawrence to the ocean. This was objected to by the legislative council as pernicious to the interests of British trade and the merchants of Montreal in a petition of February 20, 1826, combatted the admission of the claim.