Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) THE STORY OF THE UPPER CANADIAN REBELLION. [Illustration: Yours truly, John Rolph] THE STORY OF THE =UPPER CANADIAN REBELLION= JOHN CHARLES DENT AUTHOR OF "THE LAST FORTY YEARS" &C. VOL. I. [Illustration] TORONTO. PUBLISHED BY C. BLACKETT ROBINSON 1865 _New York_ THE STORY OF THE UPPER CANADIAN REBELLION; LARGELY DERIVED FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS. BY JOHN CHARLES DENT, _Author of "The Last Forty Years," etc._ * * * * * "Well, God be thanked for these rebels."--_I Henry IV._, Act iii, sc. 3. "Truth is not always to be withheld because its expression may wound the feelings of public men, whose official acts have subjected them to public censure. If it were, history and biography would cease to be guiding stars, and, above all, would offer no wholesome restraint to the cruel, or corrupt, or incompetent exercise of authority."--_Tupper's Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock._ "We rebelled neither against Her Majesty's person nor her Government, but against Colonial _mis_-government.... We remonstrated; we were derided.... We were goaded on to madness, and were compelled to show that we had the spirit of resistance to repel injuries, or to be deemed a captive, degraded and recreant people. We took up arms, not to attack others, but to defend ourselves."--_Letter to Lord Durham from Dr. Wolfred Nelson and others, confined at Montreal, June 18th, 1838._ * * * * * =Toronto:= C. BLACKETT ROBINSON, 5 JORDAN STREET. 1885. _Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1885, by_ C. BLACKETT ROBINSON, _in the office of the Minister of Agriculture._ I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY ESTEEMED FRIEND, GEORGE STEWART, JUN'R. OF QUEBEC: WHOSE RESEARCHES IN A KINDRED DIRECTION WILL ENABLE HIM TO DO FULL JUSTICE TO WHATEVER IS MERITORIOUS IN IT; WHILE HIS GENEROUS APPRECIATION OF THE EFFORTS OF HIS LITERARY BRETHREN WILL RENDER HIM INDULGENT TO ITS DEFECTS. JOHN CHARLES DENT. Toronto, 1885. [Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors, including punctuation, have been corrected. All other inconsistencies have been left as they were in the original.] CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER I. THE BANISHED BRITON 9 CHAPTER II. A BILL OF PARTICULARS 46 CHAPTER III. THE FAMILY COMPACT 71 CHAPTER IV. FATHERS OF REFORM 96 CHAPTER V. A "FREE AND UNFETTERED" PRESS 122 CHAPTER VI. THE CASE OF CAPTAIN MATTHEWS 144