Page:Letter from L. J. Papineau and J. Neilson, Esqs., Addressed to His Majesty's Under Secretary of State on the Subject of the Proposed Union of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada.djvu/7

 said measure from three entire districts of Upper Canada, viz.,


 * The Home District,
 * The District of Newcastle,
 * The London District,

And also ten other Petitions from Counties situated in almost every other District of the said Province; subscribed in the whole by eight thousand and ninety-seven persons, chiefly freeholders and qualified voters.

We also beg leave to observe that, although the Legislature of Upper Canada has been moved to give its approbation to the said measure, it has refused to do so; referring to the Petitions of the People, the majority of which are decidedly against the proposed Union. Copies of five of these Petitions, viz.,


 * The Home District,
 * The County of Kent, in the Western District, and
 * The Counties of Stormont and Glengarry, in
 * the Eastern District,

Together with the Resolutions of the Assembly and Legislative Council of that Province, are annexed under the letter B.

From these documents it will appear that no Bill introduced in Parliament relating to the Colonies ever met with a more general opposition,