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 Canada is divided in two provinces ([[Wikipedia:Upper Canada|Upper]] and [[Wikipedia:Lower Canada|Lower Canada]]) and extends almost 200 miles. To preserve and defend the possession of this part of America, the English do not have more than 6,000 men in the current circumstances, several battalions having been sent this spring to the Islands. These troops are divided between [[Wikipedia:Quebec City|Quebec]] (the capital) [[Wikipedia:Ile aux Noix|Île-aux-noix]], the [[Wikipedia:Lake Champlain|Lake Champlain]], [[Wikipedia:Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec|St-Jean]], [[Wikipedia:Fort Chambly|Chambly]], [[Wikipedia:Fort Detroit|Detroit]], [[Wikipedia:Gaspé, Quebec|Gaspé]] and [[Wikipedia:Fort Michilimackinac|MisshilimaKinac]]. The government persuaded of the insufficiency of these troops to keep Canada, has had several battalions of militia raised since the [[Wikipedia:French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1793|declaration of war of France against England]]. But it would be quite a weak barrier to oppose in case of invasion; because in addition to the jealousy which reigns between the militiamen and their officers who are all dandies, it is notorious that the ''Canadiens'' are not interested in leaving their occupations to defend posts which only the King, they say, may find beneficial to preserve. And the government is so wary of the insurrectionary spirit that it did not yet give weapons to the militiamen, keeping them for just in time distribution.
-The ''Canadiens'' owe to the French Republic the [[Wikipedia:Constitutional Act of 1791|constitution a little less arbitrary]] than [[Wikipedia:Quebec Act|their first]], which was granted to them in 1791[1]. In both provinces of Canada, there is a [[Wikipedia:Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada|Lower House]], a [[Wikipedia:Legislative Council of Lower Canada|hereditary Senate]] and a [[Wikipedia:Governor of Lower Canada|Lieutenant governor]] holding a nice ''[[Wikipedia:veto|veto]]'': and it is this [[Wikipedia:hermaphrodite|hermaphrodite]] body which is responsible to make the laws. In the province of Lower Canada, the oldest and the most populated, the Lower House is almost all made up of ''Canadiens'' and one counts in it [[3 French born]] who are true [[Wikipedia:Republicanism|republicans]]. It is with delight that last winter I saw this room, in opposition with the government, order that the [[Wikipedia:Statute|statutory]] language would be the French language, ''being that of the majority''. Notwithstanding the strong ''veto'' opposed by the government, the House held on and appealed to the Parliament of England on this stupid veto. What will be the outcome? ... Nobody knows.[2] But it is easy to suppose that if the veto is not lift up, the ''Canadiens'' will have no loathing in shaking up the yoke of their stupefied tyrant.
+The ''Canadiens'' owe to the French Republic the [[Wikipedia:Constitutional Act of 1791|constitution a little less arbitrary]] than [[Wikipedia:Quebec Act|their first]], which was granted to them in 1791 [1]. In both provinces of Canada, there is a [[Wikipedia:Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada|Lower House]], a [[Wikipedia:Legislative Council of Lower Canada|hereditary Senate]] and a [[Wikipedia:Governor of Lower Canada|Lieutenant governor]] holding a nice ''[[Wikipedia:veto|veto]]'': and it is this [[Wikipedia:hermaphrodite|hermaphrodite]] body which is responsible to make the laws. In the province of Lower Canada, the oldest and the most populated, the Lower House is almost all made up of ''Canadiens'' and one counts in it [[three French born]] who are true [[Wikipedia:Republicanism|republicans]]. It is with delight that last winter I saw this room, in opposition with the government, order that the [[Wikipedia:Statute|statutory]] language would be the French language, ''being that of the majority''. Notwithstanding the strong ''veto'' opposed by the government, the House held on and appealed to the Parliament of England on this stupid veto. What will be the outcome? ... Nobody knows. [2] But it is easy to suppose that if the veto is not lift up, the ''Canadiens'' will have no loathing in shaking up the yoke of their stupefied tyrant.
 Independently of this reason which would induce me to have good hopes for the ''Canadiens'', there is in an infinity of other reasons which derive from the oppressive way in which they were treated of all time by the wicked English government. The first year after the [[Wikipedia:Treaty of Paris (1763)|cession]], one saw men, fathers, citizens of good consideration immediately hung, without any form of lawsuit, under the simple suspicion of non-royalism and the blood of these unfortunate victims which still runs in some ''Canadiens'', ask for revenge. Peasants were arrested and inhumanly whipped, for the sole crime of not having been able to clear their cars, collapsed in the snow under an enormous load, out of the way to give passage to an English officer walking a prostitute. House owners who strongly held on to their property because in it they had received the last embrace of their expiring fathers, were driven out of them by the infamous [[Wikipedia:Frederick Haldimand|Haldimand]], without any sort of allowance and saw their properties be used for the ornament of the avenues of the this imperious man's castle. Fifteen days drudgeries made the craftsman lose the means of providing for the daily needs of a family. We saw the English in possession of all the lucrative charges while we hardly granted honorary ones to the ''Canadiens''. Finally in addition to thousand other local circumstances, the ''Canadiens'' see, with the greatest disposition to revenge, their ports closed down to all the nations, except England and their [[Wikipedia:Fur trade|trades of fur]] and grain monopolized by this cruel mother who fixes at her will the price of these goods and forces Canada to receive her goods and her food in return.