[[5]] Baldwin to Hincks, 22 September, 1854: in Hincks, Lecture on the Political History of Canada, pp. 80-81.
[[6]] The Clear-Grits are thus described in The Globe, 8 October, 1850: "disappointed ministerialists, ultra English radicals, republicans and annexationists.... As a party on their own footing, they are powerless except to do mischief." Brown had not yet transferred his allegiance.
[[7]] Quoted from Dent, The Last Forty Years, ii. p. 190.
[[8]] Ministerial explanations read to the House of Assembly, by the Hon. John A. Macdonald, on Wednesday, 22 June, 1864.
[[9]] Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Elgin to Grey, 2 August, 1850.