[208] Among them were such men as Wilson Patten, General Peel, Mr. Corry, Lord Stanhope, Lord Hardinge, most of whom in days to come took their places in conservative administrations.
[209] Memo, of 1876.
[210] A bill to indemnify the inhabitants of Lower Canada, many of whom had taken part in the rebellion of 1837-8, for the destruction and injury of their property. Mr. Gladstone strongly opposed any compensation being given to Canadian, rebels.—Hansard, June 14, 1849.
[211] Hansard, Feb. 21, 1850, p. 1233.
[212] Garnett's Edward Gibbon Wakefield, p. 248. See also p. 232.
[213] See The Gladstone Colony by J. F. Hogan, M.P., with prefatory note by Mr. Gladstone, April 20, 1897, and the chapter in Lord Sherbrooke's Life, 'Mr. Gladstone's Penal Colony.'
[214] Stafford Northcote published an effective vindication in a 'Letter to a Friend,' 1847.
[215] Speech on affairs of Lower Canada, Mar. 8, 1837.
[216] On Government of Canada bill, May 29, 1840.
[217] See his evidence before a Select Committee on Colonial Military Expenditure, June 6, 1861.