(62) There is not an individual of the 93rd Highlanders, so long quartered in the highly flourishing city of Toronto, who would not, I feel well assured, join me in every grateful feeling to its inhabitants, and every wish for their happiness and welfare.
A great number of the men of the 93rd have settled at and in the neighbourhood of Toronto.
(63) “The British ‘supremacy of the ocean,’ which has been a boast and a benefit, has become a necessity. If I were Prime Minister of England, now that the Corn Laws are repealed, I should not be able to sleep if I thought that the war marine of England was not stronger than all the nations combined, which there is the least chance of ever being engaged in a conspiracy for our destruction.”—Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
(64) “Canada, which receives the greater number of emigrants, we are by all accounts only peopling and enriching for the Americans to possess ere long.”—Art of Colonization, Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
I trust that the British North American Colonies will, in reply to the above remark, send forth such a voice of attachment to their mother country that will encourage her people at home and embolden them to come forward in aid of great colonial measures, resulting as they must do in universal benefit to the empire.
In page 100 of the work just above quoted we read—“The Banker’s argument satisfied me; but he was not aware of a peculiarity of colonies, as distinguished from dependencies in general, which furnishes another reason for wishing that they should belong to the empire—I mean the attachment of the colonies to their mother country.... I have often been unable to help smiling at the exhibition of it. In what it originates I cannot say.”
I cannot but deeply regret the use of these expressions, coming as they do from the pen of so influential an author. Has be forgotten or does he not feel that
“Cœlum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt?”