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Updated: May 14, 2025
John Sandfield Macdonald, and other able Liberals who were not disposed to follow Mr. Brown and his two colleagues in their patriotic abandonment of "partyism." The vote on the address was, in the council Contents 45, Non-contents 15. In the assembly it stood Yeas 91, Nays 33.
Lord Tenterden approved of the making of the new judge, but wished his functions had been better defined. The Duke of Cumberland said the Non-contents had it; but he said it too late, and his people did not wish to divide. Lord Londonderry would have voted against us. I fear he is half mad. The House seems to treat him so.
Those lords who are for it, say, Content: those who are against it, say, Not content." There was, accordingly, a cry of both; after which the president declared, "the contents have it;" and some lords replying, "the non-contents have it," his lordship said, "the non-contents must go below the bar:" which is the manner of dividing the house.
But if the Banker, in opening business, had good reason to think that, in the long run, the contents would largely outvote the non-contents, we could scarcely blame him for going ahead. And what if, for contents and malcontents alike, he had an uncovenanted bonus up his sleeve?
The "non-contents" moved off, said that it would not do; was too much of a good thing; escaped to Zoar; and, in the course of this retreat, somebody took what! not the pulpit, nor its Bible, nor the hymn books, nor the collecting boxes, nor the unpaid bills belonging the chapel, but the title deeds of the old place! and to this day they have not been returned. This was indeed a sharp thing.
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