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When Poulett Thomson landed, on October 19th, 1839, at Quebec, he was brought at once face to face with the relation between French nationalism and the constitutional resettlement of Canada. Durham had had no doubt about the true solution. It was to confer free institutions on the colony, and to trust to the natural energy and increase of the Anglo-Saxon element to swamp French nationalité.
"I'm not coming, I tell you." "Insanity in the family, evidently," observed Poulett, judicially. "Aren't you coming, really?" "No, I'm not; do get out and leave me alone!" "Never!" said Poulett. "We'll stay with him and see him through the fit, eh?" "Rather! We'll never desert you, Grimmy!"
My old acquaintance, Lord Palmerston, has arrived at Paris, and dined here yesterday, to meet the Duc and Duchesse de Guiche, Count Valeski, and Mr. Poulett Thomson. Seven years have produced no change in Lord Palmerston. He is the same intelligent, sensible, and agreeable person that I remember him to have been for many years.
Swept on by this great initial success, Poulett Thomson determined if possible to settle the Clergy Reserve trouble out of hand. As has been shown above, this ecclesiastical difficulty affected the whole life of the community; and its settlement would mean peace, such as Upper Canada had not known for a generation.
Grim, Rogers, Wilson, Poulett, etc., were, on their side, rather sore at Jack's continual desertion of them and their causes. They had just seen him pedalling easily after Acton, throwing them a rather mirthless joke as he ran past, and they had, naturally, held a council to consider matters. "Wherever can the beggar get to is what I want to know," said Wilson.
In the year 1820 this gentleman assumed the name of Poulett in remembrance of his mother, who was heiress of a branch of the family of that name and he was afterwards known as John Poulett Thomson. In 1781 he married Miss Charlotte Jacob, daughter of a physician at Salisbury. By this lady he had a numerous family, consisting of nine children.
As soon as this town was permitted to send members to Parliament it selected eminent free-traders, Poulett Thomson and Mark Phillips, who distinguished themselves for the fearlessness of their speeches on an unpopular subject.
"I have done nothing for two days, but pass under triumphal arches, and receive addresses of thanks and praise." Correspondence relative to the Affairs of Canada : The Right Hon. C. P. Thomson to Lord John Russell, 16 September, 1840. Poulett Scrope, p. 198. Baldwin Correspondence: La Fontaine to Baldwin, 26 July, 1845, "You know that I do not like the Whigs." Poulett Scrope, p. 181.
Von Buch and Humboldt might have made Iztaccihuatl on the "upheaval theory," by a force pushing up from below, without breaking through the crust to form a crater; while Poulett Scrope was building Popocatepetl on the "accumulation theory," by throwing up lava and volcanic ashes out of an open vent, until he had formed a conical heap some five thousand feet high, with a great crater at the top.
The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve." The Archdeacon rose with a delighted chuckle. "I must go and tell that to De la Poulett," he said, indicating a clerical figure sitting in the third row of the stalls; "he spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it."
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