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With the eye of a political strategist, Poulett Thomson prepared his alternative system, a curious kind of despotism, based, however, simply on his own powers of influencing opinion in the House. It was plain to him that the previous governments had wantonly neglected public opinion.
Sir John Colborne to Lord Normanby, 19 August, 1839. The Right Hon. C. P. Thomson to Lord John Russell, 15 December 1839. Poulett Scrope, pp. 148-9. The Right Hon. C. P. Thomson to Lord John Russell, 15 December, 1839. Ibid. Poulett Scrope, p. 163. Ibid. p. 33. Sydenham to Russell, 13 January, 1841. Poulett Scrope, p. 164. Poulett Scrope, p. 183.
"You can form no idea of the manner in which a Colonial Parliament transacts its business," Poulett Thomson wrote from Toronto, in 1839. "When they came to their own affairs, and, above all, to the money matters, there was a scene of confusion and riot of which no one in England can have any idea.
"I arrived here on Thursday week," grumbled Poulett Thomson, writing from Toronto in 1839. I slept one night on the road, and two on board the steamers. Such, as I have described it, is the boasted navigation of the St. Lawrence!" For military purposes there was the alternative route, up the Ottawa to Bytown, and thence by the Rideau military canal to Kingston and the Lakes.
I have chosen to give Baldwin's own language in all its awkwardness and stiffness. Poulett Scrope, p. 233. District Municipal Council Act , Cl. Sydenham to Russell, 28 August, 1841. Journals of the House of Assembly, 3 September, 1841. I have used as my chief authority here the reports in The Quebec Gazette, more especially the issue of Friday, 10 September, 1841.
I disregard Cathcart's tenure of office. For all practical purposes it was merely that of an acting governor. Instructions to the Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson, 7 September, 1839. Ibid. Lord John Russell to the Rt. Hon. C. Poulett Thomson, 14 October, 1839. Lord John Russell to the Right Hon. C. P. Thomson, 16 October, 1839.
Where were the virtuous and conscientious men in whom the constituencies of Ireland had reposed confidence? Why did they not attend in numbers sufficient to prevent Mr. Poulett Scrope's laudable effort on behalf of Ireland from being burked?" During the debate which followed Lord John Russell's speech on the state of Ireland, Mr.
Poulett Scrope, F.R.S., Considerations on Volcanoes . This work is dedicated to Lyell, his fellow-worker in the same department of science, and was undertaken, as he says, "in order to help to dispel that signal delusion as to the mode of action of the subtelluric forces with which the Elevation-Crater theory had mystified the geological world." The second edition was published in 1872. Dr.
Worcester sank into his chair with a sigh of satisfaction at sight of little Poulett; he was to be in clover, evidently. "That's right, Worcester. That is the easiest chair. Got that last egg on the toast, Poulett? You're a treasure, and so I'll write your mamma. Tea or coffee, Dick? Coffee for Worcester, Grim, tea for me. Pass that cream to Worcester, and you've forgotten the knife for the pie.
Mr Poulett Scrope. "It is true that we have many representations, from Poor Law unions in Ireland, of the utter inability of the proprietors and occupiers of the soil to bear the burden which the new Poor Law has imposed upon them; and I give no opinion on the questions, whether they have a claim in equity on further assistance from England, or whether the rate has been imposed in the most judicious way.
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