Excerpt from The History of Canada, Vol. 2 of 2: From Its First Discovery to the Present Time Home Government 3 and the prisoner made up his mind to accept the inevitable, and serve out the full term of his imprisonment. Contrary to expectation, however, the action of the Assembly prov ed eflhctive, and Collins was pardoned. But the shadow of his prison house never afterwards left him. He returned to the world a sadder and a wiser man, and there was little to complain of in the Freeman afterwards. He continued to publish it until Sep tember, 1834, when he fell a victim to the cholera, and the Freeman (lied with him. Having disposed of the Collins matter, the Assembly turned 1t-s attention to other business. In Upper, as well as in Lower Canada, Government still retained the casual and territorial revenues and these, in addition to a permanent grant of made several years previously, had now increased sufficiently to make the Execu tive completely independent of the Assembly, as regarded an annual vote for the Civil List. Strong resolutions were passed against this condition of things, and a firm determination evinced to acquire control of all the provincial revenues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.