The breakfast-room of Pine Towers, on a bright, sunny morning, some three or four days after the death of its much-respected mistress, held a large concourse of the notables of York, and other private and official gentry1 of the Province. They had come to take part, on the previous day, in the funeral obsequies; and were now, after a night's rest and bountiful morning repast, about to return to the Capital. Among the number gathered to pay respect to the deceased lady's memory, as well as to show their regard and sympathy for the bereaved2 husband, the good old Commodore, were many whose names were "household words" in the early days of Upper Canada. Sixty years have passed over the Province since the notable gathering3, and all who were then present have paid the debt of nature. Hushed now as are their voices, the Macleod breakfast-room, on the morning we have indicated, was a perfect babel of noise. The solemn pageant4 of the previous day, and the sacred griefs of those whom the grim Enemy had made desolate5, seemed at the moment to have been forgotten by the departing throng6; and for a time the young master of Pine Towers, as he bade adieu to his father's guests, witnessed a scene in sharp contrast to yesterday's orderly decorum. It was with a sigh of relief that Edward Macleod saw the last of the miscellaneous vehicles move off, and the final guest take the road to the bateaux on the lake, to convey him and those who were returning by water to Holland Landing, there to find the means of reaching the Capital.
Entering the house, empty now of all but those who were left of its usual inmates7, including his sister's friend, the beautiful Helene--whom he had hardly had an opportunity to more than greet on his return from England--an overpowering sense of desolation fell upon him. Seating himself near his mother's favourite window, the young man's loneliness and bereavement8 found vent9 in tears. All the past came vividly10 before him--a mother's life-long devotion and tender care; her thousand winning ways and loving endearments11; her pride in his future career and prospects12; and the recollection of the many innocent confidences which a mother loves to pour into the ear of a handsome, grown-up son, whose filial affection and chivalrous13 devotion assure her that she still possesses charms to which her husband and his contemporaries of a previous generation had been wont14 sedulously15 to pay tribute. "Ah, beautiful mother, it is not to-day nor to-morrow that I shall fully16 realize that I am to see thee no more on earth," said the young man musingly17, as he left his seat and strode nervously18 up and down the room, while his favourite hound from a rug by the large open fire-place eyed his agitated19 movements.
Presently the young man's soliloquies were interrupted by the timid entrance of his sister, Rose, followed by the more decided20 and stately tread of the charming Helene.
"Ah, Edward," said his sister, "you are alone. Have all our guests gone?"
"Yes," was the reply, "and I am not sorry to have the house again to ourselves."
"You, of course, include Helene among the latter," observed Rose interrogatively.
"I do, certainly," was Edward's instant and cordial response, as he offered Helene his hand to conduct her down the steps into the conservatory21 and out on to the lawn. "Miss DeBerczy, of course, is one of us, though you told me this morning that she, too, expressed a wish to be gone."
Helene interrupted these remarks with the explanation that her wish to take leave was owing to a mandate22 of her mother's which had reached her that morning.
"We shall all be sorry at your leaving us so soon," was Edward's courteous23 rejoinder. "But, when you go," he added, "you must permit me to accompany you to 'Bellevue,' for I wish to pay my respects to your mamma; it is a long time now since we met. Besides, I have to deliver to her the cameos I brought her from England and the family trinkets your uncle entrusted24 to my care."
"Mamma, I know, is eager to receive them, and will be delighted to welcome you back. In her note, by the way, she tells me that Captain John Franklin has written to her from York, asking permission to call upon her on his way north. You know that the Arctic Expedition is to go overland, by way of Penetanguishene and Rupert's Land, and is to effect a junction25 with Captain Beechey's party operating from Hudson's Bay."
"So I learned before I left England," replied Edward. "I hope my father," he added, "will be able to meet the members of the Expedition. It would rouse him from his grief, and I know that he takes a great interest in Captain Franklin's project."
The conversation was now monopolized26 by the ladies, for Helene took Rose aside to tell that young lady that her mamma had given her some news of a young and handsome land-surveyor, of Barrie, of whom she had heard Rose speak in terms of warm admiration27.
The gentleman referred to was Allan Dunlop, who, Helene related, had been very useful at York to Captain Franklin, in giving him information as to the route to be followed by his Expedition on its way to the "hoarse28 North sea."
Rose visibly coloured as she listened to the young man's praises, in the extract Helene's mother had enclosed from Captain Franklin's communication. That young lady protested, however, that Allan Dunlop was her brother's friend, not hers. "Indeed," she added, "we have only occasionally met at the Church at Barrie, and I have not even been introduced to him."
"Ah, and how is it that his name is always on your lips after every service I hear you have attended across the bay?" queried29 Helene archly.
The tints30 deepened on Rose's sweet, bright face as she apologetically urged "that at such times there was doubtless nothing better to talk about."
Happily for Rose the embarrassing conversation was interrupted by the return of her brother, who rejoined the ladies to say that on the highway, at the end of the avenue down which he had strolled, a party of marines and English shipwrights31, in command of a naval32 officer, had just passed on their way to the post, near Barrie, to proceed on the morrow by the Notawassaga river to the Georgian Bay, and on to the new naval station at Penetanguishene. A Mr. Galt, who accompanied the party, and was on his way to the Canada Land Company's reserve in the Huron district, had brought him letters from York, among which, he added, was one from his old friend, Allan Dunlop, condoling33 with him on the loss of his mother and sending his respectful compliments to his father and his family.
"How curious!" observed Helene, "why, we've just been talking of Mr. Dunlop."
"You mean to say," interposed Rose, "that you have just been talking of him."
"Well! that is quite a coincidence, Miss DeBerczy, but do you know my friend?" asked Edward.
"No, I've not that pleasure," replied the beautiful Huguenot. "but your sister, I believe, knows him--"
"Oh, Helene! I do not!" said Rose, interruptingly.
Edward turned towards his sister, and for a moment regarded her lovingly. After a pause, he said, "Well, Sis, if you do know him, you know one of the best and most promising34 of my early acquaintances, and from what I have heard of him since my return, I feel that I want to improve my own acquaintance with him, and shall not be sorry to know that he has become your friend as well as mine."
"But, Edward, you must wait till I do know him," said Rose with some emphasis. "I know your friend by sight only, and have never spoken to him; though, I confess, I have heard a good deal of him in the recent election, and much that is favourable35, though papa has taken a great dislike to him on account of his political opinions."
"Ah, papa's Tory prejudices would be sure to do injustice36 to Dunlop," Edward rejoined; "but, I fear," he added, "there is need in the political arena37 of Upper Canada of just such a Reformer as he."
At this stage of the conversation the old Commodore was observed on the veranda38, and Tredway approached the group to announce that lunch was on the table.
Commodore Macleod, as may be inferred from his son's remark about his father's Tory prejudices, was a Tory of the old school, a member of the Legislative39 Council of Upper Canada, and a firm ally and stiff upholder of the Provincial40 Executive, who had earned for themselves, by their autocratic rule, the rather sinister41 designation of "the Family Compact." As a trusted friend and loyal supporter of the oligarchy42 of the day, whom a well-known radical43 who figured prominently in the later history of the Province was wont to speak of as that army of placemen and pensioners44, "Paymasters, Receivers, Auditors45, King, Lords and Commons, who swallowed the whole revenue of Upper Canada"--the reference to a man of the type of young Dunlop, who aspired46 to political honours, was particularly distasteful, and sure to bring upon the object of his bitter animadversion the full vials of his wrath47.
Ralph Macleod was a grand specimen48 of the sturdy British seamen49, who contributed by their prowess to make England mistress of the seas. He entered the navy during the war with Holland, and served under Lord Howe, when that old "sea-dog," in 1782, came to the relief of Gibraltar, against the combined forces of France and Spain. He served subsequently under Lord Rodney, in the West Indies, and was a shipmate of Nelson's in Sir John Jervis' victory over the Spanish fleet off Cape50 St. Vincent. For his share in that action Macleod gained his captaincy, while his friend Commodore Nelson was made a Rear-Admiral. In 1797 he was wounded at Camperdown while serving under Admiral Duncan, and retired51 with the rank of Commodore.
Early in the century, he married an English lady and came to Canada, where for a time he held various posts on the naval stations on the Lakes, and was with Barclay, on his flagship, The Detroit, in the disaster on Lake Erie, in September, 1813. Narrowly escaping capture by Commander Perry's forces at Put-in-Bay, he joined General Proctor in his retreat from Amherstburg to the Thames, and was present at the battle of Moravian Town, where the Indian chief, Tecumseh, lost his life.
When the Treaty of Ghent terminated the war and left Canada in possession of her own, Commodore Macleod, with other old naval officers, retired from the service, and took grants of land in the neighbourhood of Lake Simcoe. Being possessed52 of considerable private means, the Commodore built a palatial53 residence on the borders of that lake, and varied54 the monotony of a life ashore55 by an engrossing56 interest in politics and the active duties of a Legislative Councillor. The illness of his wife, to whom he was devoted57, had in the past two years almost entirely58 withdrawn59 him from political life, and lost to his colleagues in the Upper House the services of one who took grim pleasure in strangling bills obnoxious60 to the dominant61 faction62 which originated in the Lower Chamber63. His temporary withdrawal64 from the Legislative Council, and the lengthened65 absence in England of Dr. Strachan, that sturdy ecclesiastic66 who was long the ruling spirit of the "Family Compact," emboldened67 the leaders of Reform to inveigh68 against the Hydra-headed abuses of the time, and sow broadcast the dragon-teeth of discontent and the seeds of a speedy harvest of sedition69.
Already, Wm. Lyon Mackenzie had unfolded, in the lively columns of The Colonial Advocate, his "plentiful70 crop of grievances71;" while the harsh operations of the Alien Act, the interdicting72 of immigrants from the United States, the arrogant73 claims of the Anglican Church to the exclusive possession of the Clergy74 Reserves, and the jobbery and corruption75 that prevailed in the Land-granting Department of the Government, all contributed to fan the flame of discontent and sap the loyalty76 of the colony. In the Legislative Assembly each recurring77 session added to the clamour of opposition78, and emphasized the demand for Responsible Government and Popular Rights. But as yet such demands were looked upon as the ravings of lunacy or the impertinences of treason. Constitutional Government, even in the mother-land, was not yet fully attained79; and, in a distant dependency, it was not to be expected that the prerogative80 of the Crown, or the rights and privileges of its nominee81, an irresponsible Executive, were to be made subordinate to the will of the people. "Take care what you are about in Canada," were the irate82 words William IV. hurled83 at his ministers, some few years after the period of which we are writing. "By--!" added this constitutional monarch84, "I will never consent to alienate85 the Crown Lands nor to make the Council elective."
With such outbursts of royal petulance86 and old-time kingcraft, and similar ebullitions from Downing Street, exhorting87 the Upper Canadian Administration to hold tight the reins88 of government, the reforming spirit of the period had a hard time of it in entering on its many years conflict with an arrogant and bureaucratic89 Executive. Of many of the members of the ruling faction of the time it may not become us now to speak harshly, for most of them were men of education and refinement90, and in their day did good service to the State. If, in the exercise of their office, they lacked consideration at times for the less favoured of their fellow-colonists, they had the instincts and bearing of gentlemen, save, it may be, when, in conclave91, occasion drove them to a violent and contemptuous opposition to the will of the people. But men--most of all politicians--naturally defend the privileges which, they enjoy; and the exceptional circumstances of the country seemed at the time to give to the holders92 of office a prescriptive right to their position and emoluments93.
At the period of which we are writing, there was much need of wise moderation on the side of the governed as well as on that of the governing class. But of moderation there was little; and the nature of the evils complained of, the non-conciliatory attitude of the ruling oligarchy, and the licence which a "Free Press,"--recently introduced into the colony,--gave in formulating94 charges of corruption, and in loosening the tongue of invective95, made it almost impossible to discuss affairs of State, save in the heated terms familiar to irritated and incensed96 combatants. It was at this period that the young land-surveyor, Allan Dunlop, entered the Legislative Assembly and took his seat as member for the Northern division of the Home District. Though warmly espousing97 the cause of the people in the ever-recurring collisions with the different branches of the Government, and as warmly asserting the rights and privileges of the popular Chamber in its struggles with the autocracy98 of the Upper House, the young Parliamentarian was equally jealous of the reasonable prerogative of the Crown, and temperate99 in the language he used when he had occasion to decry100 its abuse. He was one of the few in the Legislature who, while they recognized that the old system of government was becoming less and less suited to the genius and wants of the young Canadian community, at the same time wished to usher101 in the new regime with the moderation and tact102 which mark the work of the thoughtful politician and the aims of the true statesman. It has been said that one never knows what is inside a politician. What was inside the Reformer, Allan Dunlop, was all that became a patriot103 and a high-minded gentleman.
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