He had no special dislike for
this country; so far from that, he admired and praised us, as by an
extract from one of his books we will presently prove; but since he has
become a self-appointed lackey, has donned imperial livery, and as a
volunteer does the dirty work of despots, he must have lost all sympathy
with and all regard for an independent, free, and brave people. We hope
and believe that this country vastly prefers his censure to his praise,
and, as far as it has leisure at the present crisis for any serious
consideration of his erratic pranks, would rather have his enmity than
his friendship. _Non tali auxilio!_
But we must recur to his inconsistent and rather uninteresting career,
and so satisfy, and perhaps weary, the curiosity of any reader who is
still disposed to ask the momentous question, "Who is Roebuck?"
In 1835, he was appointed the agent--the _paid_ agent--of the House of
Assembly of Lower Canada, during the dispute then raging between the
Executive Government and the House of Assembly.
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