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_ _ _ _| whole time and attention to the business. | 0 _ | Mr. Fraser assented to the reasomableness st * _ _.,|_| of this view and sent his rcsi--nation to the | N / Mf Speaker as soun as the House met. _ With | n _ M | regard to the pr ssure of any Bank upon | C _ _ _ _=| Mr. Fraser I know nothing beyond this, b _ _ * ___| that the Merchant's Bank and the Bank of | 8 l ssp == ... Montreal are the two heaviest creditors of | M _ _ ___| Mr. Fraser, and that so far as any action & &'q&&gz\ of his is concerned, neither one Bank or 3'*\': _~ | the other have requested or suggested any-- | V _ . _ __| thing to me with regard to §Ir. Fraser's --___ + ~] seat in Parliament. o s "] T trust you will not conuder I am asking --| too much in requesting you to cor-- C * rect your statement to the House, |© > e presuming your reference to have been di-- | d f rected to me, as Mr. Fraser has for the last | a .\ ten days been here endeavoring, through | Y 54 me, to make an arrangement with his cred-- | 0 -- itors, which would give him some prospect | & ¢ of being able to support his family, which | d * was the sole obiect in view, not being | a myself a creditor of Mr Fraser, nor inter-- I ested in his estate in any way, V I am, dear sir, yours very truly, e GrEo. Srern®Bx. | I -- R Alexander Mackenzie, Esq., M.P.P., To |® y s i0nto. 8 n \ _ Mr. MACKENZIE continued--On look-- | ! -- ing over the private letters in bis posses-- | | ston on this subject, he found that he could not, without violating confidence, makejany | < use of them in this House without injuring | | i * persons whom he did not wish to injure, | and, therefore, he accepted the statements | | which he had read as correcting his own | ] statements. But it would be observed that | ! it was literally true that that institution | ! had conveyed an.intimation to Mr. Fraser | at an early period of the Session, and it | | was plain that Mr. Fraser was obliged from | | his pecuniary embarrassments just at the | meeting of Parliament to take the step he | did, and that the conversation he had re-- ferred to had been to some extent the | cause of it He accepted these statements, | and corrected his own by them with the greatest possible pleasure, nct wishing to | misrepresent the position of any gentleman, and especially of gentlemen so well known and who had a public position _to main-- tain. Tho ATTY.--GEN. said the hon. gentle-- man would then exonerate him froin the charge he had brought against him. f Mr. MACKENZIE sauid he had at the time a reference in his mind to the old proverb, that individuals might lie but cir-- ' cumstances could not, and inowing that * Mr. Frazer was summoned down to Mon-- treal on the eve of the meeting of Parlia ment, he must confess that he bhad connec j ted the circumstances together. He of course accepted the hou. gentieman's state ment that he bad had nothing to do with it. _ The House then adjourned at 4 o'clock, _uantil this day at 8 n'ctlock. ce 2 nn nrcmings aes e