159:“It is intended that the Kingston Gazette shall be made the earliest possible vehicle of intelligence, both foreign and domestic. It will exhibit, from time to time, a statement of Parliamentary proceedings, and internal regulations, as well as of the general concerns of the Province. The best information for the farmer, the merchant and mechanic, they will also endeavor to give. Curious are the tastes to be consulted; and though none may find the Kingston Gazette wholly adapted to his own, it is hoped that every correct reader may find something which will gratify his palate… .Gentlemen of science and leisure, the divine, the moralist, the poet and the politician, are each respectfully invited to enrich our columns with their respective pens….Living under an enlightened government, mildly and generously administered, they will be the last to abuse the privileges it affords them. Their loyalty will never be loud, but it may be depended upon as honest. If called upon to scan the conduct of their rulers, they will be firm but decorous…. It shall be their chief study that the liberty they possess does not degenerate into licentiousness.”
171:, then returning to Kingston on October 29. At this time Kendall had decided to return to America, and Miles had been requested to return to the paper. The request had come from one of the new owners, Richard Cartwright, who had submitted articles as requested of “gentlemen of science and leisure.” This group of businessmen and professionals would sell the paper back to Miles on easy terms. The next few years prove eventful for Miles, serving in the War while still publishing the paper. These issues included Upper Canada's 2nd and 3rd Statutes of the 6th Parliament. He marries Laura Spaford on June 22, 1812, opening a bookstore and tri-weekly circulating library, continuing to print and publish until 1818. At this point, tired of the political climate and the harassment by Robert Gourley, Scottish land agent and anti-
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