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LAND ASSESSMENT.

Treasurer's Office, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 301h May, 1843.

.IN pursuance of the Act of the General Assembly of this Island, made and passed in the Seventh year ofthe Reign ~of' His lato Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled fin Act {or levying an. Assa ssmcet on all Lands in this Island—I do here- ‘ y publicly notify the Owners or Uccupjers of Land within this

y‘ island, for vivlrich the Annual Assessment charged thereon bv the! was really “"d ""137 a literary her"-

‘said recited Act, of Four Shillings, lawful money of’tliis Islarid,‘

for every Hundred Acres ol'WIlderness or unimproved Lands corr- ft-taioed In the several Townships, and the several Islands belong- ‘JIng thereto, and the sum of'l‘wo Shillings for every Hundred ur-i-r-s,‘

of'cultivated or improved Lands in the said several 'l‘owuslrips l'lVeS bistro from his virtues,

PRINCE EDWARD -

AND ADVERTISER. 'V

CHARLOTTETOWN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1843.

i’Literature.

' SIR WALTER SCC'I‘T, AND HIS DEEDS. Ml‘..WEED, In. one of his late letters, has collected the followrng facts, In respect to this illustrious writer and his

Sir Walter Scott’s youngest daughter, of whom there is a most spirited portrait at Abbotsford, as is known, survived her father’s death but a few days, and Mrs. Lockhart died in ‘1837. Two sons, one a Lieut. Colonel in the British army, and the ntlreran under Secretary in the Foreign Ofiice, are

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I groaning of the masts and yards, the quick, shrill rattling of

the cordage, and the ponderous dashing ofthe uplifted deer. 1 All these were numbered among the advantages of my posi- l tiou as, firmly planted, Iopeneil rrry eyes and ears, heart and 1 soul, to the beautilill frightfulness of the tempest around and

, r, ' . , _ . ‘ . . _ y . . . . . . . tetuniaiy concerns. No one can read these srrrrple facts ,‘all tliatreuraiu of this family. Alibotsford, though still cn- the ocean beneath me.

without admiration.

There are various kinds ofheroes. Sra \VALTER SCOTT ' _ One who would adorn the order of Kirighthooil.

Ihe character of SIR WAL'I'IgIt Sco'r'r,_vicWerl in airy of

{the varied ainl ’evcu chequered aspects in which it presents

itself to the World, excites our admiration. llis genius de- Vthu, after be supposed him-

-and Islands as aforesaid; and the sum of Four Shillings for each ! sell'iii the possession of air independence, be was overtaken

«every cultivated or improved Town, Pasture, Common, and \-‘ a- , «.ter Lot Mali-resold; and the suit) of Two Shillings lIlHI eight-l pence for each and every Town Lot, Pasture Lot and \Vaier Lot, l ,grnnted in the Towns and Royalties offieorgetown and Prince- Ii'Iwn . and the sum of One shilling and four-pence for each and every cultivated or improved Town, Pasture and Water Lot, granted in the said last mentioned Towns and Royalties, and so in proportion for it less quantity; ariil the sum of One peony per -Iicre on each and every acre of‘cultivatcd or improved Laird in fire Royalty of Georgetown, called reserved Lands; and the sum -of‘ Two-pence per acre on each and every acre of'suclr Lands as way be deemed uncultivated or unimproved Lands, Is payable, :that unless the Assessment for the current year he paid into llrc

', hands, or the hands "filly Deputies, on or before the 'I‘weiitylirst : «if December, I843, I shall, on the last day ofthe next Hilary Term, " at Charlottetown, make Proclamation ol'all such hands as shall,

then be in urrear for non-pa) merit ol'lhe sums charged thereoon, agreeably to the directions of‘tlu- said Act. .I. SPENCER SMITH, Treasurer. , ' Treasurer’s Ofiice,lstJuly,1843. 1 N compliance with the provisions of the Act of the H.General Assembly, for levying an Assessment on all Lands Within this Island, I have appointed the following persons to be Receivers of the said Assessment : Prince County. r _ J Joseph I’opc, Budrque. I , Thomas C. Compton, 5t. Eleaniir’s. r ' James You, Port lIill. ' John Cambridge. Allan Forsytli, Cascunipt-qoe. ‘ ’1 Robert 1‘1}lltllllt|ti, I‘rinretowu. ‘ Queen}? County. James l’igeon, New London. : Thomas Fair-harm, Sable, a“ Solomon Desiriisav, Clriiilotletown. ‘ ' Allan M‘Doug'rilfliclfast. r I _ King‘s County. ‘ ‘ John .Iardme, St. Peter's. Alexander M-I)ou:ild, St. Margaret's. \Villiam Mai-gowaii, Sunnis. Hugh Mucdorrald, Three Rivers. James Richards, Murray Harbour. J. b‘ ’l-llVCISI’c SM I'I‘II, Treasurer.

LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE. ' HE Subscribe has been appointed Sub-Agent of

l! ,- 3 the firllowiug Insurance Companies, viz: l. The National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society of " London. The New Loan Fund Life insurance Company of 3: New York. . 'The Hartford and Protection Fire Insurance Companies ‘ of Hartford, Connecticut. 5‘ , , And as he is furnished with blank Forms of'Application, and zip possession of all the information which may be desired by . iersons who wish to effect Insurance he will be he )' to re- Ii I , . , , ’ pl 3 , ~eeire applications and transmit the same to the Agent at Hali- ], ‘_ fax. Please apply to

HENRY PALMER. ,. '- 'AIILIANCEILIII‘E AND NIKE INSURANcE i G 0 HI P A N '1!" OF L 0 N I) 0 N. CAPITAL £5,000,000, STERLING. PR E1111 UIII—-— .IIODERA TE. CHARLES YOUNG, Agent. Charlottetwwn, P. E. I. June 6,1843.

POWNAL STREET

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‘ P‘HV'WI 5”“er 1" ,‘trious demonstration ol'geuius, industry, 'Lliarlottetown, I do hereby give notice to all concerned, that 1 i,.,.e(mm-s, as well they might, ‘ IiirrrrrimungyY Wm".

find every uncultivated or unimproved Tow'n‘ Lot, Pasture Lot, . by pecuniary mismrtirue, with what lion-hearted firrrrrri-ss he 'Lom‘mon Lot and Watt-r Lilli gl’illllfid 1” I"? ,1 ‘_’“’” 3"‘1 “Wu”! 1’ met the shock, and relyuur upon his pen deteriiiiocd to work vof Charlottetown; and the sun of Two hllllllllgs for each andmmuql, .u, ., , ,. H' ,, I T, - l l . i b i ‘ A

, _ - .1“ in, our of ie its. bee With what true

philosophy he. writes in Irisjournal: l JANUA air 22d—I feel neither dishonored nor broken down I

last time iii the balls I have built. But death would have,

taken them from me il'irrisliirtuue had spared them. There‘,

IS‘IIISI another die to turn up against me in the rrnr of ill-l

lock—i. e., ifI should break rrry magic wood in the fall from

this elephant, and lose popularity with my fortune! * a a a a as a it

But I, find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. I will not yield wrthiiuta fight for it When 1 set irrysclf to work' ‘doggeilly,’ as Dr. Johnson would have said, I am just the

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same man I ever was.

Again, when negotiations were pending with his crcdio tors. Sir Walter says :

. “ If they perdrit Ine,1 will be their vassal for life, and dig Iii the mine of'my imagination to find diamonds (or What may sell for such), to make good iin engagements.”

And again: V )

“Now that the shock ofiliscovcrv is over and passed, 1 am much better off on the whole. I feel as ii'I had shaken off'my shoulders a great mass of'garmeuls, rich indeed, but always more a bortherr than a courlort. *9 * If 1 could see those about. me as indifferent to the loss of rank and for- tune as I am, 1 should becompletely happy. As it is,—-'I‘Iore must solve that sore, and to Time I trust it. ’1‘ ‘l‘ A most generous letter from W'alter :Iiid_.lriirc, oiliiriug to interpose- with their fortune, &c. God Almighty forbid! that were too unnatural in me to accept, though dutiful and affection- ate in them to offer.”

And again:

“FEB. 3—This is the first time since my troubles that I felt, at aWakening,

‘1 hail drunken deep Of'all the blesseduess ofsleep.’

1 made not the slightest pause, nor dreamed a single dream, nor even changed my side. This is a blessing to be thankful for.” r

“ When the pecuniary calamity came upon him, and, like Byron, he saw ‘his hooselrold goods shivered around him,’ Sir Walter was engaged upon f \Voodstock.’ Alter bis of- fairs had been put into the hands of Trustees, he ‘returueil to the wheel,’ and on the 4th of February says,

“From the 19th oi'Juiinui-y to the 2d of February. lliClIi-, sive, is exactly fifteen days, during which time, with the in» tei'veiition of some days" idleness, to let imagination brood on the task a little,l bch Written a volume. A v'olume, at cheapest, is worth £1,000. This is working at the rate of £24,000 a-year! But then we most not bake buns faster than people have appetites to eat them. They are not essential to the market, like potatoes.”

From this time forward,Sir \Valter labored with indomit- able enei'gy to extinguish a debt from the coinage of'lris brain, of more than £300,000, for which he had become lia— file by his business re atioos with Constable 8;. Co., arid Ilal- lautyne 8L Co. But the labor was too severe, even for his herculeau mental and physical powers. There were admo- nitiohs ofthe fate which awaited him, as early as 1826, as may be seen from a note in his private pmrnal:

“MARCH l4—VVhat a detestable feeling this fluttering of the heart! 1 know that it is nothing organic, arid that it is entirely nervous; but the effects ofit are sickening to a ile- gree. Is it the body which brings it on the mind, or is it the mind that inflicts it on the body?”

The result of Sir VValter’s literary labors, from January, 1826, to January, 1828, was a dividend of six shillings to the pound to his creditors, amounting to the enormous sum, III the aggregate, of £40,000, or two hundred thousand dollars! What other author ever iliil, or ever will realize such ano- ther sum from his own iritelei-tual' labors! For this illus— and integrity, tlic him their Alier this dividend hail been made, in his private

tedious and dark path, but it

“I see. before rhea long, If I die in the harness, as Is

leads to stainless reputation.

"I AVING been appointh by His Excellency the .3 » Lieutenant Governor to collect llic Subscriptions towards ‘ l- ‘ making the intended I'Vliarf' at the end of , ,BIIHII call forthwith, on the respective subscribe”, f0" the “"“MM [hanks] ill Jéflélfir subscriptions, and I will also receive the same at my ,J-nurlml he says: " . I Y! ‘ i w ill ROBERT III) ICIIINSUN. w Charlottetown, July 10th, 1843.

MORRIS’S C \RDING MACHINES.

’ HE Subscriber having engaged to erect a CARD-I ING MACHINE on the Island, early in the Spring, begs to: intimate to any persons who may be desirous of availing them- selves ofhis visit to obtain such machines at that time, may be accommodated at the lowest possible price. An early application to .relative to Terms, 61.9., will be attended with which a delay will prevent.

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very likely, [shall (lie with honor. -shall have the thanks ofall concerned, and the approbation ,‘ofa gale, whose terrors had been heightened by its sudden- lol' my own Conscience.”

lwith which nature endowed Sir W. Scott. that they . Irwin

Mr. C. C. DAvrsos, in Charlottetown,l an advantage, 1

Ifl achieve my task, I

Brit human faculties, though with all the strength and tenacity of iron and steel, may be over-taxed. as Were those Some ofthe ru- us creditors who made merchandize of'lris brain, to use his own burning figure, ‘trcateil me like a recusuut turn- spit, and put a red hot cinder into the wheel along with uie.’ And, finally, the ‘f'cather which breaks the carriel’s back,’ having been added to Sir Walter’s burden, he was struck down by paralysis, and, after lingering a few months, was gathered to rowing friends who surrounded him, most have been the breaking oftbat athletic frame, the quenching,r of that tower- ing spirit, the going out ofthat light which no' Promethean spark can re-illume.

We followed Sir Walter from Abbotsford, the theatre of his glorious achievements, to Dryburgb, whose ruined Ab- bey is hallowed by his dust. How appropriately chosen, for the final repose of such precious remains! What monu- ment so expressive and fitting as the crumbling walls and lofty but SILENT towers ofan ancient Scottish Abbey? Dust to dust! ashes to ashes! ruin to ruin!

Drybnrgh Abbey has a romantic location,ab0ut five miles from Abbotsford, on the river TWeed, in a wood whose foli- age conceals it from View until you approach its ivy protect- ed walls. It. was built in 1150, by Hugh de Moreville, Con- stable of Scotland, upon a site previously devoted to III-Iridi- cal worship. EdWard 11., in his retreat from an unsuccess— ful invasion of‘ Scotland, in 1322, burned the Abbey, which was rebuilt by Robert 1., and again partially destroyed b: the English in 1544. In 1604, the Abbey became the reel- dence and property of the Earl of Mar. It now belongs to the Earl of BtIclrau, who is a relative ofthe late Sir Wrilter, and who resides near it. The remains ofSir Walter repose by the side of those of'his wife (who died a few years earlier), ‘in St. Mary’s aisle, one ofthe most solitary, and yet strik- ing features of the Abbey. Tire day alter

his ‘ poor Charlotte,’ the widower] poet said iir hisjournal: “The whole scene floats as a sort of rum before ore—the ibeautiflil day, the grave ruins covered and hidden among

:clouds of' foliage, where the grave, even iii the lap of beauty,

lay lurking and gaping for its prey.”

his fathers—How painfully sublime to the rim-1

lt‘uurbercd, will continue the property ofthe present Sir \Val- lter. The copyright of the Waverley Novels has extin- iguisheil much of the debt since the Author’s death, and lwill, should Parliament extend the lows protecting this species ol'property, ultimately wipe out the whole amount.

admiration ofSir \VIrlter Scott, and of all that is connected .with his writings, his character, and his irremory, is less ‘f'lilliusiasllu than my own; and though lireVer weary in reading or writing of the author of \Vrr\ci'ley,l will not ,hazIn-il at this sitting, a heavier draft upon the good nature of thy friends.

A srorfu AT SEA.

lby thi- bad—now reallv bad news, that I have received I r E ‘ V , I - t ‘ - . rlracls rO‘n B's’to "Illa'flf’" Jotll'na o a? rrc cros. [have walked my last on the ilomaiiislhave planted—sat the ( f I i I p l "‘ l l fa JU” a 9

i [hr Jill/infic.)

Oh! what is there in nature mgr-and as the. mighty ocean? The earthipiakc and Volcano are over sublime in lllt‘ll‘ dis- play of dcstrui'tivo power. But their sulrliiriity is terrible l'ropi the consciousness ofdzmgcr with which their exhibi- tio s are witnessed—and besides, their violent agony is im- pub-ire, sudden and transient. Not so the glorious ocean. loits very playfir tress you discover that it can be terrible as

1‘tho eart'ripiaki-; but the spirit ol'bcnevoloirce seems to dwell

in its bright and open countenance, to inspire your cordi- iIi-ni'e. The irrouutaius and valleys, with their bold liuca- ments and luxuriant verdurc, are beautiful; but theirs is not like the beauty of the ocean; for here all is life and move- ment. This is hot that stationary beauty of rural scenery, in which objects retain their fixed and relative position, and wait to be exairrioeil and admired in dctail. No, the ocean prerfcirtsa moving sceiri-rv, which passes iii review before audiarouod you, challenging adoriratimi.

'I‘liis (lay I was gratified with what I had often de- sired to witness—the condition ofthe sea in a tempest. Not that 1 would allege curiosity as a sufficient plea for desiring that which can never be witnessed without more or less of danger to the spectator; and still less, when the gratifi- cation exposes others to anxiety and alarm. Let rue be uh- rlH’siiiod, their, as meaning to say my desire to witness a storm was not ofsuch a kind as to make me indif‘lbrcut to the apprehension which it is calculated to awaken. Ilut iii-title from this,tlicre was nothing I could have desired more. I hail contemplated the ocean in all its other phases—and theyare almost innumerable: birt until to-day I had never seen it Ill correspondence with the tempest.

Aller a breeze of some sixty hours from the north and northwest, the wind died away aborit‘foor o’clock in the afternoon. The calm continued till about nine in the even— ing. The mercury in the baroirreter fell, in the meantime, at an extraordinary rate; and the captain predicted that We should encounter It “gale” from the southeast. 1 did not hear the prediction, or 1 should Iiot have gone to bed. The “gale” came on, however, at about Il o’clock; not violent at first, but increasing every moment. Islcptsoondly until after five in the looming, and then awoke with ii confused r collection ofa good deal of rolling and thumping through ili‘e night, wlrirli wasoocuoioned by the dashing ofthe waves against the ship. There was no unusua! trampling and shout- ing—or rather screaming—on deck ; and soon after, a crash ripon the cabin floor, followed by one ofthe most unearthly screams lever heard. The passengers, taking the alarm, sprang from their berths, and without waiting to dress, rah about asking questions without waiting for or receiving any answers. llurryiog on my clothi‘s,l found that the shriek proceeded from the steWard, who had, by ll lurch ofthe ship, been thrown, in his sleep, from his solii, some six feet to the cabin floor. By this time I found such of the passen- gers as could stand at the doors of the hurricane—house, ‘* holding on,” and looking out in the utmost consternation. This, I exclaimed mentally, is what I wanted, but I did not expectit so soon. It was still quite dark—Four of the soils were already in ribbons. The winds whistling through the cordage; the ram dashing forinusly and in torrents; the ‘noise and spray scarcely less than I found them under the 'gl'l‘tlt sheet at Niagara. And in the midst nfall this, the captain with his speaking trumpet, the officers, and the sailors. screaming to each other in efforts to be heard, and mingling their oaths and curses with the angry voice ofthe teiiipcst—this, all this, iii the darkness which precedes the dawning of'ilay, and with the fury of the hurricane, corn- bined to form as much ofthe torriblv sublime as lever wish to witness concentrated in one scene.

The passengers, though silent, were filled with apprehen- sion. What the extent of danger, and how all this would ter- illllllllle, were questions which rose in my own Irriiid, although unconscious of fear or trepidation. But to such questions were no answ‘ers, for this knowledge resides only with guides the storm and directs the whirlwind.’ \Ve only the coirrmeneement

LIIII‘I‘B llliin who * =lrad encountered, however, as yet,

lness, by the darkness, arid by the confusion. It continued to blow furiously for twenty-four hours; so that during the .wlrole day [enjoyed a view which, apart from its dangers, lwould be worth a voyage across the Atlantic. The ship was idriven madly through the raging waters, and even when it §Was irripiis‘sible to walk the decks without imminent risk of ibciug lifted up and carried aWay by the winds, the poor sat- ilors were kept aloft, tossing and swinging about the yards land in the tops, clinging by their bodies, feet and arms, With mysterious tenacity, t6 the spars, while their hands \vcre em- ployed in takirig‘in and securing sail. On deck the officers Inine men made themselves safe by ropes; but how the gal- ?lant fellows aloft kept from being blown out ofthe rigging l was equally a matter of wonder and admiration.—However, labout seven o’clock they had taken in what canvass had loot blown away, except the sails by means. of which the :vessel is kept steady. Al 9 o’clock the hurricane bad ac- lquired its full force—There was now no more wer to be ,done. The ship lay to—aud those who had her In charge (only remained on deck to be prepared foravhatcvcr disaster i might occur. The breakfast hour came, and passed, unheeil- ed by most of the passengers; though I found my appetite .qirite equal to the spare allowance ofa fast-day.