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Copies of Correspondence bdieseii Sr Alcuiider Bciinerinun and Rev. Dr: Erma.

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You will confer a" Ever by giving a place to the accompanying correspondence, which has recently passed between Sir Alexander Banner- man and myself. I regret exceedingly that cir- cumstances should have called for it, and espo- oially Gsihbsilg made public. Neither dis- respect for His Excellency, nor predilection for 3"! political party has prompted me this Dimer. but a principle thus referred to in one of the celebrated letters of J unius 2 “ A clear unblemished _-character comprehends not only the integrity that will not ofir, but the spirit that will not submit to, an injury." I have no reason to expect candid treatment of my defen- sive sbtements from the person of whose disin- gcnuousness I thought it proper to apprise His Excellency, and I have no intention to notice any of the efusicns against me with which he may continue to occupy the columns of the Royal Gasetto.

' Your obed't Servant, EPHM. EVANS. 3 Dec. 1, 1853.

Charlottetown, 16th Nov., 1853. In it ease your Exocllenc ; _ Ata ‘ our this evening, I vs observed in Ilassard s Gaxette of to-day a correspondence between your Excellency and certain gentlemen recently in the Commission of the Peace, bear- n the character and conduct of Mr. Ed- _ helari, and upon his fitness to be asso- ciated with Iler Majest ’s Justices.

In one of your Excel ency’s communications, you are pleased to_ give the substance of certain explanations of_ his conduct made to your Ex- ce lcncyuby Dir. Whelan, in which m christian and min_gster_ial character is serious y assailed. I am_ IlIlWIlllni that your Excellency should remain under t e misappi-ehensions created Mr. Whelsn's very gross misrepresentations of facts : and as_ I am obliged to leave town to- morrow morning, beg leave to apprise your Ex- cellency cf my intention, imiuedi-itely on m return, in the beginning of next week, to submit such facts and statbments as I believe willexon- crate me from the slanderous imputaticns which have been communicated to you, and prove your informant to uncntitled to any credence in his representations of the matters referred to.

With high res ct, I have the hbnor to be, Your Excellency ‘s obedt. servt.,

III . VANS .

_ Charlottetown, 23d Nov., 1853. May it please your Excellency ;

In accordance with an intimation in my note of the 16th inst.—which I hope came to hand, liegleave _respectfully to express the sur- prisc with which I read, in lIxiszard's Gazette of that date, II. communication, purporting to be from your Excellency, leading me to believe that an in ion s n in upon mind of your Excellenc unfavorable to m cha- racter as a Christian ll inistcr ; and that it has been produced by gross misstatements of lhcts

a rson recent y one of your Excellcncy's confi ential advisers, and more recently appoint- a Justice of the Peace for Queen's County. Thosc misstatements, f urthormore, appear to have influenced your Excellency to ursuc a conrs'cin_ reference to that person w iich has resulted in the retirement from the Commission of the Peace of eleven intelligent entlcinen, who consider “ the conduct of Mr. I 'hc1:in, as witnessed by themselves, at the County Meet- in " referred to, and i‘ other circumstances a eating his character," to have “ rendered Y him-an unlit person to be appointed to the Com- mission of the Peace.” ith the exercise of the Royal Prcrogatives entrusted to your Excellency. it is neither my duty nor inclination to interfere ; nor do I ques- tion the integrit and im rtiality by which your Excellency desires to E: influenced in the discharge of your high functions. But I am unwilling that misrepresentations of my con- duct, an consequent depreciation of my cha- racter, should by an person be made stepping- stones-to your Excel ency’s favor, and to his own elevation ; or that, as a pears to have been done in this instance, Mr. clan should cxtenuate his own indsccrous demeanor, at the expense of my re utatiou, by pouring into the ear of your Excel cncy such pcrvcrsions of the truth as are contained in the ex lanations given, and which have induced your xcellency to confirm him in a position entitling him to rank with gentle-

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To His Excellency Sir Alex. Banncrman, Kt. . Governor, &c. &c.&c.

men. Your Excellency will also kindly permit me most respectfull to express my regret, that be- fore giving‘, pub icity to statements so injurious to me, if lieved, and referring as they did to matters of fact on which your interested inform- ant was at variance with so many respscmhle magistrates, your Excellcn did not afiirdivie aao portunity to state what d been my course on e occasion refer The tissue of mis- representations of the in theA‘Royul Gazette, did not th ii it neces- sary to notice, as more candid and truthful reports had appeared elsewhere. But the deci- ion at which our Excellency has arrived, and the grounds of it, when placed as they have besnimore the public, give the weight of your so Q's character and high position in fav- or ofshtsincnts which I had not deemed worthy of use of their harinlessness while Ibzlf solely upon the crtditof their investor. - hve no .den7re to Intsrmeddle in any mattc of s polldsal or adminlslatiee nature, esibetwsss your Excellency as any, as or , I shall confine myselfto a w state-. ments. for the ssbsmntiation of which, by incon- trovertible eeldsiice, I hold mysslf_.plsdged nr Iscslluey, if desired. she diet the also-etlen have received is tterly incor- ,—osfit indecent and clans vs “ expres- ' ”, b llr. Whelan at the mcstin were J)" by, or insisy nicsncrcosnscl wills, made " me

‘ M by , or with the resolu- by Ifr. T omas —thst consequently Qeletnce set is by 111;“ b.:.l«i.ai nyut wafer ' “I M II Oil 01!, '“""’ "..i.e- . and so _ -- issis swi-Ute Gsfimtrfltwfl‘ concilea e variance wit trsthi _ I notice, Irst the followings lesion to myself iltqd or 0 . mus "gm - innioac ofrsl hm! ",- , .“' 3&3 “ow” up, one o s spb M I’ICC & mas o” I ' ssch es against the ob- dgfl es ‘ Shove him out!

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HASZARI)’S

Now, I assure your Excellenc , as ii fact known to all who were present. t unit the exclu- matlons referred to were *- evoked" at It time when I was sitting silent, and at least an hour before I uiade any remarks bearing upon Mr. Whelan, and before any intention to do so ex- isted in myiuind. They were “ evoked" when

r. Whelan arose to speak. and commenced by insultln y alleging that i‘ there existed no dis- position in the meeting to dojusticc." Although the Hon. Mr. lloll immediately arose to order, and nired the withdrawal of that offensive assertion, yet Mr. Whelan persisted in attempt- ing to drcu the meeting. It was (lien, and I . thosecries were “ evoked." No such ex- citement was manifested at any time whllel addressed the meeting. The attribution of those indignant exclamations to violent u pesls made by me. only shows how incapable o s truthful vindication Mr. Whelan felt his conduct to be, and in how un rincipled a manner he could attempt to pa in the demerit of his own dis- reputable acts upon another. That the Royal ‘ is should be made the vehicle of such wicked misrepresentations, can but be lanien ted by all who have been taught tcrc rd the Royal Arins as the i'nu' do of truth an honor.

In the ublis ed correspondence of your Excellency, under date Nov. 3,1 find the follow- ’ “ I was assured that one of the u- tions—proposed by Mr. 'I‘homas—was accom- panied rcmarks made by a Reverend gentle- man, w iich Mr. Whelan had considered so personal and insultin to himself, that in regard to this roposed resolution be had expressed himsel in the manner attributed to him, or words to the same efll-ct,“ viz: “ that neither himself nor a iuembcr of Her Majesty's Govern- ment care a pin for your resolutions." Your Excellenc then adds, “ On hearing this state- ment, amlafter a careful perusal of the iro- ceedings to which it related, I ordered . Ir. Whelan‘s name to be continued in the Commis- sion of the Peace for Queen's County." I sin authorised to infer from this, that your Excel- lency believes Mr. \Vhelan‘s contemptuous exclamation to have referred only to Mr. 'l‘lio- mas’s proposed rcsolution,—tliat in referring to that ic spoke, as your Excellency had previ- ously “ hoped," “in an unguarded moment, and at a time of excitemcnt,"——and that that excitement was roduced by my “ remarks," as being “ persona and insulting to himself." If this were a correct representation, I freely ad- mit that Mr.Whelan’s contemptuous ex ircssion would be somewhat cxtenuatcd, and t int ccu- sure would deservedly be thrown upon me. But that the facts have been rvcrted by your Ex- cellenc 's informant, wil be made apparent by the fol owing considerations :—

‘hcre were two periods at which Mr. Whelan gave utterance to ollbnsive expressions. The rst of those cx ressions was that to which the lion. Mr. Ilo l referred, as above related. Tho second occurred at a later period, and milled furili -‘ remarks" rom i c. ese ave not been properly distinguished by your Exccllency's informant.

If your Excellency shall lease to refer to IIaszsrd’s Gazette of Oct. 2‘tli, you will cr- ceive that the lion. Mr. lIoll there corrects: an anacliroiiism inadvertently committed in the memo-rilcr re rt which up arod in IIasuird's Gazette, an showed that the call to order,abovo referred to, preceded by a considerable period the rebuke administered —a rebuke given, not simply for an insult like the former «inc, but, for such an cx ression of contempt as indicated the absence cl all sym iathy with the many whose. carts wig-i, re n under the distrcssing bcrcuvcments to whic they liiid been subjected, and some of whom were mem- bcrs of my own astcral flock. But of this an- achronisin Mr. Vhelan artfully avails himself, and upon it founds the misrepresentations of my course, to which he has induced your Ex- ce lency to ivc credence.

That the osolution proposed by Mr. Thomas (and which was not in the programme of the meeting) was misplaced, as regards order of time, in the Report in IIassard‘s Gazette, will appear from the followin fact, known to cvcry person present at the ecting, viz ; When I arose, to recommend Mr. Thomas to withdraw the resolution, because of its political bearing, I referred to certain eulo ‘cm the Fairy Queen which hadbeen readfrom I 2 Royal Gazctlcby Dr. Conroy. But in the Report, Dr. Conroy's speech sacred: the introduction of Mr. omas’s reso- lution. Now the facts are these: To the rea- sons which I ofered to induce the withdrawal of that resolution, Mr. Whelan never rcfcrrcd ; —thc resolution was withdrawn without one remark being oficrcd upon it by Mr. VVhclan ; it was at a considerably more advanced period of the meeting, and when that Resolution was not under consideration, that Mr. Whelan voci- fcrated, “ Neither I nor the government care a pin for your resolutions." These were his words, and they were uttered after some replies made to objections which had been raised to the non- stitutionality of passing Dr. Conroy’s resolu- tion, and an attempt made to supplant it by Mr. Robertson's amendment. 'I‘hus,so farfrom that contem tuous and unfeeling expression being elici ‘- in an unguarded moment,” by “ insulting remarks” of mine, I had not been addressing the meeting since about an hour pre- viously. was at the time upon my seat, and it was on hearing such an expression that I arose ,and commenced the only course of remark which Mr. Whelan should have felt to be per- sonall painful to him. by saying, “ I regret exce inaly to hear such an ex ression from that gen e_m_su.” Thus, your ixcellency will

erceive, that instead of in having provoke

r. Whelan to utter the expression which occa- sioned your Exce lency “ great regret,” and in palliation of which, when he found he had in- curred your Excellent-y‘s dis lcasure, he alleges, without producing my wor s, that I was mak- ing “ reinr rsonally insulting to him,” the oflensivc expression preceded in order of time the rebuke which, as I think, was, how- ever fcehly,yct 'ustly administered. 'Cause and shot do not hold the'relation to each other im- plied in Mr. Whclan’s attempted justilcaticn.

I test that these statements, however they may at the question cflrlr. Whelan‘s moral vi tions for the hi in cities he holds, and t responsible duties w ich it imposes, will at

to least remove from your Excellcnc ’s mihd, the

misconceptions of in course which have been so isipro rl srriv at: and that your Excel-

lency w II“ c tge makc furtheli; on air , ou na ' mo onsuc eviliendc to 0!: bspable of the on departure

from christian riot and mm in rsco - n' obligstionlfixa IVesleysn Minister, gf which, in my absence, I have been accu to your Excellenc . During ii in nistsrial career of twenty-seven spent in the British American Colonies, it has been constant rule, as it is my duty, dispute. 1

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'l'homas's resolution, because of its hearing. I expreusd my doubts of the propriety

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of Policing any Resolution anlmadverting on the (loverniaent. and it was onlv after painfully olucrving the sinister siiecrso Hr. Whelanmsd ultiiustcly hearing his.hcartless and unfeeliug expression of contempt for “ ' its that I was induced to reprove his conduct. Under these circumstances I respectfully sp I to your F.xcelIsncy's sense of Iicncsr an junior against the aspcrsions of a hitherto unspotted character. adding in your Excel- leucy‘s im rtislit for the award of right, itli big respect, I have the minor to be, your Excellency’a obedt. Servt.. Ill. Evans.

Govsaxiixnr Iibvsx, 26th November, 1853.

To His Excellency Sir Alex. Banuerman, Kt. Lt. Governor, ac. dc. «kc.

Rsvssxun Sis;

I dul received our note of the 16th, and also thatof the ‘’ . and I observe with much regret " that you were led to believe an im res- sion had been made on my mind unfsvourab c to your character as a Christian Minister."

I beg to assure you. that by the allusion to a " Reverend Gentleman ” made by me in the conimunication I necessarily addressed to certain Magistrates on the 3d instant, I had not the rcmctest intention of reflecting on our charac- tcr as a Minister of the Gospel, an I am sorry that the allusion referred to has given you un- easiness. Here I might conclude, for you can- not expect me to enter into a correspondence on the proceedings ofa meetin , so man diflbrent versions of which have late y occupi my time and attention; nor do you question, I see, the ex- ercise of that rerogative, for which, I alone am responsible. ’I‘here is, however. one paragraph in your letter, which I cannot allow to pass un- noticed-—-you state “ That the Royal Gazelle “ should be made the vehicle ofsuch wicked mis- “ representations can but he lamented by all who “ have been taught to regard the Royal Arms “ as the i‘/ui nia of truth and honour."

Now, not orig after my assumption of the (:0- vcriiment of this Colony, I wished and su estcd that the Royal Gazeur. should be piiblis ed se- parately, but I was informed that the Royal Ga- zrltc, “ emblazoned with ller Majesty's Arms," had always been the vehicle of political and all other topics, and I did not think it my province, to urge on the Government, at an additional expense to the Colony, any departure from a prac- ticc which ha ii so long sanctioned by e con- fidential advisers of my predecessors, intimating to its Editor, of which the public must be aware, that he must be responsible for all articles pub- lished in the Royal Gazelle, unauthorised by the Government.

Doprecatin . as you do, wicked misrepresen- tutious, or wi ful misrepresentation of an kind. I can only earnestly hope. that you and a other Christian i\Iiuistcrs in this Island, will urge on their [locks to withhold their su port from all such Newspn rs, as they may nd publishing untruths, an devoting their columns to wilfu misrepresentations, practices which cannot fail to iittondcd by serious evils to the communiiy, by disturbing the peace of Society.

I no the honour to remain, Rcveren Sir, Your obdt. humble servant, A. BANNERMAN, Lieut.-Governor. The IIGYEIEIIG DI‘. Evans,

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Cii.uu.o1-i-rrows, 28111 Nov. 1853. Mair rr vanes Youii EXCILLINCY;

I have the honour to ucknowled the receipt of your Note of the 26th instant, in which you express “ much regret ” that l was led to believe that an impression had been made on Your Ex- ccllency's mind, unfavourable to my character as a Christian Minister.

Your Excellency does me the 'ustice not to in- timste that there was not ro able foundation for such belief, in the fact o the cficisl exculpa- tion 0 Mr. Whelan from highly blameworth conduct, on the ground of its having been the e -

ect 0 ss provocation from me. Assuredly,

thou ht the charges of that person, if believed b Ifiour Excellcnc , could not have made other t an an unfavoura le impression.

When formerly addressing Your Excellency, I cherished the hope, that t e statements I had the honour to lay before you, would result either in an assurance that no such im ression existed, or in an intimation of your wis to receive the testimony I was prepared ioolsr in substantiation of those statements, to enable Your Excellency, on reliable evidence to decide on t th or ialsehood of the representations of which I must thinkl had just reason to complain. But, as Your Excellency states that I " cannot expect you to enter into a correspondence on the - ceedings of a meeting, so many dilerent versions of which have latcl occupied your time and at- tention.” it we unbecoming in me to trou- ble Your Exoellency further, except jpst to state that it was not " corree ndence, ’ dt enquiry, and careful attention to testimony, which appear ed to me to be not unreasonably expected.

Your Excellency is pleased, fhrthcrinore “ to assure me that b the allusion to a ‘ Reverend Gentleman ' sin the communication neces- saril addresed to certain Magistrates, you had not t e remotesi intention of retlectin on my character as a Minister of the Gospel," and ex- press your sorrow " that the allusion referred to has given me uneasiness.” I readily accept this assursncs,ae being quite accordant with my former convictions. Had it been possible for me to sue t Your Excellency of any such in- tention, should have adopted a style of re- monstrsnce very dlfierent from that in which! presen my appeal to Your Excellene 's sense of honour and justice. I believed our collea- cy to have been misled by the oral and printed misrepresentations deemed n b M

Whelan, and th t it not yet too late for me put in s defeneew ich ought to have preeed myi prsctieaill copdemnsgciin. “I” ‘O

ms sti as rmi on respect y sug- gcst. without sscriPl.ilng any such " ihknuon " as that you disclaim, that the gfsel of " the allu- sion refe ' was to place me before the public,as, in Your Excelleney's estimation, the guilty cause c" Mr. Whclsn‘s otherwise indefen- sible proccdure. That ublic would lnhr, that both sides had been prev ousl heard. or can Your Excellency be surprl that a Minister of religion, having ch of the most numerous Protestant la the Island, should feel some “ uneasiness," when held up as hav- lnadby " persoselsndiiuslt "I . 00- cl shllermbcr of Your level ‘s sell to a breac o decorum. so gross as require our corrective iuterlbrsuoe, to lead to these serious complications which are doubtless a source‘ painful inconvenience to Your Insol-

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means would so t themselves by which the injurious olfect u Your Excellency's constructive endursation of Mr. Wlieliin‘e statements concern- ing i us might be .lsuwoursbly eountcacted. There may lie-young. of State, unknown to me.

which would render a reconsideration of his allo- riab

goitioas lnexpedient. I see, therefore. no course now open to me. but to give publicity to our corree oe.—a course whic I trust will not meet our Exoellency’s disapproval.

Duly sensible of the courtesy which character- ises Your Excellency's reply to my former con- munications.

I have the honour to be,

Your Exoellency’s most obedient servant.

EPIIRAIM EVANS.

laxsnder Banncvinan, Knight, Lieutenant Governor, c., c., be.

Govxniisxur Housr, 30th November, 1853. Rrvnniin Sis ; ‘

In reply to your letter of the 28th instant, I beg to any, that I n have no objection what- ever to your giving publicity to our correspon-

once, an I have the honour to remain, Your obdt. humble servant,

A. BANNEIIMAN,

ieut.- Governor. The Reverend Dr. EVANS, dic., kc.

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ir. Being from home for nearly three weeks consecutively. on Missionary duties at Lennox Island and timed River, I did there soe thi- letter adresscd tome Iiy l.i¢-.ut. Hancock, and, indeed, could not attend to iiny thing of the kind. In this letter he appears to say that by the term, “ dark and (leg!-iidcil state," he meant that there was no salvation for the Indians in their present state. Now as this grand decision will alfcct many poor and unlcarned as the Indians, to whom the inlicritaucc of the king- dom of heaven is especially promised, and as he has been leased to ta c the unnccessar trouble of informing us that he is not infalli- ble, he should rcducc some better proofs than he has done, 0 his authority and competency, that we may know with more certainty whe- ther he be sent by God. or whether he is com- missioned by her Majesty. Queen Victoria, or inspired by some other Majesty of questionable sanctity. Education withopt religion makes man more powerful for evil, and I consider those, who, with education, believe and prac- tice no religion or a false one more “ dark and e ” in It religious sense, than the Indians. The wor and eficacy of the Gospel, when faithfully taught and received in the civilisation of man, is denied by none : and he might find a more striking instance of this in England, whether, about thirteen centuries ago, the Popes of Rome sent Missionaries to convert our Pagan forefathers, then in ‘ow Zealand whether he betskes himself. - It would be quite as reasonable for me to hike credit to the Catholic Missionaries for the grautin of the constitution there, which, after all, II€)llt an ex riment that has et to be tested and which, never would have n granted, but for the number of Europeans established there. nan. i he wiphes, ascerhin the fact of Catholic Missionaries being than, 1, fgfel-fin to the New Zealand S ctutor and Vvvollinston Independent, where, ewill find that at the consecration of a Catholic Church at Thowdon, 7th, Dec. 1851, there were present the Catholic Bisho , and nine priests. where there are Scliocs for boys and 'rls, a Nunncry and Bisho residence. Besides these, there are several other Catholic Cler on there. If report be true the condu_cto the Protestant converts is not very creditable, and the very “ sncers" of the business men of the House of Commons in the Blue Book, indicate that their teachers are not held in very hi estimation. When some years ago, a very ormldable in- surrcction against t e Government broke out and the Catholic Bishops succeeded in keeping the Catholic New Zealunders from hking part in it, I would like to know, whether the insur- nts were the model Protestant converts and, if not, New Zealander, must be far from being converted to Protestanism. It is but a few weeks since I was in conversation with s n- tleman, who had lately arrived from cw Zcaland where he was settled for several years who suited that there was so little protection for life and propert , that they were necessita- to pettion for So diers who were afterwards, to their very great anno nce, quartered on Ex ricnce ccunse s caution in credit- Rcpcrts, but suppose the numbers to School at flie Red River, does it necessafily follow, that they are converts. “ And is it not sim ly absurd to retend that,