’0 THEBRITISH AMERICAN A _ _ . 'Mr. Owen on his legs supporting the ﬁr Fees are to be demandm r" a mum“ lpriety of referring th’eir Pay vote bur: default made in the paymentliipuif,til}:ne Hr. White,— .the Committee of Supply to increase age tiling the information. u, Hon“a oral " . amoiint !—g ' consistency rare ' - Rm '1 'bm 'Bdollluoma w'llb Whe- rw nimble “4 '“d‘P‘“d‘°' » Mom and disinterestednm.’ ' math to say. might with Iinfill?

Jamaal ﬁrst made its appearance, every real friendan Country hailed it with f of gratiﬁcation, because it profess— ed to based on independent principles ;

which its success altogether depend- 3; andhappv am [to tindthat it has been so triumphantly successful, notwith- standing the tirade of abuse that an honor. dle .Vr-éer of the honorable House of .13- senbls lavished against it, when he said, on girtg a casting vote as Chairman of a commttee : ‘ I cannot patronize such a scurrilous and vagahond paper as Mr. White‘s.” The truth, the truth Mr. White rs sometimes too cutting, and in this in. stance we see it veriﬁed : for had your pa- per cast any unjnt reﬂections on that ho- norable member. is that the malicious way he shogld seek redress .‘ it appears the cap ﬁted too weil, and the very mention of your invaluable paper acted like electricity Chi! feelings. and allowed them to over- come his-iodgment, for [cannot suppose for a moment that any member in his cool

senses. would make use of such language : ‘

but Sir, it only tends to confirm an opinion iame. that when you find a man a very great liberal in profession, he is despotic I bezieve there is no man in Prince Edward island. can lay greater chm to professions of po‘itical liberality th: this individsai. as I have frequently heard him pronounced the “ Man of the People-” Yet Sir. this is the would-be Patna. that would with: giy stiﬂe the vice oftaeonly independent pressintnis

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I'e have heard of the independence and Medusa of the haw-able the Heme of Assembly, trumpeted forth to tie worid by some of the sapieat members oftnat body: indeed [believe they are obliged to be their own trumpet- “ As for their independence and disin-

tereatedness, I shall relate acircunutance, that came under my own ohservation.—ou ; entering the gallery of the House on the,

I“ day of February, I found Mr. Owen moving the estimates for the ensuing year; a getting them,he said. “ I do not ﬁend to move or the Members’ pay this

. but if it is the intention of any honor. ﬁle member to move for any sum, I trust i wil. be moved at this stage‘of the semiou, as it would put a stop to any clamour that might be raised out of doors against them. i lengthening the session in order to in- crease their own pay,” when it was mov- ed by Hr. Compton, and agreed to, “ that the so. of twenty-ﬁve pounds be voted to each member for hisservices during the Maud-a."—But what was my sur.

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‘aaish-ent on entering the gal- tion of the Land assessment tax. (3‘ day of March, in ﬁnding beard lately with much astonishm

“'e have also heard a good deal about 5 stowed in a small drawer, whu I the improvement of the Country since the: hers were gone to the coun 1commencement of Governor Ready’s ail-5 to acquire more; certainly n ministration; but Sir, has it kept pace‘ed such a project for puuin with the increase of taxes 9 I think it hasf men’s pockets as this. not, and I believe every person on the ls-l can carve out places fort land capable. ofjudging, [except the Memo: as a proofot' the stern of wist bers of the House of Assembly and their? during their country excursion, favorites: willJoin issue with me in saying' ' so , and will not public opinion hear me out in saying, that the taxes of this country; have increased in a greater proportion since , that period- than in any country in the, world E But Sir, is it to be wondered at,§ when we contemplate the enormous ex-f pense of our Legislature, and the dexterity, with which they cut out situations and of- ﬁce salaries thereto? It is not perhaps geo‘ reraEly known, that the expence of one son should be obliged to pays or 61. com Session of the Legislature at the present because either through inadvertance, day. amounts to nearly as much as three V‘norance, or misinformation, he maybu years revenue of the Colony forty years omitted, to trudge from the East Point . .\orth Cape, to pay a few pence, [say Sir that s-ich unauthorised and unlawful exto tion cannot be horse, and is as con to the sound principles of policy and j tice as it is to the true meaning struction of the assessment act. The A itself may be very equitable, and peril: may have the wonderful eﬂ‘ect that . antioproprietors wish to attribute to it; I if we are to he saddled with such im'

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would be put upon their war .5. lash, man {in his senses] mean.) to read th part of it. requiring the Treasurer to mk proclamation, kc. and afterwards to“ that a person who has to travel 50, 60 7 so. 90, and 10) mm, topay 2.. {oi' hundred acres of land, that this poor

0. g The House has now been in Session - nearly three months, and what beneﬁt] ask. has been done for the country P there ; have been a number of bills passed we must admit, and among the rest, one to shorten the duration of the Assembly 's of tnis ls- land to fo iryears, without being asked by the electors : but had they passed a bill to l . Eprevent the House from meeting oftener an once in four years, there would be a, lion: as I now allude to, l much fear u V real and lasting beneﬁt conferred on the i very equi:ahie anti-proprietary land-tar - xGama-y, I will he to ind quite as impolitic and perni ' l

Your obedient Servant, BUS T1 0 C S. Liberty-Hall, March so.

cos a law as many others that may befo n g in our statute book. If the defaulter pi i not his tax after having been duly admo gished so to do as the law requires, andf l which no fee or reward at least by this: is to be taken, then let information « ﬁled according to the due course of It and the costs from that time together vi the tax be levied as the act prescri

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For the Bm‘ish American. Ma Warn. —'l'he communication sign-‘ "\Villie the Bellmau‘s Son,” has, I be-j ‘lieve, caused some little sensation among i the good folks in town. I am sorry that' ‘ _ _ _ the Scotchman did not choose a more tit- Tn“ °°""~‘3dv '5 W "‘39 ﬁnd 1'01,“ ting subject for his wit. All will agree “hem” “"39 ‘F‘i “‘1 M P‘mn "Edml 1 that the respectability of religion ought to l "‘h‘”! "h" “0' {533 lb” {0'1 “lei” be kept up at all events, and that no thingl "m‘um‘n‘ “‘3‘! “#er‘l“ ? ft ‘5 lb” or person belOnging to it ought to be expo-’ bu” “M m ‘5‘ M ‘5 “nPl‘med of- ‘sed to ridicule in a public paper. Howeverl I trust some person will have spirit gall are pretty well aware that the Subject ; mush to resist the payment of these {2' j of his satire is no Elder. it was doubtless a; before the ctice grows into preceden ‘slip of the pen occasioned hv not exactlyi If the"! is still such a thing as law or. .kriowin; the persons illingthe ditTerent sit-Y tire in the Island. .which some, nations in St. James‘ Church. But of this, {‘13 ‘0 say. but the Emilia)le dumb) I am not certain. as I am neither the soul Vi" L‘é rewarded for his pain: 00 “wow ofa Bellman, nor do i know any thing at“ hand 'I‘nepersou mat willingly pays lb the gentleman. ,imposition, oeserves to lose his money i i I will beg leave to turn the attention oi" his too easy compliance» = the publi" to a matter more nearly concern- The crown Otﬁcers I should say,havent ing their real iuterestv-l mean'the collec- er taken the law 0. tin mhject into " l have ‘ mmidennoe ; if they have, they pull! eat, that‘are too godlawyeastoroadit other!