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the night before; they replied (if any of them were there) in the negative. Then if the Judge should not be so indulgent or good natured as to wait some two or three hours for the Lawyers to “ make ready” he of course adjourned the Court to the next day. Now Mr. President with all these examples staring us in the face, I think it would be degrading in this Club to cOnfine themselves to such business-like, and I suppose I may add such ungentlemanly ha- bits, as Mr. Hardbottle’s motion would do if carried into effect. (The Muon struts up) JVIr. President, Quel que soient as conditions Je nem’y soumetlrai jainais (Or. der, order, (from several parts of the room.) [wont be put down Mr. Presi— dent, I am able enough to translate my quotation,although I dont know the French language “Grammatically” yet I have a good recollection, and that enables me to translate my text, and asI was at the examination of the “Grammar School” on Thursday last, and heard some of the Members ofthe House offlssemblg exp iund- ing the languages to the pupils; it is I think, “ I wont submit to these conditions whatever they may be” Now Mr. President, as I have been 'so much interrupted,l shall re: serve my speechification until some other time; at the same time I would recom- mend that this Club would take pattern by the’Honse of Assembly, or some other re- pectable Body, and I think the less we say abbot them and their customs the better, as I do not wish to quarrel with any person, and depend upon it Sir, that we had better say nothing about them. Plutus stands up and says:—

Juditum admissi risum teneatisg thentem dieere verum quid natal?

There Mr. President is a Specimen of my Latin for you, and I dont suppose I should have ever knowu so much of that language, if I had not been present on Thursday last as well as my Hon. friend the Major) at t e examination of the “ Charlotte-Town Groomer School” where I heard the Mem- bers of the House of Assembly expound the languages so systematically. Now Sir, I have given you the above quotation for tree. reasons; first because it answers my purpose in the present instance, and se- condly,be’canse it acquits the Membersot' the House of Assembly of the charge which has been made on them; “ That there are none of them skilled in the languages, nor Memalics either ” Now Mr. President, if such were the case, the natural conclu- sion would be; what business could tho-y 'have had at the examinatiOn ofthe “ Gram- mfar School?” as they Would not ofcourso know what progress the pupils had made, Mr understand what was passing there. Bittfthe' better to ' remove that impres- sion, I will giro you the translation, as I heard bathe occasion.

THE BRITISH AME RICAN.

“ Can it be faulty to repeat

A dialogue that walk’d the street!

or can my graveslfrs‘endsforbear

J1 laugh, when such disputes (hey hear!

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Now Mr. President will you not say?— .Rccordor Lectionis vel Leclionem. Al. all eventsl think I have proved to your sa- tisfaction the erudite manner in which the House of Assembly can examine pupils at a “ Grammar School.”

I shall now proceed Sir, to disprove the Doctor’s arguments respecting the attention of Members of this Club to a strict line of disenpline. He in the first place thinks that because the House ofAssembly sit sel- dom more than Shours each day, and that these Shom's costs the countiy H5 or l.16. Now Sir, he cannot pretend to say. that if the House ofAssembly thought proper to sit 6 or 9 hours each day, that double or treble the business could not be done, and consequently, a great saving of time to Members, ~and expense to the country would be the result. 'Nor can he say that it' the Supreme Court was as well con- ducted some 50 years ago—or the Judges at that time as attentive and as expeditious in forwarding the business ofthe Court, as Judges are in the present day! that there would be now such an extraordinary long list of “Cases’ standing over for trial; consequently Circuit Courts would not be necessary, the expense thereof would be saved to the People. But Sir, I beg to be expressly understood, as not laying any blame whatever with the House ot'Assem- bly or Supreme Courtot' the present day. I only mean to infer, that if the practice had been different in former days as it is very reasonable to suppose,it would be conti- tinued so, and that norret‘orm would be ne- cessary in the present day.

Here Mr. Pincnshion rose and said, that Hon. Members should be confined as to time in speaking, that otherwise there would be nothing done but speechifying. I move Sir, that the Messenger be sent for some of Brenan’s “ Imperial Irish "’his- key ” Ordered accordingly.

Ialso move Sir, the Messenger be sent to “ Green Bush Collage” and invite “ Mr. Barber” to become a member ot‘this Club Ah! yes, he is an excellent hand I am sure in his profession. Ordered accord- ingly.

Ordereed that 2000 copies of J. L. L.’s system of Leather-making be printed, and sent over to England for the use of “ John Bull.”

Ordered that this Club adjourn until Monday the eleventh day of March next.

‘ Club Room, February 15, 1833.

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To the honourable the Club, in general,”

. clove met. . ' The Petition of Baron Cranberry

Humbly Showeth,

That your petitioner is one of thew pectuble Gentlemen possessed of land-s Cobbett’s sand bank, whose territ were lately invaded by incendiaries ex, ting insubordination,levyingcontributioqs b; 35. 4d. each from our dependants, and}; looting magazines of wheat and oat, carry onthe war against us, and when any of us ask for supplies in order that we may appear as formerly at yOllrjovial AS_ sembly, we are threatened that these trea. sures shall be applied to l'ec wellpaid and heavily armed troop who will directly come down upon us in aid of 0m. refractory tenants.

And your petitioner further heard,that one Commander Hooper had actually done so, and was also instructed to apply the ma. gazines under his charge, to send delegates across the Herring pond to form alliance against us, that a former officer of ours, (whom we had latelydismissed, was promoted to manage the money matters of this troop, was to be sent with the General and Drill Sergeant for that purpose, (the latter oili- cerintcnds reforming their discipline and shortning the periods of their enlistment.

And your petitioner further states, that to forward their views, the said troop have ordered military roads to be cutthrongh our territories to which they make us contri- bute, in order to weaken our defence, and compel us to yield our rights, that they may divide the spoil among themselves, and that your petitioner further states, that said troops are guilty of most indecorons con- duct when expecting a feed, and when informed that certain Sums were to beat their disposal for a consideration, a part of them took to cheering and caparing, as if the dancing madness that is said to have once seized the shoemakers and tailor! of Germany had come amOngst them.

And your petitioner also states, that this troop like an Irish‘ Grand Jury, created lucrative offices, the amount of which is collected with so much vigor that they seem to consider such persons as your pe tioner to be in existence only as a sponge to

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things thus obtained among themselves to the injury of honest and deserving persons; and in despite of the lirst rule of you? honorable body, members of the trool’ have often been disguised at the muster, and some have become so unruly, that the commander had to dismiss the drill, but that he claims pay for this day, as “13”” for examiniig school-boys in the learned languages and sciences; from such person! as your petitioner, who is already grow“ under so many burthens, that in short, he fears he will have to submit along Md other loyal persons like himself, 'end 7“]