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semi-eataleptic attacks, prostration of strength, mental de- pression, decay of the vital powers, and dea h—Mawry de- elaring himself utrer'y unable to account either for the origin of the disease, or for the rapidity and certainty with which once conceived, it hurried the victims to their end.

* On receiving the information he had gathered, Annes-

ley was struck with one singular feature in the case—the |

prediction evinced by every patient in turn for the Angel- chamber. {t seemed a fatal fancy; for, certainly, whatever soothing influewee it might exercise on the minds of the in- valids, was not reflected in their bodies. On the contrary, every Ove became rapidiy worse, and the mysterious Terror —though is recurrence grew more and more frequent— seemed gradually to lose its intensity, in proportion as phy- wical heulth deelimed, till itlo!t the days of the sufferer wholly wadisturbed,

* Now,’ said Charles, es with a deep sigh he raised his pale face from his hands, after a minute’s meditation, ‘ come with me,xnd [ will shew you the Horror in the House.’

* He walked, followed by the others, straight to the Angel- room. There it shone, with its regal couch, its superb mir- rors, iis glowing cabinets, its purple curtains. Charles threw up the window, admitting the soft fresh breeze.

* Does this,’ he asked, ‘look like a pestilence palace—a house of pain and death ?

* He struck upon one of the gilded panels as he spoke ; it returned a hol ow sound, like an echo of the last word, *death!”

*The next moment, Charles caught up a poker from the fire-place, and dasbed in the panel.

*S oop down,’ he said to Mawry.

* The latter did so, but started back in horror, as a sick- ening, loathsome odour pervaded the apartment, as from a wewly opened grave.

* There lay indeed the secret of the Horror. Out of that povel crept the unscen destroyer that had sucked away the breath, the life of no less than five victims.

‘From the Angel-Chamber, which had been originally in- tended as a luxurious bath-room, a pipe had been prepared, the other extremity cf which had vent in the sloping bank of the adjacent cemetery. long since become one mass of cor- rupting humanclay. Thas, this fatal conduit, itself decayed, winding among broken vaults and mouldering mauroleums, gathered up the nox ous exhalations, and poured them into the gollen room. By what atmospheric changes, or move- ments ia the e@rth, the amount of miasma thus transmitied was governed and modified, cannot of course be known; but that the poison varied greatly in quantity and strength, was sufficiently proved by the fact, that attention was never at- tracted to the vitiated atmosphere cf the spacious and seem- ingly well-ventilated room

‘The panel which concealed the mouth of the pipe was low down—exactly on a level with the head of one sleep- ing in the Anigel-bed, and probably distant from it but three or four fect. pine! must have projected that banetul breath into the sleeper’s

face as certainly, and, as it proved, as fatally, as the ‘juice,

of curse! hebenon’ dropped from the phial of the Danish regicide. No marvel that the end was rapid!

its troubles, and its cares,

* When, on the previous night, Charles threw up the win- dow, some slight odour climinated from the burial-ground, connecting itself with the loathsome sease from which he had just escaped, at once revealed to him the latter's origin.

‘gave you to understand, children, that this story was

true; L now repeat that it is based on actual and melan- ebLoly fact.

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losing that £750 a-year than he has the fear of God? He knows that when the bonds of slavery on the tenantry are once cast off by the freehold system instead of the leascho'd, he will have no chance of fleecing the freeholders out of two guineas for leases, the same as on the Westmorland property, and that his occupation as Land Agent will be numbered amongst the past. He also knows it won't be so | easy to endorse the Bank of Prince Edward Island out of another £14000, his friendship with the Pre sident to the, contrary notwithstanding. And while on the subject of the Bank, gentlemen, is it not laughable enough to see in print a certificate of (no roguery) character in that transaction | from Mr. Haviland, who was not then President of the | Bauk—who was absent in Nova Scotia or some where else, | when most of the money was endorsed out of the Bauk, and) who is said frequently to have declared, Loth in public and | private, that “he did not know anything at all of such endorsement until he heard it from the same Mr. Pope. | after the bankruptcy or stoppage of payment of the party with whom Pope was connected in that business!” So much then for the (no viliainy) certificate of the President, of the Bank, the Mayer of the City of Charlottetown, the Commander-in-Chief of the Old Family Compact. Not he, indeed, the dear simple innocent man, why should he suspect | his frend, Mr. Pope, who worked so hard for him and the Government proprietors before the Royal Commissioners, and before and since in the Islander newspaper. The dear innoeents, what a nice pair they would make in a cage to- gether in Barnum's menagerie. It has been said, and | be- lieve is generally considered true, that a day or two before the worthlessness of the endorsed Bills by Mr. Pope became known, a large amount of money was drawn from the Bank by means of such endorsed Bills, and that after the money was so drawn, Mr. Pope himself was the first to announce the unfortunate news at the Bank some days before the arrival of the muil, that the party on whom the Bills were drawn had become bankrupts, aud advised very kindly the Cashier to look after the drawer of the Bills here, and get what could be got from him, because “ he (Mr. Pope)

not material to us. It is said of a certain class of politicians | that no good can be got of them unless they be well kicked ; | and that the better you kick them the more likely you are) to get your demands from them. Need I ask you, gentle-| men, what has been the cause of W. H. Pope's pretended conversion to the necessity of abolishing the leasehold tenure ? Was it not the certainty of being kicked out of office and out | of his £750 per year? With such a memorable example before us, of the fear of ‘ticks, will we not keep our limbs well exercised, and be prepared for the kicking match that will kick all such nuisances out of the way of our rights, and proclaim to the world THaT WE SHALL AND MUST BE FREE. Your faithful friend,

ABERDUMBEE WILLIOCK.

To tue Eprror cr Tue Examiner.

Sin—In the Examiner of the 2ist of January, I see a very Mecoirect statement of my agency reported, #8 evidence g ven by the Hon. ‘PT. H. Havdand before the Land Commissioners ; and it is necessarv to publish a true statement, insteed of a'- tempting t> correct the erora which would requ fe teo much spsce, and 1 shall confine this to as few words ag will convey the meaning.

In the year 1819, in the preseace of Lord James Townshend,

received the agency for his Township, No. 56, from Mr. ilutchinson, his Law Agent, with whom { was t» correspond, and for legal advice in this Island L was to apply to Mr. Wall- er, I was to receive £30 a year Salary, and expenses.

In 1820 1 found 29 tedaa's u on the Kstate, at a yearly rent of £139 106. There wes . Mill stream in the settlement ; but the nearest Mills were St. Peter's, on the one side, and Murray Harbour on the other ; and [ intormed Mr. Hutchin-on that a Mill was nee ssary. It would improve the Estate, and encourage ifs 8ét*iement—that there was little money ia cir- eulaion, and Pda on Kogland os scarce ; and to make a re- mittance it whould be in the form of a vessel,-<hat either the Mill or a yessel could be bush with such revts as the tenants could p?y, and it would save them from falling in arrear. In auswer to my representations {| was allowed to bui'd a Mill.

Wr. Waller had writtea home to say that from the severity oF our winters, Mills were expensive to keep upgand would be

himself teas vot worth one sixpence!’ What a pity be did | !'? profit to Lord James; and Mr. Hutchinsun wished me to , : ) | «eep the Mills and mike a remittance by a ves-el, if | could do

not say a baw bee! W eli as Mr. Pope either told the ‘no better. Island vessels were then worth from £8 10 Lil a truth (though perhaps for once in his life) or he did net; jf ton, in 1824; and IT did not build; but | bought a vessel o} true shat he was not worth a sixpence, then by er.dorsing about 80 tons on the stocks, w.th materia's for her ou'fit ; bu Bills which otherwise would not be taken at the Vauk, was before she was leaached the price of shipping had fallen im he not, through the agency of the drawer of th» Bills, either 1825 to £4 10s. a ton, and few sales at any price ; and, there-

An almost imperceptible crevice in the thin |

To turn the | face to that wal!, was indeed to bid adieu to life; its hopes, |

receiving the money for such Bills under fs’ ,¢ pretences, or enabling his friend the drawer of the Bi"\s to do so, to the loss or almost ruin of the Bank? An®. if he did not speak the truth, and that he was then wort’, more thin sexpence,

Bank in so shrinking trom his resnonsibility as endorser on the said Bills, in order to force "ae Bank into apy compromise which the drawer—under ‘\i3 guidance, no doubt—might offer? If what I have st*.ted be not true—and [ have heard it from two of the Di*ectors of the Bank, as far as my memory serves me— {4 suppose a certificate (of no villainy) in the case can be ‘sad from the Cashier, who must be cogni- 'zant of the facts better than

Your friend and fellow-Colonist,

ABERDUMBEK WILLHOCK.

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ABERDUMBEE WILLHOCK, Esoz., TO THE ELEC- URS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. | A SECOND TIME SENDETH GREETING.

Bexoved Friexvs snp Fettow-Cotontsts—In my last I | pointed out to you how our Proprietary Government have rewarded their organ, the index or exponent of their views,

‘Many a child's barquet have LT shared in that fetal W. HI. Pope, for the services which he bas rendered in op-

ebamber with my pretty )lay.’

| posing the rights of the tenantry, as well before the Royal

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| When it came to my turn to speak, I pointed out that by my

ore, | did not take the vessel home until 1826. As soon as she was sold, | placed the proceeds, £30), in the hands of Mr. Hutchinson for Lord James, together with my accounts, and met him at Mr. 4i’s chambers : but Mr. Waller was there with

/his Lordship before me, and it appeared setiled that I was to

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was he not acting decettfully towar is the shareholders of the |

be superceded, principally on the ground that an agent resid-

‘ing in Charlottetown could procure and remit Bills, when an

agent in the country could not.

|resid:ng on the Estate it was greatly improved—that by taking produce for rent, even for my own salary, the rents were nearly paid up—that the fail in the price of shipping was no fault o! wine, nor the los? sustained by the suit in Chancery, which

was conducted by Mr, Waller; yet with these drawbacks upon asma!l rental, | had remitced in Bills £130 and placed £300, | the proceeds of the vessel, in Mr. Hutchinson’s hands, making a ‘return of £450; and | asked Mec. Waller, (as he had made | himself acquainted wih such matters), whether the agents ‘residing in Charlotteiown had made better returns from such jarental. This changed the face of affairs altogether. Waller | did not answer, but lis Lordet:p said he had nothing from the | Estate before, and the rest of ihe proprietors were little beiter

off. | [then went into the state of the tenantry—the freeholders on \the adjomiag township which had been escheated—the for- | feiture of the grants, and the Indulgence of 1816, which had | now expired ; and urged that some arrangement should be nad 'ta enable the tenants to obtain a freehold. Lord Janes suid

he could not sell in small tracts, but he would se!l tho whole

greatly subject to for the last few years, @ fact not ly any | Span'sh and Portugese srose from similar combinations of the

* ; lancuage of the Visigothe. While the Scandinavisn nations sown te ” sib EE Ot Pom Ne ms. Beanshag Southern Europe, severa! German tribes reaso ‘ ;

This special pleading of the Honorable gentleman is very directed their attention nae wr yee ond, allured evther by " . : ; age “FY ‘the hopes of plunder, or induce send out colonies by the silly, in respect to the protection, and is malicious as regards | jengeness of their population, despatched thither successive the plunder. As amouuts to this, that he, Mr. I almer, took ‘expeditions. ‘The first ineursien of chess tlm. of which an a friend’s advice to do, and did an unjust act, for which the have any authentic account, was led by Hi ngist and Morea, inference from his reasoving is, that his friend is morally |and effected a landing on the shores of Kent, in the year 449, accountable, and must be the scape-goat ; and the honorable | it was e —— — that the ee ee ~_ innocent gives us a further justifying reason for baving done |9"P "ceded by the mother tongne——ihe e presen

; ; a gerne 1)|Miglish language. General chiefs with their dependanw the unclean thing, that it, the 45 acres of wilderness, wouid speedily followed trom the north of Germany. ‘They succeeded

be a means of protecting his adjoining wilderness land 5, seizing the whole Island ; and the orginal inbabiventa, to against plunder. How the purchase aud ownership of ad- | ayoid exterminat on, fled to the mountains ot Wales and Cur,- ditional wilderness lands, liable to pil/age, could be the | wal}, and have preserved their Janguage, with but slight aler- means of protecting b's attached wilderness Glebe from |ation, to our own day. In the reat of the Island a ec unple e plunder, is a notion so grand of conception, that I am con- change, both in ling: age and customs, immediateiy took place.

; in na? h r 4 f ‘ be | There was no eng-afing of one tengue on another, #8 was the founded and lost ip its mystic depth; but there may case in Southern Europe; but an immediate subst.tucion of

subterfuge and evasion sf trath roiled up in that startling the language of the conquerera for that of the vanquished. 18 assumption, and this conjecture gains strength from the fact |, obvious from the facts, which we condense from Spaiding’s that Mr. Palmer could not have bad that object in VieW, excellent history of English liverature, that the tongue spoken because he did not apply to purchase the * protecting” 45 | by the German invaders is the ground wark of our ien:uage. acres until after he, Mr. Palmer, had actua/ly sold that | ‘This tongue, as before stited, was Syxoa, an oF-hoot of ‘the same 45 acres to M n, together with his Glebe. What | grest Gochic stem, which uself dates as far back ae the Celtic, a lamentable exhibition of stultification and evasion Mr.| The above would suffice our purpose so far as disvroving the Palmer here presents to the mind ! jerror of Professor Ingle, but it wiil serve our argument in re-

es : . ference to. what we intended to say conceraing the relation of I now come to the plunder insinuation, which I shall Latin and Greek to the study of English, to pursue the history

briefly treat thus : Mr. Palmer, as Leader of the Govern of (he jast named tongue a little further. Tue first iatrodaction ment, having proved in and by himself that “ might was of a foreign clement imo the pure Sexon of England was oc- right,” in depriving G s of the 45 acres, did not feel casioned by the inves oa of the Scamdinevian nations during satisfied in baving done him that wrong only; but, still the ninth and tents ceoturies. These invaders are generally athirst to do him further harm, pursues his disposition to | known as the Danes, but the Norwegians played also em im~ injure, by darkly and damagingly insinuating that G g|Portant part in these onpaihique. Very few words, however, bad for years plundered res (P.’s) Glebe land. hat I way j of Danish origin were incorpora'ed, as the Island suffered a

a etry pre Ape oe Wteal change of masters, rather than of people, customs, or laws, not be misunderstood In this, 1 shall aguin quote Mr. Palmers ‘pie “only trace left by these Norsemen in our language ie language. Writing of the 45 acres purchase, he says: chiefly in the names of p'aces on or near the coast. Saxon, “* As a means of protecting my adjoining land from plunder, therefore, continued to be the language of the Istend until the which it had been greatly subject to for the last few years, Norman Conquest in 1056. So.ne time previously, in the a fact not by any means unknown to Mr. G S$, alluded century preceding the battle of Hust-ngs, several Noroan to, as I have good reason to suspect.” I shall leave this French words had been introduced under the auspices of Ed- matter to the injured, wounded G s himself to deal with. | W8d the Confessor. This prince being educated in France,

, . ; : Se | and prejudiced in favor of that count'y—it being the most en- Following Mr. Palmer, I find him denying in bis letter ‘lightened—on assanmung the throne when, returned to England, that he sold the land at 17s, Gd. per acre, which he obtained surrounded himself with Norman favorites, aad sought to in-+

from the Government at 6s. per acre. All I have to 84¥ troduce French customs into his court, and French .dsoins into respecting this denial is, that my informant as to the 17s. his langua e. Through the oppoeiticn of hie subjects the Gd. price is an intelligeat, uubiassed, honest man, and 1 changes were inconsidrrab'e, bul served to pave the way for respect h's word. the more importaut modifications which the Norman Conquest Mr. Palmer further states, regarding the sale of the land | Produced.

ee ’ ae | Wilham the Conqverer, after having invaded England, and > ms - ra ann to ee ot arsed eo eT ‘won the bettle of Hastinzs, seated hmself upon the throne. chase money for some years tO come. © learned Special | with the view of weaning the people from their ancient insti- pleader should have gone a litile further on this point ; but! gurions, an] as the svecdc® manner to secomplich this object perbaps he thought * the time bad not arrived ” to acknow- | wae to make them forget their language, he o-de:ed that in all ledge ‘that be took a mortgage on interest from its date upon | schools throughout the kingdom the youth should he instrucied the whole property, payable in three years, the G s part in the French tongue, and im grammar-schools the pupils of which property be, Mr. P., obtained at a credit of ten |Should translate their La in into French, and trat all conver- years under the Land Purchase Act; therefore he will have | 8°'40P 8mong them sould be in either of these two langusges.

nih es . a P - | Anglo-Saxon was bonisied from the tribuna’s.of the count: y — received payment, with interest, for the G s land In| pleadings were required to be in French ; deeds were drawn

cluded in the mortgage, seven years before it will become and jaws compiled, and no English allowed at court ; indeed wholly due and payable by him, Mr. P., to the Government. | jt was the sole janguege of feshionable life, and the Engheh i Mr. B.'s magnanimous credit, ending seven years before the nobility themselves, ashamed of their own country, affected 1 | Government time, shows that he kens how many blue beans | excel in the tongue of their conquerers. Through the resistance take five; but he may now be regretful of his flourish aboat |'® these attempts, by the lower clasece, for fifiy years, lite not receiving payrnent for years to come. was done to change the language, save by the hand of power.

oe 2. mar e Popular prejudices at length partly gave way. The saperiority But to close this communication, which has grown rather of the French language, its ear y ballads and romantic litera-

long, I must observe, in reference to Mr. Palmer's letter | ure, began to be appreciated, and the people sought to engraft under review, that therein he has not denied that G Sits beauties on their orn with the same eagerncss as their was the prior aud only applicant before himself for the 45 fathers had been opposed to speaking or hearing it. But the acres of land. He does not deny that be sold to M——=n| Norman French was rendered odious by too many unpleasant the 45 acres applied for by G 3, wheo be, Mr. P., had | ®880ciations to allow its substitution for the tongue which the no right or authority to sell that land. With these facts in | 28° of centuri 8 had rendered s#cred to them, Notwithstand<

° . j ) i j = view, my first letter not only stands uncontradicted, but eon- ind a “ rv Pa ee Re stpossn pate Dot! eo

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“~~ lof the Islander newspaper. I have also shown you how largely the same W. H. Pope is interested to keep his friends in power, as be knows well he has nothing to expect from

- any Government favourable to the tenantry. You cannot

ABERDUMBEE WILLUOCK, Esqr., TO THE TEN- forget how often through his editorial writings in the

ANTRY OF P. F. ISLAND. | Islander he preached up to us Protestants the necessity of

Sexorm Guesrme. | keeping down the Papists, who, to believe him, would put

all of us in Purgatory or a worse place, if the person of Mr.

Betoven Pettow-Cotostsrs—Although it is now some | Coles or any other Liberal favorable to the interests of the months since I Jast addressed you on the subject of the Land | tenantry should again become the Leader of the Govern-

Commission, yet 1 beg to assure you that I have not been | ment! But on finding that the good sense of the people

inattentive to passing events, as far as your interests are prevailed over the vile prejudices thus sought to be engen-

concerned. I thiok I then pointed ont to you what little dered between his fellow-colonists, bis next dodge, or rather sympathy you had to expect from our Proprietary Tory Go- that of the Government who retain him in their service for veromen’,and that it was their desire to postpone the report of such unworthy purposes, was to a:sist the land claimant the Royal Commissioners as long as they possibly could, the faction to prevent the tenantry from deriving any benefit from better to enable themselves and their masters, the proprie- the Land Commission ; and although he and the Government

Correspondence.

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tors, to concoct their machinations to destroy your hopes and have so far succeeded in keeping the Commissioners frora | { recollect, they were not deprived of their farm anil | was) lis ingenuity has failed ty cleause him.

just expectations, and to enable their friends, the Debioises, reporting, so as to be able to organize all possible resistance

; Ts : Commissioners while here, as constantly through the columns! a¢ 93. an acre.

1 said it was a fair offer, and | would make arrangements on my return to accept it; and in June 1827 | j called the tenants together, and pointed out to them how they could purchase the ‘Township at 23. an acre by forming a Joint | Stock Company. 1 then wrote home for authority, but received ‘no satisfactory answer to that application ; but was informed | the following year, by Mr. Waller, that Mr. Haviland was to | be egent in future. J hearned afierwards that Lord James was | seized with a complaint which affeeted his mind, consequently Mr. Wallerand Mr. Havtatrd had it all their owa way 10 pre- ‘vent a settiement of the temart-y, which in all probad ley would have become genera! 35 yeara ago.

| While Waller was in the Is'and be had a fan ly of children | by his housekeeper, and Jeft them on a farm at Jadian River ; {and when Lord Janes left us weil satisied, Waller called me laside, and said he was to be agent for Lord James and oiher | proprietors, as Mr. Hutchinson was ured of it; and he wished ime to get him the price of his farm at Indian River. [told him i could not deprive his children and ther mother of a farm This was io 1S2G, and ae far as

| he had left for their support

) superceded in the agency twe years afterwards, New 16 mnt

firmed in its main premises and facts. In this present letter

" ener ithe channel, within two hundred years, had to barn that L have shown that Mr. P.% glebe land did not come within Saxon which at first they 80 much omnia The French, the preference consideration” given to resident farmers, | Which had heen freely drawn apon to improve the const u tiome and | have exposed the ragsed mantie, uader cover of which | and enlarge the yocabu'ary, extended only to a med fiestion of he would like ‘to fhide the deformity of the nasty act he the Sixon, and that mod:fication converted the Saxon into our perpetrate® upon G—~s, and exposed Ais pencil subterfuge. | English tongue. The new language thus formed was introduced, L have also shown that he obtained the G 3 land at ten | te the courte, end allowed to be aved in pleading im 136%. years’ credit, and sold it payable in three years, at a large aa eeu spre it, ond poole supe et Sanne —— profit; and secured the payment of the purchase money by these carly times, and even since Chaucer, the Eng mortgage, which be no doubt drew out, and got a round fee | lish Janguave has on le -zome coi lerable chipzes and received for. And [ have shown that he, Mr. P., has endeavoured by muny improvements. It has suffered no interm:xture from the dark insinuations to damage the name of G 3 in re.ation |dialec $s of invaders «ince the Noraau Conqa-e ; but ite ag— to the plunder of the glebe land. ,Perrance is mach elterel in consequence of simplificatoms Having exhibited the Palmer land job fairly and correetly, pend cantrections in the spel ng of eet-e, and the Cause af prene “Tan f ce i late aad Mr. P? dicy | about ove ifh of the Saxon terms, which were curert tn the Us 4 Bins OS me Gaptars Pty “eas poor er. *.8 oy ed jtime of Alfred. 1 ba been endered fo c ble and v ¥ cious by |iuduced him to pervert his positivu as Li -ader of the Govern- the insroduction of Prencs t-rat, phreses and idioms It has iment, and sil his bearing us a private gentleman in the poen einpl Ged de the us of Jess inversion and ell vsi 5 Mend | perpetration of that uasty land job, from tue muck of which | by the oniss em of inflectic ns or changes in the terminat on of jthe noun, and substitnt) mof prepowtions to expr 8 its re'a- j tion too her worls. Our hingosge has father been rendered

} _ Feb’y 1, 1861. SPECTATOR.

be evident that it was no$ for charging the Joss on the price ot | jcopivus as well as flesrble by the intro ustion of new worde

the Havilands, the Yeos, the Palmers, the Popes, &c., to through the proprietors in England to anything favorable to | ruin you by Law expenses in illegal exactions of rents and us, which might possibly be contained in the report, yet now | mend to 106 et tes w6 to bear thet les arrears of rnts, which they know they have no honest claim the tactics are again changed. Yes, gentlemen, by your! nae favs tei: essa Deike Gide: dad ie ais Mult: art to. Four months have already elapsed, and no report from united action you have compelled them to change. You have! would here cnrrect a wtromest 1 mode by guess to the Land

the Commissioners on * the Land Question!’ You are, | met quietly and orderly together ; you appointed Delegates, | Commissioners. that I had remtted ouly about £300 1 now

the vesse! that | was turned out of office. hb was well vnde:-

therefore, to be told, on the meeting of the Legislature, to faithful meu whom you could honestly trust with your infer- wait with patience and forbearance until the Commissioners ests. do report. In the me.ntime, of course, you will be expected charged their duty ; they fearlessly published their report — to pay rents, and all other burthens imposed on you by such such as men trustworthy and favourably disposed towards

of this unfortunate Island at the present time. Many of you would report.—a report which has struck terror and dismay

Your Delegates met, and honourably and nobly dis-|

; Smith's departure, my neighbours brought word from Three

} Rivers that it was the wish of the inhabitants thatl shou!d offer

’ : . Lo } yse f 7 ide - . . } worthless creatures a8 you have composing the Government the interests of the people who appointed them, could i magertt Se = Commies See © Seeceun aeevaniy 2 See a0

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tind L had remitted upwards of £500. At the General Election whiot took place after Governor

serve them and the proprietor at (he same time,—and, therefore, t wonld not go to the Election while | wasa Land Agent. Bur

are aware that at the time the Government moved the reso- | into the hearts of the Government, the proprietors and their| when the proprietor or his agents broke faith with ine, and re-

Jations in the House of Assembly last year, relative to the lackeys—so much so, that, now the organ of the Govern-, Land Commission, they did so in expectation of duping | ment, the Islander, edited by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. |

the tenantry, and by cun ig and deception to try to gain Pope, “seeing how the current sets,” hegins to trim its’ some popularity, which they knew at the time was nearly as’ sails, and comes out in the advocacy of A Loan! a Loan of, low as you are award it is at present, and to prevent you no less than £270,000!! to purchase the proprietors’ Jands | from taking any active measures to turn them out of office, ior “ rae porte!” Yes, gentlemen, a loan of nearly double | which they so long and to earnestly yearned for. But vo the sum which the late L'beral Government asked, and | sooner had the Commission arrived and commenced their would have obtained too, bad it not been for the rascally | Jabours, than they (the Uiovernmment) began to regret that | resistance of the proprietary faction, who have hitherto kept | the tenantry founded some expec‘atiovs of justice to result | the people here in a partial state of slavery; and because | from the report of the Commissioners, and accordingly they | your late worthy Governor, Sir D. Daly, recommended such (the Government) used every effort in their power to defeat loan to the favourable consideration of the Queen, your

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leased me from al] trust, } was at liberty to agitate for # setiie- ment of the tenantry in the best manner I could ; and the evi- dence before the Commissioners in the three Counties has borve me out that | was right from the first. WM. COOPER. Sailor’s Hope, 28h January, 1861.

For tak Examiner.

Mr. Eprron—I observe that the Hon. Edward Palmer has published a letter from his own pen in your Examiner, relating to the land on Lot 62, of which he deprived G——+s, and of which deprivation my letter, published in a column of

the hopes and expectations of the tenantry, by first sending would-be friend, Mr. W. H. Pope, called him “ the unseru- your periodical of the 28th January, charged upon Mr.

for a stranger to New Brunswick to act asa Counsel for the pulous Sir D. Daly!” And now, gentlemen, you have the tenantry, and. after tat gentleman (Mr. Thompson) came | good, the pious, the saintly, sanctified, conscientious, ru-

over, they would give him no assistance, no counsel, no advice pulous W.H. Pope, of Bank endorsing notoriety, alvo-| cause in speaking for himself,” but has signally failed to ex-| of ancient and modern times, would it pot be madness to neglect or information, only put ay Act of Parliament into his bands | cating not only a loan of ordinary amount, but nearly duuble tricate the Honorable E. Palmer from the stigma of the | the cultivation of such a literature, by dabbling in two dead

tomake whathe liked of it! But this is notall. Mr. | the amount sought for by the late Liberal Government ; and Thompson accused them publicly of secreting the public re-| what is the consequence? Why that Mr. Kiward Palmer, cords of the Island from him,and placing them in the hands | more consistent, even iu error, than Mr. Pope, asks him how | of Mr. Haliburton, the pryuprietors’ Counsel, through the he can advocate a loan under the present circumstances of Volonial Secretary, W. Il. Pope, who, as you are aware, the Colony? ‘To which Mr. Pope’s editorial in the Islander travelled ‘Kast, West, North, aud South, hunting with his replies: Ob! you mistake me, Sir, I don’t wish it at present. evil genius the Cithmissioners wherever they went, as the [ only wish the Legislature would ta’k about it when they | representative of the Government, to help out the proprietors | meet, so as to keep the refractory tenants in good humour, | aud their lackeys in their vain efforts to keep the tenantry and to make them believe that we mean to do something for bound in slavery, as they have been for the lust half ceutury. them, if they only keep quiet until they vote for our party And if any proof were wanting of such diabolical designs on | at the next General Election. That is what my wish as well the part of the Government, it is to be found in the Govern-|as my meaning is. And what else, gentlemen, can be ex- ment organ, the Islander, edited bythe same W. II. Pope, | pected of such a man as Mr. Pope has been and is? The Colonial Seeretary aforesaid; which, for weeks before oe) Mr, Pope with £750 a-year trembling in the balance, with Commis:ioners arrive 4 here, during their stay, and afier their | the Jand jobbing, the “ tw guinea leases” to the tenants, departure, abounded in editorials inimical to the interests of and the Bank endorsing business—pretty much out of his the tenants, and in favour of proprietary dumination. Anda | grasp,—you know it is only natural for him to “jump Jim be it remembered, genticoren, that it is not without being | Crow,” to try to secure it. But, gentlemen, we should not well paid that this same W, EH. Pope displays such antic | forget the old saying, « When the for preaches let the geese tricks on bebalf of the Guvernment to your detriment. Yea, |Leware.” As it is with the boa constrictor, which beslavers gentiemen, and paid at your expense out of the revenue its victim to make it the easier swallowed, so it is with Mr. whieh you-pay by the Cuties that are exacted on the tea, Pope, when he becomes the advocate of anything good for raolasses, shoes, and sucl other necessaries as are indispen- | the tenants ; so that he may be able to * endorse” somerhiug rable to your existence. During the periods wh'ch Mr. good for himself out of the transaction. He long since pro- Warburton and Mr. Coles respectively held the office of|claimed through the Islander that because Mr. Nicholas

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Colosiai Secretary, £550 a-year, as fixed by Jaw, was all | Conroy, at the last General Klection, declared himself fear- | iessly cud honestly in favour of the tenant's eause, the Ca- | tholies were dangerous people, and should be kept down; a new office has been created for him,as eaves-dropper to the and accordingly no Catholic, no matter what his standing in ithe community, or what his integrity or capacity for the

they received for the duties performed ; but at present Mr. Pope receives wot only the £590 as Volonial Seeretary, but

Executive Counc?!—for it cannot be called a clerkship—in- aswuch as itis well known that Mr. Desbrisay does the

duty, and is best qualified to do it; bat it does not matter | to a voice in the Councils of our Colony. to Mr. Pope so long as ue pockets £100 a-year for it; and I need seareely ask youif we bad a majority in the Assem-

in addition to theae two items, he is also a Commissioner for consolidating the Laws, in conjunction with Messra. Palmer and Longworth, which will be at least £300 more to be pocketed by the said Mr. Pope, making in all £750 fur the pietent year!! But, gentlemen, | need not inform you that it is mot, or cannot be for Mr. ’ope’s knowledge as a lawyer that he has beew appointed to that job of £300; because, although he may stand on the Court Roll aaa Barrister, yet you are weil aware that be does not, nor for anything I kacw ever. did, practice in the Court as a Barrister, per- baps because no one had confidence in him and therefore wuld not employ him ; but it is to be supposed that so long as he works for the L’roprietary Goverumeut against the

interests of the tenantiy, he will be paid by the former at

the expeuse of the latier. Aud now, gentiemen, who can

doubt tet dir. Pope tas lefoie his eyes moe the fear of , Heathen, for the purpose of obtaining our just demands, is

management of public affairs, would be admitted to office or But, gentlemen,

bly of such men as Mr. Conroy, whetuer or not the late Royal Commissioners would not be better informed, aye and \instructed too, in the business for which they were ap- pointed? Think you would W. H. Pope be permitted to | display his antics, on the part of the Government, before the | Cownnissioners, in all three counties wherever the Commis- |siovers held their Court? Think you would your Counsel. | Mr. Thompson, bave to complain of the public records having been kept out of his sight, if you had such friends as Mr. ‘Conroy in the Government? {[ trust, gentlemen, these timple questions will sink deeply in your minds, and let our rulers see plainly that we Must have the leasehold abolished. If not by @ Protestant exclusive Government, that we shall and will make another Government that will grant or obtain (our rights. Whether such Government be Turk, Jew, or

Palmer. The Honorable pleader in his letter has not “ graced his

indecent job.

Mr. Kditor, bow pitiable is Mr. Palmer's stumbling, tortuous endeavour to shield himself from the wrong he prac- tised upon G s, by creeping behind what that [lon. gentleman terms a ‘ regulation of the Government.” Mr. Palmer knows that hia Glebe land did not come within the scope or intention of the preferential consideration, or re- gulation (if the Hon. gentleman better likes the term) which was given to, or made for the protection of tie resident farmer, upon land the wilderness acreage of which had become sinall, and mostly stript both of wood for fuel, and for fencing and other purposes, in which case, where ungranted wilder- ness land adjoined, a prefereace to a restricted number of acres would be given to the occupant of the farm.

Mr. Palmer, with his Glebe land of about 100 acres, all wilderness, untouched by the hand of cultivation, and unre- claimed from the pristine forest, stood in a very different position to the resident farmer, with his broad acres under tillage, whose wilderness land deficiency entitled him to the benefit of the preferential consideration exercised by the Commissioner. Mr. Palmer did not apply fur G——~s’s 45 acres of wilderness land, in accordance with the letter, or in the spirit of the ‘consideration. He did not seek to add the 45 acres of wilderness to 100 acres of cultivated land, No, Mr. Editor, but he unfairly obtained the 45 acres of wilderness to add to his 100 acres of unoccupied wilderness Glebe Jand, not for the protection, as contemplated in the preferential consideration, of a resident farmer in absolute poverty of wilderness lands, bat for the pocket benefit of himself, as a land jobber, that be by the transaction might obtain a larger price for his glebe land than he could have commanded for it without the addition of the 45 acres, which he used his position ag Leader of the Government to wrest from G 3, without a shadow of right.