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g, Crowns, Shillings and Six

grills possession, th

’ 3AM 'tliis would

, m cumxcv ouas'rrort. -——-o or asbestosis: Item

d-

t ' triers wi'tp’n to accede to the truth 8“ no mm b I, that " theories should he received and examined with the utmost caution," than I am ;. but if Burnett supposes that [shall _eousu the Merchants of Charlottetown, whether intelligent or,

fifth closing remark of

, otherwrss, upon the subject, he is mistaken.

wntsr on political economy, and the first who

‘° , oet theproper principles on which it was based,

' The of any new law or regulation of

' “ eouiss frothis order (that armor- ' (ugh alwa‘ to he" listened to wit great ) ' ' ht,:evernibsadoptedtillalterhar- ' carefully examined—riot only wrtp “napalm ,hutwith themostsuspicious,a-

It flotaaaordsv ofuien whose inter- V the nuts with that ofthe. public, whsr‘fivs. generally, an interest todecerve, and b m the public, and who, accordingly,

' Ill occasions both deceived andaipprcs- a...“ would ask, who authorised the mer- ' his“ and make this conventional agreementl ceases strange to my ears, that any body of men,

‘1 or otherwise, should meet and enter * ‘7 " a wavestith, contrary to the Statute Law ofthe ; eaa do this. what, I would ask, is to [:0- ,:i.” km" agatn',andareein tocutsixinc ea ~ yard-such, and calling the r‘emainder a yard? i *u. a right to do the one, they most certainly have a to do the other. But, leaving Eanou for the , no maxim is more universally acknowledged Oh that in well-governed countries, all weights and should be fixed, determined and permanent.

, but a v few years since, that there was scarcely say in gland that had the same weights and in common. In some parts of the Kingdom, W was eighteen ounces; in others twelve; in "a places certain articles, such as better, sold by the loop, and, if] am not greatly mistaken. by the yard ! There was one measure for beer, another for wine, doc. Thid'was felt to be a public nuisance, and, accordingly, 'In Astral Parliament was passed for having but one weight endorse measure throughout the whole Kingdom, '38.. the pound, avoirdupoise, with the exception of gold, diver, jewels, apothecaries‘ preparations, doc, and the Imperial gallon. Nor were there wanting those w tory of all change, sungput the watch-words “ [at well alone." The Act, however, was pissed ; “see though productive of some little inconvenience at M is new acknowledged to have been a measure of the highut utility. And what '- cuin, but a public We of valnel Ifit he in the power of merchants to raise the price of coils above its real and intrinsic value, it must besurely in their power—(and whenever it is their interest, or supposed interest, they will avail themselves of it)-—to reduce it to its original and true whine—in what situation, then, will their unfortunate debtors bel They will be the losers, and exactly in the same proport'ain as the merchants will be the gainers --and who is to be the guarantee against a con-

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t' ncy such as this!

,us an , too. that an Act ofthe Imperial Par- liament shoti d be passed, abolishing all Colonial Curren- cy, and substituting Sterling money in its stead, or estab- lishing a currency common to all the Colonies—in what condition would Prince Edward Island be then, both as respects its public and private monetary concerns? Now, to come nearer home, let us suppose that the Col- lectors of Impact and Excise, together with the Trea- surer, no longer willing to run the risk of acting contrary to'Law, refuse to take coin for duties at other than its legal value—in what situation will even these intelligent merchants standl They will find that they have assu- med to themselves a power which neither the Governor and Council, nor the Legislature itself, possess, for if even the latter were to pass a Bill legalizing the cur- rency, as it at present stands, the Governor could not assent to it without a suspending clause; and a law to that effect would but hate to be read to have the Royal assent refused. Governor SMITH did, it is true, order the Five Shilling Bank Token to be received at Six Shillings; but it was an arbitrary, high handed act, which the Treasurer might and ought to have refused to comply with. He should have told the Governor, that the law of the land was his guide, and that he neither knew of nor would acknowledge any dispensing power, even in ‘the Sovereign himself; and had he so answered, Governor Sstrrrr, arbitrary as he at times confessedly was, had too much sound sense, and too good a knowledge ofthe Constitution, to find fault-with a firmness and decision, the most useful qualifications that a man in office can possess, and in neither of which

was he himself wanting.

ErsrLorv ives himself credit for coming to the scratch, as calls it. I beg leave to differ with him. Instead of argument, he substitutes a petitio principt'r', . He tells us that the object of raising the British coin to its present de- nomination is for, the purpose of keeping it in the Island. Whether it will have this effect or not is the question with which he ought to have grappled. I have said, and I still say, that it will not; and I ground that opinion apart the acknowledged fact, that though the Bank

oken. and Spanish Dollar were raised to Six Shillings, we have scarcely one ofeither denomination in circu- lation; they with the Three-and-fourpenny, eighteen- penny, and smooth Shillings, have gone to Nova Sculia; uccessors, the British half. pences. We are obliged to that as soon as the merchant ‘ finds that it is his interest to send the coin to Halifax, ptron :‘hut unblushingly aflirnr to his customer, that he has not a hrthingof change in

ough he has roleair upon roleau packed

, g and labelled, each with its true value, to be sent to {film Nova Scotia creditor at the opening of the navigation. be the case were you to call a British

Shillings instead of Seven-and-sr'zpence. etchant oflittlc or no consequence how rial value of the coin in circulation is— ' he charges a correspondent advance upon his goods;

. t the public oflicers—the men who live upon their

come,'whether derived from the rent of their houses, the interest due upon their Warrants of Attorney, glands, or Promissory Notes, are actually the sufl'erers. .‘l‘hay are obliged to take upon every rise a less sum .llhan they woold otherwise have been entitled to, and dearer rate than they were No man, however, in the corn- . _ To him it is of Ital lmgomW. that the currency should never fluc- y keep his goods

rs call, may afix

a begging the question, as it is called

' , and to it will be with theirs 1 EPIIIDN for telling us,

the 'will not stick at decc

Wu Ft'fieeit i It is to the m high the nomi

no purchase goods at a erly accustomed to.

guity More more than the farmer.

alike the merchant, who ma warehouse or shop till custome

: I'eraith's Wealth irritations, Vol. 1, p. l, c. 11, r. 359,

t '00 he leases, and who, if the market be not :Vliistgiled, Incl he not over exorbitant in his charges. is almou‘ curtain, in a country I this commodity either sooner or later.

lied to bring whatever he may have to

k t, d seek a trrchaser. . [mitt :nd tibiality of the Iirticle he deals in, he can‘tgleliloréie,

k 't back, and must part wt r , "a. .50", m u a ' Few of thorn were aware that

it'tiatcd as this is, to part with The farmer is

Nay, more, from the

never so severe. . iilielrihey parted with their Dpllars at Six Sh after the British hallicrown was raised to Three lings and ninepence, that they actually lost sixpen'ce on each Dollar; for it does not require any very super“); talents to find out, that if ninety-pence, Prince Etlrvar sixty-pencc,f Sterling;

v t-two rice, Currency, are worth but orty-elg rent? or I-Etiur Shillings, Sterling. Now, Dollars are worth Four Shillings and tw . . Commissariat, and bar and four-pence in the Halifax market, which last "is exactly Sixpence on the Dollar- The merchant thus gains two per cent., a suflicront “inducement, I should think, to hoard up the Dollars, and make "arcnvi'ltence will infiniter less trouble and risk in the transit, titan by fire transportation of Agri- But it is only by the transportation of Agricultural produce, that the farmer is enabled to obtain a fair remuneration for his labour. By EPSILPNS account (for he says “ the merchants acted wrsely' ), It is the interest ofthe merchant not to extend the market of the farmer, but as mtrclr as possible to contract it; to compel the farmer to part with his produce at the lowest possible price, and sell him hrs goods in return But it is the interest of the public to extend the market for agricultural produce as far as it It behaves the tarrher, therefiire, to keep a sharp look-out on the merchant, and see that he does not put his hands into his pockets ofrerrer than there be occasion, and never to be seduced by the plausible, though neither wirevrvove or fine-spun theory of the merchant, that raising the nominal value of the coin will be of any advantage to him; but, on the cori- travy, let him be well assured, that as soon as the merchant is compelled, or finds it convenient, to remit British half-crowns to Halifax, that he will do so, though at a present loss oftwo per. cent., perfectly secure that the farmer will have to pay the difference.

EPSILON says, that “the Halifax people or their agents cannot so easily now, as formerly, drain the What, may I ask, prevents them? The country is indebted to them more than it can con- venierrtly pay, and they have nothing to do brrt press for payment, and that payment must be made at some The Halifax merchants are not com— pelleed to take island notes, and will therefore demand ——and with justice—to be paid in Halifax Currency. or in British Gold and Silver at the Halifax prices. any honest merchant in Charlottetown even hint at their taking them at any other rate? wish to do so (which I am sure is not the case), would they dare? Their integrity—the proudest boast ofa British merchant—and the preservation oftheir credit— which depends upon the opinion the world entertains of that integrity—alike forbid it. merchant for looking to his own individual interest ; but I do say, that in thus altering the currency, he has neither benefilted himself nor the community at large, and that the sooner the evil is removed the better for

Island currency.

nce, Sterling, at the

cultural product."

at the highest.

can be extended.

country ofits cash.”

time or other.

No; and should they

I do not blame the

Your obedient servant,

. TRITICEUS. *- DRUNKENNESS.—The “ Executive Council” ofthe British and Foreign Temperance So- ciety have issued a circular, addressed to drunknrds, in which they state that there are no less titan 600.000 habitual drunkards in this kin annually, giving an average 0 gistratcs and medical men declare thatthree-fourths of &c.,are committed by persons excited by liquor. The cost of those. intoxicating droughts is 50 By the exertions ofthe advocates of temperance, 200,000 have been reclaimed, and.h:tve not only abandoned their drunken habits, but have be- come attendants at the different

TEMPERANCE v.

dam, of which 57,000 die- 157 per day.

millions per annum.

places of religious wor-

How To GET A rrou'r Rmu on? A Knock—Thread a needle flat in the eye with a strong thread, pass the head ofthe needle, with care, under the ring, the thread through a few wrap the long end of the thread tightly round regularly all down to the nail, to reduce its size hold of the short end, and unwind it. pressing against the ring,

inches towards the hand; 70 acres of excellent Ln There is .1 substantial, newl for the accommodation ofa well within a few y from its grants) is situated abou Princetown road.

For further particulars, apply at the house on the premises.

will gradually remove it from This never-failing method will remove the tightest ring without difficulty, however much swollen the finger may be. Ice—The amount shi and Boston, w came from Fresh Pond. :ce houses have been er Cambridge, which the gaged in filling. these two pon amount to 40,000torrs—ern carrying 300 tons. The most effectual way to cure a slanderer, attention to what he says; The “royal cheese” which it seems to have b ties in whose custody the curds had been placed, finding that it was the of the person who had taken a cast of the c make an exhibition of it in London, thought it as well to gratify the Londoners with a si cheese itself. It was accordingly brought up care and ceremony. The Lord Steward oft hold was consulted, whether the exhibition of would endanger its acceptance by the Qu rrol, we are told, “ declined ‘giving any 005 on the point;” but went to view the chee his “private opinion” that hazard its acceptance. ensive that his 5 destroyed ifthe cheese i the Vice-Chancellor for an exhibition, on the ground th wrshes of the majority of th prevent her Majesty from rece injunction was granted. On argued by four counsel in due form, statingt dissolve the injunction with costs been thus let out of Cha exhibited. It is the pr four inches in circumference,

pped last year from Charleston as about 82,000 tons—nearly all of which During the year, several large ected, near Spy Pond in West proprietors are now busily en- The exportation ofice taken from ds, during the present year, will

playing [33 vessels, each Birnie, for aecurin

said Edmund Wate has got into Chancery; from the 3"“ Ind‘mWe ad a narrow escape. The par- monstrous mass of consolidated

said Mortgage, and ul I do, therefore, hereby give you due, .or hereafter to become due, premises, to any persons as I shall

Lots or T Island, b with a libert ' arid that al write, are he came.

se, and gave its exhibition would not The owner of the plaster-cast, peculation would be entirel . e exhibited, applied to injunction to restrain the at it was contrary to the e contributors, and mi ht iving their present. Thursday the case was gave judgment which induced him it? The cheese havin ncery, will no doubt Sho

secuted with

; and hisTIonour

Treasurer

nth Your 0' . llll’iillt'i’friv'ihe Fourth, ' rotr arm! on all Lon an.

No.ice that . terms 'of the card Act,

owing thereon to

Town Lot Number 75, ir Pasteur: Luvs Numbers

water at the door.

seldom to be met with.

Prince Edward

IN FURTHER PURSUA

General Assembly pgetlaiign ’ tuled

[ have made

Lots,

Water Lots'and Pasture _ u me

this Islrflrd, rn arrear fazprifiapjeyly’ - t' not] Act viz:

before men to Tm," Lats

r the Th

And the owners ofthe said and proclaimed as uforesnr sums charged on them by tl which have been incurred before ti 0 next Term of the

to be held at Clrnrl‘pttetowp, aid Sir ireme Court, urrng t re sa ' lire saidl Lots and Tracts of Land respet-trvely. J. SPENCER SMITH, Treasurer.

re said Act,b loged i

l . or w ‘ ’ Slmélutiigrnep [Court. of Judicature, application will be made to 'tho id Term, for Judgment against

FOR SALE, . ~ , THE Leasehold Interest. of that elrgrtleuFitligli, ' - resent occu re re ' - Slum“, m cmpnndy andfineiicellent Lurid,50l)f which are About 30 acres more may} be unablel ' Ire lou Ir at n striall expense,and the remrrrnr er is we :taliigeifr tThgre igun excellent Mill-site on the Farm; the lghore furnishes a supply ofsert manure, and Lime may be obtainentat a moderate rate from a Kiln adjoining the premises. The dwe ing- lrorise, to which is attached a Shop or Store, has recently been thoroughly repaired and considerably enlarged, so as to afl'olrd every convenience for the accommodation ofa respectable fumr yf.~ It has n frost-proofcellar underneath, and n never-failing well 0

her, comprising 144_ uci‘es o in it high state tifcultrvutron.

LAND ASSESSMENT'

x ’ own i. Odice, (medalist-Ian“;

‘ Charlottetown. m ird Hundred-

430 and 469, in the Roya

r, 18tlr,'1341-

e Act, of the do Imd _

Hi2. late Majesty

1“? on

flat for Ieeyi Island—I do hereby

Proclamation _ ac undermentrone Lots or

tof the severa . nunder and by Virtue o

6:1" I‘own Lois! TownShlPS m I sums due and

“'4, in Georgetown

lottetown. . Gemndwn. Town Lots in a ti r A. Number 8 lst R‘prige L: e C. “ 4 “ 5‘ u 5‘ H ‘5 “ 33 z: a: u ‘K H “ “6 .“ A. H G " i2 :2 i.- ll 2 rt 15 tt “6 u D. u 16 Pasture Lots Numbers 25, 103 and I ' ' a s e- l{(lgriuslfti’re Lots Numbers 91, 202, 326, 484 and 491, in Prrnc lr . . tow" Roy“ yti 545 Acres on Township Number I: it it 1,475 37 2,332 38 2,07 59 7,400 “ 55 1,000 65 346; tr

. nd Tracts of Land,eoin arrear L0“ a notified, that in case the ther with the costs thin Ten Days

These remisea—plesantly situated, on the banks ofthe river Westmor and, in the midst ofa thriving and populous settlement, and within 15 chains ofthe public Wharf—afford an. opportunity fov investment, both for ugrieulturalnnd commercial purposes,

For Termsof Sale, and other particulars, apply to Mr. John Davis, jr., Merchant, Clrnrlottetowp,|ordto the Subscriber, on the ' ' l th n . premises, who is about to cave e sfiOBERT CRANFORD. N. B.—A new Barn,50 ft. by 34 fr. has just been completed.

February 26th, 1841.

FREEHOLD FARM FOR SALE. 0 BE SOLD, that beautiful FARM, situate within

one mile of Charlottetown, known as the property of the Subscriber. Itamnsists of about Fort _ and from its eligible and convenient Situation, rs yvell worth the attention ofnny person ofenpital, desirous to obtain is retired and pleasant residence. A Born, 30 feet by 26 feet, together With other Outhouaes, have lately been erected on tlre_ premises. A Cellar has been dug and we led up, ready to receive a Building, 30 feet by 24 feet—the Scuntling nndotlrerrntiterrnls necessary for urtclr Building are now on the remises. A Well has also been dug, which affords a constant supp y of excellent water. particulars, apply to the proprietor,

Acres of excellent Land,

W. W. BAGNALL.

Lot Forty-nine, Feb. 25th, 1841.

TO BE LET,‘ and IMMEDIATE POSSESSION given, ONE-HALF of ,the STORE and CELLAR occu-

pied by Messrs. Cooper & Bremner, Printers, 8 YARD fronting on Water Street. Mr. George Clark, on the premises,

together with For particulars, apply to

B. SCOTT.

October 22d, 1840.

of the other part— , in Prince Edward

Birnie have botl l their right,

other perso duly author

Charlottetown, February 9, 1841.

TO BE LET 0R SOLD, wr'ri-t IMMEDIATE POSSESSION,

HE Leasehold Interest

T (999 years) of a Valuable

' FARM, the property of Capt. W. P. Grossard, consisting of nd, 35 ofwlrich are under cultivation. y-built House on the premises, fit moderately sized family, and a urds ofthe door. The above property (which an erior advantages, is worthy the attention of emi- t 45’3 miles from Charlottetown,on the

To the Tenants on Township Forty-Three. AKE NOTICE, that by Irrdentures of Lease and

Release, bearing dnte respecti oprril, 1815, the Release being ni liend, Esq. deceased, and Flora, Edrnrrnd Writers and Alexander London, Merchants, Number Forty-three nnd assured to them the said Edmund _ g the payment of£3 said Island, and Interest, by the said Wi rs and Alexander Bir ' ofRelease mentiorre certain portion of the said Sum of£3

vely, the 24th and 25th days tide between William Towns- his wife, ofthe 0 both then resident in All Lot or Townshjp Island, were conveyed Waters and Alexander 35, lawful money ofthe Ilium Townshend to the me, at a certain day, in d, and now past; and a .35, with a large arrear trf Id—and the said Edmund . r dilly assigned in me the title and interest therein: notice, not to pay any rent, now from you for the said land and pr to me, or to such person or 126 to receive the same.

GEORGE BIRNIE.

The Left: of' Robert Burns, with a criticism on his

December 10th, 1840.

and weighs eleven hundred weig

THE Subscribers havin Agents ofDAVID STEWART, F. ownships Nos. 7, 10, 12,27, eg to intimate, that they are of purchasing, and to sell persons indebted to that go reby required to make i