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THE BXKAGINER.

BORAIS PONIES. PLEASURE EXCURSION TO PICTOU. To rue Epitorn or Tur Examines.

Mr. WHELAN ;

‘The party that made the pleasure trip to Pictou in the fine Steamer “ Rose” on Wednesday last, have express- ed themselves delighted with their excursion. The weather was fine, with a grateful breeze breaking the wave, as the ** Rose,” “steady to her purpose,” rode the briny blue. The music of Kiely’s Band was sweet and melodious, wafting the mind back to other scenes and halcyon, tines, while the present hour, as it passed with “flying feet,” was enriched by its lofty strains and at:rring beauties,

The tone of the Company was most harmonious, every cheek wore an honest smile, and “ Love looked love to eyes that spoke again,” and gentle words were breathed

- which may, not be told again ; for social feolings reigned

supreme, deeply tinged with the softer passion’s sweet emotions, Capiain Mathewson, a king among good hearts, ever polite and kind, contributed largely by his attentiuns to the comfart and enjoyment of the party, he was a “ Boy.again,” beneath “the lyart hatfit” the freshness of youth seemed in vigorous bloom. The tout ensemble way all that reasonable souls could wish for, and “all went merry. as a marriage Bell.”

The true-hearted “grit” of the Pictonians received the “ Rose” that day with much. respectful feeling in giving the party:a grand salute, unfurling their bunting on the breeze, and extending hospitalities on shore. The Jn- dians, those uptutored sons.of the wilds, with a spirit appreciated, had their encampments decorated with flags and, expended their powder in honor of the Strangers, who will not easily forget the exhibition of excellent-feeling accorded to them on the delightful occasion,

The only matter connected with the excursion which engendered dissatisfaction was the einall number of per- @ons present. This was ground of regret to all whose good wishes were with the enterprising proprietor of the ‘“* Rose,” The vessel was brought here at much outlay of individa] capital, with the object of serving the interests-of this Island. That she has incurred loss to her noble owner, is, [ believe, an undoubted truth, and it should. be seriously entertained by every individual member of this Colony. Jf her owner finds that she continues to jose money for him on this line, her re- moval hence is the only alternative, and this result is not far from probable. ‘There does not appear generally here that proper generous spirit towards the support of the * Rose,” which the proprietor deserves: 1 speak of private encouragement; but trust the blemish may be removed, anda tangible demonstration in favor of the steamer made to give.the “ Yellaw. Geordies.”

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SATURDAY, JULY, 20; 1830;

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THD CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN’ THE OFFICES IN QUEEN,SQUARE AND THAT IN DOWNING STREET. (continued.) if wemistake not, Mr. M‘Lean of the Islander proposed,

not long ago, to amend our representative constitution, |

people. The eight nominees of the Crown would, most undoubtedly, be tre bounden servants of the Govern- ment ; and at Jeast six or eight more, as now—although enro}led amongst the chosen of the people—would, through the comvined influences of “the corruptionists,” be in fact nothing but the pliant retainers and unscrupu- lous dependents of the Government and the officials. — Thus would-be secured to “ the venal alliance,” @stanch and permanent majority, capable of securing success to any of their private or selfish designs which might require the sanction and support of law; and strong enough to defeat any measure having for its object, either the re- establishment of the subverted political rights of the people, or the amelioration of the condition of the tenant population of the Island.

Tn addition to the discouragement which, under a Le- gislature so formed, would dispirit and unnerve the struggling and agent-ridden tenantry, there would arise from it, for their greater mortification, the irritating con- viction that, whilst all taxes would, apparently, be im- posed, and all appropriations of public moneys would, seemingly, he made by the representatives of the peo- ple, the people would, in reality, have no more voice in the matter than the soil—from which, by their skill and industry, they succeed in forcing a scanty subsistence —has the wi!] te bestow or to withhold its harvests.

Shou!d the people be so villanously cozened of the righta of British freemen, they themselves and all that belongs to them, their fields and their produce, their flocks and their herds, would, in reality, become the property of the Government, the Officials, and the Proprietors; and, solely for the increase of their wealth power, and ease, would they toil, and exhaust the vigor of their bodies ; and only for their masters’ good, would they be allowed to eat, for the renovation of their strength, of the bread which, “in the sweat of their faces,” they had raised.

Should it appear that either Governor, Executive, or Officials, have been, basely and traitorously, earrying on a correspondence with the Colonial Office, the object of which has been the establishment of so tyrannic a rule, and the effecting of so degrading a subjection what punishment, we will ask, ought to be inflicted on him or them to whom should clearly be brought home the guilt of perfidy so enormously vile? Does any, man, capable of fully appreciating the value of his birth- right as a free-born Briton, and susceptible of those feelings of indignation which naturally arise in the breast of such a man, at the mere thought of a free and loyal people's being sunk to the condition of slaves, that, by means of their subjection, the possession of power, place and emoluments may be secured to a few individuals who have been eccidenthy —most certain- ly not by the force of superior merits—raised above the crowd—does any such man fear to speak his mind in answer to ourquestion? We say not: and forall such,

ns well as for ourself, we boldly declare, that no punish- ment, short of the ignominious death, denounced by

by. reducing our two Houses of Legislature to one, to! British Law against a traitor to his Sovereign and cour. consist, like our present Lower House, of twenty-four, "Y , could be justly held commensurate with the guilt raeimbers, sixteen. of them to be chosen by the peo-|of treason &0 enormous.

ple, and eight appointed by the Crown: at a}l events, this, we, understand, is the scheme whieh. the Govern- iment, the Officials, and their, obstructive allies,, most earnestly desire to see adoyted and carried into efiect by. the Imperial Government; asthe only one likely to save them from “the ruin and destruction” which now threaten them; a3 the only one which can.shelter them from ‘the pelting of the pitiless storm” which is now henvily. lowermg, and ready to burst upon their heads, und hurry them, in its fury, into the extreme of degra- Cation and contempt.”

This scheme, conceived: in defiance of all justice, honor, and honesty,—the suggestions of which are, in- deed, ever disregarded in the councils of men who de-

sire to build their fortunes upon the depressed rights of,

their fellow-men--wonld certainly, if carried into opera- tion, secure to the present party dominant, a,continu- ance of their ascendency for a period co-extensive with that of its own existence as a practical system in the Colony; and would, at the same time, in fact—although not inappearance—completely deprive the people of all the rights and privileges of freemen.

Sneha re-furmation of our Legislature would afford the {lovernment the most ready means to render thei aeives absolute end tnorougty independent of the peo-

In the eye of clear justice, the crime of seeking to

subvert a Constitutional Government by assassinations and insurrection, is scarcely, if at all, of a deeper dye, than that of conspiring to annul or render nugatory— whether it be by direct or indirect means—the charter of the constitutional liberties of a peaceable and loyal people; and men banded together for so iniquitous and traitorous a purpose, deserve death no less than did Tinstlewood and Ings, who underwent the extreme penalty-of the law as the authors of, and chief actors in. the horrid, although frustrated, Cato-street conspiracy. And should so traitorous a correspondence not on!y have taken place, but-have secured its object; should the British Government also traitorously consent to abridge, or. rather to abolish, the freedom of the people of this Colony, how, we will-next- inquire, ought they to meet-the imperial fiat which would convert them into little better. than beasts of draught and burden, for the use, benefit, and pleasure of men who have already long heen enabled to live in ease and luxury, by means of salaries and emoluments drawn from the seanty fruits of their honest industry ? ‘Po this question, all amongst us, in whose bosoms burns the genuine spirit of freedom, must. return one and the same answer; and ‘hat answer is this: ‘ Were we strong enough to make effectual resistance, it would be our duty—we say so without one thought of disieyalty to our beloved Queen. —it would be our duty to act as, at the commencement

the United States; and failing to obtain justice by ce. monstrance end a firm detlatation of our jenn not to gies Our necks to the imposition of the yoke, it would then be our duty, and nothing more than our py ty, to choose and establish our own form of Government : and, if necessary, to defend it with our lives. ‘The iden of any such fesistance ag this, however, no one amongat ns is foolish enough to entertain. In onr weakness therefore, it is plain we would have to fall before the treachery and submit to the yoke ; but justly would we merit our doom, if we did Not, in the strongest, the bold- est, and the most unequivocal lauguage, denounce ité authors, and freely and forcibly warn the People of Great Britain of the decline of her power end the cis memberment of her states, which would mevitably fol- low the practice of such injustice and tyranny even jn the smallest and most insignificant of her dependencies.” Although in plainly and earnestly urging, upon the notice of the people, our views concerning the corres. pondence which has, for some time back, and is atisl, we believe, being carried on, by the Government and the Officials of this Colony, with the Colonial Office in London, we may have very nearly approached the ex. treme of speculation, we have not done so unadvisedly or without a sufficient motive. We do- not, by any ineans, apprehend a result so disastrous to the liberties of the people, as that which the existing Oligarchy are laboring to accomplish—the entire subjugation of the people to their power, by the actual extinction of all their rights and privileges as freemen. Had the Oli- garchy, indeed, only to negotiate to this end with the Colonia! Office, they might find nene but easily sur- mounted obstacles in the way to its accomplishment, The head of that office might, possiblv, be induced to make over this Colony to their rule in perpetuity, with ag little anxiety as is felt by a Russian aristocrat on the sale and transfer of his estate and serfs to the power and disposal! of another ; or with no more compunetion than is manifested by some Irish absentee landlords at subjecting their unfortunate tenantry to the rack-rent system and cruel extortions of middlemen. Between the people of this Colony and the Oligarchy, we are hap- py to think there now stand interposed, as two towers of strength, the honor of a Jiberal and upright British Ad- ministration and the authority of the most angust, the most enlightend, the most jealous guardians of Jiberty that have ever existed as a body in the world—the British House of Commons. When we well consider the che- racter and authority of the powers to which the Assem- bly have appealed on behalf of the people; and when. we again reflect that nothing is demanded for them but what has been freely tendered to their acceptance— common rights and equal justice—it is impossible for us to anticipate any change in the form of our Govern- ment or Constitution, but such as—being “in accordance . with the well understood wishes of the people”—wil} directly tend to their political and moral elevation, and to the complete extinction of the oligarchical tyranny under which they have so bong toiled, and sweat, and groaned. But we have thought it to be our duty to expose the mancuvres and unmask the designs of the enemies of popular liberty in this Colony, that, by the manifestation of their treachery, we might, if possible increase the public detestation of their rule and character, and’ren- der more energetic the determination of the people to throw off the bondage of insolent and tyrannic misrule, Of despotism, as well as of vice, it may be well and. truly said — “Tt is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen ;” and, therefore, no seasonable remarks which can tend to

deepen, in men’s bosoms, their natural abhorrence of it, can be either uncalled-for or useless.

ENGLISH MAIL.

The Steamer, Rose, arrived as usual on Thursday evening from Pictou; but she brought ne Knglish Mail, although one was due, We hearn, however, that, be- fore the Boat left Picton, an English Mail had bee? telegraphed ;—we may, therefure, expect the latest news from the Old Country on Sunday evening. Jn the mean time, we give below the most interesting jtems of Ame- rican news, gleaned from our }ast Colonial exchanges,

UNIFED STATES.

Deatu or Preswwent Taxcor.—lt is. onr painful: duty to announce the death of President Taylor, He

died last night at twenty five minutes before I! o’clock,

at the President’s house in Washington. His last

words were true to the spirit of his life: —“J am pre

pared ;”—“ { have endeavoured.to do my duty.”

in his short adininistration he has more than made

good the hopes of those who elected him. He hag won

the regard and esteem of those who opposed him.

His election met opposition im some quarters, because he wasa soldier. But he was so far fortunate in the moment of his death, that his. last public act was the signature of an important treaty, which aims at a most important advance in the pacification of the world,

Hon. Millard Fillmore, who becomes acting Presi- dent of the United States, is in Washington. He pre-

sided in the meeting of the Senate yesterday.

of their strugcle with Gaya! Britain, did the Colonists! Tar Treaty wits Great Bretarn.--The Nations!

who finally achieved the independence of those Colo-

Mee svhich now form a pers of the rent Republic styled tian of the Treaty. with Great Britain, oo the eabjyect oi

Tntelligencer of Monday contains the official] publics-