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vinces is highly desirable. Of these the first is that re- That His Exceliency “stigmatized” the Liberal Party,

lating to the service of the Post Office in the North as now constituted, is not a fact: opinions he may have American Provinces, ‘entertained in reference to the old Escheat party, eae From the various despatches and other documents) Se ehl ty d with the arbitrary advice of Mr enumerated in the margin, your Lordship will learn how |e 4Siand was cursed with the a) y ail aiid extreme and in fact insuperable is the difficulty of plac-| Pope, and imposed upon by the Compact—have bec | ing the affairs of the Post Office in the British portion obsolete from a change of circumstances and principles. of that Continent, on any secure and convenient footing | y,,,))ch history would teach the Petitioners that eae is 3 ai { . ‘ s ar- 5 er a : ‘ without the aid of some central body competent to ar ‘of England were often Jed to revile and stigmatize pub-

bitrate between the various Provinces, and to establish © ful and suc regulations extending over, and throughout them all. lic men who subsequently became powerful an

I especially refer to the Report of the Post Master Ge- cessful Ministers: history and experience are, however, nora _ om -e- er groggy of “og a aianes lost upon fools.—The same party are accused, in the ) > 18t gus ae os ;

ek ee ee next proposition, of bringing His Excellency’s person

the 10th of September last, communicated to this De-| ; h f hi partment the views of their Lordships on that report. |and Government into contempt, as well as those of his You will thence perceive how willing Her Majesty’s | predecessors. We have every right to set this down ee ae ad eae > ran of a Post’ a deliberate falsehood, since no judicial proceedings s z s é avor of; ; +e: rages sai siduniea ae he lenciltsatustituted |are upon record by which this accusation a a for the purpose. But your Lordship will also perceive be substantiated. These people forget tnat their great) that the creation of any such authority by the separate |champion—Mr. Pope—has given evidences within the)

act of any one Province, or by separate and unconnect-|1,5¢ two years, of a disposition to bring the Head of the|subject. The best answer, ed acts of the several Provinces, is virtually impossible. Government into contempt, unexampled by any thing the present r

We have no solicitude to retain any control over the)’ ; ie Malar details and management of this service, but the reverse. in the history of the Island. They also forget tha

A body of the kind I have already described, represent-|certain notorious character—indignantly spurned from ing and _s : a = Pr —— et ng the | moral society elsewhere—has been by them patron- ange: yhich W y 1c}. . . + Post ia General ‘of ‘this ciieomabiies funetion,|iz@4 and encouraged - libel and lampoon His Excel- Without such aid I do not see haw he could be exemp-|lency, and his conduct in so doing has been applauded ted from the duty, to which from inevitable and insuper-|by certain individuals closely connected with the Ad- able canses his Department must always be unequal. | ministration. The parties who were mainly instru- The cther subject to waieh 5 Have referred as requi-| mental in getting up the Petition, are, at this moment,

ring the co-operation of the different Provinces, is that,

° ° . | ; : ; i ’ ai of the formation of a great line of Railway communica- | using greater exertions to bring His Excellency’s per

tion from the Seat of the Government of Canada to the} son and Government into contempt, than were ever here- Atlantic. tofore attempted by any political party in the Colony.— The execution of such a work would, T am persuaded, Another proposition in the first clause is, that the party

be of the greatest advantage tothe whole of British|“~ ee oN America; but the difficulties to be surmounted in so| With whom ilis Excellency has coalesced “are in the

vast an undertaking are of no ordinary kind, and are| minority of the House of Assembly, and do not possess only likely, I think, to be overcome by the united and! the confidence of the respectable and influential portion energetic exertions of all the Provinces. Should the of the community.” A more glaring falsehood cannot

delegation of authority by the different Legislatures to some central body representing them all, be assented to, be promulgated. Reference to the Journals of the

I should think it highly desirable that advantage should | House will clearly show it to be false. Here we disco- be taken of this to arrange the mode in which the Pro-| yer that Mr. Rae stands in 35 majorities—Mr. Coles in vinces should 6o-aperate with each other, and with Her 45—Mr. Palmer in 27—and Mr.D. Maclean in25. This Majesty’s Government, in promoting the construction) | : es e

is a matte? beyond all dispute: any person who has

of the proposed Railway. Ihave, &c. eyes,may see it. Asto not having the confidence of Rich Signed) GReY. the “respectable and influential portion of the commu- The The Heal of Bieta, a nity”—we are ata loss to understand the meaning of anion aimee . .|the assertion. If the fourteen people who have got up wasew: “gy, the Petition mean themselves, we cannot admit that PED TAA DON w4Q | their respectabily is equal to their modesty, for the one is very insignificant—the other very conspicuous: their ans i os influence is wonderfully great—witness the last Elec- THE DELEGATE’S PETITION. tion for the Pirst District of Queen’s County. We » : should very much like to know what accidents have We promised, in our last No. to offer a few comments | given them a claim to either respectability or influence, on the Petition got up by a few individuals in Char-|peyond what has fallen to the lot ef other more unpre- Jottetown, evidently at the instigation of Mr. Pope.'tending people. Wealth» sometimes attaches to the Those who have read the Petition could not fail to have | rooue and'the blockhead a counterfeit respectability:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1847.

is a Governor bound to support public societies, or does he retard the interests of the country by declining to do so? We suggest to the Petitioners the propriety of sending a Memorial to the Queen, to the effect, that the Royal Instructions may be aniended, in order to make it compulsory on a Lieutenant Governor to support all pub- lic societies which a rage for novelty may bring into ex~ istence. A most unequivocal proof of the Lieutenant Governor’s inclination to advance “the interests of the Colony,” is given in his separating himself from the Clique. His success is indicated by the Revenue.

The third clause alludes, in a rigmarole of meaning- less terms, to His Exceilency’s interference with a Pleasure Party given by the Hon. Mr. Young about three years ago. The thing is so futile, and has been so often discussed, that, to notice it, is quite sufficient to call forth a smile of contempt for those who have proved themselves so egregriously silly as to revive the however, to this charge is elative position of the Gentleman ailuded

to.

The fourth accusation contzins a shameful evidence of mendacity. It charges His Excellency with the Belfast Riots, because “ precautionary measures” were not adopted “for the security of the lives and liberties of the Electors.” If blame must needs be attached to any party, we should say that party was the late She- riff, for he could have had any assistance he wished in proceeding with the Election. The Petitioners over- look the fact, that their friends in the Assembly were extremely anxious for the Election to go on, without any delay; and had not aspeedy return been made, they would have lest the alliance, in the House of Messrs. Douse and Maclean, whose votes, it was expected, would haveenabled their party to burke Mr. Rae’s Res- ponsible Government Address.

The fifth complains that His Excellency does not take the advice of his Council. We answer, because the Council is not constituted as it ought to be. If the Councillors are useless instruments, as their friends confess them to be, why de they not resign their seats? An acknowledgment—more damaging to the credit, res- pectability, and independence of the Council—could not be offered,

[Want of space forbids to go any farther in our ex- pose of this precious effusion. We shall next week return to it,—and perhaps we shail then have a few sug» plementary hints to offer for the edification of the gen- tlemen whose names are prefixed to the Circular which accompanies the Petition. }

MR, D. MACLEAN vs. MR. RAE. ~~

It is a source of very considerable uneasiness to some of the would-be politicians in Charlottetown that Dun- can Maclean, Esq. is not made an object of attack by Tue Examiner. Now, whether or not these people

marked the striking resemblance which it bears to the. but, excepting two or three with whose names the Pe- Address passed by the Assembly in the Session of 1846, | tition is embiegoned, and who have been somewhat praying for the removal of Sir H. V. Huntley, canny in their day, we really do not know the fortunate | Of the nine charges preferred against His Excellen-| fellows amongst the Petitioners on whom the smiles of

cy in this extraordinary document, there is not one that Plutus have fallen. The history and geneology of would be urged by men actuated by an honest principle! most of them are full of interest: had we space, we and a love for truth. might be tempted to pursue it. They refer to their in- The first is made up of six differen] propositions— fluence, dreaming, perchance, of the time when they each and all of which are without even the semblance could discover little or no cause of complaint against of proof—they are, in fact, so fulse and absurd as to de-| His Excellency.—The “ dangerous doctrines” ascribed ter any rational mind from attempting to prove them. to the Liberal Party, mean, we presume, Responsible The first proposition declares that His Excellency has Government—Tenant Right—and anti-official mono- * degraded the office of Her Majesty’s Representative | poly, with which, indeed, that Party have struggled to by coalescing with a political party—some of whom uasettle the corrupt “system ef Government” that has have been stigmatized by him as persons totally unqua-|too long prevailed “in the Island,” The assertion that lified to discharge the duties of Legislators.” The par-|a “lawless spirit” has been “ encouraged among the ty here referred to are those members of Assembly who, | people,” by the party referred to, and “a lamentable in the last Session, co-operated with Mr. Rae in his) loss of life” occasioned by them, is a pssitive lie, which views on Responsible Government—on the Tenant none but persons the most reckless of truth and princi- Ejectment and Compensation Bill,—and indeed upon ple, would dare to assert. Nothing can surpass this

have any great regard for Mr. Maclean, we cannot con- fidently affirm; but we are somewhat disposed to be- lieve that Mr. Maclean—maugre his disposition to hur] his thunderbolts against the unresisting head of Mr. Rae, and to call him and his party hard names—has no very profound or platonic love for the genus who pro- fess to admire him so much, and who boast of having gained, in the time of their tribulation, so redoubtable an ally as the New London Member. Mr. Maclean has neither said nor writ any thing against us, so far: when he does, it will be time enough for us to open our ports, and give him a touch of our quality. To be sure, he has written sundry philippics against one of his late political associates; but the gentleman referred to is quite capable of answering him at the proper time and in the proper spirit. Mr. Rae will smoke his pipe and take the matter coolly—just as we would ourselves be inclined to do, if similarly attacked. But when Mr. Maclean will have done writing his letters on the great

every reform measure which, during the period alluded | accusation, for its atrocious baseness and audacity.|crimes and misdemeanours committed by the very res- to, challenged the attention of the Legislature. It is, Men who could coolly pen such a lie, might be fairly|pectable party to whom he has facetiously given the something to get an acknowledgment from the enemies considered as capable of stooping to any indecency. j|nomme de guerre of “ Snatchers,” why then we shall] of Responsible Government, of His Excellency’s adhe-|_ The second clause refers to the old story about his|see what weshall see. « My wife will dance and Iwill sion tothe measure. Instead, then, of “degrading” his, Excellency withdrawing his patronage from the public sing”—or rather, Mr. Rae will write and we wil] print office by such an act, Hjs Excellency honours it, wejsocieties. The Petitioners assert that his withdrawal /and if we don’t “ merrily pass the day,” why we will nas

conceive, in an eminent degree, It was, and is, consi-|from these Societies was in consequence of a disincli-| most grievously disappointed. Seriously, tis too bad

dered a great merit in the Governors of other Provinces | nation, on the part of the Legislature, to grant an in- that Mr, Maclean should be left singing solus so long— to give their sanction and support to the views of a par-|crease to his salary. Now, the Governor never gave the music would be much more harmonious if Mr. Rae ty, who haye struggled for the adoption of the new and this as a reason for the act referred to; and it is a piece, would come forward at once and make a duet; and no- * improved System of Government conceded to the Pro- of impertinence on the part of the Petitioners to offer a body doubts that he can do it. As for our very huinbje viaces by the present Prime Minister of England.— mere shallow supposition, for a positive fact. Besides, selves, we shall e’en haye to look on and enjoy the fun

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