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Tus sMamMoga. Monday, June 9, E851.

THE LAST ISLANDER.

Our readers are aware that since we resumed the publication of ‘Tne ixa- MINER We have taken no notice, either directly or indirectly, of the many base and malignant accusations, constantly tp- pearing in the avove named _ paper, against ourselves and the party with which Jin politics, we areconnected. Our silence has been induced—not by any want of confidence in ourselves, or ter- ror of our adversary’s prowess and ability, whom we have more than once roughly handled, when he was, in by gone days, playing a more certain game than he is at present, and was something less of the dlackguard,and more of the controversial- ist;—but by an uncontrollable repug~ nance to enter upona scolding match with the abandoned editor of the Islander, while our time and attention could. be more advantageously employed. We have Jona since become indifferent to Newspaper abuse; but. we are more es- pecially so now when that abuse ema-

nates from the pen ofan individual: wiro |

iz hated and despised in the community wherein he lives—is treated with little better than contempt by those who feed him—and whose word, be it for good or evil, does not, weigh a feather’s the minds of any class of the people at all acquaiated with his history. The individual to whom we al- jude has been over twelve months in the pay and service of the once dominant, but now condemed and fallen Tory fac- tion ;—and we are confident that during that space oftime he has not only not procured twelve supporters for his em- ployers, but disgusted many people once friendly to Conservative principles; and we are equally confident that if he con- tinue writing for twelve months in the same manner as he is doing now, he will fail toconvince any unprejndiced person that he is advocating the cause of truth and justice in this Colony,—or that his employers, as a political party, have me- rited the respectand confidence of its in- habitants,

We are not now going to reverse our recent practice,and enter upon a defence of “our private character against the assautis of the Jate and preceding Numbers of the Islander; but. merely to pont out the nutter fallacy of some allegations against

Government published in F

the present Friday’s paper, solely with the view o making an impression on the minds.of the constituency of Prince Connty, and ob- strnecting the return of the official candi- dates :—

Covuncitior's Oatu.— Remarks upon the Oath invariably taken by members of the Exeentive Council, occupy the Jeading position in the dslander, The electors of Prince Connty_are told that in

— eonseqtence of having taken this oath,

Messrs, Warburton and Pope are preclit- ded from advocating any measures for the improvement of the tenantry. This im- padent falsehood is propped up by the essumption —equally false—that as the Government are enjoined be Earl Grey's Waspatch of the Bath Febrnary not to

aysiate the Escheat question, they cannot

eousequently support any ctier measure

‘scheat were inseparable from every Why does not the Islander advocat* the question condemned by the Despatch, when its editor is not shackled

thing else.

by a Councillor’s oath, nor ever likely to be ? But the Islander has another object in quoting the oath, and presenting it in the manner it does to the electors of Prince County ; this is, to shew the peo- ple that Messrs. Warburton and Pope are bound to serve the Governor and to do his bidding at all times; and, it is insin- uated, that as the Governor and Lord Grey are leagued together to oppress and tyrannise over the inhabitants of this Is- land, for same undefined and undefineable purpose, the official candidates should not be returned to participate in the erime of the Governor and Colonial Mio- ister, [tis really painful to reflect that any individual, from a desire for revenge’ or from lack of argument, would be so Jost to sense and reason, and to all manly feeling, as. thus to attempt to stain the character of an amiable and good man, just come amongst us; and to strive to make it appear that a nobleman justly celebrated for his enlarged views, and anxious desire to promote the happiness of all Her Majesty’s Colonial subjects—

oppress a handful of poor tenantry in the little Colony of P.E. island. The Islander, it would appear, is impressed with the bril- liant idea that the Colonial Minister’s tenure of office depends upon his keeping the tenantry here in slavery to the pro- prietors! Weill ! Well!! one ‘would suppose thatthe fellow who could harbour such a thought deserves either a strajght- jacket or a cap and bells.

Now, as to this diabolical oath that is said to have made tyrants of Warburton and Pope—it is precisely the same form of oath as was taken by Haviland, Lane, Hodgson, Palmer, Goodman, and all the rest of the old Council: so that if His Excellency’s present advisers are the creatures of his will, and the oppressors of the country, then the Islander must ad- mit, what it bas been all along labouring to disprove, that the late Government was

were mere puppets in the hands of Sit Denald. We wish the Islander would enlighten us why the taking ofan oath hy one set of men instantly transforms them, into hideous tyrants, whilst it leaves others such good and estimable people as the late Council have been de, picted by our contemporary. The, oath in qnestion is about the most unexcep- tionable formula we have ever read. It declares that a member of Council shall bear trug allegiance to the Queen, and be true and-faithfui to Ler Represen- tative—that he shall promote Her Majes- ty’s affairs with his best advice and coun- cel-—that he shall guard against foreign invasion, ivtestine commotion, and sedi- tions conspiracy against the Queen or Her Representative, and that he shall not divulge the secret debates of Council. This is a correct abstract of the oath, and human ingenuity cannot possibly tortuce it into the vile thing which the Islander would have the people believe that it is.

The oath .cas not made for the present

Government—it was made for all time, and is, we presnme, the same form as ‘that used in the oiher Provinees. It was jtuker, we repeat, by the predecessors of ‘the existing Council, and must de taken iby their successors; and ita use does not

i render the new Council any more “ ser-

has any interest whatever in seeking to;

very tyrangieal, and that the Council}.

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The slander has for severa] weeks past anethematized Earl Grey’s Despatch of the 12th February, which, with unpar- alleled presumption, it styles “ a bloody Despatch” and has repeatedly accused the present Government with having be- trayed the public interests for taking of- fice with that Despatch before them. The Islander does not perceive that it is trum- peting the infamy of its masters in the late Government, for ifthe Despatch be so inimical to the public interests, the old Counci! shonld have resigned the moment it reached the Colony. They were all aware of the Despatch not long before the new Civil List Bill wedged them out of the Council; and if Responsible Go- vernment hac not been put in practice, they would have remained in office though there were fifty despatches fiftytimes more objectionable than the one referred to. But there is really nothing objectionable in it, as we already shewed in a previous No. ofthe Examiner. It simply instructs the Lieut. Governor not to countenance anagitation for Escheat, which is never likely to oecur,—but to give his sanction and support to any other practicable measure that may be devised for the iin- provement of the tenantry. If, however, the Despatch was ever so objectionable, -it ill behoves the Islander—upheld and fostered as it is by parties who long en- joyed honors and emoluments under the Crown--to stigmatize a document ema- nating from the Queen’s confidential ad- viser by the disrespectful cognomen of “Bloody:” -

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Tne Spracer.—Mr. Speaker Rae's late exhibition of “ petulence and_ irrita- bility” (to use the language with which the Islander objected to his appointment as Speaker in 1850) having provoked a trifling castigation from ourselves and Mr. Warburton—the editor of the IJslan- der has folded him in his tender embraces: and uttered a furious grow] against those who cannot admire his * petulence and irritability.” The Islander'’s defence of Mr. Rae may well iméuce that gentle- nan to exclaim, “O save me from my friends!” for such defence is calculated to awaken reminiscences not at all com- plimentary tothe Speakor. The Islan- der informs us that Mr. Rae “ was_ the only man of the majority who would neither betray his constituents, nor cor- rupt the Assembly for the sake of office.” This sounds amazingly. fine after the re- yelation in Mr. Warburton’s letter, to the effect, that Mr. Rae wanted to barter the Speaker’s chair to Mr. Fraser for the Collectorship of Impogt! SWas there. no attempt at corruption in thus offering the highest office in the gift of the Assembly for the. sake of £200.a year? And would Mr. Rae’s constituents believe they were, betrayed if Mr. Fraser had the meanness to assent to, and Mr. Rae the power to complete, the bargain ? Since the Islander is so kind ag to. an- swer for Mr. Rae’s conduct, let it reply to these questions.

Report on rue Snucgerary'’s Fees, —The Islander having committed. a palpable forgery in giving an unauthor- ized and scandalously incorrect version of the above Report, treats the framers of that Report to a coluran and a half. of abuse, bat manifests its utter inability to controvert a single fact or argument. of that docnment. The Report is correctly printed in this paper, on the authority of the Clerk of thé Assembly, and those who read it must perceive at once that the charge of illegal exaction of fees is proves beyoud the possibility of doubt, Mr. Pulmer’s speech on this subject which we likew'se print in to-day’s paper, does not palliate or excuse the

relating t) the tenure of Jaad: just as if vile” than the eld.

;conduct of the Seeretiry; but merely

of the Charloitstoyn Tories! Every fe!:

tat,

asks that he may be allowed time to make a defence. That there were some unimportant errors of style and orthogrs- phy in the original draft, we will freely admit; but these do not impair the pith of the Report. If Mr.Fraser sinned against the rules of English composition, or wrote without having Lindley Murray in bis hand, he did no more than members of the minority frequently do. Tiunt up the original productions of Mr. Palmer, who is the Jeader of that minority, and you will scarcely find one resolution, address or report, which will not furnish a gram- matical blunder in every sentence. It is avery sorry defence for Mr. Haviland, that the accusation agains‘ him is not ex- pressed in the purest English !!

Tur Civ List.—The Islander ad- mits that by the Civil List Bill passed ia the late session the Liberals have saved to the colony the suia of £295. In Mr- Whelan’s second letter to his constituents the saving was stated at £305, but im printing the letter the item of £100, tra- velling charges to the Governor, was ae~ cidently omitted. If the Islander will add this sum to the £295, the correctness of our statement will be apparent. And we may further add the two following items: Reduction on Warrants by

the operation of the Loan Bili, and by the sale of

Debentures, £300 0 0° Fees illegally retained bythe

late Secretary, which the

Govermnent will require

to be refunded, 795 0 0 Saving on salaries, &c. 395 0 0

Total gain to the colony, £1,490 0 0

We should hardly have thought of this addition to our saving but for the Island- ers injudicious meddling with the eub- ject.

Tar public could never, at any time, have expecied much gentlemanly behavionr from the individual who conducts the Islander, but we question if they ever looked for any thing so bad ss the ovwt- rage offered last Friday to the feelings of our venerable Chief Justice, by Ftating that he accepted a bribe from the Howse of Assembly. Jt ie a curions way of giving a bribe, 10 compensste an old and faithful officer for a redgction of his sa- lary, In compliance with the direction of Her Majesty’s Government. The Libera! Party have been ofien stigmatized as act-

ing unjustly towards the servants of the Crown, but their’ worst enemies cannot charge them with offering an unmerited . insult to the highest judicial functionary inthe Colony, If the patrons of the I— slander are not ashamed of their advoeste, it is because they are as insensible to shame as lie is.

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THE PARTIAL ELECTIONS.

Tne Honourables Messrs. Coles, War- burton, Pope and Lord, and Allia Frases, Esq., Jeft Teawn this morning for the Westward, It is their intention to attend a public meeting tu be beld this afiernoon at Mrs, Rarrett’s, lot 19, and several other meetings throughout Prince County, during this week and the next, We have no doubt they will give a good 2c- count of Messrs. Gaul, Conroy, and the Speaker, who are labouring hard, with the aid of rum, tobacco, and rent ro!!s,_ to ef- fect what they will never be fit to aecom- plish, namely, the defeat of the Governu- ment candidates. Whata glorious spree the rumdrinkers wi!) have at the expense