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no other designation To canes ins authority Pope, Thornton and Yeo,—not on that score rejected by| asserted that Mr. Warburton accepted a seat in the Exe-

would bea falsehood; and falsehood is now piety. It does not follow that because the Prussians do not for- mally recognize the act of Providence in the political election of King Frederick William, they therefore deny the supernal authority over all, King and people. There is no special act of Divine interposition in that political appointment, more than in any other; and Englishmen are not blamed for omitting to designate the Right Honourable Charles Shaw Lefevre as Speaker by Divine grace, or Mr. Hume as Member for Mon- trose by virtue of the permission alluded to. |

Theology does not enter into the distinction between the Parliamentary and Kingly offices, but only politics ; the distinction is functional. The obsolete foim is re- tamed among us precisely because we are quite satis- fied that it is so obselete as to do no harm; but in Prus- sia the form begot a misehievous delusion in the minds of princes, who have hitherto been thought to imagine, inke Alexander of Macedon, that they really did derive some authority from above, of a kind to rerder them ir- responsible to men for their actions. To our limited monarchy habits of mind, the abolished form violated pious decencies as wellas political common sense.— Despatch.

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THE LATE APPOINTMENTS.

cashiered ? Is there or is there not evidence overwhelm- ing of a fixed practical determination to get rid of every person who has any independence in the Island ?

But Responsible Government is at present undergo- ing all the thimble-rig vicissitudes that a pea does in its transitions from one cup to another! Mr. Warburton is to be expelled the Council, because he is ite advo- cate. Mr. Coles is a little time after to be placed ina predicament which no man having any regard for his own honour can be in without resigning, because he does not support the Government on responsible princi- ples at an election, he himself remembering the weight of the animosity just before brought against him by his fellows in the Exeeutive Council, in defiance of the ex- isting Government and responsibility ; and then the plea of Responsible Government is to be used against Cap- tain Cumberland! Why, reaily, the popr element is bandied about from one cup to another as it suitg the moment much faster than a juggler ever trans a pea at any fair, But at a table ata fair there is but one juggler; here every man sets up in the cabalistic office who has the ear of the Government—an end to

At this particular moment we havea higher duty to) perform than to split straws upon the comparative eligi-_| bility of one or the other gentlemen named to fill the | vacant seats inthe Councils; neither would it be an! easy task, because who can say on whom the choice of | the alliance between certain Members of the House of | Assembly and the Clique may yet fall, or how many| may yet be named by His Excellency the Lieut. Go- vernor who may receive the veto of their organ?. What we have to do inthe absence of Responsible Govern-' ment, isto lament that Her Majesty’s Representative has so managed or has been so managed; that he is neither armed with the powers of Government as dele- gated to him by the Crown, nor relieved from his high responsibilities by their being shared with.a copstitu- tional Government. We are truly sorry for His Excel- lency, and he may be assured, that, though ofall things, we long for constitutional, that is, Responsible Govern- ment, until it comes we will raise our voice against his: being trampled on; and though, indeed, we cannot but | eay that it is his own fault which has placed him in this| srksome predicament, we can appreciate his difficulties, | and lament their consequences, as well as hig want of foresight. His Excellency will not fail to see how hol- | Jow is the support of those in whom he has relied—how | he has mistaken the real relative worth of parties who. have been brought forward into his notice ; that, in fact, | the one seeks for nothing but a just participation in a constitutional system for the benefit of the people, whilst | the other seeks to arrogate to itself all the functions of the' Executive, evea those which at present are assigned ex. | clusively to the Crown; and having succeeded in blast- ‘ng the prospects of one Governor, will not scruple in sub- titling his successor to the same precess the instant he. refuses to yield his delegated prerogatives into their! grasp—a thing, indeed, which he cannet without a flag-|

rant dereliction of duty and principle even contemplate , ‘odo, Buta word in sober seriousness, as to Captain| Cumberland—what, right has any one not a supporter of Responsible Government, to object to that genile-| inan’s appointment? Is every man to be driven out of |

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this Island by the envy and spiteful animosity of the! occupy? Is such a man to

from his own Attorney? Certainly he

would not! have been the object of our s

for we an advocate for Responsible Goyernment—we

lanti 21eCtion,

rate the constitution of the

guish for its enjoyment, and think the representations |

which cause its being withheld ftom vs are most unjust an! most unworthy, and nothing but the consequence of kuccessful intrigue. No, we could nut be supposed to relish the appointment of Captain Cumberland, because h» is not inthe Legislature, nor has he ever served the country in any capacity ; and if we are in the ascendant we must confide in those who have already not only t }

ehare of official or legislative capacity. But if Capt. €u nberland is a Proprietor, sv is Mr. Palmer—so is Dr.

Gyepoy, whilst from the Agents, we have Messrs. Douge,

‘sembly and throw himself on the People, in whose loy-

compass, o7,a wish to gratify: Hocus-pocus, no. Cum- berland, it is not consistent with responsibility —Hocus- pocus again, no Warburton, for he is a responsible man, We do most respeccfully assure his Excellency that this

the people; but because we would not have selected |cutive Council from the minority of the Assembly—that Captain Cumberland is that any reason why he should; Mr. Coles likewise accepted a seat in the Courcil frem be insulted, or having beem appointed, that he is to be the minority of the Assembly. Both assertions falee —__

It is well known that Mr. Coles wag appointed at the close of the first Session of the present Perliament— that Mr. Warburton was appointed to a similar post in the Summer or Autumn afterwards—that during the |first Session Messrs. Coles and Warburton stood ima majority—that out of at least thirty-two divisions, they had a majority in twenty six—and that only by the rat- ting of Mr. Nicholas Conroy and the absence of Mr. Fraser at the commencement of the second or last Ses- sion, were those gentlemen placed ina minority.

The disingenuous reasoning adopted by “ Master Brooks” in reference to the question of Responsible Government, is precisely such as might be expected from a person of Duncan Maclean’s mental, moral, and. political charaeter. Because he has acted the part of a most shameful apostate from the Responsible Govers- ment doctrine, he would fain blacken with the crime of apostacy the character of every one of his political op. ponents. Messrs. Warburton and Coles are accused of having outraged the Responsible principle by remain- ing in the Council after they were left in a minority in the Assembly. Now every body knows that Respons:- ble Government was not only not recognized by the Ad- ministration and Legislature, but that it has been posi- tively discountenanced by the Head of the Executive. Then Messrs. Warburton and Coles should, according

Island will never be prosperous or even fit to live in ti]],to “Master Brooks,” act upon a principle which the

he recommends the adoption of real responsibility, and that he was quite gulled when he represented those whom he governs as unable to conduct their own limit- ed business. For hisown comfort, for the honor of Her gracious Majesty, we implore him to dissolve the As-

alty and in whose dutiful disposition he may most im- plicitly rely. We know not, ina party sense, what would be the result, but we know this, that a wholesome

Lieut. Governor declared would not and could not be put in practice!!! Why should those gentlemen, ir this case, resign, any more than Mr. Haviland, Mr. Lane, Mr. Goodman, or any of the other members of Council? Mr. Maclean openly and unblushingly sided with the enemies of Responsible Government in the

'Legislature—Messrs. Warburton and Coles did not so.

‘‘It is utterly incredible,” says “ Master Brooks,” “that Mr. Warburton and Mr. Coles were advocates for Res-

principle would be established, one that is withheld from/ ponsible Government, because its adoption would have us alone amongst all Her Majesty’s dutiful North Ame-| been accompanied by the instant expulsion of them- rican subjects, and that His Excellency himself would | selves” from the Couneil. This is not true. Before ite be placed in @ position of comparative ease, and would|‘*adoption,” an appeal should be made to the people, never again be subject to such an insult as has been just}nd the Lieut. Governor should cease from represnting offered him, nor compe!led to submit to it in the person tothe Home Government our unfitness for the new of his friend. ,

are estimation fom his. ribaldry, but because we are con-|

vene-| vinced that the exposure of his falsehoods will help to! Mother Country—we lan-|

fongat the battles ofthe People, but displayed some.

D. MACLEAN, auias “ MASTER BROOKS.”

TueERe is no character so utterly despicable as the an-| onymous libeller. He merits the odium of society, not so much for the injury he may seek to inflict upon the ob- jects of his attacks, as for the degradation which the publication of his libels attaches to the legitimate busi- ness of Journalism. We hate him, not perhaps, be-' cause he isa liar, but because we know him to bea. coward. If what he publishes were true, he would not} be ashamed to put his name to it. Exceptions may, in-| deed, be made in favour of purely literary compositions |

which may not affect either public or private character | but if the writer bea man who is in the habit of appear-

ing in print, over his own proper name, he has no excuse |

whatever for using an anonymous one in political discus- | sion. |

If “ Master Brooks” be Duncan Maclean—(and the evidence in favour of the assumption is almost conclu- sive, for the letter bearing that signature, and inserted

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‘put the public on their guard, if they are not already so, \2gainst the imposition of a man whe a | ito every sentiment of honour. _ ‘Phe very first sentence of the letter signed Brooks,” is an atrocious Jie.

| Messrs. Warburton and

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; | In the Islander of the 2d inst., abounds with expressiops | {liane ile Ries Meds naka , dt Si o.2 }. * . . ! . /igue, who has sixpence to spend, or a position folane observations peculiar to no other writer than Dun- | have a license to live can Maclean) we assure him that we deign no reply from

In which No. of the Mexaminer is this threat to.

| principle, If the country returned to the Legislature

the same gentlemen who now compose the Majority of the Assembly, Messrs. Warburton and Coles would no doubt have to retire from the Council—not other- wise.

“Master Brooks” asserts a lie, when he declares that Messrs, Hensley and Holl have been mainly in-

‘strumental in juggling” Mr. Coles out of his seat.

Those gentlemen knew nothing of Mr. Coles’s inten- tion to resign. Le never uttered a syllable to them on the subject; and it is very well known that imme- diately after Mr. Coles sent in his resignation, Messrs. Hensley and Hol) tendered theirs, but the Governar,

>| fearing, perhaps, to thrust more power into the hands of

the Compact, or believing, that there were no gentie- men of that party who were fit to supply the places of Messrs, Hensley and Holl—begged of the latter to re- main in the Council, and they, not wishing to embar- rass His Excellency, yielded to his solicitation.

“The writers of the Islander,” says “ Master Brooks” again, “are cautioned that if they allude to Mr. Coles's ‘iHiteracy,’ some of its subscribers will be retaliated upon.” This is another falsehood. Mr. Coles’s name was not mentioned in the matter. A general obser vation was made, to the effect, that if the indecent practice were persisted in by the islander, of arrogat- ing to its own party all the talent, respectability and education, and of charging its opponents with illiueracy and ignorance, we were prepared to shew that some

ppears to be lost) public men, whose principles and conduct were ad-

'vocated by the Islander, were just as remarkable for . Master)

the ecaatiness of their information--their want of talent,

It asserts “that the £2-\and, in short, their perfect freedom from educational aminer threatened any one with the direful wrath oft

Coles who should presume to! ‘Stigmatize their public conduet, according to its de.

training, as any others in the community. We eaid nothing about the “subscribers of the Islandér”~—we made no allusion what to “onobtrusive private char are then a3 we are now, that 1

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be fond? If “Master Brooks” could substantiate his!the ranks of our adversaries there are public characters Assertion he would have quoted from the EXraminer the enough whore neliher great geniuses nor scholars.

Janguage of the alleged threat. But there is not on | It is generously ob ‘ Master Brooks,” that i! ‘particle of proof adduced. Inthe next sentence it is’ My. Coleg had lisa.ied 16 aw his cattle yord, 32