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56 THE EXAMINER.

3 . oan | dali sauir ch, if they had it the people must | the House’s determination of the question howey Lamartine’s Wine.—From the following it appears were required, for which, y Peo; 1 ’ ever they

. : , , . ay € > j ¢ & 4 that Lamartine sent some wine to America. Who has/expect to pay. He had been a - the dive ae vot any of Lamartine’s wine? We quote from the|that in consequence of the smal! na a = to . Sache correspondent of the Charleston Courier : |appointment of Governor of I _ ne pn the amarti ; the public favourite. Whether he reci-| linperial Government experienced great difficulyy im eT i 4 area I do diet Dinas: but | do re-| finding properly qualified persons to accept it. He be- abate He ie a personal reason to quarrel with lieved it was the intention of the Home Government to ember that h ws oUn “as qué . . . acti ing! a Ve " 1834 or 5, he shipped to this nay on ris discontinue, for the future, the practice of employing} oe military officers as Governors,and to prefer civilians ; as being persons likely to posses’ more business and poli- . ; at ¢ ific ‘I'wo| necessity, chiefly confine > -j. was sold at a great sacrifice, for a mere song. ‘I'wo aeworeny# casks happened to come to Gen. Jackson—the steward | Still it was not to be expected that Perr of independent would not give it cellar room—-it was pronounced to be} fortunes would apply Saeed ie Peis : yn ae sour. A person whom I knew took it, and under proper|able Governors a i : d se Pa treatment it became a princely wine: ‘Tlie same was Island could only be found amongst men of moderate the result in New York. The wine fell ultimately into means ; and i nan be eee eee proper hands, and is now, or lately was, well known) Should expend or sacrilice tho

there as a delicious, much sought for, and high priced wine. Some years agol had some of it, and used to offer it as the wine of Lamartine, the poet—-not dream- ing that the poet was destined, as the chief of a revo- lutionary government, to dictate to Europe the terms on which they were to have peace or war with France as a united republic,

Ws. 7 own account, and by way of experiment, a cargo of wine trom one of his own estates—it was the Vin de Macon.

trators of Government, anc give their services into the bargain. Ifthe Colony were called upon to pay its own Civil List, then the Home Government could not expect such an appropriation by its Legislature, as that propos- ed in the Kesolution; and, according to the Resolution, it was proposed to continue the appropriation of £500 _ annually, as an addition to the Governor's Salary, only so long as the Home Government should pay the Civil List of the Colony and no longer. If they could stave off the payment of some thousands by one of as many hnndreds, it would be evident to the Country that in aioe doing so, they were making a a perso: 02:

‘HE 7_|especially as, at the same time, they were substituting _ Babansns heat iin ah THE LIEUTEN- a Land Tar for the former most unpopular exaction of ee Quit Rents. He wae aware that some hon. members

The Speak 1a Oe om mm would not hesitate to re ee - oo cons The Speaker could not compliment t e hon. memberitry. bea reeing to pay the Ciy ist, on condition tha who had just sat down(Mr. Le Lecheur)with having dis- Reapenalole Govicundi should be established in the

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charged what lie called his duty—the delivering of a ranting speech—with his usual ability ; for he had com- pletely omitted any allusion to the fox, or even to his tail. He had toldthe Committee that he had once been offered a bribe, and that he stoutly refused it. He (the Speaker) should be very sorryto appear to doubt the veracity of any hon.meniber, but he could not help remarking that the hon. inember (Mr. Le Lacheur) had been very careful to give no clue for the discovery of the offerer of the bribe. It! could not, however, have been any one on his (the Spea- ker’s) side of the House, or his name would have been given to the public long ago; arid, consequently, he could only conclude that, if tle bribe was offered at all, itmust have been by one of the hon. meniber’s own party ; it must have been tendered by a Snatcher of the first water. But to approach the question more seriously, he for many reasons thought the time was arrived when the question ought to be favourably entertained. He had formerly been opposed to a favourable consideration of it, because he could see no other means of accom- plishing the end in view, thanthe taxing of the resident population. It was because he was unwilling to increase. the burthens of the people ;and not because he thought | the Salary allowed to a Governor by the Imperial Go-| vernment was sufficient to enable him to support the dignity of his high station in a becoming manner; that he had formerly opposed the proposition of the Gover-,

nor’s Salary, by the appropriation of an annual sum out.

of the Revenue of the Colony. ‘That the Salary allowed, by the Imperial Government was insufficient for the| maintenance of the dignity which should always invest’ a Representative of Her Majesty could not, in his opi-| nion, be disputed. No one, surely, could say that the| tate Governor lived in a style becoming his high station ;| and yet, he believed, economically as he lived, he got greatly into debt. A Governor, it should be remem- vered, could not live in a manner suitable te his rank‘ spon an income which would be less than sufficient for the support of the moderate establishment of many pri- vate gentlemen. Of a Governor, in addition to the’ expenses of his household, it was expected that he should also make considerable disbursements in the way of, subscriptions and contributions to many public societies! xnd charities; and nobly had the present Lieutenant! Governor stood forth to acknowledge the claims whieh it was supposed the country had upon him in that re-| apect. He (the Speaker) was sure that were the several, sums which His Excellency had given in that way, | witiin the few months which he had spent wh the Colony, | taken altogether, they would amount to very littlelhort! of a hundred pounds. Such liberality and bounty was expected at the hands of the Governor; and nearly all who were in distress found their way, in search of relief, | to Government House. How could ge great an expen- diture be borne out of a Salary of a Thousand a year?, Jt would be most unreasonable to expect that the Go-| vernor, in order to provide for it, should draw or drench, upon his private income or resources, however ee

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he might be to do so, and even although he were another Rothschild, as to wealth. The hon. member who had just sat down (Mr. Le Lacheur) had said that the people! o” Prince Edward Island might be eaid to compose a| iamily, rather than a Colony; thereby intending to in-} sinuate he (the Speaker) supposed, that very little talent,| ability or experience was required for the government of} the Island, or the management of its affairs. Such,! aowever, was not his (the Speaker’s) opinion. Small as the Colony was, questions of policy, of as great moment ‘ud difficulty arose in it as in any other of Her Majes-

ty’s Colonies; and for the due consideration and settle-|imitate so unworthy an example, ment of which, both high talents and sound judgment! fluenced in the edininistration of

Colony. But in his estimation, the payment of the Civil List would be much too high a price to give for the benefits of Responsible Government; and those who pretended to think otherwise were, he was inclined to believe, influenced by no considerations so much as the

might decide upon it. Neither did he (the Speaker)

/expect to derive any benelit individually for himself, ,

eliher directly or indirectly, by his advocacy of the pro- position ; for, were His &xcellency on the morrow, to offer him a seat at the Council Board, he would respect. fully decline to mix himself up with a body so incongry- ous as the Executive Couneil then was. Some of its members would ere long, or he was greatly mistaken find with how much gtoundless presumption they had acted in taking upon themselves the execution of duti for the proper dischafge of which they possessed hone of the requisite pualifications. He would not longer detain the Committee, as he thought he had said suffi. cient to justify his voting, as he should do, in favour of the Resolution.

Hon. Mr, Coles. Had the Speaker imagined he had power to carry a Resolution declarative ofa want of

of those over whom they should be placed as Adminis-'enfidence in the Executive, he would have brought it

forward before that time; and as he was afraid to make the attempt, lie was obliged to rest satisfied with derig. ing and maligning those whom he could not harm ix any other way than by his favourite mode of persona} abuse. When the Speaker of the House so far himself as to descend to low personalities, it did not say much, either for his sense or his appreciation of the dignity of his station; a station which he had held many years, and which gave him an opportunity of mixin with the best society, by his intercourse with which he might have acquired much of the outward polished manners of a gentleman. In spite of such advanta however, no member of the House at that day, was in the habit of using more improper language in his personal attacks, or more frequently caused ruptures and confu- sion in the House than the hon. Speaker ; and, therefore, he (Mr. C.) thought the accusation of ignorance and want of education came with a peculiarly bad grace from that quarter. The hon. Speaker had told them that, to convince Earl Grey of his (Mr. C’s.) defective education, he had laid before his Lordship an autograph letter of his(Mr.C’s), But the hon. Speaker did not tell them what were the errors in that composition,

prospect of personal aggrandisement, which they hoped|although it was an unusual thing for him to half-tell a would open to their view under the operation of the|story. It was not, however, improbable that his medi- Responsible System, There was, however, another! tated revelations were cut short by its suddenly oceur- stumbling block in the way to prevent or postpone the|ring to him that he was treading on delicate ground: establishinent of Responsible Government in the Colony ;| Most likely he recollected, in the midst of his story that and that was the alleged want of education on the part/some years ago, Messrs. Cooper and Bremner, then pub- of the bulk of the people. In one of the Imperial Go-||ishers and proprietors of a newspaper called the Colonial vernment Despatches, it was said that education was| Herald, amongst other matters for the edification or not possessed by the people toa degree and extent suf-|amusement of their readers, published in one of their ficient to qualify or entitle them to such a form of numbers, a letter addressed to them by the hon. Speak- Government; On first perusing that Despatch, heler, in which it appeared that, with his nsual arrogance certainly felt, as he believed many others did, that it}and self-sufficiency, he had treated with contempt and contained a sweeping and unmerited charge against the]set at defiance, the authority of Lindley Murray and people of the Colony. But upon after consideration,/other English grammarians, and wiolated most of the he thought that, perhaps, he might have been, though| established rules of English Grammar, both with respect innocently, the cause why the depreciating charge was} to Syntax and Orthography. From that specimen of the made; foron being asked what had induced him tolhon, Speaker’s powers in English compositon, it would interest himself and vote against the return of the Hon. appear that they (himself and the hon. Speaker) were Mr. Coles, he had replied that he did so because on ac- pretty much upon a par with respect to their grammati- count of his (Mr. Coles’s) want of education, he did not| ca! acquirements. Indeed, if one™looked back to the consider him to be aman possessed of acquirements employment of the hon. Speaker, on ship-board, when sufficient to entitle him to a seat at the Council Board ;}he came to this Island, it would naturally be inferred

sand to convince the Right Hon. Earl Grey ef the truth|that he could have had no great advantages in the way

of his assertion, he subsequently, forwarded to his Lord- of education, more than of fortune. He (Mr. ©.) would ship an autograph letter of that gentleman, addressed to not, indeed, have no‘‘ced or commented upon the inca-

himself. In all probability that letter afforded the pacity or deficiency of the hon. Speaker in that respect,

grounds upon which his Lordship alleged against the|had he not provoked him to do so, by the egotism and

| people of the Colony generally,a want of education, and sarcasm, in which, at all times, he so much delighted to

thence concluded that they were unprepared for the indulge; for he certainly did not consider the fact of possession of a Responsible System of Government.| much consequence. On the contrary, he believed 4 The hint given touching the payment of the Ciyjl List man, although possessing but a very ‘imperfect know- should not be treated too lightly. It would be well to ledge of the rules of composition, might prove quite as remember the heavy taxation which the people of Eng-| good a legislator as the best grainmarian, ‘T'he question land had to bear, and their deplorable condition for some concerning the propriety of introducing Responsible time back, ‘Those facts, of themselves, would almost|Government into the Colony, being then under the con- furnish reasons sutliciently reasonable for the calling} sideration of the Home Government, the discussion of it upon the Legislature of the Colony to make provision! by the House, was for the time, precluded. It would for the payment of the Civil List of the Colony out of its! not be the duty of the House to take up the question own resources. Were such a demand made and en-| until they shoald know upon what terms it would be forced by the Imperial Government, it would indeed offered tothem. Ifthe Imperial Government intended prove a great calamity to the Colony; and he would|that one of the conditions should be the payment of its almost say it would be a well-merited one, should the| own Civil List by the Celony, then the measure under representatives of the people rufuse to ward it off by|consideration would not receive the Royal sanction. agreeing to the motion then under consideration. Let|He must tell the hon. Speaker that, if he had been in- hon. members only look back and review the conduct! formed Sir Henry Huntly left the Colony in debt, he had of the late Governor, caused by his disappointment with| been told what waa the very reverse of the truth; for, respect to the addition which he had expected the Le- contrary tothe example set by Sir Charles Fitz Roy gislature would make to his salary. He set himself in and some former Governors, who got into debt from the hostile opposition to the House, and as far as he was expenses incurred by them in feasting the Family Com- able, obstructed all their measures. He withdrew his pact, Sir Henry seeing through the designs of that body, patronage and subscriptions from the various Public|gave them no admission at Government House, except Societies and Institutions of the Colony, and bitterly |apon business. He did not choose to provide entertain- tnisrepresented and libelled the character of the people.| ments for those who were opposed to his administration Let Lon. members consider well. the course which he|and seeking to undermine his reputation. With respect took to gratify his vindictive feelings; and then Say/to the Resolution before the Committee, he (Mr. C.) whether it would not have been wise to increase his opposed it, more because he considered it to be il!-timed Salary; for his unworthy conduct arose more from his|than on principle. He could not see that there was any¥ disappointment on that head, than from any other cause. nocessity for urging it just then, when other important He (the Speaker) hoped he should not be misunderstood, questions were under the consideration of the Home In stating what had been the conduct of the late Gover. Government, and the decision of which might frustrate nor when he found the House would not grant him anjthe Resolution even should it pass,

addition to his Salary, he was very far from Wishing it; Tne Speaker would not allow the insinuations of the to be inferred that Sir Donald Campbell, sl.ould the pro-' hon. member (Mr. Coles) relative to his (the Speake’s) posed addition to his Salary be withheld, would stoop to employment on ship-board, to pass unnoticed. He could or be in any way in-/tell that hon. member, once for all, that he had nevet the Gcvernment by worked a single day, in any capacity, except on his ew