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TO Tin: ELECTOR'S or THE Fias'r DI§TRICT or QUEEN’S 100 acres devised to me,

a ' COUNTY. , ' A Mr. D. Maclean has informed you, that he has added a another unit”’ to the list of Candidates for thexFirst District of this County. He might have said, with a more correct

resemblance to himsielf, a cipher—for being worthless, he

ceipts he heldo

. v . . Prese“ . . is nearer to'that representation of nothing. name, as Mr. DQuse will jHis Address to‘you seams founded in madness, or crimi- 1 by no means urged him

naldesign; ifin the first, he will do you no good—if in the last, he will do you an infinite deal of harm. Neither Mr. Maclban nor his revolutionary party can ever accomplish their unjust views upon the Escheat question, and they know it. Their probable wish is, to keep the Island in a disturbed state, in order to prevent the settlement in it of men posses- sing intelligence and capital. The arrival Of such men, Mr. Maclean is aware, would obscure him, while their outlay would increase your means of independence. 'lhe Grants never will fall, and Mr. Maclean knows it; and he may rave about America and her bankrupt happiness to 'you as much ashe pleases; liepossibly may know the happiness of bank- r ruptcy—it is olten the origin ofsuch disposmons, as he err- hibits. ' ' . _ wHis Address is one of mere \vild assertion, and obtrusive vanity. What ability does he possess in Colonial politics, boyond -infiuenciug the worst passmns of the Colonist? ‘ Who ever heard'ofhim, excepting asthe author, under a ficti- tidus signature, of some, scurrilous ribaldry in the Montreal Herald ? _ ' _

With respect to the pledging system, 1 refer you to the columns ofthe Colonial Herald of the 21st ult., for an ex- planation of it; and as for the act itself, I hold it as belong- ing solely to' a character conscientiously believed by its ownerrto be so intrinsically bad, that no man “‘lll trust it, unless some unusual guard is placed over it. I have no dil- ficulty in saying, that to pledge as Mr: Maclean has done, is an 'acknowldgemcnt of his want at that charactcr which alone can make a man respectable in the world; and il you take such a pledged man as your representative, you share in his shame. _ ’

'He finds much fault with the Lieutenant Governor’s Speech. Mr. Muclean imist be deeply read in Governors Speeches, to declare it to be conceived in the “ worst English that ever emanated from the Governor ofa British Colony. However good Or bad the English may have been,,every one understands it; and many writhe under its-clearly express- ed opinions; but perhaps some recent replies to Addresses may suit these latter, and Mr. Maclean himself, better.

Who ever imawined that Mr. Maclean had ever been a Ca- nadian rebel? Who ever imagined him possessed of con- rage to do more than excite others to rebel? I quite agree .with‘ him, that be can prove himself to have been no rebel in the field, whatever he may have been in the closet of se- curity; trust him, he’will never be found in arms—'and the best proofof his timidity is the readiness With which beas- ~sails‘, with insulting language, Her Majesty’s Representative, who must bear it in silence, iflie hears it at all.

Electors! return such men, ifyou please, as Mr. Maclean, and thereby take one step more towardsthc loss of your Colonial Parliament, and sinking into an maignihcant ap-

hd e of Nova Scotia; for such will inevitably be the re- sult, it the Hausa of Assembly is to be composed of men giving utterance to _his revolutionary sentiments.

Yours, &c. _ AN ELECT-on or QUEEN

Brackley Point, June 15th, 1842. /

“‘0 as: ELEc ’ QUEEN’S COUNTY.

Brother Electors; Having no less than eight Candidates ' in the field, 'each soliciting our suffrages—six of whom are Farmers, and residing among us—it certainly Will be our own faults if we do not make a good selection. The other two are residents of Charlottetown—the one a Proprietor, young and inexperienced; to return him as our Represen- tatiVe, would be madness. Hisv Tenants have nothing to fear from giving their support to others—they cannot be tighter pressed for their rents than they face already: the

1.. 14..., one, am determined not to grati y 15 un nun c afiinhon,

by tendering him the little support I may have to give. He commences his Address to us by stating, that .“being solicited by a number of the most influential Electors 0f the District, he is induced to offer himself,” Sec. Certainly a piece of very modestduplicity! I would be glad to know who they . are, and where this number ofmost influential Electors re- side. I believe they are not to be found in my neighbourhood, although I heard in Town, the other day, that we were the peo le that were putting him forward. To be short, if we wis to be well represented, let us choose a couple of clear- headed Farmers, from among ourselves—men on whom we can depend—who know how to sympathise with the distres- sed 'I‘enantry, and who will not be backward to seek a re- —dross of our grievances. We have no more to expect from , a Proprietor than from an ambitious aspirant for worldly honors, whose eatest pleasure seems to be, that of aping his superiors. et us repair to the Hustings, at the day of Election, unfettered—promise our votes to no one—and then and there choose for ourselves those who are best acquaint- ed with our necessities. I lremain, brother Electors, ONE or Tut-1 TENANTRY. Farmer’s Lodge, Lot 34, June 10th, 1842.

maine I . upon examining the Wi

tated not in expressing willingness to grant the my Solicitor. That “neit

posite party in Court,”

again remindin person whom

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the Very Attorney, if not

take upon himself to

cide against the validity

informed me, and as l

the Court will prove. Had I been disposed quent,

With the vindication

’s COUNTY.

Toss or THE FIRST DISTRICT or

enormous expense, for tion is now given to the

atien of ONE PRESENT

iimse .

penses? , 1 am,

'June 8th, 1842.

den of thieves !” How

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To Tar. EDITOR or Tm: COLONIAL HERALD. “Speak not evil” one nf‘nnotlier, brethren. He that sp'eaket‘h evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil ofthe law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a door of tlimlaw, but iijudge."—St. Jamu,'chnp. 4, a. II.

in acting thus, to use

$11.; In your paper of the 14th ult., you published a letter signed ONE PRESENT AT THE, TRIAL, containing a statement rporting to be the facts of an appeal recently heard in the u'preme Court, wherein one Donald Macleod was the appel- lant, and I was respondent. This statement is most par- tially given, and contains, 1 must—although reluctantly— add, and am prepared to prove, much that is actually false; and being calculated to prejudice me and in'ure my rights— which may yet come before It Own and ury—in the esti- ., motion of the public, I am impelled to address you on the subject; in doing which, I shall leave for your own mature reflection the propriety of your allowing a Correspondent publicly to arraign the decisions of Courts of Justice, when pronounced alter a trial conStitutionally and fairly had be- tWeen the parties. ‘

That Murdoch' Macleod, the testator,‘ “was said to have “laboured under extraordinary aberrations of mind, for some “years before his death, is certainly true, because it was odd to by the Rev. John Maclennan, ofBelfast+ith I take to be the writer ofthe letter alluded to-——on the hearing of the cause, wherein the Rev. Gentleman was examined at some lenvth as a Witness for the appellant, whose cause, though Ii'uitlessly, he still so warmly epouses; but that such assertion is a fact, I deny, ahd refer for the truth to

those ofhis neighbours whose every-day knowledge and ' observation of his conduct and management of business must support my assertion, _whether they may or may not have known of the strong prejudice be, for a short time before his death, entertained towards his wife, fiom a peculiar passion, I which, from some unhappy suspicion—groundless though it may be—is sometimes found to enter the mind of men otherwise theemos't sensible. True it is, that Macleod was an apostatefrom the faith. of the Rev. J. Maclennan, and had become an adherent to that of the Rev, and well-known Mr. Macdonald, whatever this may have to do With the sanity of his mind. , _ ,v - . That he “bequeathed the bulk (if meant in value) of his -“property to other individuals, to. the great prejudice and “in'ury of his own helpless children,” is also untrue. He ,die entitled to 500 acres ofland—200 acres of which, sub- ject each to a lease, he left to two ofhis nephews; and one hundred acres of wilderness—the land in question—he left to myself; his cousin, The other two hundred acres of val- uable» from land, comprising his dwelling-house, &c., and worth fully double as much asall the other lands, together with all his farming stock, a large quantity, and moveables, he left to' his‘children. _ That I procured by any improper means a Deed of the

those temples erected his “ h

ple.”

edifice was on that day

sembled there for the spirit and in ,tr'ulh.’

for the Proprietor, as is pretty strongly insinuate PRESENT AT Tun TaIAL, is false. The te'stator, Macleod, 101w before his death, placed in my hands the re— for his purchase money, and directed me to 1: them to Mr. Douse, and obtain the Deed in .my own

(I so until alter the Testator’s death, when Mr. Dousei ll, and taking counsel’s advice, as Well as with his’own personal knowledge of the Testator, hes}:

her the widow of the Testator nor her Counsel knew any thing ofthis Deed, till it was produced by

widow several times, many months before the trial, When warning herand her son not to cut my timber, that] had llllS Deed, and exhibited it to her brother, who wits instigating the appellant to the trespass; and in September last, when herofit, she admitted, in the hearing Ofa can produce, that she was perfectly aware of it, and of Its being registered. Moreover, this sam is witnessed by a professional gentleman, who was actually

and her son in the cause. That “the ChiefJustice confirmed the decision ofthe “Magistrate solely on the ground of the legal right vested m “the Respondent by the Deed above~ referred to,” is also un- true. His‘ Honor, in givingjudgment, remarked,- no doubt, that it was hard a parent should devise away from his family any part of‘his estate, if his motivcsfor so doing ‘lt't’l‘e‘l‘oillldCI’L alone on a misconceivcd or groundless idea of his wife’s con— duct towards him, as was represented in evidence in this case by the Rev. J. Maclennan; but llis Honor, at the same time, stated, that he could not, in a case of this description,

1 might have sued him and his worthless (mother’s brother) in the Supreme Court, for Thirty Shil- lings per tree, for plundering my land, the winter before last, ofa large quantity of valuable timber, in defiance of my cautious and threats; but, from a desire to convince them of their error at as little expense as possible, I chose to bring the case before a Magistrate: whether or not the appellant has been found guilty merely “forcuttinga fewinsigniflcant “sticks oftiinber, of the value of Five shillings, on his own father’s properly,” remains now for the public to judge.

preacher, “theydo evil.” .

The foregoing reflections have been 'excited in my mind fizom _observmg the disgraceful conduct of certain ill-bred striphngs and others who frequent the Episcopal Church of this town, to the no little annoyance of such seri- ous worshippers as may happen to be seated near them; and, Igrieve to say, that the individuals to whom] allude are ofa rink in life from which we should expect better things; they appear, however, to imagine that the respectability of their earthly conneans may justify their wicked daring, in thus insulting the Supreme Majesty of the Most High in one of

For some time past,. the disorderly behaviour, during the time ofDiviue Service, of the well dressed individuals to whOm I allude; but par- ticularly so on Sunday last. . Their entrance into the sacred

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from William Douse;Esq-, Agent ‘ ’ d by ONE Murdoch

remember and testify, and also that to grant it to me; whereby It re-

it was just and rightgand also his Deed to me as soon as prepared by

them)- is further totally false. I told the

e Deed

the associate Counsel, of the Widow

receive testimony of this nature as

evidence ofincompetency ofthe Tcstator, and thereby dc-

oftliis will—this being the peculiar

province ofa Jury, who would just require to hear and weigh all the evidence, pro and can; therefore the \Vill un- der which I originally derived possession of my 100 acres, and which was recited in my Deed, remained, as my Counsel

understood the Court, no less valid

than before the hearing of the Appeal. That His Honor the ChiefJustice “ found the Respondent “liable in thecosts of suit,” is alsoruntrue, as the records of

to deal rigorously with the delin- uncle

of the House ofAsscmbly, for their

amendment of the Trespass Law, 1 have nothing to do, the , more-particularly as the trespass, in this case, was committed '

long before that amendment passed in the Assembly. 1 may, however, add, that 1 have heard fi'om a gentleman. of the legal profession, that the effect of the amendment is to take it not only out of the l’roprietor’s power, but out of the power ofevery one else, to sue in the Supreme Court, at an

a paltry trespass, of which jurisdic- Magistracy, and which they had not,

as the law stood before. . Although Mr. Willock’s decision has been confirmed by

the Supreme Court, and his ability as a Magistrate, and

character as a gentleman, are sufficient to repel the insinu-

AT THE TRIAL, where he remarks

upon him as being VVill-drawer, Counsellor and Judge in his own Court, I would still take leave to ask your Reverend 0.1“ Hell 9 . ‘ ‘XY r Whether he villi; notfldbligedfnwlirn ifiilfiii‘lgi’ his friend the appellant, in my cause, to confess, upon cross- ,examinatioufthat he gave him counSel at different times? —that he advised him or hie/fiends to a [zeal ?—and whether he has not advanced him money to

dirty his fees or ex-

Sir, your humble Servant, ANGUS MACLEOD.

To THE EDITOR or THE COLONIAL HERALD.

“ Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more

ready to hear, than to give the sacnfice offools; for THEY consider not that they do evt .”—Ecclesiasles, v. 1.

Such are the words of the inspired penman; and I fear that, like many other of the invaluable jirecbpts contained in the sacred writings, they are indeed too little attended to as they ought. How often, alas! in our day, is the Christian reminded of that passage ofthe Saviour’s History, wherein it is related of him, that he “ went intothe temple of God; and cast out all them that sold, saying, it is written, my house shall be called‘the house ofPRAYEn, but ye have made it It

often, during the public serVIces of

the church, Are we compelled to witness—-to the shame of such—the rendering of the “sacrifice of fools,” on the part ofpersons who, whilst guilty Of such conduct, do not appear to know—or, if they do know, care not to “ consider”——that

the briefly emphatic words of the

to His name, not remembring that

ouse shall be called an house of prayer for all peo-

my attention has been attracted by

characterized by the grossest levity

of behaviour; and during the period they remained within its walls, the clamour, uproar, and senseless gigglin of se- veral of the party, assembled as they were in one oft e prin- cipal pews, beggars description. still more reckless and disrespectful than their entree. In fact, any person unaware of the sacred character of the place, might have, imagined that this were some coffee-house, taproom, theatre, or other such like place of public resort, were he to draw his conclusions‘l'rom the deportment of those young men, who, it may reasonably be supposed, will, at some future period, contribute largely to the forming of public morals and deportment in this Capital. , I should not, Mr. Editor, have ventured to address you on a subject of this nature, were it notvthat 1 have been for some time past a painful witness of the'tonduct alluded to r if allowed to continue, what must strangers think of us? What will persons of other ,denomination say of the mem- bers of the Church of England, when such bebaviouras this is tolerated? Who will answer for the injury which may be done to the morals of the younger portion of the congre« gation, from witnessing such conduct? I scruple not to say, that the temple of the Almighty is profaned by it; and it behaves those in whose charge it is, to see an end put to a practice 0 glaringly flagrant. “Keep thy foot,” says Solo- mon, “when thou goest to the house Of God, and be more ready to hear, THAN '1‘0 oIvE THE sAcaIrIcE or moons.” This injunction is of Divine origin, and um be unto him who dares disobeytit, converting the temple of God, if not into a house of merchandize, at least—what is scarcely worse—into a place of laughter and ridicule, at the expense of persons as- purpose of worshipping J EHOVAH in

Their exit was, ifpossible,

referred to appear, li‘om tained a degree ofnotor therefore, call upon the Rev

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tat instant.

tion who has

I i ‘8 i u . n — a I am not the on] IndIVIdual of the congreg _ _ V _ ove hoticed the condiict complained of. The paltlifi V8: at, the cause alluded to, to a

e enviable. I would, f the Parish, and up- ut a stop to such lindecent be— learn not to deport themselvels1 :- cently during Divine Service, let them at least stay altmggrz and not interrupt the devotions of others by t ieir

able behaviour. 1 have done. \

iety but littl ’d. Rector o on those around him, to p haviour. Ifthe parties

AN EPISCOPALIAN.

3:. _ . ._ __.._____.__. ' - LAND ASSESSMENT.

Treasurer's Office, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 3lst May, 1842. ' r N pursuance of the Act of the General \Assemblyo. I this Island, made and. asscd in the Seventh 'car of the Rejflgq of His late Majestyliing Villiam the Fou;tli,1ilnlit(plcd (linker: ’ - ' ’ ,i. it on all Lands iuttis s an —— . . .- for [cu/mg (m ASSMSInOItvners‘ or Occupiers of Land Within this

by publicly notify the Island, fiir which the An said recited Act, ofFonr Shillings, In for every Hundred Aclces of vivilderncissflo . ined iu the severe. owns tips, an . ic I ng thereto; and the sum of’I‘wo Shillings for every fllpl‘ndrzd Acres ofcultivated or improved Land in the said Severn” 5)er ships and Islands as aforesaid; and the sum of Four El“ gigstum each and every uncultivated or unimproved Tow?l p13, as and Lot, Common Lot and Water Lot, granted in t as, .xp‘wna for RoVultv of Charlottetown; and the sum of 'Ilwo iicingsmon each mid every cultivated or Improved ’lolwn, l astureurom ‘ I], and “later Lot as aforesaid; and the sum'of I‘wo Shi ingls eight-pence for vault and every Town Lot, Pasting: Lcttanm and; u-r Lot, granted in thefl‘owns and Royalties of Aeorge ow f ,r I’riiicctnwn; and the sum 'of One Shilling un’d feiii-ptgiqél.tti each and every cultivated or improved Iown, I asture an a er Lot, granted in the said last mentioned and so in proportion for’a less quantity; ny per acre on each and every acre Land in the Royalty OfGeorgelotvn, cat the sum ofTwn-pence per acre on each . . Lands as may be deemed uncultivated or unimproved Lands, is payable, tliiitiinless the Assessment for the current year bepaid into my hunds,or the hands ofmy Deputies, on or before the Twenty- first ol'December, 184‘}, I shall, on the last day of the next I'lll- ary Term, at Charlottetown, make Proclamation .of all such Lands as shall then be in nrrear . ~ . charged thereon, agreeably to the directions ofthe said Act.

‘ J. SPENCER SMIiI-I, Treasurer. EN Compliance W1

General Assembly,

Treasurer’s Office, 315i, May, 1842. within this Island, I have appointed the following Receivers of the said Assessment: _ Prince County. Joseph Pope, Bedeque. Thomas C. Compton, James Yoo, Port Hill. Allan Forsyth, Cascumpeque.‘ Queen's County. James Pidgeon, New London. Thomas Fairbairn,’Suble. Solomon Desbrisuy, Charlottetown. Allan M‘Dougall, Belfast. ‘ .‘King‘s County. John Jardine, SttPeter’s. Alexander M‘Donald, St. AMargaret’s. William S. Macgowan, Souris. Hugh Mocdonald, Three Rivers. James Richards, Murray Harbour. J. SPENCER SMITH, Treasurer.

FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE. ce British and Foreign Assurance Company, Established by Act of Parliament, in 1824. Capital, £5,000,000.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

nual Assessment charged thereon by the wful money of this Island, runimprovcd Lands con- several Islands belong-

of cultivated or improved lled reserved Lands; and and every acre ofsuch