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se

Ma.€. At the time th+ conditions were not fa'filled the fads ougit to have ‘een escheated, and not now alter the lup-e of so many years awl change of owners.

Discharge from arrears of reat. Qo the Canards’ pro- |

perty be could nam> miny cases in whieh tegints in arrears hel receive} person id aequ'itaaees, and doseas of eases where reveip's had heen ¢ ven for a proportion of these arrears, on or poverty, It was no yse pushing a tain when be had asthing.

low. Ma. Cores. Ae you not aware that, at Rustico, tenants te arrears have been obliged to give up their im- and go back into the green woods ? Was not ove individual sotrested not only ance, but five or six times ?

Mr. Cunnatct. not know. On the (‘gaards’ property, no individual, being

acount of misfortune

pres emen's,

Jawfuily im powe-sivn, wos ever turned off, or deprived of

bis iwypro. caents.

(To be continued )

Correspondence.

ONL LE LEE LEI SL ELI L CEN NLL Nl NG lll Nl Mol

To true Kotor oF tax Examiner.

Sin —A writer ia the Monitor, signing himse!f “ A Nor-

mal schoo! Studen:,” bas been for several weeks attacking Me. FE. Roche 9 a manner which appears as mean as it is

malivious, One of your correspondents, in writing against

so that they might retain their grasp on the accursed thing | \mposed an her people a single farthing of tax in any shape

with-which their very souls were corrupted —for corrupted they were, though not by the unfortunate Queen. The

Church lands, with which Henry VIII. had bribed his

The Crvaminer,

ea = = = oko

whatever! Sothat this act of surrenderiny the tenths and first-

fruits was the effeot of her generosily and piety ; and of hers (onngspONDENCE

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alane too; for it was done against the remonstrances of her

. s i , : ; ee MS council, and it was not without great opposition that the ball | aristocracy, tilled and untilled, into co-operation with his sysceq in parliament where it was naturally fpsred that this)

enor mities, both personal and political had induced national | jnst act of the Queen would awaken the people’s hatred of the

depravity.

“ Yet, all ought not ta be inclulel in one sweeping cen-|be ‘+ Defender of the Faith sure: a noble minority ef geod men, disgusted at the detes- | came. table penal laws which lighted the torturing fires for the} Protestants, seceded bodily fram the House of Commons, |

after vainly opposing them, honor of human nature, was compose] of Catholics as well

Not during my time: prior to that [ do as Protestants ; it was headed by the great legalist, Sergeant Plowden, a Catholic so firm as to refu-e the Chancellorship. | ore when persuaded to take it by Queen Elizabetia, because he, Msiration vested in /am ;

, would not change his religion.

plunderers. But the Queen persevered, saying that she would > in reality, end not merely in Thia was the woman whom we have been taught to call ** the Bloody Queen Mary”*!

At page 123 the Pro estant historian says :—"— Mary, a Protestant Mary, wa brought to the throne

— When another , did the

This glorious band, for the) Parliament take care to keep the administration whollv ia her,

eye 5 ote jand to give her husband the mere title of King? Did they

‘take care then that no foreigners should hold offices in mee ?

| ‘ ; sbi i » adoni-

On, no! That foreign, that Durte h husband, had the _

and he brought over whole crawds 0

foreigners, put them io the highest offices, gare them the 2 * spl

| highest tit es, and heaped upon them large parce's of what was

‘So mach ridicule has been cast on the mistake made in) left of the Crown estate, descending te that crown, 1a part at

‘the Queen's situation, that no person has asked the obvious) least, fro.n the day question of—Who governed Kagland during the time which | called ** glorious ; embraced the commencement of the Protestant persecution, Hlow violent that illness was may be learned from the testimony of the Venetian Ambassador,

,and her violent illness ?

Michele. ‘* Prom the time of her first afflicticn she was a prey to the severest headaches, her head beinz frightfully

> ’ eres,’

swelled; she was likewise subject to perpetual attacks of carts and 99 pack horses? D» we hysteria, which other women exbale by tears aud piercing

sof Atrrep himself! And this transaction 1s

the ** inglorious ”? reign of Mary. , . 7 ‘ . ¢ truth never to reign in England? Are we to be duped unto ati ‘ . . \ ae is venerations! And if we come down to one own denr Protes tant days. do we find the Prince of Saxe Corvae, the herr to : “ae , hil

mighty dominions? Did he bring into the country, as Philip ‘ ; li loading to the Tower 22 idid, twenty nine chests of bullion, loading to the Lower 22 find him s-tthnyg on bis wite’s

liseue great states and kingdoms? D» we find his father making |

‘him a King, on the eve of the marilige, because a person of

aod that too by the very wen who talk of | What, theo, are sense and |

RS

AFFAIRS. | prised at the removal, neither would I te at ary uncorst'ty ’ | tional act you may commit—felly, bigotry and stupidity | perween Mason McGitt, tue Apsutanr appear to be your evil guides.

It will be necessary for me to inform my readers of the cause of this petty act of tyranny.

A number of the inhabitants of Charletietown formed themselves into a Vulunteer Company, to be styled the Celtic 20th November, 1869. Volunteers, and unsolicited on my part, nominated me as | Sin,—The attention of his Excellency the Commander-in- | their Commander, at same time directing me to apply to | Chief bas been directed to an advertisement in the Examiner | YOUr Excellency to order them to be supplied with the 7 “newspaper, of Monday, 12th November last, containing |S8°Y arms set socouteomente. The false and ostensible ‘resolutions said to have passed at a public meeting of which aa _ which a Excellency coupled your refusal of _you were Chairman. As those resolutions impuga the course i oe aa cinbo ot a of which your ‘adopted by His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, with wg ss Pe 7 ‘aaa 0 ar can be established ‘regard to the Volunteer Force, I have to request that you by ae oor ee ee and Mr. Malone, who oe ‘will inform me if it is the ease that such resolutions were oe ad The real pensee Wee easily anderstood ; it | passed at uny public meeting presided over by you ? io religious ‘gO Ty and political hatred, because none of * I have the honor to be, Sir the Company’s political opinions were in accordance with your

"Soet most obedion servt.. Lxecutive. Tie sting which your Excellency is Wincing

P. D. Srewart, under consists in the truth, contained in the reso wions whieh | Lieut. Col, and Adjutant General. a a ae tare and affords no way of escape from the un- i : sol up . rath which is thereby fastened upon you. My removab

To Major W. McGrtt, Queen’s County Militia, | from the Militia Moree ie trove sitevbataiel We aus Mee wade ; son than my conneccion with the resolutions. It is because Reety ro No. 1. I endeavored legally to resist the acts of cruelty performed Charlottetown, 30th November, 1860. im your name, as instanced by the ejection of the widow and

Sin,—Acknowledging the receipt of your letter of yester- = — from off the Loyalist Lauds, and the demolition day’s date, but in whi-h Lam uvable to discover if it % the houses of the poor. Such an act would. of course,

MILITIA

GENERAL, AND THE CoMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

[Copy —No. 1. ‘seta Adjutant General's Office,

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From this notice may be implied that the wretched . see : ; : t

tre Normal Sehvol, incid: wily mention d that ramet of our Queen still retained sufficient command of herself’ to suppress | teachers were prepared by Mer. Roche to pass the Board, and | all audible plaints, as unbecoming her royal station. Who |

, lower title would be beneath a Queen of England? Do we find him giving hes bride, as a bridal present, jewels to the amount of half a million ef our money? Do we find him settling on

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emanates from the Lieut. Governor or only from yourself, 4 however, in either case take leave respectfully to enquire by what right or authority, 1, a citizea of Charlottetown, am.

bring down upon me the wrath of those irresponsible advisers: who may be seen continaally prowling rouod the precincts of Government Louse.

the writer in tha Monitor e mridered this sufficient grounds | can, however, believe that a woman in this state of mortal fur abusing this geotleman in anything but becoming terms. suffering was capable of govern ng a Kingdom, or that she Mr. Roche is a teacher wo has been on this Island about was accountable fer anything done ia it?”

fourreen years, daring which period he has not been without y a school fourteen days. L- bas been considered by all parties ove of the mest eflicient teachers in the Colony ; besides, he has been always sober and attentive to his business, and has to his employers by the ereditable manner in which le has discharged the duties of his pro- fession. Our Schoo! Vis’ ars in their Reports speak of him in honorable terms. It therefgre ill becomes an anonymous ecribb'er ta attempt to injure his eharacterin the estimation ofthe pu'idie. Alihovgh Mr. Roche is a Catholic, and al- thoug! the writer in the Méontior eadeavours to briug odium o: him for his being one of the * faithful,” yet he is esteemed sod reapeeted by every moderate Protestant who is acq wainted with him.

“Although every generous feeling is naturally roused against the horrid cryelties perpetrated in her name, yet it

given ample satis‘aciion unqualified abhorrence, for 1f the tyrannical laws instituted representative Government of England would gradually have withered under the terrors of imprisonments and exe- cutions without impartial trial. ** This change arose from the Queen's own ideas of rectitude.” ‘ Mavy whole- some laws were made or reviewed by her.” “ Queen Mary is commended for the mereiful provision she made for the poor.”

the Princess Charlotte a jo:niuce of a naillion sterling @ year, \ she should outlive him? No; but (aed come and deast of It, i vou shamelesa revilers of this Catholic queen!) We find our Protestant Parliament settling ox ut &ifiy thousand pounds a l year, tocome out of dercs raised on ws, if be should outlive her ;

> ; ah} i which sam we now duly and truly pay in fuil tale, and shali

is unjust and uagrateful to mention her maidea name with | possibly have to pay it for forty years yet to cone! How we! TP) Lreur. Con P. D. Srewant, Adjt. Geni.

| feel ourselves shrink when we thas compare our conduct with

by her father had remained a few years more in force, the that of our Catholic fathers!” It is to be remarked that the} No. 2. Miurrza.

italics and parentheses in the extracts from Cobbet are Ais. | rebels of her reign were all, or affected to be, of the new sects. | Tnough small in number, they made up for that disady ntage by ltheir indefatigable malignity—by therr incessant efforts to trouble the s ate, and, indeed to destroy the Queen herself,

| At page 131 he says:—** The fact ie, the persons put to death /were chiefly of very infamous character, many of them

| At page 13) the historian says :—** The trattors and leading |

‘interrogated respecting the affix of my name to certain reso-_ - I am aware that by the Queen's regulations Officers of the lutions published in the Examiner ? , Army are prohibited from either expressing: their approval I have the honor to be, Sir, jor disapproval of the acts of the Commander-in-Chief, Suck Your cbcdient sorvt., ‘rules and regulations are not applic:ble to our Militia,

Wa. McGuuz, | because it is not an essbodied Force, and the law for its an-

}mual meetings has been suspeadel for the last ten years. But allowing, for the sake of argument, that it was—those

_— aes at the meeting of several Volunteer

: 4 vrps which gave an expression of approval te the appoint- Adjutant General's Office, ment of an Officer over a halof Capt. Sake heeroantil 30th November, 1860. | of a violation of the same regulations, and oaght to have been | Srr,—In answer to your communication of this day’s date, | visited in a similar manuer ; or why was not Colonel Coles [have to say that L made the euquiry conveyed in my letter | dimissesd when, in his place in the House Assembly, he ac- jof the 29th November, of you as Major in the First Queea’s cused your Excelleney of telling Her Mejesty’s faithful | County Regiment of Militia, and not as a private citizen of Commous an untruth, which had been placed in your mouth

« Thas it is certain,that the sick Queen's signature was not | forcigners, almost the whole of thei residing ta London, and Charlottetown ; and L have to request a distinct reply, at your by your Executive advisers in relation to an adjress of the

called in derision by the people at large, the * London Gospel-| oyriiest convenience, as to whether you were present as| House of Assembly ?

The writer in the Mow tor insinuated in his first letter, that Mr. Hoche taught in bis school a history which eon- tained disloyal and treascaable sentiments ; aud in suppert et hia malicious charge, re has. in his segond letter, given sme extrac’s from the history in question, vig: “ Qutiines of History” by Grace. Althoug) many are of opinion that 1t would be a loss of time to reply to any of the violent scur-

‘appended to these tyranuieal instruments of the cruel inquis-

ition that performed the enormities in Mary's reign after her

marriage.” “ Burnet expressly says, neither Mary nor Car- idinal Pole were ever at these Councils; and that in the

;

sultation.”

ministers were in the principles of religious government, her

lers.”? Doubtless out of two hundred and seventy-seven persons (the number stated by Mame, en authority of box), who were thas punished, some may tive beeu real Martyrs to their opin-

. : ‘ |ions, and have been sincere and virtuons persons ; but in this | midst of the pereecutions seldom more than three sat in cou- yumber of 277, many were consicted felons, sume clearly | * Tlowever fatally mistaken either Mary or her | trayors, as Rirtey and Cranmer. These must be taken frow |

ithe number; and we may surely take such as were @ iwe when 1

| Chair.nan at the Meeting when the resolutions referred to in| If the right of free discussion is, in fature, to be denied to,

‘my letter of yesterday were passed. | Officers of Militia, few men of independence wiil retain their. { have the honor to be, Sir, Commissions.

Your most obedient servt., The Adjutant General informs me that your Excellency,

P. D. Stewart, | has no wish to exercise the least control over the expression

Lieut. Col. and Adjutant General. | of the opinions of any private citizen. I buive not the Jeast

doubt you would make the attempt were it likuly to succeed.

last testament proves that she was not insensible to the pros- |perity of her country.” ** With this sentence concluies a) biography which presented a task, at once the most difficult | nod as I have read the hi-tory in question, I will undertake | 2%4 dangerous that could fall to the lot of any Englishwoman | ta expose to the public the grass ignorance of this Normal |‘° perform. it was difficult, because almost the whole of | Neheal Student, and to show them that the expressions of| the rich mass of documents lately edited by our ‘great histo- | Protestants on those subjects, to which the extracts relate, rical ee Madden and Tytler, are in direct opposi- mre ten times as strong a- those of Grace. I doubt not but ioq fo he popular ideas of the character of our first | before { shall have fisishel my remarks, “* A Normal School reguant ; and a beeause the desive of pocteding s-udet” will rue the diy that he penned bis last letter, | ruth may be mistuken for a wish to exteuuate cruelty in

rility and low personal abuse which appears in the Monitor, yet I think that im this case it would not be improper to make some observations on the extracts above mentioned ;

Pox first published his book,and who express'y begged to Major W. MoGitt, First Queen’s Couaty Militia, , It would not be the first time were you to do so.

decline the honor of being enrolled amongst his * Martyrs.” * Whar < , st that man be who pretends to i : : fet : " canto het mat ies "iw adeanie on has es the hits Repiy to No. 2. | possibly have forgottes your famous speech in Parliament, ieve inthis Fox! , : ‘which earned for you the name of “ Thirty-nine Pounder Charlottetown, 1st December, 1860. | Redes #

of the plunderers and their descendents, ee perp ns nc a.

0 sg ex’ent amongst the people of Enzland, who have | g ‘ .

Sosa age ance on all the thieves, felons aud traitors, | Six,—~In reply to your letter of the 30th November, in | ment to prevent the expression of publie opinioa by the use whom Fox calle * Martyrs,’ as sufferers resembling St.) Which, as you make no reference to the Lieut. Governor, t

Paul! The real truth about these ** Martyrs,”

were generally aset of most wicked wretches who sought to | before you in my communication of yesterday, that you have and the blood, perhaps, of slauzhtered thousands does not ery destroy the Queen and her goverament, and under the prevence | no legitimate power to trench upon my private rights, nor | to heaven for vengeance ; neither are mothe:s mourning their

You cannot

Your Christian and humage adviee tothe Goverr-

of this instrument of war, on an uncffending populacé—how- is, that they | respectfully take leave to reiterate to you the fact brought ever wise that advice may have been—was not acted upon ;~

which is little clse thao a mere compost af maligaity, imbe-

ejbty, falsehood, fatuity ead the very dregs and lies of izno- |

ratee itsetf. shall enieatour, by Protestant authora, to

teach the edivor of the Moa tor and his correspondents some | many more of the same nature might be given from this, religiot very unpalatab’e truths rezarding “ Bloody Mary,” * Good | writer, but I fear that by giving them I would occupy too) Some persons may think that suffered for many ages {rom the despotism gnd cruelty of the | l have already said quite enough about Mary, but, Sir, as

Queen Bess,” and the ga'ling tyranny which the Irish have

religious and civil governmeat.”

work passim, aud they will speak for themselves

/much of your valuable space.

‘preying upon the people. No mild means could reclaim them ; | The foregoing ex'racts are taken from Miss Strickland’s| those means had been tried : the Queen had to employ vigorous A great means or to suffer her people to con inue to be torn by the | 18 factions, created not by her, but by ber two immedi-

ate predecessors, who bad been aided and abetted by many of \those who now were punished, aud who were worthy of ten | thousand deaths each, if ten thousand deaths could have been endured, They were without a single exception, apos’ates,

hesrtlees and despotic proprietors of ireland; and if they the question is an important one, and as we will confer no perjurers, or plunderers , and the greater pirt of them had also

writbe and wince at the » ght of the awfal truths which shal] | smal! benefit on the community at large if we succeed in re- be made known to them, ‘et thew blame their own indiscre- | moving a portion of that huge mass of prejudice which exists { will now proceed with my task. | even in respectable circles, 1 will give the testimonies of some | every effort withia their power to overset her authority anid her

tion and silly imou lence

The writer in the Jéonitor says:—* The Outlines of His- tory” is published by iward Danigan and Brother, of New York. ef ivs being a Uatholis work, he states that Dunigan andj Brother are the publishers of a large variety of Catholiv hooks, and that they have received a medal from the Pope.

work, is most evidently tu raise an undue prejudice against Mr. Roche and the history. he book in question should be judged by its own merits. without any reference to the pub- lishers, or the medal from the Pope ; for it is very bad logic to judze of a bok by its publisher. [ have now before me « copy of Butler's Catechism, printed by Mr. Haszard ; and nobody bat a fool or a |.nave would attempt to make the public bebeve that beeause the publisher thereof is a Protcs- tant, and sells many anti-Catholic works, therefore Lutler’s Catechism must be a very anti-papistical book.

This erudice Student then proceeds : ~* At page 189, of the “ Outlines of Ilistory,” speaking of the reign of Queen Mary, commonly cal'el Hiloody Mary, I find the following:

“The severe enactments, however, that were directed

other Protestaat bistorians.

(to equivocate, and always was what she was, without dis-| overtook this most mischievous of all villains, who had justly

-sembling her judgment or conduct for fear or flattery.”

| The contemporary biography of KF

inclination.”

| We now come to the important testimony of William Cob- jbett, M. P., an honest Protestant historian, who appears in- | digvant at the manner in which he had been deceived in his This evidence The historian, in his

early days regarding Mary and Elizabeth. 'will, L hope, open the eyes of many. \“ llistory of the Protestant R:formation in England and | Lreland,” New York edition, at pages 116 aud following, pene i‘

_—— We are now entering upon that reign, the punishments in-

flicted during which have furnishecé such a handle to the!

‘eala- oniatera of the Catholic Churci, who have left no art un- | tried ta exaggerate those punishments in tbe first place ; and |in the second piace, to ascribe them to the Catholic Religion,

i M ; n ox calls Queen Mary, | ‘Tae o ject of the writer in alluding to the publishers of this | @ woman every way excellent, while she follow:d her own

against the Protestant subjects, many af which must have keeping out of sight, all the while, the thousand times greater been passed withogt her knowledge, while she was confined | mass of crueliy occasioned by Protestants in ths kingdom to a sick bed, were dictated by her counsellors through mo- | Of al cruelties | disaporove—I disapprove also of all corporal tives of state poliey. ‘Pie constant intrigues of the Protes- | and pecuniary punishments, on the score of relizion. Par be tants to sy'yvert her arat he rity, and the revolts and disturban- 1 Snes eee + toe veers en orn they eneated, cocadened, cnd—vthough the causes connect on this score, in the reign of Queen Mary; bur, it will be my o . : , s “ | dut» to show, first, that the mass of punisiiment then inflicted, j istily —they at least in « great measure extenuate the rigor len thia accoun', hes been mons'rously exiggerated ; second, which was exerci-ed.” Tae character of Mary is described ws that of a ‘* pious, c)-ment, compassionate and liberal’*| more apology for the severity than the circumstances undec | woman. We are also tod that “ she had always remained | w firm and devoted Outholic’—that she was “ free from a | ‘MY: Were in amount as a eingie grain of wheat is to a bushel, vindictive or implacable anivit..”" joompared with the mass of punishment under the Protestant | Why has the writer in the Monitor been #0 dishonest a5|VUre": (‘0% bY lew establiched ;° lastly, that, be they what|

to gar*le the ex:racts which he has given 2? ef tbistory” immediately before the first extract yiven above Queen herself, she wes one of the most virtuous of human, sags :—" Mary, who had always remained a firm and devoted | beige, and wis readered minis: rab!e, not by her own disposition | Cutholie, immediatelly alter her aceession re-established the lor mivdeeds, but by the misfortune and misery entailed on her, Catholie religion in Kagland ; but ia doing so, suffered her | °Y her two imnediate predecessors, wha had uproo'ed the tn- zeal 10 degenetate into u spirit of intolerance,” and fenimes| Mratians of the country, who had pluaged the Kiagdo n into | diately afver it, proaceds ;~" The ago was one in telus ve~4 seers = who left no c.uvice but that - making | ligious intolerance had beea evoked by the fierce strifes and oo fag en ad 2a a uaene-s ne) a j : : . ’ y, plunder and sacrilege. Ler reign our de-| divisions that acoompavied the Reformation, and its dark and | ceivers hive trusht us to call the reign of “ BLoooy Queen implacable spirit operate in many cases upon Oatholies as) Many;’’? while they have tuyght us to call that of her sister | well as Protestants. N twithstanding the reproach which | the * Gotoen Days or Goop Queen Bess.’ They have. must be charged upon her public acts, Mary is represented | t*ken good care never to tell us that for every drop of b'ood | ax a person fice from a vindictive ar implacable spirit; and |'""' Mary shed, Ebacbeth shed a pint ; that the former gave |

The “ Outlines the princigies of the Catholic religion ; and that, as tothe |

which the Protestant punishments were inflicted ; thard/y, Unat |

jthey mvght, it is a base perversion of reason to ascribe them to!

been guilty of flagrant Aigh-treason against Mary herself, who | had spared their lives ; but whose lenity they had requited by

|goverament, To mike particular mention of all the ruffitns | that perished upon this oecasion, would be a task as irksome

: as > : : Fuller says:—‘ She had been a worthy princess if as ay yt would be useless ; but there were amongst them three of It is esventially » Roman Qatholie work.” [no proof little cruelty had been done under her as dy her. She hated

| Cranmer’s Bishops and himself? For now justice at least

|'e g> to the same séke that he had wajust/y caused sv wany otners to be tedto; the three others were tloorge, Larimer,

| Cranmer, but to few other men that ever existed.”? After | giving the character of Cranmer, he says—‘* Aud Mary is to be

called ** the Z?/ocdy,’’ because she put ta death mas‘ers of

iniquity like this ! ft is surely time to do justice 49 the memory bof this cokunniated queen.” | At pages 137, 1383 and 129, the honest, impartial h’sterian

/continues thus:—** While all historians agree that the loss of |

Cilars preyed most severely upon the Queen, and hastened her death --while they all do this gre t honor to her memory, none

jof toem atempt to say, that the loss of Bou'ogne had even the |

| smallest effeet on the spirits of her ** Reformation’? brother!

' [le was too busy ia paling down altars, and in confiscating the property of Guilds and Praternities ty think much abont national |} honor; er, perhaps, thongh be, while he was pulling down altars, stiji called hiuself ‘* Defender of the Faiti,’? he might think that territery and glory, won by Catioles, ought not to be retained by Pratestants. Be thie ag it may, we have seen a

loss t» Envland much greater than that of Calais ; we have seen | the half of a contioent cut off fromthe Crown of Exgland, and |

seen it become a most formidable rival on the seas: and we have never heard that it preyed much upon the spirits of the Sovereign in whose reign the loss took place.”’

Vith the loss of Calais at the bottom of her heart, and with

\ 4 well grounded fear that her successor would undo, 28 to | that the e:xrcumstances under which they were mflicted tound | religion, all that she had done, the usfortunate Mary expired

on the 17th Novw., 1558, in the forty-second year of her age,

and in the sixth of her reign, leaving to her sister and successor |

an eximple of filelity, sincerity, patience, resignation, generosity, gtatiiude, and purity in thourht, word and deed ; an exacnpie, however, which in every particular that sister and siccessar took special care not to follow. As to those punish- ments which have served as the ground fe- all the abuse heaped on the memory of ths Queen, what were they other than punisiments inflicted on offenders against the religion of the country? ‘The “ fires of Smithfield” have a horrid sound , bur to say vothing about the burnings of Edward VI., Kizabeth and James [., 16 tt more pleasant to have one’s hawels ripped out while the body is alive (as was E'izibeth’s favourite way), than to be burnt? Protestan's have even exceeded Catholics in the work of punishing offenders of ths sort. And, they have punish- ad, too, with leas reason on their side. The OC. holics have one faith ; the Protestants have fifty faiths ; and yet each sect, whenever it gets uppermos!, punisnes in some way or other the rest as offenders. Even al this very lime, there are, accord: ing t> a return recen'ly laid betore the House of Commons, no

and Ripuey, each of whom was, indeed, inferior i? villainy to

of conscience and superior picty, to obtain the means of again: authority to invade my personal privileges as a Citizen, and ‘slaughtered offspring, nor orphan children their murdered under that firm conviction [ must dechime any other answer parents, which would have beeu the ease had your suggestion ‘

‘than is herein conveyed to the questions put to me under! been earried out. But fora more recent attempt to prevent assumed command in your communications of the 29th and) freedom of action, I shall instance the ease of a Clergyman | 30th November. ‘ who has recently left our shores, and who was supposed by your I have the honor to be. Sir, Excellency to be the correspondent of the Glasgow Gazet/e. Your obedient servt., In order to accomplish his destruction by misrepresenting him Wt. MeGitt. | to the society by whom he was employed, you endeavored to To Jasur, Cou. P. D. Srewart, Adjt. General. prevent him obtaining the small pittance which he was meee jallowed, and you have now deserted the Church of your. Adjutant General's Office, | Fathers, because its Ministers would not be your accomplices. 17th December, 1860. | in this ernel act of injustice ; and also ignored her existence Sin,—I am directed hy His Excellency the Commander- #5 & national Church by refusing to assign ber a position at in-Chief to acquaint you that, having presided at a public | the recepiion of the Prince of Wales similar to the sister meeting which passed resolutions censu ing the course establishment of Hogland, =. | pursued by [is Excellency with regard to the Volunteers, is, | i have the honor to be, iF, ‘solo g as you hold a Comumissiou in the Militia, a grave | Your Execilengy’s obcdt. sorvt, ‘breach of military discipline, calculated te sct an example Wittram MceGurr, of insubordination which [lis Excellency eannot overlook. Ilis Execlleney has no wish to exercise the least control | over the expression of the opinion of any private citizen on | any subject whatever; but be cannot permit an officer of the Sim—A writer in one of the last Nos. of the Munilor, calling: Militia ta shelter himself under the cloak of a private citiz-n, himself A Normal Sehvol Student,”” makes some remarks in order that he may impugn the actious of the Commander- °? ™Y letter regard ng the Normal School; bet he declines ia atele the — ae task - reg ess one word of what § meres ‘ 7 . . wn . ’ i ‘ written, an: preters calling hard names, insinvating that Tia axool tet sewillieg to betieve a you have Graminar nal Coneaaies are not taught at the Convent, that willingly committed so serious a violation o! military decorum lam a clergyman, that Mr. Roche is disloyal, &o,. It isnone as to be a party to the passing at a pub ic meeting of resolu- of his business who or what I am, and his insinuations in this tions condemuatory oi his actions as Commander-in-Chief, matter are, to say the least, in very bad taste. I would not while you, at the same time, hold a Commission in the Militia notice his effusion were it not that he has thought proper to Boree, whigh is strictly under His Exceilency’s exclusive ™#ke an attack on the Convent, saying, ** if report speaks command, In the belief, therefore, that you acted in igno-, truth, the ‘literary education’ of the Convent is limited t,

No. 3.

December 26, 1860.

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range, His Exceliency is willing to accept a retraction of those resolutions, in so far as you Were concerned,

In the event, however, of your failing to comply with this ‘condition, [ am commanded hy His Excellency to inform | you that the only alternative will be the removal of your name ‘from the list of Offivers of the Militia of the Colony. T have the honor’to he, Sir, '

Your most ovedient servt.,

{ P. D. Srewarr,

Lieut. Col. and Adjutant General, 'To Magor McGitt, &c:, &e., &e.

Repty to No. 3. Charlottetown, 21st December, 1860.

Sin,—T have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication, under authority of the Lieut. Governor, date the 17th inst., in which you revert to certain resolutions published in the Examiner, above my tame, referred to in your ‘etters of the 29th and 30th November, and Ist Decem- | ber last, informing me that unless I retract those resolutions, in so far as [ am concerned, His Excellency will take the | alternative of rewoving my name from the list of Officers of the Militia of the Colony. Passing, without comment, the rude language and offensive passages which occur in your letter, without authority, L presume. of His Excelleney, my

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| his malicious darts at females.

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committing to memory the prayers of the Church.’’ Now, this is a contemptible and mean calumny, as the numerous Protestant ladies and gentlemen who attended several public examinations at the Convent can amply testify. It is very: probable that ** A Normal School Student’? was never present on any of these occasions, for it is likely he is of too low a character to be admitted into any decent company, but let me assure him that the pupils of Notre Dame at their exami- nations exhibited proofs of their * literary education’? which the combined efforts of him and his master would labour in vain to surpass, The writer in the Monitor appears to be devoid not only of religious training, but also of the feelings: of a person having the Jeast pretensions to the name of a ——, otherwise he would not stoop so low as to throw I would inform this student. that the ladies of the Convent are able to explain any diff- eulty with which their Pee may meet in English Grammar, liged to allow their pupils to decide such difficulties by a majority of votes, as Mr. Webster allows his pupils to do occasional y ; neither are they obliged, from their ignorange, when heming spellings, to look out in a Dictiovary for the meaning of nearly every other word ; and when the pupils titter and laugh at such an exhibition of ignorance, permit them to decide the matter by vote. Canas much be said of Mr. Webster, Master of the Normal School ? This gentleman may well exclaim, ‘* Saye me from mwyfriends,”’

for had not ** A Normal School Student’? been s80 officious, *

Mr. Webster might have escaped this expose of his ignorance and ‘ ineficiency,”’ and [ would not, perhaps, give the fullow- ing illustrations of the ‘* moral training’? of the Normal

in private life, as pious, clement, compassionate and liberal.”’ |

There is dishonesty in writing as well as in other things; anid when the public wil porceive the dishonorable baseness with which the writer in the Monitor garbled his extracts,

they can entertain for hia no other sentiment than that of | Catholic to Protestant, then to Catholic again, and then hick | Oneida off.

pity aud cantempt.

i confess that [ am qt 9 loss to discover anything in these extracts which savours o! disloyalty. Does the defatgatory seribiler in the Monitor suppose that it is treason not to cal!

tary ** Bloody Mary,” us sie has been called in the Normal Svhool? [tis probable that many readers of the Montéor will see these lines; i would therefore recommend them to take particular notice of what Protestant writers say of this Queen.

Camden. in apporat. 23, speaking of Mary says :— A princess never to be sufficiently praised on account of her great purity of morais, clemency towards the poor, and liberality towards nobles and ecclesiastics." Godwin, 123, says of her:— A womantruly pious, clement, of the purest morals and very much to be praised, if you €o not regard the error of religion” Agnes Strickland, a Protestant wuthoress, aud one of the best writers of the century, in the Sth Vol. of * Tne Queens of England,” speaking of Mary, says:—* If her parliarents had been as honest as herself, her reign would hare jen the pride of her country, instead of its reproach ; vecauve if they had done their daty, in guarding their fellow-croutares fiom bloody penal laws re- yording relizioa, the Queet, by her first régal act, in restoring the ancjeut free eoastitution of the great Plantagenets, had put it out of the power of her government to take furtive vengeance on any indiydual who opposed it. She had ex- erted all the energy of her great eloquence to impress on the winds of hee judges thit they were to sit as * indifferent unpires betweeu herselt and her pegple,” She had no stand- jag arwy to awe parlianen!s—uvo rich civil list to bribe them. By restoring the great estates of the Howard, the Pere jpud

wy of the victims ef Henry VILL, and Kdward VL.’s re- 7p by giving buck (ie revenues of the plundered bisbup-

he Cour, ids, possessed by the crown, sbe bad

o as complete as the most enthu-

(np every fragment of the plunder of which the deeds of her | predecessors had put in her possession, and the latter resumed this plunder agam, and took from the poor every pittance jwhich hal, by onslaught, been left thea— hat the former jnever changed her religion, and that the latter changed from

jagain to Protestant; that the former punished people for de- |partiag from that retigion in which she and they and their |fathers hed been born, and to which she had alwoys adhered ; and that the latter punished people fur not departing from the religion of her and their fathers, and which reliion, too, she herself professed, and openly hwed in, even at the time of her coronation. Yet, we have bpen taught to call the former ** bloody” and the latter ‘‘ good!’ liow nave we been de- ceived? And is it not time, thea, that this deception, so in- jurious to our Catholic fellow-subjects, and so debasing to our- selves, should cease? I[t is, perhaps, too much to hope that [ shall be able to make it cease; but, towards accomplishing this great and mast desirable object, | shall do samething, at any rate, by o plain and true account of the principal trans- actions of the reiga of Mary.”

** Mary began her reign by acts the most just and beneficent. Generously cisregarding herseit, her enge, and her means of splendour, she abolished the debased currency which her father hgd intraduced, and her brother had stil! made worse ; she paid the debts due by the crown ; and she largely remitted taxes atthe same time. Bot that whigh she had most at heart was the restoration of that religion under the influence of which the kingdom had been so happy and so great for many ages, and since the abolition of which it had known nothing but discord, disgrace and misery. ‘There were in her way great obstacles ; for though the peraicious principles of the Ger- man and Dutch and Swiss reformers had not, even yet, made such progress among the people, except in London, whch was ,the grand scene of the operations of those hungry and fanatical adventurers, these were the plunderers to dea! with ; and these plunderers had power.”’