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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SECOND DIS- TRICT OF PRINCE COUNTY. GENTLEMEN ;

It seems probable that I will be absent from the Colony during the ensuing Session. This does not of necessity vacate my seat. Yet it must be mentioned that certain members, both last Session and since, have threatened that this Session the House would inflict some punishment upon me, and that probably this would be expulsion. If the Assembly should so act, it will then be my duty to, shew that my conduct did not deserve eensure. But if the House does not censure me, I see no necessity of taking further public notice of the extra- otdinary virulence displayed towards me by some indi- viduals, In the meantime, I would recommend that you select and be prepared to support some Liberal Candi- date to fill my seat, in case the threat be carried into exectition. For ten years one of your Representatives, the faithful expression of your desires and a diligent attention to the public interest, seemed the best way of shewing my sense of the honour you did me. But when addressing you on this occasion, my feelings lead me to state that, as | am conscious I have never violated the confidence you reposed in me, I am pleased by number- leas circumstances, proving that your trust is undimi- nished, If you revise my proceedure since I first entered the House, you will find that it has been chiefly directed towards an amelioration of the tenure of land, and the doing away with unnecessary public expenditure. In regard to tle taxes really necessary for carrying on the

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Government, I have endeavoured to make a greater share fall upon property, especially on property held in large masses, that the luxuries used by the wealthy, should be taxed more heavily—that the man owning 20,000 acres of land should pay more in support of roads than the man whv only reats 100 acres. Many other minor reforms { attempted, [ am sorry to say, with very little success. But you sent me to do my duty—you never reproached me that my well-meant efforts had been without effect. As to the testimonial which some of you were proposing, I request you will desist till you

see how the Session shall terminate. You will then be,

better able to judge of the manner most suitable to ex- press your sense of my public conduct. Before the General Election I trust to be with you, und to explain further should that be necessary. Yet more, if some profess to despise me because I think it my duty to carry into effect your views, you have made their impudence ¢ontemptible, because you have never refused to listen to my advice. Amongst many things which it seems desirable to say, the most important is—let no differences

or religious matter divide you at the hustings. It may |

suit the purposes of some to set the Protestant against the Catholic, and the Catholic against the Protestant, aud thus ta attain their selfish ends. In more than one jand that game (of ancient date) is still played by politi- eal sharpers—tirst divide, then conquer, then tyrannise. Your District has hitherto been exemyt from such an unfortunate error. I request all Liberals of whatever persuasion, will continue to use their most strenuous effurts to prevent its occurrence. You know how the Liberal Members were painted by Sir Charles Fitz Roy io his Despatch, after the refusal of the £1,000. You have an idea what others have told in Britain— what such a man as Collard would write to pander to

the malice and forward the political interest of some of

is.patrons, you may also conceive. Well, if this game

be to go on, we shall see how the private character of

Sur Charles and some twelve or fifteen others will look m print. ButI would much rather that parties would consider that rudeness of language and wresting of law te suit their purposes, tend to render the Colony con- tquptidble. We are too inconsiderable to be able to aillerd t© do wreng, ‘Trusting yet to meet you, and con-

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fident that if my life endure for a few years, your good opinion wili nullify any slander, and recompense me for any loss to which a faithful adherence to your interest may at present expose ine.

I remain,

ALEXANDER RAE. 2d December, 1848.

MR. COLES’S RESIGNATION OF HIS SEAT IN THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER, Sir—

I shall feel obliged by your inserting inthe next No. of Tur Examiner the following Correspondence, so as to prevent falsehood and misconception from taking possession of the public mind in reference to my resig- nation. I reply to His Excellency’s Letter of yester- day’s date only through the medium of your Paper.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.

Grorce Cours.

December 7, 1847.

CHARLOTTETOWN, OTH Dec., 1848, Sir,

At Your Excellency’s request I waited upon you the day afler the Writ was issued for the election of a member of the House of Assembly in the place of Ed- ward Palmer, Esq., who had accepted the office of So- licitor General, when Your Exceliency stated to me that if I opposed Mr. Palmer at that Election, or advocated Responsible Government, you would call upon Her Majesty’s Minister to remove me from the Executive Council of this Island.

Ten days after this first interview I waited upon Your Excellency again at your own request, when you stated that if I persisted in opposing Mr. Palmer, you would suspend me without first communicating with the Home Government. And now, Sir, this is the ninth day since I proposed W. W. Lord, Esq., as the oppo- nent of Mr. Palmer, and J have not yet received any notice of my suspension, but a notice to attend the monthly meeting of Council to-morrow. But, Sir, hav- ing lost my confidence in your Administration of the Government, and feeling that I could not continue to be a member of your Council with honour to myself and usefulness to Your Excellency, I therefore respect- fully tender to you my resignation of my seat at that Council Board. And beg to remain,

Your Excellency’s obedient servant. GEORGE COLES. To His Excellency Sir DonaLtp Campsect, Bart. &c. &c. Ke. Government House, 6th December, 1848, Sir;

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this day’s date, tendering your resignation of your seat in the Executive Council, which I shall trans- mit to Earl Grey with a recommendation that it may be accepted,

Your recollectionof what passed at the two interviews mentioned in your letter, ts so inaccurate, that 1 must be permitted to set you right in two material particulars. You say that I stated, Ist:—‘ That if you advocated Responsible Government, | would call upon Her Ma- jesty’s Ministers to remove you from the Exeentive Council 3” and 2d, “That if you persisted in opposing Mr. Palmer, { would suspend you without first commu- nicating with the Home Government.” My recollection of what [ said to you on these points is so clear and pre- cise, that I regret to be compelled to give to both of these statements of yours the most explicit contradiction.

When you waited upon me by my request the day after the writ was issued for the election of a member for Charlottetown, I told you that having heard that you; were canvassing for an opposition to Mr, Palmer, the object of my sending for you was to give you a friendly caution as to your proceedings. I explained to you that I had neither the right nor the desire to interfere in the slightest degree with you, either as a member of the House of Assembly or as an Elector, and that what [ was about to say to you was solely in your capacity of Exe- cutive Councillor. I told you, that as a member of the Government, I expected that you would not eppose the election of the Solicitor General, who was again a can- didate for the representation of Charlottetown. You replied that you did not consider that in opposing the Solicitor General you were opposing the Government. Although I could by no means agree with you in this doctrine, I did not argue the point with you, but pro-

cutive Councillor, that I was in possession of a confi- dential Despatch from Earl Grey, in which his Lordship mentioned that he approved of my recommendation that Mr. Palmer should be reinstated in his seat in the Council—that | considered him as a member of the Go- vernment, and that it was impossible for me to admit the proposition that you, ap Executive Councillor, could take an active part in, opposivion to him, and still retain your seat at the Counei! Board. | also, in strict contidence, and cautioning you to remember your oath of office, ex- plained to you the views of Her Majesty’s Government with reference to the introduction of the system come monly designated as that of Responsible Government into this Colony, as they jad lately been communicated to me. I did not say one word as to you either support ing or opposing Responsible Government, nor did I give you the slightest reason to suppose that that subject had any reference whatever to your seat in the Council. You then told me that it was not settled whether there was to be an opposition to Mr. Palmer or not, but that if Mr. Lord offered himself as a candidate you would sup- port him and oppose Mr. Palmer. I replied that | was sorry to hear you say so, fer in that case I should, how ever reluctantly, fee! it my duty to request you to resign your seat atthe Board., You said that if I did so you would not resign, when I remarked that in that case } shonld have only one of two alternatives, either to sus pend you or to recommend that Her Majesty should be pleased to dispense with your services. ThatI disliked the idea of suspending a Councillor for anything except- ing dishonorable or immoral conduct, and that probably my course would be to recommend your removal.

At our second interview, | informed you that it was necessary that I should have some further conversation with you, and that I wished Mr. Haviland, the Colonial Secretary, to be present. Sending for that gentleman, I told him on his entrance that 1 had requested his pre- sence to prevent any mistake as to what had passed or might now pass between you and myself. 1 then re- peated to him the details of our first interview precisely as I have stated theman thisletter. After which I turn- ed to you and asked ifavhat I bad stated was correct, to which you replied in the affirmative, 1 then proceeded to explain to you that since our first interview, it had occurred to me upon further consideration, that it might become my positive duty to suspend you, and that my object in requesting you to come tome then, was to make you aware of this, mentioning at the same ume, that I had not finally decided on the course I should take. | then requested to know if you had made up your mind

las to the course you were to pursue. You replied that

you had, and that you were determined to oppose tire Solicitor General. In reply to this, 1 told you, that finding you, an Executive Councillor, in active oppost- tion to another member of the Government, it was with much regret that I feit it my duty to request you to resign your seat, You replied that you refused to do so, You asked me if | required you to resign because you sup- ported Mr. Lord? J replied, * No, it is because you oppose the Solicitor General.” You then asked me if you were to consider yourself suspended? I replied, “ Not atall, I would never think of suspending a Councillor without previously consulting his colleagues, and in your case } have not yet made up my mind ou the subject.”

‘This recapitulation of what passed at the two inter views mentioned in your letter, will, ] hope, satisfy you that your recollection is inaccurate.

I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, DONALD CAMPBELL. George Coles, Esq., &c. &c.

CHARLOTTETOWN, 7th Decr., 1848.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR DONALD CAMPBELL, BARONET, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN AND OVER HER MAJESTY'S ISLAND OF PRINCE ED- warp, &c. &c.

Sira—

I have the honour to acknowledge through the me dium of the Press the receipt of your Letter of yester- day’s date, in reply to the communication | had the ho- nour to address your Exceilency, tendering my resigna- tion of my seatin Council.

You “regret to be compelled to give the most expli- cit contradiction to two statements” made by se, name- ly, that I was informed in my interviews with you that if | advocated Responsible Government you would call upon Her Majesty’s Ministers to remove me from the Executive Council, and 2d, that if I persisted in op- posing Mr. Palmer, you would suspend me without firet communicating with the Home Government.

[ am surprised that your Excellency should dispute my statements upon those two points, for the obgerva-

ceeded to explain to you, in strict confidence as an Exe-

tions addressed to me by your Excellency upon both

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