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“THIS IS TRUE LIBERTY, WHEN FREEBORN MEN—HAVING TO ADVISE

[No. 42.

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1848.

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‘duction was under the consideration of the House of’ five shilling. note struck off there. The ten shilling me sia it Assembly :— plate was, at one time, sent to the late Mr. White, of ar eye ; ithis town, who -struck off a considerable number. ‘dt

THE TREASURY INVESTIGATION. | “That Mr. Coles, as one of the Committee, stated, was here observed by the Chairman of the Committee, ithat Colonel Lane, one of the Securities of the Hon. J. Dr. Conroy, that he believed about that time some three 'S. Smith, the Treasurer—told him that, at the time of or four‘10s. notes appeared with forged signatures, but ‘Sia— _ Peat pm te wi a near deg in sem being rejected, disappeared ; and that after Mr. White’s

i. _ , he had to pay five hundred pounds towards relieving him death Mr. J. Davia, Jun., his Executor or Administrator I have noticed in =o called the Islander, (which from the difficulties under which he then laboured, and) got in White’s Repositories impressions of Notes to the accident has thrown in my way)—of the 12th instant, an therefore determined to withdraw from being one of the amount of four hundred pounds, which he handed to article written by some individual who aspires to the Securities of the yore ; but was et by the ithe Commissioners. Mr. Haviland is of opinion that editorship of that slanderous publication, having refer-| arc oo * cig ee we en: aap (Col. the amount of notes afloat is not L11,500, but at least in ia cer the Guecial C set nted| ane) against further loss, to allow his name to remein; [,11,65Q, that is, supposing none of them to have been CRSS 08 'ES TO eS en ee jand that about that time he (Col. Lane) had to endorse | Jost ; but thinks hundreds will be found to have perish- by the House of Assembly to investigate the affairs of| Bills drawn by the lreasurer on his Brother in St.John, ed, He admits, that so far as he can see on a cursory the Treasury Department of this Island. It is, as you|N. B., fora large amount of money, to ae him to’ elance, there appears still L24 0 7d. due by the securi- are aware, a paltry but barefaced attempt to mislead the| 79. igh - remainder of the deficiency in the ae ties of Mr. Campbell, At the time he (Mr. Haviland) . eesidgiee ; bi te eta . Mr. Coles stated, that he was aware that another was ‘Treasurer, it was the practice in exchanging new ; ee re . — ject with whieh it professes to’ person had offered one hundred poundssterling towards notes for old ones, to receive the new, and give the com- deal. But that it isso, can be a matter of no surprise to making up the deficiency, provided Col. Lane would not) missioners the old notes, according as they were re- the intelligent portion ofthe community. The Islander make an immediate expose of the Treasurer's affairs, ceived into the 'l'reasury.”

: ; . ; 7 ; 1 > idera- | wi must follow its vocation—having become the subservient ,. The Committee refused to enter on the considera | Now, Sir, the. above extract from the Journals of the —. a ; ‘tion of these statements, or to wake any examination . . i . and slavish tool of the Compact or Black Watch, itsco- into the affairs of the Treasury further back than the IJouse of Assembly is, I think, a plain and satisfactory

Jumns are ever open: to the insertion of every base and date ofthe Report made by the Commissioners. ‘answer to the braggadocia of the Islander, and the pub- malignant slander which they choose to propagate, and)“ Mr. Coles also stated, that there were were Lreasu- jic¢ will judge from it, whether or not I made “ false and - » ° . . ‘ ' > 7 a on ° ° ° ° “» : to every sophisticated defence of their misdeeds and | ry Notes in circulation than appeared:in the t ublie Ac Jibellous assertions,” “without adducing one single iota saad jcounts, and moved to have examined the Hon. ‘T..H.| ‘ corruptions that any Lawyer’s “lerk, not having any f{ayiland, Hon. R. Hodgson, and D. Hodgson, Esq., the of proof,” and whether I am not as ready to expose, and oe | em Sh gee oe —— 2 . . . other drudgery to do, may think proper to write for) three Commissioners for issuing ‘Treasury Notes. establish too, out of Parliament, as well as in it, any them. “ Mr. D. Hodgson, on examination, stated that he had and everv unfair proceeding which I may discover in ‘been recently appointed Commissioner, and had not. . its Maat :

- > Rania’ £2 . ded: " = the management of the Public Service—caring very

The published Report of the Special Committee, over! issued any Notes, but had exchanged new for old Notes! |. le f; 4, , ent Und’ Ge Shaina = " which the Islander so greatly rejoices, may be fair'—that he believed there had been issued three healed) ROC ee re ee — eer -enough in part. No one, I believe, ever doubted pounds more than appeared by the Public Accounts to that would not have dared to speak the truth respecting he eomectnss of the Tremary since I8I8. Since pire” 5 eltegeay, hcg he bsuns a cr in aroteue somber othe Asma Ere | de _ - ‘ed by my privilege as a member of the Assembly. Every

then, its accounts have been regularly audited, and the Commissioner, the Commissioners were called upon to. a ‘ ; ; oe money in the Chest counted out, once every three sign £1200 of new Notes, to be exchanged for old ones ; honest and independent man in the community under- months. This was not the case previous to 1846. When 2nd these new Notes, when signed, were handed to the stands the game which has long been played by the : i kg : : ae : » . . his ‘ ° ae . 2? ° a

the Report was submitted to the House of Assembly, it Hodewsa) teke Pe ae (cemintaee if he enone and their cat’s-paws in this fsland. It is thei:

‘ : Ke 2 1 Som 5 e ik oe is ry “7 lk : contained a statement to this effect—that the Books and changed the Notes,—he replied, * yes” and when ae rs the source of their very existence—to stifle ‘ ° - . bic a Pe - " -s j . . . i o

Cash were not only correct in 1846, but that they had if he had burned the old ones—he replied, that be had all noe and to hide ” gloss over the corruptions by

been so since 1830. Istated to the House, that this as-/"0t received them from the ‘l'reasurer ; he (Mr. H) then Which they have lived and thriven; and when any man ‘asked if the ‘Treasurer had received the new Notes— has hardihood enough to lift what has been properly : : ies the Commissioner replied that he had,—and to his (Mr. Saal =e he Cundall—one of the Commissioners of the Treasury | {{odgson’s) great siabyeiioe nearly three bobs ex- rt ia ae remy eee taranensat on ne i til Ore ara ee oe ie hale ET ace “anit 03 f y Inquiry, and -whese examination was held to au- pired before the Commissioners obtained all the old. a ' — a een concealed, he is denounced as a malicious libeller, and treated to all the

thorize the statement alluded to—that he never said, in Notes from the ‘Treasurer. Some time after, in the a ; : ; the course of his examination, the cash Account was')¢*" 1845, the Treasurer required from the Commission- scurrility and blackguardism, which an infamously cor- correct previous to 1846. The Committee—foiled in bred seetbeg ss. iby be ( fo ha alti <o rupt Press can heap upon him, ‘The dirty dauber for , ae os os ie ee. iT. eee wallow in hi

their good intentions towards the Treasurer,and ashamed | brother Commissioners that, as he was the junior ene, ' a Seennerienny 7 ” np ta aig ne plomtes of their falsehood—agreed to strike it out of the report, |he would sign the Notes last; and when he.got the new (as for the pump in-headed nana, his want of com- ‘Notes, he refused to give them to the ‘l’reasurer until mon sense partly excuses his participation in the dirty

the old ones were handed over to him; but to his sur-) work)—his filth can never reach me while acting in the

but refused to insert anothor part of Mr. Cundall’s evi- prise, he found that the ‘Treasurer had not more than .n.cientious discharge of my duty asa Representative

ss CORRBSPOWSNES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

sertion was untrue, as | had been informed by Mr.

dence, namely, that two or three days elapsed before’

the Commissioners, appointed to examine the Treasury, about one hundred pounds to give in exchange,—and h at | ill-feelj ; received their commission—that they were not author-|the ‘freasurer having repeatedly applied to the sauunte.|<f he peopl, Leena nya ee Sa ar

ised by that commission to lock the Chest, and would Sioners for - oe he ea H.) told his oe err ny ip otices, ss eyes; sae i eens ee not have counted the money after examining the es eee e would resign his:commission, if they gave Mr. Smith, I must say, that if he feels himself aggrieved . Ss the Treasurer the new Notes before they received the by the discussion which has now been commenced res-

counts, had they not deemed it proper, and accordingly old ones. The other two commissioners then declined site eieeteeeeh 2 h he bl é: applied for permission to do so, As tothe second-hand to take upon themselves this responsibility, and after P —s te a ae ae eee oe : _ on his imputation of the Islander, that I have attributed disho- wen Ga — aoe or _ = time ee . the ark who anticipated the pin practic toa Public Ofloer, without sivancing ites wax seem te ele 20 see em | Ped oe ae aeebecen ig : e ; > © His Excellenc 2 ve laid before the House any proof to support them, I reply—that whet I stated in my receive the old notes and immediately hand over new, 7 7

piace in the Assembly was told to me by a gentleman, notes of equal amount. \D espatches or other doounpeute in his possession, hav- who is a Brother-in-law of the Treasurer, and was one! “ The Hon. T. H. Haviland, being examined, stated HOS reference to the Treasury, and who were not satis- of his Securities at the time, but who had withdrawn ‘at he was one of the commissioners appointed to issue fied with presenting to the House of Assembly, a partial, his Security, because he did not, I presume, approve of: the first notes ever issued in the Colony, and thinks the flimsy, and one-sided Report, but had the impertinence : issue then made was £5,780, but cannot, at this distance’ .nq meanness to impugn the motives and intentions of the manner in which that department of the Public Ser-' i iti pus of time, speak. positively, as they kept no record of the: litical ad if th h -vice had been conducted; and my statement was cor- amount then handed to the Treasurer,—thinks they |* pass ” pienpsina t ere was no reason to attac roborated by a copy of a letter, shewn to me, written ™ust have taken receipts from the Treasurer, but does S8Spicion to Mr. Smith’s management of the ‘Treasury— by a gentleman then in this Island to the Security wh not know where to look for them—the Attorney General if there were no grounds for the reports that have been ge ; Y Whom has one. The law authorised first the issue of £5000! circulated respecting it, there should have been no dis- { have just alluded to, in which the writer requests hi : ER TTS pecting if,

m ‘of notes of certain amounts, in equal proportions—thinks «| y: notion ‘fested by his friend son iuiin ih to make no expose of the circumstances which led to|they could not keep these proportions equal but by li- : mant aaa arab y fus tren sto enter int a fair, the withdrawal of his Security, and offers his assistance |Miting the issue to LA4,980. Afterwards authority was full, and general investigation—as, supposing his affairs i to contribute towards making up any deficiency which given to issue L800 in'10s. notes, which would have to be correct, such an investigation could not fail to .

ney which increased the amount in circulation to L5,780, but thirks! prove highly satisfactory to Mr. Smith. This is the might be supposed to exist at that time. My inability to |the issue was only L5,650, being L130 under the amount. adh eile ae ; stl onthe led of ‘prove my statements was never tested. The “ommittee! As the books of the then Treasurer, Col. Gray, remain- ene ich must impress I

of the House of Assembly refused to enter upon any enquiry, or examine any evidence prior to 1846; and that such enquiry was absolutely necessary, must be evi- ‘dent to any person who will take the trouble to read the

san amendment to the Report of the Special Com- ‘mittee, when that wretchedly lame and one sided pro-

following statement of facts, submitted by Mr. Rae

Shillings plate was, at one time, sent to Halifax, and the

ed private property after his decease, the exact amount cannot be ascertained from any public record. He(Mr Haviland) became Treasurer in 1830. Does not know in whose hands are the plates of the old Notes, but thinks some of them may have been sent out from Lon- don to the Commissioners here along with the new plates. They were transmitted at one time to Sylves- ter, in London, the man who engraved them. ‘The five

every impartial inquirer after truth ; and feeling assured that it will enable the public to determine whether or not I have sustained a “defeat” in the course which J have pursued respecting the Treasury investigation, I remain, Sir, Yours faithfully, GEORGE COLES. Charlottetown, May 15.