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"gm ' Bn-r I see what you want; you want excitement.

- U How would politics do? It’s a Wide 'field, and

ew .ﬂ some considerable sport» in it too. Agitate [the

he!“ V H country ; swear the church is ‘ a-goin’ to levy

on m ' ' ﬂ tythes, or dissenters to be taxed‘to support them,

" r , I u or that the Governor is a-goin’ to have a martial

w ._ “ law. ' Call ofﬁce-holders by the cant terms of com- 9' . “ pact sliques and ofﬁcial gang, and they will have

If" u f ' “ to gag you with a seat in the Council, or somethin’

tell _ . “ or another, see if they don’t.” Samuel Sliclc to,

{e h- ‘ , Bill Dill.

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Iolin q 0 THE HONORABLE CHARLES YOQNG; Paovxsiosxi.

in bi LEGISLATIVE COUNCiLILoa.

cy's 1 Much esteemed Sir, I

Dr" . I Y the Gazette of the 22d ult.,I perceive that His Ex-

Imlss " celleucy the Lieutenant Governor has been pleased,

gauaj rovisionally, to appoint you 50 a. seat in the Legislative

m » ouncil ; and by your address to your late constituents,

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also see that you have, at once accepted the appoint- wate .ment. ‘ This address appears to be an apologetic and exculpa- ry epistle of no measured length, proceeding from self usation, which has seemingly wisely dictated to you, bus to anticipate and to defend yourself from the bar es which you expected would be brought against 'ou by your deluded constituents, at the bar of public pinion. _ . r In this your anticipatory defence, which by the way,is ~. wn upa much of what we‘may term legal inge;

the province of the public, and particu— . lectors‘of the Third Electoral District of " een’s County, but yet I think more especially of my. "' , as your chief opponent at your late and now nulli-

‘ is a . i 0 Election, closely to enquire, how far you have t'ruly ‘ery ’mated the charges of ’“litical apostacy which may been :i; brought against you, an how far you have ma’e

N4- vision to shield yourself from the expected storm. '

‘ When you tendered your serVices to the Electors of like Third Electoral District of Queen’s County, I opposed . v on upon princi ‘ which I then declared, and to which t ~IS ﬂl a still adhere ; b ‘ it appeared your principles were more

way 5 N» in their sight, and your pledges more satisfactory am , . m, and r _ ‘, did you ! you ! ! you!!! amore stranger to bf them ' ‘ the high honour of electing you their Re— “rt'1 ‘95? talive 313.. . b0“ 5 ill) imitation of your own course, I will, besides inser- t the {ﬁg the substance of one of my cards,circulcated among gsign' lie Electors on the'occasion already spoken of, favour hero 0 v you with the insertion of two others verbatim : the ﬁrst ' merely states, that “ my public and private character ' all ' ‘1“ during a residence of nearly tWenty years was, I he- sat ' 1“ lieve, known to the most of them; and that should t the ; “ they deem me worthy of their conﬁdence, should use e boa . “ the same efforts for the improvement of their section of f' “ the County as I did when I formerly had the honour to ‘he 15 ' “represent them;” and this I will now add, that if they some had done meith'e honour they conferred upon you, I )liver would not have deserted them as you have done, for the ear," ‘. sake ofa. mere empty appellation of honour ' i ‘A celebrated English statesman was in the habit of [a '0'” - saying, every man had his price. You might be adduced l‘ rm 3.5 an instance of the justice of his observation. It is now

ml w' i evident you have had yours, and that by no means a i great one. Vanity may instigaie us to make great pre-/ tensions in the eyes of others; .but there are very few ' who do not secretly know their own value; and that ‘5 you, as well as some above you, were fully SBDSlble of

“led yours, I question not; children and childish-minds, ge- 3r up nerally speaking, are pleased with a rattle; tickled With me I a straw. -' .

- : V y_ remember that when the Election was ad- "journednffoni Belfast, you proposed to ‘the Electors that r they should give me three cheers, for (as you expressed ﬁt) my gentlemanly conduct; but how far you merited -a return of the compliment from me at Lot 49, when in . in most ungentlemanly- manner you tore up my Hand- “.bills, I will not now stop to enquire. Notwithstanding e havoc you then made of them, I have been able to l to b— procure a copy which escaped your destroying hands. and now for my own gratiﬁcation and that ofthe public, , I will insert it, and your own as a guide‘ to any one {'Who may wish to complete a full length portrait of a

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m .0" ’ CHARLES rouge

hum» Is A REF'ORMER,

VI Do" And is determined. if returned, to do his utmost, rose: _Consistcntly with the principleE of the British Constitution, “0 o i. ,

To have the Fishery Reserves opened to the Public;

gethi“; To have the Loyalists Redresscd; l(in ell \ To have the I mini. TENANTRY RELIEVED

t ﬂ From their Oppressive Burdens; J03 .‘

up And is also pledged not to accept of any Oﬁce of emolument under Government, nor any Land Agency.

The copy below was issued by me at the Election, in

REFORM. CHARLES YOUNG IS A REFORMERI! . I Is this Reform Annexation to Nova Scotia, and depriving ‘» you of your Franchise? ~~ C. Young will throw open the Fishery Reserves! ) Does he .kelchi mean to rob Freeholders and Leaseholders of their fronts?

the I“; C. Young will redress the Loyalists! Can lid do it in face

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of the Despatch of the, Home Government?

hen Charles Youngle relieve the Tenantry of their burthens .’

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:de at Will he pa?” ihiiﬂcnts for them with some of his spare

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I, ves H C. Young will take no Agencies nor Government

.ness . 0FFICEb!!!!!!!! .

mid _ - i he not come here to look for Land Agencies 7 Has he no!

NV 1 ’ - canvassed for the Clerkship of the Assembly?

k “co i C. Young is a Reformer! Will he pledge himself to Reform Lawyers’ BILLS 2

ng U Avaunt Ye! !

ince. On' the occasion of your tearing up my handbills, I did

oivev not retaliate further than by severely reprimanding you

and at the close of the Poll you

*for ourim ro rconduct I y p pe , for me. The Electors kind-

ag‘ain proposed three cheers

less a ’17 reshanded to your proposal; at the same time telling a hO' "you that it was not from any want of personal respect D et' " forms that they had declined giving me their votes; a te ‘ﬂ‘ey’ 31100!! bands with me, and stated they had known, ’ . “‘3 m'muny years, and that their only objection to me was “1 being a Land Agent; and to you they observed; that “7‘ 9*“ you looked well after their interests,you would have ofu mwmwwueut yourself for their suﬂrages a second rel ‘ i '. - ' , ' _ I He 98 Ewing thus Prefaqed, Iwill nowgeome to the grand "WNW: Whether, during the very short time you werehm de, m Houseijou are 1‘15“? entitled to so much self-praise “V. ' \ r." Y0“. have taken to yourselfin your document published ‘ l'kel male ROY” G’ert‘ei 0“ Whether you redeemed your eds“ “'Wt- I W311 remember the mighty promises a “0: mill; to your constituents at the time of your E130. 7 unﬁt: ; an 9“ cuefuuy 513-1111113113 your short litical if” Near, which may 3P“! enough he compareldoto the “per I

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glancing of a “ Will of the Wisp,” or, perhaps, still more correctly speaking, to a “ ﬂash in the pan,” or an un- shotted and useless discharge from a musket—I can observe no light which you have left behind you for a guide to others, nor can I perceive that in any way, ydu have weakened the defences of your political opponents, for, happy man—happy at least in your own estimation— enemies you say you hayeJione, either personal or politi- cal, although in my ignorance Ihad, until better inform- ed by you, always" considered “political opponents and political enemies as synonimous and convertible terms. Your own view of' your parliamentary career, how- ever, diﬁ'ers widely from mine; and I shall, therefore, with the licenbe of a reviewer, proceed to dissect and ex- amine that history of it, the- writing and reading of which has no doubt afforded yourself so much gratiﬁcation; but which, unfortunately for its author, carries to the minds of the public no more conviction favourable to him, than would a perusal of “ Gulliver’s Travels”, con- vince areasoning mind of the truth of the advontures therein narrated. In your history of your parliamentary career, you, in the ﬁrst place, assume credit to yourself on account of the commutation of the Colonial Secretary’s fees which was effected by the House in their last Session, you say, you have been told, that by that commutation, a saving of nearly £300 has this year been made to the Colony'. That the amount of saving is correctly stated, I very much doubt, but the public accounts will clear that ques- ‘sion. I will proceed to consider what credit is due to you, for supporting the call for such a commutation. I for one will plainly tell you, how much I think you may fairly claim on that score. You acted, the part invariably pla ed by all envious political fortune-hunters, eager- ly on the one hand panting for honours which they have no native dignity to support, and on the other, sordidly longing for emoluments, to which their merits will never entitle them, they are ever ready to join in full mouthed cry, against the more honourable and more fortunate men, whom they behold in the enjoyment of both. Thus, sir, I assign to you infull measure all the merit due to you for the share you'ha‘d in effecting that com— mutation which, by the bye, had been proposed, and for the which, the Bill was fraiiiedby one of the Honorable Members for Georgetown, before you had taken your seat in the House.

You next acknowledge, as your second pledge, your deter- mination to do your utmost, consistently with the principles of the British constitution,to have the ﬁshery reserves thrown open to the public. Well, I will take it for granted,that in this instance, you did your utmost, but that utmost it must be allowed was -but triﬂing. That utmost did not enable you to draft such a ﬁshery reserves bill, as could, without evident infraction of law and justice, give a ﬁnal quictus to the ques- tion. Neither, it appears, did your utmost retain you in your place when a division was about to ensue, on the ques- tion of the proposed address to the Queen, after the rejection by the House, of the amendments to the ﬁshery reserves bill, sent down to them by the Council. Your utmost, it appears, was not able to ﬁx your volatility on that occasion. Before I dismiss this part of your parliamentary conduct, I willjust hint to you that you have shewn but little wisdom in your at- tempt, in this part of your defence, to heap new abuse upon the Land—owners; and as little will it accomplish your main object, the diverting from yourself of the just resentmentcf the deluded tenantry, especially when it is remembered that although the draft of that Bill was the work of your hands, those hands Were only those of an interested and hired scribe.

I am now to consider in what way you prove your redemp- tion of your pledge to have the Loyalists redresscd. Upon this head you say but little, and that little, without any injury to its weight or moment—or to your literary taste and dis- cernmentémightr’e‘asjly have been made less. You tell your late constituents that‘tbe Loyalist Bill had been passed be- fore you took your seat in the [louse-mud that the Council re- jected it, on the ground that a similar Bill passed in the pre- vious Session, had been disallowed by the Queen. This sim- ple statement is so far correct, and it besides fully cxonerates the Council from all blame on account of their rejection of the Bill. By your own shewing they acted not only with ﬁrmness, but temper towards the House, and with proper delicacy towards their Royal Mistress. Here then wanting occasion. or perhaps now afraid to arraign the Council as you formerly did; and shall I say afraid, lest your provisional appointment might be cancelled at home, were you to pass censure on the advisers of the Crown, for their counsel given to the Queen regarding the Loyalist claims—you once more with coarse invcctive, assail the owners of pioperty, and vainly endea- vour to turn from yourself the resentment of your late con- stituents, whom you have so grossly decived, to those whose delinquencies you would'gladly have the tenantry to believe are greater than your own.

I next in order- come to the consideration how you have redeemed your pledge “ to have the Tenantry relieved;” and notwithstanding your solemn, as no doubt you think it will appear, bulbs I believe most people regard it, your hypocri- tical, not (a use a still stronger epithet, appeal to the Almigh- ty, I think you have still less reason, than on those points already discussed, to arrogatc merit to yourself—less reason to arrogate merit to yourself do I say? let me correct myself —--less than none there cannot easily be. But. not only is there no merit due to you on this point, as well as the foregoing; but here you have not only done no service, but you have actually done a very serious injury to many of the tenuntry, by your delusive expressions. You and your brother agitators, taking advantage of the ignorance and crcdulity, which unfortunately are but too common amongst us, have magniﬁed and exaggerated the grievances and suf- ferings of the people, in their own eyes, until the consequen- cos of such delusion have, in many instances, been the actual production of those very grievances andsuﬁ'erings, which be. fore existed only in imaginations, highly excited, &.C. &c. [Here the writer becomes very personal in his remarksJ

I agree with you, Sir, as to the fertility and salubrity of this beautiful Island, but I should as soon expect to see the bed of snow which now covers our soil, instantaneously rembved by the warm and genial breath of an Italian spring, and the next moment to behold the country smiling in all~ the rich- ness and beauty of a paradise, and to behold every where in it our ancient men surrounded by all [hilth delight their hearts, seated like patriarchs of old, under their “ own ﬁg trees, gazing upon their ﬂocks, and their vine-covered bills”— as believe that your impracticable and visionary schemes will ever, or that you hope they will ever—notwithstanding your frequent hypocritibal and highly disgusting appeals to the Almighty—be the means of making the people of the Island peaceable, contented and happy. I do beheve, how- ever, that in process of time, the condition of our agricultur- ists will be much improved; but this I expect from other sources than those to which you have been teaching them to look. Such a change I hope will also be greatly accelerated by the immigration from Britain of intelligent and respeptao ble farmers; of men who can introduce improved and scien- tiﬁc systems of agriculture; and to whom somewhosre too obstinate to learn, or too idle to prdgticaanytlnng like sys- tematic operations, must give place'i'end to whom they must leave the enjoyments of those blessings winch the soil, the bountiful mother of all, is ever ready to shower from her lap upon ih . . who are not too idle or unskilful. to court her favours. n commenting upon the determination of Govern- ment not to interferewith or chapgg the tenure of lands, and yo'ii'r remarks upon the imposition of a Penal tax—yon say the tenant would not be beneﬁted, he would not be relieved, but would be in a worse position. than before, because the greedy landlord, or his'crajfgy cg would wrest froig hip: the lime substance he had ga wiﬁd him, in or. er 0 meet the increased demand.

Without expressing an opinion

ion the situation of the

greediness and craftiness erg only phantoms which exist in your own brains. And now, Sir, althoughyour observation appears in general terms, yet as it occurs in an address to. those who were lately your-constituents, many of whom are tenants upon property under'my management, I think'l may fairly infer, that you wished to excite a bad- feeling”. among them. Your envenomed expressions will, notwithstandinhr your malignant intention, have no effect, for the personsl allude to, are, I‘belicve, convinced that my inclinatiOns' to- wards industrious persons {re neither harsh, .Lunfeeling, nor rapacious; and I am proud3and happy to state that on no property in the.Colony have: coercive measures been more rare than on the property injquestion—although provocation and ill-advice to tenants, in fiscveral instances, obliged me to take legal proceedings. Un ‘ r'the sainc head you next ob- serve, the only feasible plan; lathe relief of the tenant, should the government refuse toi Hrfere, or purchase the lands, would bera compromise of the arrears of rent, and which arrears it is impossible theitenants can ever pay. In this scheme I carirrecognise notﬁng but impolicy and injustice to the honest and industrious 'ﬁinant,both which must be equally evident to yourself. 'I‘hntjour perception of -its impolicy and injustice should prevail}. your recommending (to serve your own especial purpose) what you knew would he so ac- ceptable a boon to the indolent and dishonest; and what would also be very readily accepted, even by others of a bet- ter character, excites in 'e no surprise. It is of a piece with the usual practise o§hose fretful, envious, scheming and restless agitating being; who ﬁnding themselves sunk far beneath [the level to gwhich vanity and ambition have taught them to aspire, »hopc:that by the exciting of popular commotion, some convulsive throw may elpvate them to dis- tinction, as earthquakes frgﬂuently throw up to the surface what otherwise might forcever have remained buried in its proper sphere—obscurity. But, before I leave this topic, I would just enquire who, generally speaking, and~what are the characters of the persons who are most heavily in arrears for rent? Are they to be found among the sober, honest, steady and industrious portion of the tenantry in the Island? I defy you to prove that they are. No, Sir, they are to be found among those who byhabits of continued dissipation have left themselves, their wives and their children, destitute of necessary and decent comforts,by being satisﬁed merely to fellas much wood, and to half cultivate as much land, as would enable them, in some degree, to gratify their appetites for tobacco and rum; and who, in the prosecution of such in- dulgence, have, to complete their ruin and misery, fallen into the company of some itinerant agitator and preacher of Escheat; whose doctrines yielding them a prospect of release from all obligation to pay rent, have only fostered and encou- raged their slothful and vicious habits, and prevented their gathering around, them any substance by which decently to support their families, and still less, by which to meet the de- mands of their landlord. No, Sir, neither you nor your co- ad jutors have yet done—until venture to say you never will do~—any service to the agriculturists in the Colony. You are its present bane, and as such your names will be held in execration by the children of those whom by sophistry you have ﬁrst blind-folded, and then by declnmation goaded on to ruin. , /

Let me next enquire who are those among the Island ten- antry whose dwelling houses, ofﬁces and farms afford the mostplcasing prospect, and speak most plainly of the wis- dom, industry, comfort and abundance, which are the por- tions of their occupiers? Do not these farms, almost without exception,»belong Lil-thugs m,hnve_,llah£§lly adhered to the contracts into which they had voluntarily enwredfuﬁd “who, if they found they had what they may call rather hard bar- gains, yet have honestly endeavoured to do their best, and make the most of them. ‘

I now come to consider what you call “your two last pledges," and which are, that you would not accept of any ofﬁce of einolument under Government nor any Land Agency. When you made this promise, I really believe you expected you would be enabled to keep it, altho’ of your expectation respecting the others, I can by no means say so much. You had been disappointed of ob- taining a land agency, ” your chief object in coming hither, and you were conscious that your juveniliiy (for Iwill give you credit for so much modesty) precluded all chance of your being called to the Bench, and less, I presume, would not have gratiﬁed your vanity—so fur then, I think this promise was honestly made, and so far I give you credit; therefore, to use your own words “I need say nothing further to you on the subject” although to your, “ although I may state that I have been offered three Land Agencies and refused them,” I will take the liberty to add a simple (2) It is certainly an assertion which must provoke a"doubt. I may here remark that a respectable member .of society, Samuel Nelson, Esq. to use his own words. asked you on the hustiugs, in the presence of the Public, the reason why Jack would’nt eat his Supper, and your reply was, because he could’nt get it, he said “that you were in the same predicament, for nobody would trusj‘you with an Agency.”

From these facts, Honourable Sir, your generous con- stituents will perceive that you have only “ kept the word of promise to the ear, and broke it to their hopes,” you have not fulﬁlled their hopes as regards their local in- terests; and they 'may justly complain that, by your having accepted a seat in the Council, you have broken your promise with regard to the improvement of their roads and bridges. Your examination “ with your own eye”. has not repaired them, although you received so ~‘ muiﬁkindness and hospitality" for the promise to do so.

The resolutions you alluded to as “ passed at several district meetings of the County,” (you might have con- ﬁned yourself to district) were, it is said, prepared by “your own hands.” However, allowing them to have-been all you represent them, they merely show how destrous your constituents Were _of supporting you, under the im- pression that your delusive promises and pledges were sincere; and your faithless ingratitude to them is there- by only placed in a stronger light. .

I would pass over your observati‘on's‘respecting the Le. gislative Council, had you omitted to refer to the resale... tions passed by the majority ofthe House of Assembly, re- ﬂecting'upon the formation of that body. It occursto my mind that you mg not have thought it expedient to place in the hands any of your constituents, the rose: lutions assed, in April last, by the Council, containing theiropmions of the delusions practised upon the people by the majority of the Lower House. These opinions are in accordance with my own, and for the beneﬁt of such of your constituents as may not have seen them, I refer to the Herald of May 2, 1840. '

I now come to the renewal of your pledge, that you will “ devote your energies to have the tenantry relieved from that weight of oppression which has almost home them to the dust.” T some of the tenantry are in low circumstances, (havi - been so when they came to this Colony,) and have difficulties to contend with, I both admit and regret ; but, at the same time, deny that I have any knowledge of their oppression in the District alluded to. If from heir poverty and diﬂiculties you re- lievia' them, either by the exertion of “ youreuergies,” or by~ bestowing upon them any part of your surplus cash, which you so long advertised to be lent, (although there was perhaps as little reality in that as in your promises,) I have no doubt‘both landlords and tenants would thank you for the boon‘upThat it was, and is still, however, your duty to endeavour to do your utmost to redress the, grievances of any tenant, arising from any unjust treat— ment of either Landlord or Agent, among yourdate con- stituentsI freely admit ; but the strictest investigation will not enable you tw‘ shew that any such grievances

tenant, orthe propriety of the tax, J iiiay here observe that

exist in the District which you represented.

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It is well known by the Electors of that DistricY, that-

, among them, during a period of seven years, only two

distresses for rent were carried into effect, and that these were provoked by very aggravating conduct. I may further state here-the terms on which lands hav been leased in that District, which are generally held for 999 years; some at 6d. stg. per acre, and few, I think. at more. than ls. stg. per acre. All your real estate of24 acres in this Island, which 1 think is of no better quality thari

thing more, not unlikely: for £1 per acre; and though you may not be aware of it, my lands are leased for much' less even in the Royalty of Charlottetbwn. Who, in, this comparison, appears the more exorbitant landlord, you or I? The relief of the tenantry from the oppression, which you wish to persuade them they labour under, must be‘ effected by other acts than those displayed in. the following copy of a placard, with which you former- ly had some acquaintance. It exhibits your tender mer-

cies towards “apoor bleeding tenant,” who became the luckless victim of your generosity of feeling. Iwill merely add upon the subject that, indeed, “ he is almost yet it is not “ by his greedy land-

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borne down to the dust,” lord or his crafty agent.” LOOK AT THIS Electors of Lots 49 and 50. Is this C. Young’s Reform and relieving you in Burthens? 1" ‘ ﬂ . Michael Ryan, a Tenant on Lot 32, brought art-Action of Trespass—Mug Charles Younglrvas his Attorney—tho case was never broughtinto Court, but decided by Arbitration, Mr. Young, without» furnishing 11%. Ryan with a Bill of Costs, obtains his signature to a lVarrant of Attorney, enters up Judgment, and '

BEHOLD THE CONSEQUENCES!!! '

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SHERIFF'S SAL E. .

~Ry Virtue of a ,Writ of Statute Execution to me directed, issued'out of ~I-Icr JlIajesty’s Supreme Court, at the Suit of Charles Young, against Illichael Ryan, I have taken and Seized as the property of the said Michael Ryan, viz:

All the Right, Title and Leasehold Interest of the said Illichael Ryan, in and to One Hundred Acres of Land, (1 little more or less, being part and parcel of Lot or Township Number 32. in Queen’s County.

I do hereby give Notice, that I ’ll‘lll Setup and Sell or Public Auction, at the Court House, in Charlottetown, on Thursday, the First day of April, 1841, at the hour of Twelve o’clock, noon, the above recited property.

' JOHN S. MACDONALD, Sheriﬁ" of Queen’s County.

Sherzﬂ’s Oﬂice, 27th March, 1840. »

MEN OF LOTS 49 (9 50, JW. RYAN IS NO W IN CHARLO TTE T0 IVN JAIL.

You ,tell the Electors that you have been selected: chieﬂy on account of your political principles, to fill your present situation, the stepping stone to which they placed for you. Into the reasons which induced your appointment, I presume not to enquire, but whatever those reasons may have been, they can, by no means, justify your de- sertion of the trust reposed in you. That trust was ne- ver-intendeiLto he, ypukstepping stone to the Council, and you Would have done yourself inﬁnitely more honof‘b'y respectfully declining the appointment, than you have achieved by its acceptance; and that, in the eyes both of your constituents and of your political opponents. Siirn Slick says “ he never looks on a desarter as any great shakes.” How your constituents will look upon you, remains to be seen; al though some among them, I under- stand, feel very much. disposed to award you that‘treut- ment generally bestowed upon puppies when they offend against propriety.

I must take the liberty to notice the following sentence of yours; in which we have so contemptible a display of mock modesty and pretended uuiility, as I have no doubt must have called forth a sneer of contempt from the least intelligent individual, who may have honoured your epistle with a perusal. “ You may, and I have no “ doubt will get a man of surpassing ability to mygelf' to “represent you, but that you will get one more alive to ‘= your interest or more desirous to serve and do his du- “ ty towards you than I have been, and will continue to be, “ I Will never believe.”

What, Sir, do you imagine any one will suppose that, in your heart, you believe aman of abilities surpassing yours, can be found? You! a man who has sliewn him- self to be the legal adviser of the House of Assembly; the man whose hands prepared the “voluminous Fisheiy Reserve Bill;” the man who can hold out to the people his hope of seeing this Island become, through his instrumen- talily, a second “ land of promise;” and, to crown all,tlie man who for his condemnation of, and opposition to, cer- tain avowed and constitutional principles of Her Majes- ty’s government,has been selected as an individual whom, in an especial manner, Her Majesty shall delight to ho- nour! Away With hypocrisy so disgusting, so‘cickening to common spnse, as your pretence that you believe any man, at least in these Colonies, can be found of abilities

,theh ,_ of 3 _.£1?eter: 7' lanefmet? , ‘iit

the lands alluded to, you have probably leased for some- -

1 justment. of the

. [COMMUNICATE‘IJJ I ; "At arneetin old this day, at,

Macfhrlanéf sqr ﬂew: sided as chainné’u, . Resolutions Wefgi‘ '

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adopted: ~ :3 - 1. Resolved, That the po ulh‘ Members of the resent ouse'

of Assembly have invariably.‘dis- charged their duties in .iheir Legislative Capacities asjmen‘bf consistency, integrity, and hon- our, therefore, this meeting hereby tender its acknovvled' 4 ment to the patriotic"and;irid ‘ pendent majority of said Hausa ‘; and this meetin indulge. ’ hope that ' the said House, withe. out any sacriﬁce of “principle, will yet.effect an equitable ad‘- grievances o’f‘

the-Colony. - _ ,z , , . . 2. Resolved, That thisglMeeﬁlm

highly it proves of thﬁj, ddt‘eié’

ofthe ouse of Assent ’t’o~

Her Majesty, passed, andZtrahge ‘ . 'i r

mitted last Session, regarding the Legislative Council, and it utterly (lispairs of any redress of- grievances while that bodylris constituted as at present; and, therefore, if an immediate remo- delling of that branch of tlié Colonial Legislature be .not speedily effected, by the intro- duction therein of such porous as will possess the conﬁdence Of the Colonists, this meeting pled- ges itself most vigorously to operate for the rte-annexation of this Colony to Neva. Scotia, ” which, however, is freolyﬁgimit. n ted will be the last resort. "- _3. ResolvedyThat the pmpd- sed additional Tax 0n Wilder- ’ ness Lands meets the moat/u - qualiﬁed disapprobation of this meeting, as such in its operative effect, would neither tend to relieve the Agriculturists of - the . Colony from the oppressioiis under which they labour, nor operate as a uarantee sufﬁcient to prevent urther inroads on popular rights. 4. Resolved, ing deplore the rejectioh‘ by the Legislative Connoil of the salu-

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the House oft'Assemblj for the adjustment of the Fishery Rc- - serves of the Colony;i.and this meeting pledges ‘itselfito use every constitutional eﬂ‘ortlin or- der to have the said‘Fisheiy Reserves thrown open to all Htr Majesty’s subjects, in accordance with Lord Glenelg’s Despatch, of May 12th, 1838. ‘ - '

5. Resolved, That many .of the grievances of this Colony have originated in the indulgences of 1816; therefore, this meeting conceives it to be an imperative duty of the House of Assembly, in its next Session, to appeal to the imperial judicial authorities 9: for their le indulgences. _

6. Resolved, That the Honora- ble the House of Assembly- be petitioned, during its next Ses- sion, to operate on the princi- ples of the foregoinchsolutions; and that Mes‘srs.’ Cooper 85 Bremner be requested‘ to give the Resolutions passed at this Meeting an insertion indigen- valued periodical.

MUNGo bhcrxnnsuat,

- Chairman:

"“St. Peter’s Road, Lot 34, January 5th, 1841.

surpassing yours. Your mind is certainly a strange col/z- pound: all boast, this minute; all humility, the next. _ In your silly pretensions to humility, you remind me of the philosopher, in whom pride was as conspicuous, through his filth.and rags, as ever it appeared beneath imperial purple—W'hoevcr may be your successor, Sir, or what ever may be thought of his abilities,— surpassing, or other« wise, I hope he will, \vithall, be one possessed of those valuable, those sterling endowments, common sense, and common honesty; one who will not encourage expecta- tions which he really knows can never be realized; one, the sincere, but not cajoling friend of his constituents; one who will not make it his whole business to sow jealousy and mistrust between those, whose trueinter- ests are severally best promoted when mutual conﬁdence, and good will prevail between them. Your successor, Sir, I hope may be one anxiousto ove himself a watch- ful guardian of the rights and w' are’of the Tenant; a promoter of agricxiltural improvements; the general, not partial, friend of the country; a lover of peace andordcr; and a hearty admirerﬁfand supporter of the Constitution. of his country. Such a successor, Sir, do I wish to see serving your constituents; and such a successor, if d‘uly supported in the House, would do more for his constitu- ents, and the country generally, in one Session, than any number of such men as can have no political inﬂuence or existence, unless by the creation of agitation for tin? promised attainment of some unattainable object,could effect through the whole duration of a Parliament. May .your late constituents then, Sir, have the good sense and good fortune to selectsucli a man; and they will not only he beneﬁted by,his attention to their locgljnterests, h t, by his strict impartiality on all questionsjaﬂ‘ecting the are general interests of thQColon’y. ’ _ 4 Now Sir, unde’i‘nb ctitious signature, I mug reluct- reluctantly, for-I have

t bid on adieu or the res‘ent- an 1y y I p ,to the Electors of the

.left much unsald,both to you and ‘ Third Electoral 'B‘imrict, which nothing but.iny want Dru time, and-a claim Eda larger space inthe medium throug which I have chosen to address you, wouldhave induced me to withhold. _

I am, honorable and much esteemed Sir, your most obedient humble servant, WILLIAM DOUSE.

Charlottetown, Dec. 28th, 1840.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE COLONIAL HERALD. '

Sm; With no small degree of ~ is “are have I read the many " communications published since the appointment of theHon. .C. Young—some of .- whiqh are, ,v to their authors, just 99 much lgbour in vain. What do they aim at? Whether it be to vent the spleen of their disappointed autth against Mr. Young, Qrfor. the purpose of disproviug any of his statqments, made in your last, I amin't a loss to knovw. , ‘

Mr. ‘0. P. (QB—that strict ob- seyver of public 'iiﬁiii-rsfquite aniuses with his hardlaboured epistle; and I Confess I wopld, give him much- more; credit for the production, if his statements were founded. in. fact; but so-far ﬁom ﬁelrbeing so, they are as fallacious as the author appears » to be grilled at Sir C. Mia Roy, and for what ?_ For appointing a man to a seat in the Legislative Council whom he afﬁrms to have been supported, and elected to a seat inthe House of Assembly of this Island, ‘byo Eschéatom. I

would ask Mr. “ .’~—II will not use ' i V

the other two letters of his signs: ' tore, to save traiible—yvhatisthe ‘ real characterdofﬁtho? W95. who an e . 1“ pm; my”; those whome nﬁscallsﬁsgiaiea‘i“ ors? They amimenﬂlngggc but little for Eschéuté-they . men of independengpﬁseeking for

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