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THE EXAMINER.

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said, have they shewn ‘and proved themselves to be to case of the Hon. George C

His Excellency; especially ever sface the time Bien Beragneeewen agility prove

prone and sinuous power of the mighty monster. : And lerstand, that he would no longer suffer himself to be/ others too, marked for its certain prey, will ae d iaade a tool of for the furtherance ef their selfish de- triumph over its prostrate and defeated fad _ . signs, or a cloak for the concealment of their misma-|amongst whom, as their chosen champion, we ae nagement of the public affairs of the Colony. V. Huntley, whose iron nerves and indom} : aes The Links of the Family Compact Chain.—It appears will yet prove—so hopes every honest and in “een * that James Peake, Esquire, has lately been mainly in-| man in the Colony—as fatal to the monstrous - 2 - strumental in raising a large amount of money, to be devouring reptile, as were the spear and sword of St. deposited in the military chest of Zhe Black Watch, for George to the devastating and an ae a general service, but that the first issue therefrom isto} 7'he Infamous Pamphlet.—But, slightly, an — be in favour of the dark-looking Colonel of The Black language, to advert to some of the most famous . ie Watch, Joseph Pepe, and of his sallow-complexioned the famous deeds.of the Family Compact Party or as Secretary, the Hon. Edward Palmer, who are forthwith Watch ; and to begin with one of the most atrocious

he first, distinctly and wnmistakeably, gave them to un-

oles, whose upright and|of Rent Rolls, d an over-match for the

to be sent #s a deputation to London, from the ,faithfwl|and disgraceful—the infamous pamphlet—well may 3 Black Watch, (ever faithful, it is most true, to their be asked if that villainous production was, or could be own interests) laden with a monstrous weight of skil-|read, by any man—not to say of a noble and generous full y-manufactured charges against His Excellency | nature—but merely of plain honesty and simple decency, Sir H. V. Huntley, which they are eitherto deposit, for without awakening in his bosom the strongest feelings His Excellency’s condemnation and overthrow, in the of virtuous indignation, and calling up into his face a Office of the Colonial Secretary, or, humbly, for the | blush of shame for the characters--so disgraceful to same purpose, to lay at the feet of Her most gracious human nature—who could dictate, pen, publish and dis- Majesty the Queen. _ tribute a libel, so false, malignant, foul, and atrocious.

The naming of the very great pecuniary service just) And yet some of these eharacters are entitled, and ought vendered to The Black Watch, or Family Compact Party, to be, Honorable men, and are or were then near, in by Mr. Peake, very naturally suggests an enquiry re-| place and office, to him whom they so vilely and un-

specting his connection therewith; and, in answering gratefully traduced. It shall not now be asked—for such enquiry, an opportunity is afforded of giving a such a query is needless—whether Joseph Pope, Ksq.,| faithful, although very amusing, accgunt of the several furnished the materiel—the venom and “the ¢able-talk;” Links of the Family Compact Chain. ‘and neither need it now be enquired whether “the noto-'

Mr. Peake, then, the voluntary and active Commis-! rious Collard,” with his “ready pen,” as the only “ lite- sary of The Blatk Watch, is brother-in-law to the Hon. rary man,” or rather tool, of the Party, prepared the

Member of the Executive Council, Clerk of the same, —the shame of doing the shameful work of Honorable Clerk of the Legislative Council, Master and Examiner men. And egquaily needless would it now be to ask, ia Chancery, Registrar of the Vice Admiralty Court, | who were the subscribers to “the dirty work,” and Junior Judge in the Supreme Court, and Naval Officer, whose the press: men require not to be told the things and Commissioner for investing the Glebe-Land Fund, they know.

and to the Hon, John Brecken; and these two gentle-| ‘he Constitutionalist—The next in order of their men are first Cousins to the Attorney General: and the recent famous deeds, was the getting up of a Paper, Prothonatory, who are brothers: the former of these called “ T'he Constitutionalist ;” the unconstitutional and brothers is. brother-in-law to the Treasurer and to the avowed object of which was to write down His Excel- Collector of Excise, and cousi.to.the Provost Marshal, lency Sir H. V. Huntley—the editor thereof being the who is the son of the Hon. T. H: Haviland; and the aforesaid “ notorious and ready-penned Collard.” “The Jatter of the said brothers is brother-in-law to the Sur-| Constitutior list,” however, with its dull-toned, heavy, veyor General, to the Road Correspondent, and to the and cumbrvas unwieldy articles, failed in its high at-

Collector of Customs and Excise for Souris Harbour:|tempt. It failed in “ writing down the Governor ;” but}

and the Surveyor General is first cousin to Joseph Pope, it soon “ wrote down,” or rather broke down itself. The Lsq., Collector of Custotas and Excise for Bedeque, editor and the machine were a great deal too heavy for Commissioner of Roads, &c, &c. &c., who is. nephew ‘its supports. The Honorable supports had borne enouglt to Dr. St. Croix, father-in-law of the Hon. John Brecken, they withdrew, and both the editor and machine imme- Legislative and Executive councillor, and Commis- | diately fell to the ground.

sioner of Small Debts, who is brother-in-law to Doctor: Mackieson, Health Officer and Medical Attendant at tie Lunatic Asylum, who is first cousin to the McNutts

of Darnley, one of whom is brother-in-law to Joseph

Pope, Esq.; and the late Hon. Peter S. McNutt was brother-in-law to Francis Longworth, Esq., Commis-| sioner of Small Debts, who is brother-in-law to Charles Haszard, Esq., Commissioner of Small Debts, who is

first cousin to the Hon. E, Palmer, who is brother-in-.

The Election of the Hon. George Coles.—Next comes under review the determined opposition made by the Family Compact Party or Black Watch, to the return of the Hon. George Coles to the House of Assembly at his recent election. On that occasion T'he Black Watch took the field, in full force, and confident of victory. Not a man was wanting. From their dark-looking Colonel, Pope, down to the meanest slave and servant of their wills, all were furiously zealous and active in

and all the fear of Ledger Balances, could procure. To obtain signatures to their penne __-which is merely a new version of the Infamous Pain- phiet—the emissaries of the Compact have scoured the country far and wide, and all that cajolery, money, Or threats could do, has been done to procure them.

The Compact and their Deputation, (so says report) are in high hopes and high glee. Little do they ween that, when the game comes to be played ip London, they may be check-mated, and all their exultant mirth and glee turned into hopeless sorrow. They indeed reckon without their host, if they take not into account the weight which will attach, at the Colonial Office, to Petitions in favour of Sir Henry, signed by hundreds and thousands of stout and independant yeomen ; who now perceive that Sir Henry is, in deed, what he ever was, in heart, the enemy of misruie and corruption, and the sincere friend of “the people.” Let not the Com- pact “lay the flattering unction to their souls”—the lope that they will prevail against their enemy—the enemy of pluralities, of dealings with the public money, of trafficing and jobbing in Warrants, of selling and bartering of offices, and of all the other unfair and un- constitutional means by which they have secured to themselves almost every place of profitable emolument in the Colony, shut up the door and blocked up the path against the fair and honorable ambition of all who. belong not to their Compact, and baffle every attempt of the friends of “the people” to procure for the Colony the benefits and protection of Responsible Government, the establishment of which they know must prove their downfall. Well may they be the implacable, the sworn enemies of the friends of Investigation and Responsi- ble Government; and easy it is to account for their deadly antipathy to Sir Henry, the determined promo- ter of the one, and to the Hon. G. Coles, the staunch and unflinching advocate of the other.

Mr. Coles was born and bred in this counrty, of which, its resources, its capabilities, and its wants, few, if any, of its inhabitants possess a more accurate knowledge. He is also well acquainted with all the transactions, barterings, and dealings, of the Family Compact, by the means of which they have risen to wealth and power; and well, ably, and fearlessly, has he set all these forth in the following speech upon Res- ponsible Government; for the publication of which, we think, no fitter time could be found than the present. A meagre report of it has certainly already been before the public; but that report is far short, in accuracy and s, from the subjoined, as reported by Mr. Preedy.

ROM THE DEBATE ON RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.

Mr. Cours, having been called upon by the hon. member for Charlottetown, previous to the adjournment,

made the following reply:—In the first place, Sir, I ‘heard the hon. member state, that Lord John Russell ‘had changed his opinions on the subject of Responsi-

|ble Government since he wrote the Despatch of 1839;

but [am at a loss to understand how he can reconcile that assertion with the more recent opinions of his Lord- ship; and I will, therefore, for his especial instruction, ‘read some observations, made by Lord John Russel}

‘and Lord Glenelg relative to such a system of Respon-

‘sibility as ought to exist in every department of Govern-

‘ment. Sir, this morning I gave as my opinion, that the

law to Thomas B. Tremain, Esq., Commissioner of their attempts to drive Mr. Coles from the field. A]||Governor had no confidence in his present Executive

Small Debts, and brother to H. Palmer, Esq., Usher of the Black Rod, and to Donald Palmer, Esq., of Crapaud, Commissioner of Small Debts, whois brother-in-law to

Mr. Wright of Bedeque, High Sheriff of: Prince County,

who is first cousin to Messrs. Dodges and Cundall Justices of the Peace and Commissioners of Sma! Debis for Queen's County. These are the principal! and strongest links of the Pamily Compact Chain; but

towards its tail end (so to speak, and with propriety enough too; for, in more than one sense, does this chain| resemble the serpent tribe,) towards the tail end there| are numerous, aye, almost numberless smaller links:

such as Charles Stewart, Esq., of Rose Bank, Hich Sheriff of Queen’s County, and Commissioner of Sal! Debts; Mr. Albert H. Yates, Purveyor for The Black Watch ; not forgetting Messrs. Hyndman and Morris, who, with Mr. George Beer, Farmer, and his son Mr. George Beer, Butcher, lately added to the chain, | nearly terminate its boa-constrictor length.

Well indeed may this living Chain be compared to. the Serpent tribe, aye, and to the largest of the genus, It is ever on the watch for its prey : ever ready to seize, crush, and devour. But its hoped-for victim sometimes escapes its crushing folds and insatiate maw; as in the

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their efforts, however, proved abortive; and they them- selves were, in the end, forced to sound a retreat.

Mr. Coles was opposed by the Family Compact and their retainers, chiefly on account of his being a friend

, and supporter of Sir Henry. Thathe was the steadfast

friend and supporter of Sir Henry, was well known to the electors; and yet he was returned, in: spite of all the opposition made against him—the strongest, per- haps, that any candidate for elective suffrages had to withstand in this Colony.

Now let it be enquired, what these facts prove ? Why, it clearly proves this—it proves that for which it is in-

‘troduced—that, in Queen’s County, Sir H. V. Huntley

is far more popular than the Family Compact.

The Deputation.—The object of the Deputation— deputed by about fourteen individuals of Charlottetowa, who modestly, in their Circular, stvle themselves “the

most respectable inhabitants” of the town—is to pray | ‘Her Majesty, or Her Majesty’s Principal Colonial Se-| cretary, not io re-appoint Sir H. V. Huntley to the Gov-

ernment of this Colony. To effect this object, the De-

putation is provided with a Petition or Petitions, to

which are attached as many signatures, as all the ex- tensive influence of the Family Compact, all the dread

‘Council, and the hon. member for Charlottetown mo- idestly asked me if I derived my information from his

|Excellency. I am surprised at the question, for the.

‘hon. member cannot be ignorant of the fact that such is the case; but, if he really is so, I advise him to put ‘the question to his Excellency, and then, if common re- \port is worth anything, he will find, what he must be already fully aware of, that he, for one, does not enjoy the confidence of his Excellency. The thing is notori- ous, Sir, and men of deeency and spirit would not con- tinue in office under such a circumstance. This is my. |opinion, and it is one in which the hon. Speaker and [ agree, although such an event seldom occurs. He. the Speaker, delivered himself of that opinion on the floor of this House; and, when we have this evidence fron one who has so lately seen one of the Executive body

and must know the real truth of the matter, it is trui ‘very modest in the hon. member for Charlottetown, to ‘pretend ignorance of the fact. He endeavors, Sir, to excnée himself for having supported a Newspaper ‘got up for the avowed purpose of calumniating and opposing the views of the Lieutenant Governor. He sees nothing in this. Some one, he says, put his name on the list of subscribers. The paper was brought to his door weekly

and he took it in; and, it seemed, thought no harm in thus countenancing the most scurrilous abuse of the ‘head of the administration, of which he formed a part. { contend, Sir, that if officials aided a publication of

tons to get it started, and

‘this nature, by their subscrip ithen te continue it, that it was indecent in them to. do

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