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iate. Such immigrants became an immediate burthen to the community into which they were permitted to anter: and looking tothe direct interests of this Colony, he, for his own part, Would be much more inclined to} grant a prewitin for the conveyance of such persons to a country better fitted for their reception; and to which} their willingness to labour might be turned to good and} \uumediate account, than to admit them here on the pay- weut of head money. When the destitute and helpless xondition of the immense number of the Irish popula- ion, who were driven trum their native soil by the pres- «ares of poverty and the horrors of starvation, waa feel- ingly consilered. it apoeared actually cruel to tax gecuons whose safferings from destitution vere so great autheire; vet self- preservation was a paramount law, not oely with individuals bet with countries, and the exac- ‘jon of head money was absolutely necessary to protect «ne Colony in some degree from the burthen which would be thrown upon it by an extensive influx of such 4mmigrants: with that view the Act was passed.

Mr. Loap, to prove the rates of head money in the Act to be excessive, stated that an individual who, with his family, had emigrated from the Old Country to Prince Edward, in ene of his (Mr. Lord's) vessels, had, ia addition to the passage money, to pay from £16 to £17 head money.

After a few further remarks from Messrs. Palmer and Davies, thé House was restmed. and the Bill reported agreed to with amendments. ‘The report was received, and the Bill ordered to be engrossed.

On Monday, 18th Mareh, the Immigrants Bill was read a third time and passed.

OVaRBSPONDENGS,

MR. WARBURTON’S VERSION OF THE CON- FERENCE vs. “ MODERATUS.” Lot 11, April 13, 1850.

My Dean Sin—

In the Gazetle of Tuesday last, a second letter signed + Moderatus” hag made its appearance. Although | have, upto the present time, rarely ifever answered anonymous communications, particularly those contain- ing persona! attacks upon myself, yet, the present one, from the inaccuracy of its assertions, requires some no-

tice, which otherwise it dees not merit. In the letter, thé following passage occursa:—“ Previously, however, to their (Me¢sts. Coles Warburton and Swabey} leaving Government House, it was avreed upon by both parties that neither was to be bound by its admisstons, but that matters were to stand ag they did before the interview had taken plade.”” The truth of the assertion Ff freely admit; it was, therefore,to meso matter of no- littl astonishment to find that the agreement, if k may call it such, between his Excellency and the Gentlemen en- gaged in the transaction, was substantially violated, in- as-much as the salary of the Chief Justice was put down io the estimates gent to the House at £700 per annum, when it was well known that the majority of the House did not think that the Cirief Justice ought to be bound by an arrangement which was not to be considered as binding on ang of fhe other: parties concerned ; and as regards the ©hief Justice, who, in my humble opinion, inerits the applause of-all liberal minded men for the congessions he has made, I have no hesitation in assert- ig, that he has not been fairly dealt with. Ilis Excel- ieacy demanded £900: a year for that Gentleman, be- s:des £200, to inake up.the deficiency fir tast year ;. in ract, refused to take less, and he now binds him to take £700 per annum, being the only exception to the ar- rangement which was to be “ binding on none of the parties.”

Aa to the attack on myself, as an individual, I shall merely refer to the Speech of Mr. Palmer, grounded, f presume, on Tis Excettency’s version of the affair, wherein statements were made at variance with facts, ea thecause why [ considered it my duty to produce a document, nut originally intended for publication.

The correspondent of the Gazetle must, in truth have hiwed far away in.the wooda, if he believed that men hke myself aud Mr. Coles, “ advocates of Responsible Sovernment,” were 60 anxious to obtain office as to en- ter a Counci| declared by a large majority of the House wot to possess the confidence of the people.

l regret as much a3 any one that the House was! canapelled to resort to. the extreme measure of stopping} ‘né Supplies, at the-same time Fbelieve they had no other alternative ond would under similar circumstances do itagain, and that they. would by so doing gain the un- yualified approval of the majority of the inhabitants of jae Colony.

I shall sot notice the Editorials in the Gazette Srrther sana to refer the sapient Editur of that very independent Journal, to times gone by. Vide a letter published by

‘ae proprietor ofthe Gazeite on the subiect of 2 certain!

commaaication addressed to the Proprietors of Land by Sir Charles. Fitzroy, and to express my admiration of the Reeponsible principles now advocated by him,— bat, Mr. Whelan, “ Que-a Deus oult perdere prius. de- f remain yours, very truly, JAMES WARBURTON. To Cowan» Wartax, Bsq MP. 2.

Hcaurse #83 Clear indication of the positive good which

CONFERENCE.” To'rne Eviror or Tite Examiner. Sin,— -

I perceive, bythe Gazelle of the 9th inst., that “ Mode- ratus” has transmitted another of his intended mystifiers across the fish-nond; to answer, ut once, as I suppose, a deublé’ purpose: first, to serve as a private Despatch to Her Majesty’s Printer, and, in the second, to save the real or supposed Editor of the Gazelie from the re- sponsibility of an editorial leader to the seme effect. According to the first opinion expressed by* Modera- tus,"in the inystifier now under my consideration, it was the express duty of Messrs, Coles, Warburton, and Swabey to accept of the three Seats in the Executive Council offered to them by His Excellency—although, even then, the majority would have consisted of men opposed to the political views of the majority In the Assembiv—and having cone so, it would have been a further duty obligatory upon Mesars. Coles, and War- burton, as leading members of the Assembly to have used their best endeavours to promote the completion of the public business of the Session.

To this opinion of “ Moderatus,” I beg leave, Sir, to answer, that Messra. Coles, Warburion and Swabey seem to have had a perfect knowledge of their posi- tien between His Excellency and the Assembly, and to have fully understood the principle for which they and the majority in the Assembly were eontending, and, throughout the conference, evicently to have sought, earnestly and honestly, to induce His Excellency to exhibit a practical recognition of it, for the satisfaction of the people, in the structure of his Council.

The course of conduct and Jine of policy pursued by those three gentlemem, fron¥ the opening of the confer- ence to its close, reflects the highest credit upon them in the estimation of all who honestly desire such a wholesome reform in the Government us may conduce

the entire community. They have clearly shewn that their honour, integrity, and conscientious steadfastness of purpose were too strong to be overcome, or even shaken, by offers or prospeets of personal aggrandize- mentor gain; and their consistent public independence, besides the satisfaction which it must afford to the whole liberal party throughout the Island, reflects no inconsiderable degree of credit upon the majority in the Assembly, for the wisdom and discernment which have induced them to acknowledge such men for the:r politi- cal leaders.

These three gentlemen, no doubt, saw not only that, by their accepting of seats at the Executive Board, the establishment of the principle for which they were con- tending would be brought no nearer, but that their doing so would really be, in effect, a grarentee to the present Government and Officials that they sheald be left in secure and undisturbed possession of their power and emoluments for twelye months longer; and that moreover, in another, Session, their compromise— for such if would have been—might lead to a succeas- ful repetition of the same juggling and deceit to the game cred:

By the prudent and independent conduct of these gentlemen, however, this temporary security to malad- ministration and the corruption which it protects, has, happily, been denied; and the majority of the House, influenced by the same uncompromising public spirit which governed those gentlemen in declining compli- ance with the arrangement proposed tu them by His Excellency, have so far checked the motion of the State-Coach wheels, that the people rejoice in the assured hope that they will soon altogether cease to revolve for the sale benefit and pleasure of those who rave Jonge grossly abused the priviiege—-unjustly conferred upon them and unwisely continued to them— to direct and control all its motions.

But “ Moderatus,” on the contrary, infrenced by a wonderfully strong fellow-feeling with the State-Coach Guards, Drivers, and Cads—now fearfully and trem- dlingly anticipating their dismissal, without either re- commendatory character or consolatory pecuniary consideration—seems himself almost to shudder at the thoughts of the degradation and destitution which awaitand threaten some of the nnprovident members of the official train; and—seerrg how great an advantage those gentlemen with “itching palms” might have de- rived fronan unlewful appropriation of the impost duties, had the House of Asseinbly been «> unwise and unwary as, by the passing ofa Revenve Bill, to place its probable proceeds within the reach of their venal graep—he accuses the majority of the House of having needleasly and rashly endangered the inte-ests of their constituents by the withholding a Revenue Act; and hopes, no doubt, by so doing, to excite, amongst the constitnen- cies, feeling of distrust and dissatisfaction, as respects the views and proceedings of their representatives, But were “ Moderatus capable of forme any thing like an approach to 8 proper estimate of the stern deter- mination, into which the people have been goaded, by long mierule and unjust exaction ; he would, at orce, be convinced that, instead of feeling a predisposition to be icted upon to his wiek, by such s condemnatory review. of the wery unusua! aad extreme course taken by their representativee, they trustfully and joyfeliv regard that,

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they ought to have done, would have been qui'e as ap. wise in them, ag it would be foolish in one country to ‘supply another, from its own resources, with the megpe of carrying On &@ war againét its own interests.

Another charge preferred against Messre. Coleg Warburton, and Swabey, by “ Moderatus,” is that, . committing to paper what took place between His Ey. celleney and themselves, they violated that honourable confidence which ought to subsist between gentiemen.

Vas the conference which took place between His Ey. cellency and those gentlemen one involving merely individual or private interests? No; most assuredly it was not: the considerations in question were of a mos: important character; and the conference and its issre as much concerned the people at large, although pn lvately held within the wails of Government House, a8 the proceedings of the most public meeting ever held in the Island for the most genera! purposes. Wasi not then due to the people, that they should be minutely informed concerning every particular of the * éonfer- ence,” that they might be enabled rightly to judge, og so important @ subject, between the Representative of Her Majesty and the gentlemen who represented the majority of the popular Branch of the Legislature, and, by consequence, the interests of the majority of the con- stituencies? ‘T'o argue otherwise, would be altogeihee to Jeave out of the question, the Best mterests and most important rights of those for whose benefit both the Ge- vernment and the House of Assembly have bees established.

This consideration however apért, the circumstance of the Hon Mr. Palmer's having given, in. his place is the Assembly, a version of the patticulare of * the con- ference,” as imparted to him by Mis Excellency, widely differing in some of its leeding features from the written statement afterwards read by Mr Warburton, a'so in his place in the House, is a complete justifica tion of the jealous precaution which induced Mensere.

to the social snd political improvement and benefit of|Coles, Warburton, and Swabey to commit all the circum-

stances toa safer keeping, than that of a treacheroue memory. And, in reviewing the whole affair, it ought not to be forgotten, that the contradiction given, by the Hon. Mr. Palmer, to the verba! statement of Mr. Coles, called forth the production of the written one from Mr. Warburton, who, it appears, would have foreborne t produce it, had it not been absolutely necessary to have recourse to it in order to shew the House whose version of the matter—that of Mr. Coles or ofthe Hon. Mr.. Palmer—was the most worthy of being relied upon.

The gentlemanly forbearance which Mr. Warburtoa evidently wished to observe—and from which he depart- ed only when compelled, by the inaecuracy of the Hon. Mr. Palmer’s statement, to do ao in vindication of the truth of one of the gentlemen with whom he had bees associated mm “ the conference,”—appears to heve beer quite misunderstood or unappreciated by “ Moderatus” ; who, in a very wungeatiemanly manner takes leave to in- sinuate, under shelter of his nom de guerre, that Mr. Warburton, in consequence of his long abode in “ the Bush,” had become so rude and rustic, as to have ceae- ed torremember what, on such anoccasion, was due from one gentleman to another. The conduct of Mr. War- burton, on the contrary, arieing, as it certainly did, from the impulsive feelings of the moment, which led him boldly to assert and defend the truth of his friend; when impugned even under the senction of the highest indrvidual aethority in the land ; is sufficient to convines any man capable of justly estimating the character of @ true gentleman, that the miad of Mr. Warburton ve strongly and deeply imbued with the immutable prines- ples of truth, honour, justice, and conrage, which are invariably found to regulate the behaviour and goverg the actions of every inan justly entitled to the distinet- ive appellation of “a gentieman.” By a due consideratios of the two following lines of Pope's, and a just diseri- mination of the two characters, atrongly, though briefis, contrasted therein, “Moderatus” may, perhaps, be. secretly informed touching the real difference between, hitnself and Mr. Warburton.

« Worth makes the man, end want cf it the fellow:

The rest is ail but feather and prenelle.” “ Moderatus” has very feebly endeavoured to justify. the conduct of His Excellency, with reference to the subject of the conference; urging: that to have entirely remodelied his Council would have been to contravene the instructions of the Imperial Govermment, which he was bound te observe. Without here again insisting upon the erroneous construction put upon the last twe Despatches of Karl Grey by His Excellency and hie advisers, I wil] now only remark that it appears to huve completely escaped the observation of “ Moderetva™ jthat, to.effect or establish any thing like a juetificaticn lof Flis Excellency, touching that qnestion, it would be requisite to be abie to prove that fis Excellency, on ideterming wpon tle disaolutian of the last House, i> ‘modiately tranamitted 2 Despsteh to the Colonia! Of ce. acquainting Earl Grey with the important step which he had taken, or was about to take, snd requesting to be favoured with positive instructions, by which to regu'ste his public conduct, in the event of the new Assenit)y's Proving one determined to effect, if possible, the esis. blishment of Responsible Government in the Colony Having omitted to do this, His Excellency most mete: rially failed im the performance of his uuty: und, te that failure and neglect, coupled with the unwi!lingrese

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