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have been applied; I had not. used the hooks at the time of the discovery. ‘I’ke tan put into the tea chest, was taken from a barrel of it that had been in the labo- ratory for some time. ‘The bag of tan bronght in on Monday was not used, nor Gntended to be used; it be- longed to a quantity obtained by mea long time ago, for experiments in tanning, and was sent m by the fami- ly to get itout of the way. Its being sent in just at

hat time was accidental. [ was not aware that I had put the knife in the chest. ‘Vhe stick found in the saucer of ink, was for making coarse diagrams on cloth, The brinch of filed keys had been used long ago by me in Fruit street. and thrown carelessly by into a drawer. I never. examined them, and do not know whether they would fit any of the locks of the college or not. If there were other keys fitting doors with which I had nothing to do, I suppose they must have al] been duplicates, or keys of former locks left there by the mechanics or janitor. I know nothing about them amongst the multitude of articles, large and amall, of all kinds, col- lected inmy rooms. ‘The janitor had furnished me with a key to the dissecting room, fur the agmission of medi- cal friends visiting the College, but | f¥d never used it. The nitric acid on the stairs was not used to remove spois of blood, but was dropped by accident. When the officers called for me on Friday, the 30th, | was in

doubt whether { was under arrest, or whether a more|.

strict search of my rooms were to be had; the Jatter bypothesis being hardly less appalling than the former. When I found that we went over Cragies’ Bridge, | thought the arrest most probable. When I found that the carriage was stopping at the jail, I was sure of my fate. Betore Jeaving the carriage,1 took a dose of strychnine from my pocket and swallowed it. | had pre-| pared it in the shape ofa pill before I left my labora- tory onthe 23rd. I thought I could not bear to survive detection. I thought it wasa large dose. Tbe state of my nervous system, probably defeated its action par- tially. The,effects of the poison were terr.vle bevond description. It was in operation at the Wollege, and before I went there, but most severely afterwards. | wrote but one of the anonymous letters produced at the trial—the one mailed at East Carabridge. The little bundle referred to in the letter detained by the jailer, contained only a bottle of citrict acid, for domestic use. i had seen it stated in a newspaper that | had purchased a quantity of oxali¢ acid, which it was presumed was ‘o be used in removing diood stains. I wish the parcel to be kept untouched, that it may be shown, if there should be occasion, what it really was.that I had pur- chased. I have drawn up, in separate papers, an expla- nation of the use [ intended to make of the blood sent vor on. Thursday, the 22nd. and of the conversation with Littlefield about the dissecting vault. I think that Pet- tee, in his testimony at the trial, put too strongly my words about having settled with Dr. P., and make some atrangement with him, and was said in order to quiet, Pettee, who wae becoming restive under the solicitations of Dr. Parkman.

After Dr. Webster had:stated most of the facts record- eJ above on the 23d May, this question, with all the ear- nestness, solemnity, and authority of tone that Dr, Put- nam was master of; was addressed him :—

‘Dr. Webster, ia all probability your days are nam- vered; you-cannot, you dare not speak falsely to me now; you must not die with a lie in your mouth; so, prove to yourself that your repentance for the sins of your past life is sincere—tell the truth then—a confi- dence to be kept sacred during your life time, and as much longer as my regard for the happiness of your family shall seem to me to require, and the interest of truth and justice to permit. Search to the bottom of your heart for the history of your motives, and tell me, before God, did it never occur to you, before the decease af Dr. Parkman, that his death, if you could bring it to pass, would be of great advantage to you, or at least that personal injury. might possibly be the.result of your expected conference. with him! As a cying man, J charge you to answer.me truly and exactly, or else be silent—had:you not su¢h.a thought ?”

“No, never,’ said he.with energy and feeling; “as } live, and as God is my witness, never!; I was no mare capable of such a thought than one of my innocent elnidren. | never had-the semotest idea of injuring. Dr, P. until the moment the blow was struck. Dr. P. was extremely severe and sharp-—the most proyoking of men—and I am irritable and passionate. A quick handed and br f violence of temper has been a beset- ting sin of my lite. I was an only child--—much in- dulved--and-} have never acquired the control over ny. passions that [ ought to have.acquired.early, and the consequence is.all this.” :

“But you notified Dr. Parkman to meet you at a cer-| tain hour, and told him you would. pay hun, whea you knew you had not the money ?”

“No,” he replied. “I, did not tell him, would pay him, and there is no evidence that I told hinso. Mx- cept my own words spoken afier-lus disappearance, and after | had determined to take the groved that L had paid him, those words were a,migerable.ticsue of false- boods to which I was committed froin the moment I had hegan to conceal the homicide. I,never had a thought of injuring Parkman.” :

This wes accompanied by the statement in which) Professor Webster attempts to explain as to his seeing

Luttlefield, sending for blood, and gf enquiring alvant! ceses from the vault. After reading-the statement Dr.’ Putnam proceeded to argue as to its truthfulness, saying,

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THE BKADINER.

that it was made when the writ, of error was still pend- ing. Also, that Professor Webster’s estate was worth several thousand dollars and that he was not in such a strait as to commit such acrime deliberately. The previous petition from Profesior Webster, protesting his innocence ahd praying for absolute pardon, he said, was got up by his family, who were unwavering in their be- lief in his innocence, until his confession was commu- nicated to them about a week since. He coneluded in asserting his belief that the confession Was true. |

Members of the council have retained a copy of the petition previously presented, and withdrawn by the advice of Dr. Putman, which will probably be published. It asserts his innocence, and it also asserts that Little- field, or e other person, placed the remains in his room, to compass his ruin.

GOAAISPONDAN.

“A fool uttereth all his mind, but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.”

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To THE Epiror or THE EXAMINER.

Mr. WHELAN ; |

Sir,—Of all the stupid, silly, and false productions that have ever emanated from a Bacchanalian’s brain, a letter which appeared in the Islander of the 5th inst, signed “ William Douse,” must have the pre-eminence. It contains a presumptuous attempt to.shew that it was the ‘Freeholders of the Southern Townships of the Third District that secured for. Mr. Douse his re-election. The Poll Books, however, prove this assertion decidedly false. At Murray, Harbour Road polling division, Douse polled 63 votes, all tenants; M‘Nell I vote—the only Freeholdes’s vote polled in that division At Bel- fast, the principal part of the Freeholders remained at home, and those who voted for Mr. Douse did so because he publicly. promised to advocate Responsible Govern- ment; and, at Bell Creek, very few independent Free- holders came forward. It is, therefore, an incontrovert- ible fact, that Mr. Douse would not have been re-elected were it not that he is Lord Selkirk’s Land Agent, proved by a reference to the Poll Books, to which I would beg to direct the attention of any person who may be so incredulous as to dispute these statements.

Now, Mr. Douse must submit that his Jetter contains a false statement, in saying that two-thirds of the free- holders of the southern townships gave him unsolicited support. Wi5ill Mr. Douse deny writing letters to those freeholders, telling them that he had distributed all his turnip seeds, but he would purchase another supply whea he went to Charlottetown, and conchuding his kind Notes by reminding them of the approaching contest, hoping they would not only support him themselves, but induce all their friends to do likewise, &c.? If he has the audacity to deny writing such letters, I can prove that I read one of them, signed “ William Douse ;’ and surely no one would forge his name to a letter.

Will A. McDougall, Esquire, deny canvassing at Murray Harbour Road, Green Marsh, &c., for Douse? Was not Malcolm Blue, who is Douse’s wood-ranger, seen and heard, both day and night, in the back settle- ments of Wood Islands, sounding an alarm among the people against the radical M‘Neill? And how did John Douse employ his time fur weeks previous to the Election? Will that young blockhead dare to deny his having driven through the District, disseminating falsehoods, and attempting to stir up prejudice againsi me, by different ways and means too base to mention.

I might here refer to the unprincipled proceedings of severa] other understrappers ; but let the above suffice for the present. Old Douse himself called al] the vo- taries he could get to worship with him at the shrine of Bacchus: and when the inspiration ef that god influ- enced his seered conscience, he vociferated against short leases, and told the tenants they must have 999 years leases in place of 20 years, and that the back rents should be buried in oblivion’s gulph—that £150 must be granted for the completion of a Church—and that vessel-building must immediately commence at Port Selkirk, and the dilapidated castles at that place made to assume a more stirring aspect. These, and 4 host of other charitable deeds, were about to emanate fromahe fat Agent, that, by his activity in their prose- cution, he might get rid of the ponderous weight now hanging about him by reason of his carnivorous gulosity.

But, alas! the Lion hag not yet become a Lamb ; nor is he made to eat straw; as may be learned from the Agenv’s letter, whereinhe speaks of the indolence of those who will be “ compelled to give place to others of more sterling character,” This is a reflection upon Lord Selkirk’s tenants which comes with very bad grace from one who is well known, to have grown fat on the sweat of many a poor man’s brow; and who, after

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I need not inform the public that M os schemed™ for a living, and also “ schemed” on and

property from people;.forsthe fact

all who are biceieeinted ae falta aa ag If fam “ pénnyless” it is no disgrace to me: and’ if Mr. Douse can boast of wealth, for that wealth, ag ( T as his seat in the Assembly, he is solely indebted . “the Ways and Mea "and the influenc which whist standing in. “ His Lordship shoes,” bee with ambi.

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ae skill, create im ut as poverty is the only stigma th ae by ey tier I Sig es * ies upon my ive glance at his own circumstances whe landed on this, my Island home ! ‘Theoldeen — me, that all the preperty he claimed was two littie ani- mals of the vermin kind called “ Ferrete,” which he let loose at Souris, East Point. These creatures hain hungry—as, probably their owner was at that time, and lean too—they devoured the Rats fo that degree that they poisoned themselves and died! Thus ended the carreer of Douse’s Ferrets. ‘What bounty the old wo men of Souris paid him ‘or exterminating the Rats from their Dairies, &c., I am not prepared at present to state. I would next remind the dunghill, puree upstart of the time when’ he was known as Coox in a camp, at or near York River Bridge, for a number of lumberers, engaged in the late Mr. Cambridge’s em. ploy ;—and then as to his “scheming,” a smal! lot of garden seeds, some cow bells, a few gallons of Rem, &c., into a small hut in Charlottetown, where he sold his trumpery wares to such as would get half drunk with his poisonous Rum. From thence he proceeded in uest of the Landlord’s Rent Roil. But, Mr. Editor,as

do not wish either to weary the patience of your readers, or to intrude upon your space, I will “keep” the remaining part of the Fat Agent’s history “until afterwards,” and hasten to a close by reminding him that * People living in glass houses should not throw stones,” assuring him also, that having truth on my side. I fear him not, though swelled like a Bull-frog teasec by a school boy.

Yours respectfully, ARCHIBALD M‘NEILL.

Mount Vernon, 13th July, 1850.

Che Examiner.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17,. 1850.

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THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE} OFFICES IN QUEEN SQUARE AND THAT IN DOWNING STREET.

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Tue learned editor of the Royal Gazette has said, “ It is clearly evident that the majority of the House of Assembly, when they stopped the Supplies, were not aware of the extent of the mischief they might possi- bly occasion.” That that gentleman has, both very fre- quently and very greatly erred, not only in judgment but in practice, as well professionally as otherwise, isa fact which, we presume,. he cannot well deny; but it is scarcely possible that he can ever have conjectured or advanced any thing more essentially at variance with the real facts of the case, than: the assertion that the majority of the House of Assembly were not fully aware of the utmost extent of the embarrassment which would or might be occasioned by their stoppage of the Supplies.

When the Lieutenant Governor had broken faith with the Liberal Party, and, by a most disingenuous subter- fuge, sought to evade the concessions which, in duty and in honor, he was bound to make, the liberal majority in the Assembly at once wisely and constitutionally determined to embarrass and obstruet, to the utmost o! their power, the unpopular Goverament which stood in the way of thorough and salutary reform, and which His Excellency refused to dissolve: and to that end— and to no.other—did they stop tke Supplies. There wag not, however, positively involved in that measure

jany danger to “the peace of the community or obstruc~

tion to the administration of the Jaws.” Nevertheless, had these consequences resulted from it, it would have been “clearly evident” that “the odium and unpopu- larity” ereated by them couki not, with justice, fali upon any but the. Lieutenant Governor aud hit Council.

The policy which dictated the withholding of theSup- plies has, it must be confessed, not yet fully aecomplish- ed its object; but it isnow becoming Very appzrent that His Excellency and his Government are caught by.

having accumulated both flesh and, wealth, through the Rent Roll, has the impudence to. threaten those to! whom, a few weeks ago, he was going te grant long; leases, &c., &c. [ think, therefore, that. such undeni-| able statements are sufficient to demonstrate that, if the people have been taught to look for “ visionary imagina- tions,” Mr. Douse must have been their teacher.

It seems the only reflection that can be cast upon me by Mr. louse is, that [;am a “ scheming pennyless agi- tator.” [ therefore challenge him to shew how | have “schemed” fora living, or wherein I have © schemed” vay person out of his money oF property; and, until he

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it, as it were in a strong net, and struggling in vain for freedom and latitude of action. Under cover of the most hypocritical pretence of “care and anxiety for the public welfare, for which they merit”=—not “ praise 20d approbation”—but the scorn and derision “ of those whe know how to appreciate their scts,” His Excellency

and his Council, it appears, determined by a fora! Re-

solution, that he should issue Warrants on the ‘Treasury, without the authority of the Legislature, for the meinte- nance of the prisoners in the severa) jails. A Uopy © the Minute of Council embodying this Reso'ution ¥@- we !carn, furwaided to Earl Grey, by his Exeeien