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ly and give their opponents at least some- thing tangible to encounter. As a body of men placed in a public situation, and ha- ving the public as their Judges, the House of Assembly are, I grant, to be judged ac— cording to their deserts, and are a fair sub- ject of censure if their actions deserve it: but that censure should be from the pro- per quarter in the shape of complaints or

representions from their constituents: or if

the public papers must be resorted to, let the people set themselves up as the censurers of other men’s conduct, do it openly and fairly, not in the despicable and mean way that «they have hitherto had recourse to.

As for Crito, he has, I am glad to say, shown more spirit than the rest of his despicable associates, he has at least pro- duceda charge of some consistency, and as he appears to be a man of some talent, I hereby defy either him or his barefaced meddling legal friend, to produce any solid or substantial proofs of the facts further than common rumour, his said legal friend will tell him that every person is innocent till the contrary is fully and satisfactorily proved, therefore, I call upon him to pro- duce his facts and proofs, and I hereby pledge myselfto give him an answer to his perfect contentment. [am not prepared to say that even if Crito can produce full proofofhis assertion, which he cannot, but but the fancied irregularity he declaims about is quite constitutionl andjustiﬁed by the custom of Parliament; but more of that at the proper time. In the meanwhile Iwould say to Cr‘ito, that he had much better have kept himself in his natural sphere, and conﬁned his observations to his former scurrilous trash, if he is, as I suspect he is, one the party that ﬁll your columns with _ much nonsense, and of which he is, no doubt, a worthy member,

' I am, Sir,Yours 8L0. 81c

.N'DICJJTOR. Charlotte-Town, April 15,.

For the British American.

CLUB ROOM, 3pm 15.

This evening the Club met pursuant to adjournment, on motion the Club resolved

' itselfinto a committee of Supply.

Joe Futtock in the chair. w. The President said, he was glad to see

i such a full attendance of Members this e-

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I veiling, as the all-important business of di-

viding the spoil was to come before them ; and he trusted they would still continue to discharge the'trust conﬁded to them With the same independence and disinterested- ness that had always characterized their proceedings.

The ﬁrst question that would come under their consideration,would be toﬁx the salary bf the Treasurer of this club. He thought we _ t to make it as large as our resour- ces; j 1d allow, for two reasons : the ﬁrst

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Sir, is, because he is an inﬂuential mem- ber of the opposition club, which has a great controul over us, and may at some future time be the means of gaining his in— terest to our views,—-—the other is, because he is empowered by a resolution you intro- duced, to appoint deputies in diﬁ‘erent parts ofthe Island ; and as “one good turn deserves another,” in all probability we may have a comparative beneﬁt conferred on ourselves, as he saw a number ofmem- bers anxious to offer their observations, he would conclude by saying, that he would support the largest sum any member might propose. Before the President had half ﬁnished the last sentence, half a dozen members were on their legs, apparently very desirous to offer their opinions ; and some very indecorous though parliamenta- ry discussion occurred, when the Chair- man called order, and said, while he pre- sided, it was his duty on principle to keep order and have all matters discussed calmly and constitutionally, notwithstand- ing the anxiety honorable members may feel on this question. Mr- Futtock continu- ed,—as this honorable Club had always paid the greatest respect to his suggestions, on principle and invariably adopted them, he would beg leave to suggest the proprie- ty of ﬁxing the salary of our worthy Trea- surer at 450i. (hear, hear.) which can be moved by any honorable Member, as the situation he held as chairman precluded him from submitting a motion to that effect; however he would not lose this opportunity to conciliate so important a personage, by letting him know his opinion “fearlessly and independently”—-he considered the rights and liberties of the people paramount to every other cousideration; but from the sound and logical arguments advanced by the President, he thought the sum ﬁxed should not be less than 4501. w ‘ :1

Mr. l’iadar rose with '- warmth,and said he believed the Chairman was more out of order than any other mem- ber of the club, in endeavoring to pawn his suggestions on them in the unconstitutiOn- al manner he had done, he would tell him, it was the ﬁrst time he ever saw a chair- man make a speech on the subject matter of debate ; he thought the members had sense enough to act for themselves without his schooling. He did not see why he (Mr. Futtock) should have the credit of naming the sum. as he had done quite enough for himselfsince he became a member of that club ; it was not long since he was plain Mr. Futtock, and now we see such handles to his name as I. P., C. S. D., C. R., S. C. 0., C. l., and though last not least M. P.; he was not prepared to say whether the sum was too large or too small, but he hoped honorabte members would not be in- ﬂuenced by his jinarks, although they might be given knciple in his own way.

Mr. Ap Shenkn '_as surprised at Mr. Pindar, for supposing that any of the mem-

empowering our Treasurer to appoint d puties. . He thought we ought to ado suggestion at Once. or even make it

than the sum suggested, in appositiont

surer ofthis club; it will have in additio to the arguments advanced by dent and Chairman the effect the tide of emigration towards our shore: when it is publicly known in the moth country that we can afford to grant salarie here as large as they do in the Colanies

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his honorable friend with great pleasure. \Vhen he came that night, he intendedto have spoken fully on the subject, had been so much said to. the purpose by the previous speakers, (hear, hear,) that there was very little left for him to say. The ministry of England has achieved one of the greatest political victories ever re- corded in history, and completely shut up the ﬂoodgates of corruption. [which happy etlect must undoubtedly be attributed to the bright idea which induced Lord John Russell to adopt their election bill as amo del for the reform bill so highly lauded; and still we see them as liberal in their pay and pension votes as their predecessors were, and why should we not imitate the example of such great patriots? (hear)— and God’s mercy mon, has’nt Lord Ches- terﬁeld told us that we should always paya public man mor {forﬂhis services,than they are worth. 4 It, 1'. ‘y‘qﬂ ‘ Mr. Rory would wish to be till, if there e plenty monies for pay, the members, after pay this mon — r 3'. ,f . Mr. Ap Shenkin 53d, the hon. gentle- an might rest quite satisﬁed, for if there was any deﬁciency, he would soon make t proprietors make it good. (Cheers) ’eMr. Pepper could not see wh ry of the Treasurer should be Increase the proposed amount. even if he had extra trouble of appointing deputies ; trusted that members would pause before they agreed to the motion before them, al- though these were the days of libert.v and reform, he was at a loss to know on what principle of justice this club could Vote a salary to its treasurer, equal in amount to the salary received by his Majesty’s reprcr sentative in this Island, when he was gra‘ ciously pleased to grant it a constitution, and for many years after, as documents on the table can testify ; but ifthe club were determined on voting away 5001. ai’m’

d to the he