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ISLAND. TUESDAY, JANUARY 7,

A Biographical Sketch of the Earl's Agent, one of Her Passengeys.

BY G. F. OWEN ' One of the principal events in Prince Edward Island im the year 1803, was the arrival of an emigrant vessel calied the Poliy, that brought a large number of set- tlers from Scotland. In this vessel came the forefathers of many of the families now living in that part of this Island called Bel- fast, from whence many of our leading lawyers, doctors, merchants and = ship captains hail ; and the following biograph- ical sketch of one of the leading actors in this immigration, »nd of some incidents in the voyage of the Poliy, will, doubtless be read with interest by many of our people. The writer obtained the story froma memorandum book that he found m an old oaken chest, that evidently had been brought from Scotland at the time the emigrants left the land of their forefathers, for its battered sides and roughened edges showed clearly that it had kuocked about o'er troubled seas and storiny oceans. The manuscript, for such it may be called, was written partly with a lead pencil and part- ly with pen and ink; and from the minute- ness with which many of the details are given, was evidently penned by a contem- porary of the agent whose histury is given so fully. The manuscript is entitled: LAWYER SANDY. “It is a joy to straighten out one’s limbs, And leap elastic from the level counter, Leaving the petty grievances of earth. The breakiag thre id, the din of clashing skears, And all the needles that do wound the epirit.

But this unnatural posture of the legs

Cramps my extended calves, and I must go

Where | can coil them in their wonted fash- ion.”

The subject of this sketch was a native of Kirkcudbright, the capital ot the shire of that name, in the south of Scotland. He obtained some education in one of the par- ish schools cf his native town; but at an early ave went to learn the tailoring busi-

ness. Being of an active temperment and restless disposition, he ran away from his master, after serving a few years, and enlisted in the = army.

About a year after his enl'stment, the Regi- ment in which he served was ordered to That ,country was then in a dis- tracted state. The Rebellion of ‘98 had just broken out and Sandy (for such was his Chrisiian name) saw some hard service. He tought at the battle of Vinegar Hill, and had a hand in various skirmishes with the Irish patriots. In one of these he was severely wounded, and rendered, fora short time, unfit for duty. When the trouble in Ireland subsided, his Regiment was ordered to Canada, and our hero went with it ; and on his arrival had some ex- perience of the cold of a Canadian climate while duing garrison duty in the old citadel at Quebec. After three years, thef{Regiment was recalled and Sandy again trod his native land. The wound he received in lreland had never thoroughly healed, aud had broken out afresh. ‘The voyage across the Atlantic was long and tedious in a troop ship of those days, and the svldiers suffered severely from scurvy ; and when the ship arrived at Portsmouth it was found that Sandy was no longer able to serve the King ; and his discharge, with a small pension, was the consequence.

After his discharge he returned to Kirk- cudbright and went back to his old trade for a while; but although his health was somewhat restored by his native air, his heart was not in the monotunous work of cutting out and making up clothes. The old restless feeling came on, and he wan- dered off for whole months at a time, travelling from village to village and from town to town, recounting his warlike ex- periences in Ireland, and describing the wonders of the world he had seen beyond the Atlantic.

At that time the question of emigrating to America occupied the minds of the peasantry in many parts of Scotland ; and Sandy who had lived in,that wonderful land, could well describe what he had seen of the country, either in Eng- lish or Geelic ; and consequently he had no difficulty in introducing hunself to the peo- ple of the districts where he travelled; and an invitation to call again, especially from the warm-hearted, hospitable people of Perth and Argyleshire, amongst whom he made his lungest journeys and longest calls.

Possessing a cle&r and vigorous intellect, a ready command of language, and a dog- ged pertinacity in argument, he was one cf those men who are capable of wielding a certain degree of influence, even when the higher moral powers are wanting. The grea! flaw in his character was his fondness for litigation and general controversy on ail matters within the scope of his knowledge that admitted of any doubt. In early youth it was noticed that Paul’s Episties had greater charms than the narrative por- tions of either the new or old testament; and while learning his trade, a great por- tion of his leisure was spent in por.ng over Blackstone’s Con:mentaries and other legal works which he borrowed from a learned shoemaker in the neighhorhood. These books he subsequently purchased and treas- ured with the greatest care. He had them in his Irish campaign. He took them across the ocean to Quebec and back to Scotland; and one or the other of these volumes he carried about with him in his Highland rambles. And more than sixty years afterwards, the old volumes, thumbed and battered and worn, might be seen re- posingalongside the family Bible on a shelf in his humble home in Prince Eiward Island.

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versy, his readiness to furnish everyone who had a casus bel/i with astock of am-

scriptural knowledge, gained for him the soubriquet at the head of this sketch,

By some means or other, in the fall of 1892, he attracted the notice of Thomas,

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Earl of Selkirk, who was then, in pursuance of his many schemes of colonization, anxious to stir up the people of the Highlands, in order to

furnish recruits for an expedition which he intended fitting out for America next year, The Earl had large estates in Prince Ed- ward Island, and that colony was to be the destination of the vessel. Governor Fan- ning in November, 1802, in his speech to

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Earl was 80 well pleased with his represen- tation of the state of affairs, that be supple-

munition from his storehouse of legal and| mented his former very liberal allowance

with a free grant of 200 acres of land on his estates in Prince Edward Island, giving the agent carte blanche as to the locarion, Sandy having decided to throw ia his lot with the emigrants, and cross the ocean in the same ship.

Accordingly, about the first of June, 1803, the good ship Polly set sail from Oban. Her living freizht, besides her officvis and crew, consisted of about 600 persons of allages, from the child at its mother’s breast to the old man or woman of three score and ten.

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the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island, said that ‘‘he had the satisfaction to inform them on the highest authority that the public affairs of the Island had been brought under the consideration of His Majesty’s Ministers, in a manner highly favorable to the late humble and dutiful representations made on behalf of the in-| habitants, respecting the many large, un- | settled and uncultivated tracts of land in’ the Island.” Consequently it was most im- portant that the land proprietors should exert themselves to get emigrants to settle | on their estates. A very slight acquaint-_ ance with our friend Sandy convinced the) Ear] that he was just the man he wanted | to act as an agent to go about among the! people, to point out to them the many ad- | vantages the New World offered to the emigrant, and to induce as many of them | as could get ready to take passage in the | ship, which was to sail from Oban during | the coming summer. The Earl made him a liberal offer to in- duce him to undertake the work, and Sandy | started on his mission. The work tallied | well with the natural bent of his mind, | Nearly everyone he met had fears, doubts and misgivings about going to America. The dangers of the voyage, the cold of the winter, the difficulties to be encountered in| cutting down the trees, the dread of the| Indians, and of the bears and other wild’ beasts with which the forests were said to! abound, were causes of much anxiety to the! intending emigrants. In combatting these natural objections, | and allaying the fears of his countrymen) and countrywomen, Alexander was in his| true element. He had his fill of discussion | and controversy all that winter, and many | a bottle of whiskey was drained round the’! peat fires of the simple cottagers whose’ homes he visited in the Highlands. He’ contrasted all the advantages they would: enjoy in the new world, after the first few | years, with their present condition. He represented that the ship which was intend. | ed to carry them across the ocean was a_ stout and strong vessel. well found in boats, | rigging, sails, chains and anchors. He told them that tke trees in America were of a soft fibre and easily cut down. He ex-| patiated on the various uses to which their | trunks could be applied, such as house and | ship building, fencing, tirewood, ete. The’! sugar maple he represented as particularly | valuable, from the fact that a slight notch | cut into its substance set free a copious! stream of saccharine liquor, which might, | with very little trouble, be bviled into’ suvar of the most delicious quality; or by *, certain process, which never seems to have been tried by the settlers, could be converted into fine whiskey, Tea (a rare luxury in the Llighlands in those days) equal to any that came from China, he told! his hearers, could be gathered in the. swamps and grew in rich abundance in the’

trees. The Indians, he told them, had all been converted to Christianity by Catholic | missionaries, who went among them all | over America in the early days of the French occupation. He only laughed at! their fears about the wild beasts, and repre- sented a bear hunt in the woods, with dogs, guns and cudgels, as one of the most enjoy-, able and exciting of sports. But the’ crowning argument in favor of the new enterprise, which the agent termed the argumentum ad crumenan, was founded on he facility with which large farms could be obtained on long leases at a nominal rent. The hardships to be encountered in clearing their farms, he carefully kept in the back- ground. Although these statements were’ nearly all false quantities, they contained a small nucleus of truth, around which the wily agent, with his g!ib tongue, contrived to throw a very attractive halo of shadowy and unsubstantial fiction.

This, the people whom he persuaded to leave their homes in the Highlands on that occasion, found out to their cost before they were long in the Colony.

To men advanced in years, whose princi- | pal occupation had been fishing or tending flocks and herds, the axe was a_ laborious implement to handle. The trees were of much harder grain than the agent repre- sented them to be. The snow in winter, which was not much taken into account in the discussions around the peat fires in Scotland, they found a source of the great- , est discomfert all through the long winter, and the kilts of the Highlands proved poor protection against the biting frosts of an American nor’ wester. The tea and sugar privileges did not come up to their expec- tations, and even the crowning argument itself, founded on the abundance and cheap- ness of land, turned out te be a fallacy, and many a_ hearty malediction directed against the Earle’s agent afterwards found utterance in the depths of the lonely forests, as the settler, scantily clad and badly fed, sweated fromevery pore in his awkward efforts to lay low some giant of the forest.

All through the districts over which the agent travelled a feeling of restlessness soon prevailed. There was much serious con- sultation among the cottagers. Some had dceided promptly before he left the village, while others were slower in making up their minds. However, when the spring set in a great many were preparing to leave the country for America.

Sandy was in his glory. He had execut- ed his mission with great suecess, and when he reported to the Karl of Seikjrk, abour

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