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     Mon, allowed other Members to speak 
     
     {oi-him, and certainly the defence was as 
     
     0d as couh have been expected: a 
     
     M", Q" sluifllmg. When Mr. M‘Donald 
     
     “had those Members ifthey were privy to 
     
     wig disgraceful transaction, not one of 
     
     them had the efl'rontery to give a pomted 
     
     denial. as would have been done by inno- 
     
     centmen, but by evasive and mdirect an— 
     
     endeavoured to screen themselves; 
     
     one said, “ he was not bound to criminate 
     
     himself,” but unthinkineg admitted that he 
     
     was aware of the alteration, many said 
     
     they did not nmhc the alteration, and one, 
     
     ifl am correctly informed,) of the party 
     
     who assisted to make the cl‘iange, in his 
     
     tender mercy said, that “placing Mr. M‘ 
     
     Donald in the custody of the Sergeant at 
     
     “ms would be treating him too leniently,” 
     
     “did not do it.” In fact, 
     
     Sir, it was an illustration ofthe fable of the 
     
    
   
   
    
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     beef, handed it to his companion, and then 
     
     said, he had not got 1!, and the other as 
     
     stoutly denied that he took it. Mr. M‘Do- 
     
     mid in order to substantiate his charge, 
     
     hen moved“ that this [louse resolve it- 
     
     elfinto a Committe of Privilege,” which 
     
     as got rid of by one of the actors in this 
     
     arce, moving “the order of the day,” 
     
     'hich as a matter of course was carried; 
     
     eing opposed only by Messrs. M‘Do- 
     
     aid and Compton. Was this an anony- 
     
     ous charge? Or did the measures taken 
     
     ythe parties to stifle an investigation not 
     
     hew that they were guilty? Fortunately 
     
     he Public are tojudge,and not such an 
     
     ' terested Sir Oracle as Vindicator. 
     
    

    
     Now Sir. I have made that which I ne- 
     
     er before intended“ a charge against the 
     
     peaker and some Members of the Heuse 
     
     fAssemblyf’ and if my conjecture be 
     
     orrect Vindicator amongst the rest—those 
     
     hoare innOCent will not feel annoyed, 
     
     dthose, who are publicly suspected. have 
     
     n opportunity of clearing themselves if 
     
     ntheir power. 
     
    

    
     A few words before closing to 'Vindica- 
     
     r.—He is perfectly correct in stating that 
     
     is communication is “rather different” 
     
     tom those which have hitherto appeared 
     
     In your columns—but whether the contrast 
     
     willbe in his favor is not for me to deter- 
     
     mine. He says.“Crito had better have conti- 
     
     aed himself to his natural sphere.” I should 
     
     teglad to know what time has elapesd, 
     
     Ilnce Vindicator emerged from the insig- 
     
     nificance for which his ideas lit hlur Pas- 
     
     ing by some other compliments, he so 
     
     omplacently pays himself, I will tell him 
     
     athis conjecture as to Crito, is as blind 
     
     nd erroneous as the other conclusions he. 
     
     madlyjumps at, as to the estimation in 
     
     hich my communication may be held by 
     
     indicator and his friends, I care not, but 
     
     to perfectly contented that the compara- 
     
     Ve merits of Crito and Vindicator should 
     
     Iubmitteth tothe Public. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     two thieves, the one who stole a piece of 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BRITISH AMERICAN" 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ishould not be at all surprised if some 
     
     of Vindicator’s associates feel an equal de- 
     
     gree of surprise and grief, which he 
     
     so pathetically expresses, that the House 
     
     of Assembly are not allowed to act as they 
     
     please without comment or remark, or that 
     
     some of their proceedings are held up to 
     
     the scorn and derision they so frequently 
     
     merit. For Vindicator, the gentlemanly, 
     
     dispassiomtte, and eloquent language in 
     
     which he has clothed his ideas, will pre- 
     
     vent me from disputing the palm of deli- 
     
     cate invec'tive with him; andnow, Sir, 
     
     comes the unkindest cut of all.--—Vindica- 
     
     tor says, I have some talent—l am grieved 
     
     to say it,yet truth compels the avowal, I 
     
     really cannot return the compliment, I 
     
     trust the confession willnot induce him to 
     
     commit any bodily injury. - 
     
    

    
     Yours 
     
     CR T0. 
     
     Charlotte-Town, Q'Zd April, 1833. 
     
    
   
   
    
     For the British flmerican. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ Tho-uprun'st a rotton (rec, 
     
     That cannot so much as a blossom yield 
     
     In. lieu ofatl thy pains and husbandry." 
     
    

    
     Mr. Editor,—- The one or two answers, 
     
     or I should rather say attempted answers to 
     
     your correspondent’s remarks on the pro- 
     
     ceedings of the Assembly, have been in 
     
     such scurrillous and angry language, [for 
     
     abuse to the guilty conscience is easier 
     
     than calm reasoning,] that perhaps they are 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     not worth a reply; nor should I now notice 
     
     either ofthem, if ‘Vimlicator’ had not the 
     
     etfrontery to complain that he and his soli- 
     
     tary companions (the ritlcmen of the troop} 
     
     have had nothing tangible to encounter, 
     
     and also to defy your correspondent“ Cri- 
     
     to,” to produce solid and substantial proofs 
     
     of a charge, which he [deJ contradicts, 
     
    
   
   
    
     and for why? because it is the only one of 
     
    
   
   
    
     some consistency .' I know not Vindicator’s 
     
     conception of the word “tangible,” but in 
     
     my construction of the term, if he will re- 
     
     fer to almost any of your last papers, he 
     
     will find enough,aud more, ofsuch tangible 
     
     charges, that with all his self-sutIicieat ta- 
     
     lents he is not able to contradict, and sure- 
     
     ly Vind. “appears to be a man of some ta- 
     
     lent,--that is if wejudge him as he does 
     
     Crito, “by his scurrilous trash.” 
     
     Vindicator-’5 composition was either com- 
     
     posed when in a high state of excitement 
     
     from the tickling of his employers the Troop, 
     
     or Crito must have touched his tender part, 
     
     otherwise he would not have been in such 
     
     a hurry to take up his cudgels to attack 
     
     what certainly is not as he. styles it, ‘ a 
     
     charge :’ (its Consistency with the general 
     
     tenor ofthe actions of the 'I‘.—-l will al- 
     
     low to be very apparent,) for Crito mere- 
     
     ly states the on this in circulation, and re- 
     
     quests from some of your correspondents 
     
     the true story. I will give my version, 
     
     Without reasoning with-Vindicator on his 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     contradiction of a fact theParty themselves 
     
    
   
   
    
     305 
     
     will scarcely deny. I have been informed 
     
     that several of the members who were in 
     
     favor of the bill, declared their dissent to a. 
     
     conferance on it with the council ; and, [I 
     
     am not quite positive though Ibelieve this 
     
     to have been the alteration,] the assembly 
     
     having enacted in the bill that the perma- 
     
     nent revenue Laws should be repealed im- 
     
     mediately on the royal allowance being gi- 
     
     ven, instead of at the end of4 years when 
     
     the other clauses would come in force; the 
     
     council would not agree to it in that state, 
     
     and the bill was handed to the speaker to 
     
     be amended : and be, without taking the 
     
     opinion ofthe whole house,wnich he should 
     
     have done, [for it is a rule that no bill can 
     
     be altered without the concurrence of each 
     
     and every member, unless done in the usual 
     
     manncrby corybrenccq altered it as suggested 
     
     with the knowledge of only a few of the 
     
     members favorable to the hill. 
     
    

    
     Vind. may please himself with the idea 
     
     that the proofs he requires cannot be forth- 
     
     coming, and may fancy Ihatfact will sup- 
     
     port him, bnt the public are not to be 
     
     guzzled so easily, One such truth will not 
     
     pass offa score of falsehoods,for lc orai n’est 
     
     pas tonjours te rraiscmblable ,° and I would - 
     
     notify to him, that the more the talk the, 
     
     greater the expose’. It is sufficient proof 
     
     that two ofthe members say, they know 
     
     not of the alterations ; and all who are 
     
     aware of the proceedings of the House, 
     
     know that ifMacDO-nald and Compton had. 
     
     not been greenhorns, ignorant of the mode 
     
     of procedure, and they had moved a reso- 
     
     lution of accusation, then we should have 
     
     had the solid and substantial proofs Vindi- 
     
     cator requires. 
     
    

    
     It is not however likely, the Bill wrll re- 
     
     ceive the royal allowance, and though not 
     
     inimical to it I shOuld be sorry to see it as- 
     
     sented to, or such underhand proceedings- 
     
     prosper.—Honesty is the best policy. 
     
    

    
     I am, c. 
     
     JV'EMO. 
     
     For t'te British .0 nerican. 
     
     —a —" Oh Heaven! 
     
     Would that a whip were in each houen hand, 
     
     To lash such scouudrcls. 
     
     Naked through the world !" 
     
    

    
     Mn- EDlToa,-I have observed [but with‘ 
     
     neither “ griefnor surprise,”] a contempt- 
     
     ible communication in your last paper, evi- 
     
     dently written by some old woman under 
     
     the. influence of the moon or the gin bottle: 
     
     for no person possessed of common sense 
     
     could write such miserable trash as that, 
     
     to which the signature of“Vindicator” is 
     
     appended. A hasty perusal of it at first 
     
     inclined me to attribute such a paltry pro- 
     
     duction to one of the "Troop ;” but igno- 
     
     rant and illiterate, as a large majorify of 
     
     that body is, I persuade myselfthat not one 
     
     of them (that can write) could be found to 
     
     indite such a wretched piece ofunintelligir 
     
     ble jargon. [conclude then, that an old 
     
     woman is the writerrand a strait jacket fudi