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     vinces is highly desirable. Of these the first is that re- That His Exceliency “stigmatized” the Liberal Party, 
     
    
   
   
    
     lating to the service of the Post Office in the North as now constituted, is not a fact: opinions he may have 
     
     American Provinces, ‘entertained in reference to the old Escheat party, eae 
     
     From the various despatches and other documents) Se ehl ty d with the arbitrary advice of Mr 
     
     enumerated in the margin, your Lordship will learn how |e 4Siand was cursed with the a) y ail aiid 
     
     extreme and in fact insuperable is the difficulty of plac-| Pope, and imposed upon by the Compact—have bec | 
     
     ing the affairs of the Post Office in the British portion obsolete from a change of circumstances and principles. 
     
     of that Continent, on any secure and convenient footing | y,,,))ch history would teach the Petitioners that eae 
     
     is 3 ai { . ‘ s ar- 5 er a : ‘ 
     
     without the aid of some central body competent to ar ‘of England were often Jed to revile and stigmatize pub- 
     
    
   
   
    
     bitrate between the various Provinces, and to establish © ful and suc 
     
     regulations extending over, and throughout them all. lic men who subsequently became powerful an 
     
    
   
   
    
     I especially refer to the Report of the Post Master Ge- cessful Ministers: history and experience are, however, 
     
     nora _ om -e- er groggy of “og a aianes lost upon fools.—The same party are accused, in the 
     
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     ek ee ee next proposition, of bringing His Excellency’s person 
     
    
   
   
    
     the 10th of September last, communicated to this De-| ; h f hi 
     
     partment the views of their Lordships on that report. |and Government into contempt, as well as those of his 
     
     You will thence perceive how willing Her Majesty’s | predecessors. We have every right to set this down 
     
     ee ae ad eae > ran of a Post’ a deliberate falsehood, since no judicial proceedings 
     
     s z s é avor of; ; +e: 
     
     rages sai siduniea ae he lenciltsatustituted |are upon record by which this accusation a a 
     
     for the purpose. But your Lordship will also perceive be substantiated. These people forget tnat their great) 
     
     that the creation of any such authority by the separate |champion—Mr. Pope—has given evidences within the) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     act of any one Province, or by separate and unconnect-|1,5¢ two years, of a disposition to bring the Head of the|subject. The best answer, 
     
     ed acts of the several Provinces, is virtually impossible. Government into contempt, unexampled by any thing the present r 
     
    
   
   
    
     We have no solicitude to retain any control over the)’ ; ie Malar 
     
     details and management of this service, but the reverse. in the history of the Island. They also forget tha 
     
    
   
   
    
     A body of the kind I have already described, represent-|certain notorious character—indignantly spurned from 
     
     ing and _s : a = Pr —— et ng the | moral society elsewhere—has been by them patron- 
     
     ange: yhich W y 1c}. . . + 
     
     Post ia General ‘of ‘this ciieomabiies funetion,|iz@4 and encouraged - libel and lampoon His Excel- 
     
     Without such aid I do not see haw he could be exemp-|lency, and his conduct in so doing has been applauded 
     
     ted from the duty, to which from inevitable and insuper-|by certain individuals closely connected with the Ad- 
     
     able canses his Department must always be unequal. | ministration. The parties who were mainly instru- 
     
     The cther subject to waieh 5 Have referred as requi-| mental in getting up the Petition, are, at this moment, 
     
    
   
   
    
     ring the co-operation of the different Provinces, is that, 
     
    
   
   
    
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     of the formation of a great line of Railway communica- | using greater exertions to bring His Excellency’s per 
     
    
   
   
    
     tion from the Seat of the Government of Canada to the} son and Government into contempt, than were ever here- 
     
     Atlantic. tofore attempted by any political party in the Colony.— 
     
     The execution of such a work would, T am persuaded, Another proposition in the first clause is, that the party 
     
    
   
   
    
     be of the greatest advantage tothe whole of British|“~ ee oN 
     
     America; but the difficulties to be surmounted in so| With whom ilis Excellency has coalesced “are in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     vast an undertaking are of no ordinary kind, and are| minority of the House of Assembly, and do not possess 
     
     only likely, I think, to be overcome by the united and! the confidence of the respectable and influential portion 
     
     energetic exertions of all the Provinces. Should the of the community.” A more glaring falsehood cannot 
     
    
   
   
    
     delegation of authority by the different Legislatures to 
     
     some central body representing them all, be assented to, be promulgated. Reference to the Journals of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     I should think it highly desirable that advantage should | House will clearly show it to be false. Here we disco- 
     
     be taken of this to arrange the mode in which the Pro-| yer that Mr. Rae stands in 35 majorities—Mr. Coles in 
     
     vinces should 6o-aperate with each other, and with Her 45—Mr. Palmer in 27—and Mr.D. Maclean in25. This 
     
     Majesty’s Government, in promoting the construction) | : es e 
     
    

    
     is a matte? beyond all dispute: any person who has 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the proposed Railway. 
     
     Ihave, &c. eyes,may see it. Asto not having the confidence of 
     
     Rich Signed) GReY. the “respectable and influential portion of the commu- 
     
     The The Heal of Bieta, a nity”—we are ata loss to understand the meaning of 
     
     anion aimee . .|the assertion. If the fourteen people who have got up 
     
     wasew: “gy, the Petition mean themselves, we cannot admit that 
     
     PED TAA DON w4Q | their respectabily is equal to their modesty, for the one 
     
     is very insignificant—the other very conspicuous: their 
     
     ans i os influence is wonderfully great—witness the last Elec- 
     
     THE DELEGATE’S PETITION. tion for the Pirst District of Queen’s County. We 
     
     » : should very much like to know what accidents have 
     
     We promised, in our last No. to offer a few comments | given them a claim to either respectability or influence, 
     
     on the Petition got up by a few individuals in Char-|peyond what has fallen to the lot ef other more unpre- 
     
     Jottetown, evidently at the instigation of Mr. Pope.'tending people. Wealth» sometimes attaches to the 
     
     Those who have read the Petition could not fail to have | rooue and'the blockhead a counterfeit respectability: 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1847. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     is a Governor bound to support public societies, or does 
     
     he retard the interests of the country by declining to do 
     
     so? We suggest to the Petitioners the propriety of 
     
     sending a Memorial to the Queen, to the effect, that the 
     
     Royal Instructions may be aniended, in order to make it 
     
     compulsory on a Lieutenant Governor to support all pub- 
     
     lic societies which a rage for novelty may bring into ex~ 
     
     istence. A most unequivocal proof of the Lieutenant 
     
     Governor’s inclination to advance “the interests of the 
     
     Colony,” is given in his separating himself from the 
     
     Clique. His success is indicated by the Revenue. 
     
    

    
     The third clause alludes, in a rigmarole of meaning- 
     
     less terms, to His Exceilency’s interference with a 
     
     Pleasure Party given by the Hon. Mr. Young about 
     
     three years ago. The thing is so futile, and has been 
     
     so often discussed, that, to notice it, is quite sufficient 
     
     to call forth a smile of contempt for those who have 
     
     proved themselves so egregriously silly as to revive the 
     
     however, to this charge is 
     
     elative position of the Gentleman ailuded 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     The fourth accusation contzins a shameful evidence 
     
     of mendacity. It charges His Excellency with the 
     
     Belfast Riots, because “ precautionary measures” were 
     
     not adopted “for the security of the lives and liberties 
     
     of the Electors.” If blame must needs be attached to 
     
     any party, we should say that party was the late She- 
     
     riff, for he could have had any assistance he wished in 
     
     proceeding with the Election. The Petitioners over- 
     
     look the fact, that their friends in the Assembly were 
     
     extremely anxious for the Election to go on, without 
     
     any delay; and had not aspeedy return been made, they 
     
     would have lest the alliance, in the House of Messrs. 
     
     Douse and Maclean, whose votes, it was expected, 
     
     would haveenabled their party to burke Mr. Rae’s Res- 
     
     ponsible Government Address. 
     
    

    
     The fifth complains that His Excellency does not 
     
     take the advice of his Council. We answer, because 
     
     the Council is not constituted as it ought to be. If the 
     
     Councillors are useless instruments, as their friends 
     
     confess them to be, why de they not resign their seats? 
     
     An acknowledgment—more damaging to the credit, res- 
     
     pectability, and independence of the Council—could 
     
     not be offered, 
     
    

    
     [Want of space forbids to go any farther in our ex- 
     
     pose of this precious effusion. We shall next week 
     
     return to it,—and perhaps we shail then have a few sug» 
     
     plementary hints to offer for the edification of the gen- 
     
     tlemen whose names are prefixed to the Circular which 
     
     accompanies the Petition. } 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     MR, D. MACLEAN vs. MR. RAE. ~~ 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is a source of very considerable uneasiness to some 
     
     of the would-be politicians in Charlottetown that Dun- 
     
     can Maclean, Esq. is not made an object of attack by 
     
     Tue Examiner. Now, whether or not these people 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     marked the striking resemblance which it bears to the. but, excepting two or three with whose names the Pe- 
     
     Address passed by the Assembly in the Session of 1846, | tition is embiegoned, and who have been somewhat 
     
     praying for the removal of Sir H. V. Huntley, canny in their day, we really do not know the fortunate | 
     
     Of the nine charges preferred against His Excellen-| fellows amongst the Petitioners on whom the smiles of 
     
    

    
     cy in this extraordinary document, there is not one that Plutus have fallen. The history and geneology of 
     
     would be urged by men actuated by an honest principle! most of them are full of interest: had we space, we 
     
     and a love for truth. might be tempted to pursue it. They refer to their in- 
     
     The first is made up of six differen] propositions— fluence, dreaming, perchance, of the time when they 
     
     each and all of which are without even the semblance could discover little or no cause of complaint against 
     
     of proof—they are, in fact, so fulse and absurd as to de-| His Excellency.—The “ dangerous doctrines” ascribed 
     
     ter any rational mind from attempting to prove them. to the Liberal Party, mean, we presume, Responsible 
     
     The first proposition declares that His Excellency has Government—Tenant Right—and anti-official mono- 
     
     * degraded the office of Her Majesty’s Representative | poly, with which, indeed, that Party have struggled to 
     
     by coalescing with a political party—some of whom uasettle the corrupt “system ef Government” that has 
     
     have been stigmatized by him as persons totally unqua-|too long prevailed “in the Island,” The assertion that 
     
     lified to discharge the duties of Legislators.” The par-|a “lawless spirit” has been “ encouraged among the 
     
     ty here referred to are those members of Assembly who, | people,” by the party referred to, and “a lamentable 
     
     in the last Session, co-operated with Mr. Rae in his) loss of life” occasioned by them, is a pssitive lie, which 
     
     views on Responsible Government—on the Tenant none but persons the most reckless of truth and princi- 
     
     Ejectment and Compensation Bill,—and indeed upon ple, would dare to assert. Nothing can surpass this 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     have any great regard for Mr. Maclean, we cannot con- 
     
     fidently affirm; but we are somewhat disposed to be- 
     
     lieve that Mr. Maclean—maugre his disposition to hur] 
     
     his thunderbolts against the unresisting head of Mr. 
     
     Rae, and to call him and his party hard names—has no 
     
     very profound or platonic love for the genus who pro- 
     
     fess to admire him so much, and who boast of having 
     
     gained, in the time of their tribulation, so redoubtable 
     
     an ally as the New London Member. Mr. Maclean has 
     
     neither said nor writ any thing against us, so far: when 
     
     he does, it will be time enough for us to open our ports, 
     
     and give him a touch of our quality. To be sure, he 
     
     has written sundry philippics against one of his late 
     
     political associates; but the gentleman referred to is 
     
     quite capable of answering him at the proper time and 
     
     in the proper spirit. Mr. Rae will smoke his pipe and 
     
     take the matter coolly—just as we would ourselves be 
     
     inclined to do, if similarly attacked. But when Mr. 
     
     Maclean will have done writing his letters on the great 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
             
     
    
   
   
    
     every reform measure which, during the period alluded | accusation, for its atrocious baseness and audacity.|crimes and misdemeanours committed by the very res- 
     
     to, challenged the attention of the Legislature. It is, Men who could coolly pen such a lie, might be fairly|pectable party to whom he has facetiously given the 
     
     something to get an acknowledgment from the enemies considered as capable of stooping to any indecency. j|nomme de guerre of “ Snatchers,” why then we shall] 
     
     of Responsible Government, of His Excellency’s adhe-|_ The second clause refers to the old story about his|see what weshall see. « My wife will dance and Iwill 
     
     sion tothe measure. Instead, then, of “degrading” his, Excellency withdrawing his patronage from the public sing”—or rather, Mr. Rae will write and we wil] print 
     
     office by such an act, Hjs Excellency honours it, wejsocieties. The Petitioners assert that his withdrawal /and if we don’t “ merrily pass the day,” why we will nas 
     
    
   
   
    
     conceive, in an eminent degree, It was, and is, consi-|from these Societies was in consequence of a disincli-| most grievously disappointed. Seriously, tis too bad 
     
    
   
   
    
     dered a great merit in the Governors of other Provinces | nation, on the part of the Legislature, to grant an in- that Mr, Maclean should be left singing solus so long— 
     
     to give their sanction and support to the views of a par-|crease to his salary. Now, the Governor never gave the music would be much more harmonious if Mr. Rae 
     
     ty, who haye struggled for the adoption of the new and this as a reason for the act referred to; and it is a piece, would come forward at once and make a duet; and no- * 
     
     improved System of Government conceded to the Pro- of impertinence on the part of the Petitioners to offer a body doubts that he can do it. As for our very huinbje 
     
     viaces by the present Prime Minister of England.— mere shallow supposition, for a positive fact. Besides, selves, we shall e’en haye to look on and enjoy the fun 
     
    
   
   
    
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