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     such men are paid either out of the “ Pub- 
     
     lic Purse" or out of the pockets ofthe pub- 
     
     lic, I think it matters very little. How- 
     
     ever, that yourself Mr. Printer was the 
     
     first to follow my suggestions, in drawing 
     
     largely on our little Parliamentary affairs, 
     
     gives me the strongest assurance of the 
     
     justice of my remarks, and that in conse- 
     
     quence thereot all my neighbours eargerly 
     
     sought a reading in the last “ BRITIsH AME- 
     
     Iucu,” I assure you is a fact. For as 
     
     this is atime, when the people look with 
     
     ascrupulous anxiety to the proceedings 
     
     oftheir Representatives; there is nothing 
     
     in the shape of local intelligence can prove 
     
     so interesting to them as a true catalogue 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the deeds of the “ Collective Wisdom.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ It w0uld also appear Mr. Editor, that the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Printer ofthe “ Royal Gazette,” has taken 
     
     a hint from my last communication to you, 
     
     for if you only look at the Gazette of the 
     
     5th instant, you will find it contains a pre- 
     
     cious lot of speeches, to obtain which I 
     
     know not what means were employed. 
     
     Some say that he sent his “ Devil” round 
     
     to collect them, and others say and per- 
     
     haps with more propriety, that, that sapient 
     
     personag: (the Printer) made a Devil 0 
     
     himself on the occasion, by going round to 
     
     solicit members to write their speeches 
     
     for him. Be that as it may, I am credi- 
     
     bly informed that the “ speeches" are some 
     
     furlongs longer on his Paper than when 
     
     delvered on the floor of the Assembly. 
     
     It b so been hinted to me, by some 
     
     fri’ithat, I ought not to exp0se the 
     
     we ofthat Paper Ste. much, for that 
     
     he has greatly improved it since your valu- 
     
     able and INDEPENDENT little Journal made 
     
     its apperance amomgst us. But my an- 
     
     swer is l’aena a Peccando abslerrel. The 
     
     servility- however of that Gazette and its 
     
     conductorsis so notorious to this communi- 
     
     ty that I shall not notice it further at pre- 
     
     sent. I suppose Mr. White, you will think 
     
     me a“ true Patriot," whenI tell you that I 
     
     came all the way from my little cottage 
     
     and family, and so forth, and so forth, to 
     
     Charlotte-Town. to witness the Patriotism 
     
     of our little Parliament on the “ Reform 
     
     ~ Bill” which was under discussion on VVed- 
     
     nesday lastll But think what you may Sir, 
     
     And so greedy was 
     
     t I, to swallow down the dispositions or sen- 
     
     timents of Honourable Members on that 
     
     ortant subject, that I sat in the gallery 
     
      day, without my dinner, and what say 
     
     you Sir, that at the critical juncture, I 
     
     was “ turned out” in the dark, or rather, 
     
     faith Iran out the moment [saw the “ Ser- 
     
     eant at Arms” put his mighty corporation 
     
     .In motion towards me. It' was a case of 
     
     Privilege and LINH'B it cheerfully. But 
     
     the moment'l'got the door locked between 
     
     myself and the ‘.‘ Sergeant at - Arms” my 
     
     e urage beganto to grow high, and with 
     
     re'newed assiduity, I turned to take a 
     
    
   
   
    
     my astonishment I saw one of that Honou- 
     
     rable body ordered away until sentence 
     
     should be prouounced on him in his ab- 
     
     sence!! Here, Mr. Printer, my courage 
     
     soon began to fall below Zero, andI re- 
     
     tired to my Inn, reflecting that ifI were in 
     
     “ custody” it would not be very pleasant 
     
     for me. For what could I expect when 
     
     they were so severe upon one another.—I 
     
     must here inform you Sir, thatI took no 
     
     notes (though I am a sort of “stenogra- 
     
     pha) on the debates during the day, asI 
     
     saw a little inky chap, alongside busily en- 
     
     gaged whom I took to be your “Devil” 
     
     But to revert to the scenes of the day,I 
     
     assure you Sir, that after [got my dinner, 
     
     in its proper position, and washed well 
     
     witha bowl of Brenan’s “ Irish Imperial 
     
     Whiskey,” I felt much pleased at the zeal 
     
     which I saw by the contending powers on 
     
     the ‘ Reform Bill,’ and although I was 
     
     much surprized to see some Honourable 
     
     Members take, the side they did in opposi- 
     
     tion tDthe Bill, yet they may have been 
     
     right “in their own way ” However 
     
     BE IT PROCLAIMED ALOUD THAT THE LITTLE 
     
     PARLIAMENT or “since EDWARD IsLAND Is 
     
     THE FIRST IN HIS MAJesxrv’s FOREIGN Pos- 
     
     sessmNs 'ro rAss A BILL ; 'ro WHAT? TO 
     
     REFORM THEMSELVES, AND TO ADD 'ro THE 
     
     LIBERTIES AND INFLUENCE or THE reorLe!!! 
     
     Olenlightened age! It may be truly said 
     
     “that the schoolmaster is abroad” and 
     
     that he has reached the Senate of P. E. 
     
     Island cannot be denied. Yes, Mr. White, 
     
     your LIBERAL Paess should give Three 
     
     Cheers, ( like Mr. Owen in the House of 
     
     Assembly on Thursday last, an the subject 
     
     of the permanent Revenue.) Yes Sir, 
     
     proclaim it to the “four winds of Heaven 
     
     that the indomitable spirit of liberty has 
     
     so resplendently burst forth in the truly 
     
     Patriotic Senate of Prince Edward Island! 
     
     and no doubt you will be cheerfully greet- 
     
     ed by your Brother Editors of the “ Pictou 
     
     Patriot” and “ Novascotian.” 
     
    

    
     Well Mr. Printer, with all these high 
     
     ideas ofliberty and freedom and so forth 
     
     and so forth, fleeting across my Imagina- 
     
     tion, and determined with myself that I 
     
     should have the honour of witnessing some 
     
     more ofthe Honourable Members interes- 
     
     ting debates the following day, (Thursday). 
     
     But Sir, what do you think was my dissap- 
     
     pointmentwhenon entering the gallery and 
     
     found the House nearly deserted? I first 
     
     fancied to myselfthat the fatigues of the 
     
     previous night rendered Honourable Mem- 
     
     bers unable to attend the next day. The 
     
     next thought that entered my skull, was 
     
     that “ loud words” occurred the night be- 
     
     fore, when I got the turn out, the parties 
     
     might have retired to decide after a gen- 
     
     tlemanly fashion, but on a little reflection 
     
     my better reason convinced me that such 
     
     a course was “ unparliamentary.” In this 
     
     suspense I hastened to inquire the cause, 
     
     an to my utter astonishment, Ifound that 
     
    
   
   
    
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     the greater part of the Honourable ., 
     
     was at the “examination of the Gm 
     
     Schooll! Well thinks I, it bag 3]," 
     
     been told me “that Parliament is , 
     
     highest Court in the land,” 
     
     knew the Supreme C 
     
     the sake “of honouring” 
     
     of the kind. I recollected shortly a. 
     
     wards of a Judge that adjourned a C . 
     
     in consequence of some indispOsition in ‘ 
     
     domestic department, and a “ Del-ills}: I, 
     
     pus” was kicked up about it. At thism 
     
     ment the recollection of the terrorl 
     
     in the previous night from the motion 
     
     the “ Sergeant at Arms” began to pointo 
     
     to me the perilous wation in whj 
     
     I was placed, and I determined with in 
     
     self, that “Leg Bail” was the best, a 
     
     accordingly took to my scrapers, resolvi 
     
     not to utter a solitary sentence on “ th‘ 
     
     “that” or “ tother,” but leave the Cl) 
     
     lottonians to think for themselves r 
     
     pecting their Representatives. 
     
     Now Mr. White leaving all jokes 0 
     
     of the question, I have ofteu heard t 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
         
     
       
     
       
     
          
     
         
     
          
     
        
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
          
     
          
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
          
     
       
     
       
     
          
     
        
     
        
     
           
     
        
     
       
     
        
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
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     to contribute their portion of original m 
     
     ter to your worthy little paper; but th 
     
    
   
   
    
     say you have no letter box in which th 
     
     “waiting maids” could imperceptibly «. Y- 
     
     posit the “ billet deau"-—might I thereto A! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sir, request you in their behalf to g 
     
     them that favor.~«—Indeed I am further 
     
     Opinion, that during the session of Par' 
     
     ment, our country members would 0 
     
     avail themselves of such an opportuni 
     
     and spend some of their leisure hour: 
     
     the composition of literary essays, wh' 
     
    
   
   
    
     might be useful to posterity. Really M 
     
    

    
     Prmter I thought to have said somethi “I 
     
     mire, but I am ashamed of having “E 
     
     passed so much on your valuable time, _2n< 
     
     beg to remain, most respectfully 3 C 
     
     Your: &c. "I! 
     
     BARB Ian 
     
     Green—Bash Cottage, Feb, 9, 1833. "1“ 
     
     P. S. As you have been so good u hm 
     
     take any notes on the proceedings of. m i 
     
     Assembly, I think you are bound In jus ' to 
     
     to that Honourable and Learned Body, th- 
     
     note the times of their Meetings and 11" 
     
     journments in order that their constitue  
     
     may have an oppbrtunity of seeing Pf 
     
     number of hours in each day that basil ‘3: 
     
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     employed III the public servnce mbe 
     
     < be 
     
     Rep arted—For the British flmemas ,tlhin 
     
     Club Room, 6th Feb. 1833. e d" 
     
     The Club having met agreeably to 't be! 
     
    

    
     clamation—the President was pleased. th 
     
     open the Business with the follow “3;” 
     
     speech,—- .us,‘ 
     
     Gentlemen, ‘ ,h . 
     
     I have thought fit to call you togeth n b’e 
     
    
   
   
    
     this important period, when I think 
     
     deliberations are most called for by 
     
     public necessities; and have every ' 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ pap” through the key-hole, when to 
     
     d