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     sought for were subject too high duty. Now Sir, I 
     
     should like to enquire whether. if an oflicer has a right 
     
     to inspect the shoes on the feet ofa female, he has not 
     
     an equal right to view any part of the dress she 
     
     may thinl; proper to wear; ifthe instances I have ad- 
     
     duced are false, it is very easy to contradict them, and 
     
     then I shall be bound to show my authority,—if they 
     
     are true, Mr. Bluebeard had no heard whatever com- 
     
     pared to the bristles of Prince Edward Island ,' though 
     
     a SCION ofmy profession, I am not yet quite reconciled 
     
     so perjury, on the contrary, I am rather shocked at the 
     
     ‘t'ferent instances which our courts, and we have se- 
     
     veral of them, present. Custom-house Oaths, are 
     
     sometimes not considered perjury in the breach—I 
     
     can't exactly agree in that opinion. and I certainly 
     
     hink that they ought to be as much as possible dis. 
     
     enraged and done away with. Let any one think of 
     
     the ad valorem duty. and see the encouragement, the 
     
     premium oflered for false swearing. 
     
     You shall bear further from me‘lir, my motto should 
     
     be 
     
    

    
     “ Anousn." 
     
     I shall endeavour to awake not only the living but 
     
     the dead, by regarding past. present. and future. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Your’s, Ire. 
     
     A SPRIG OF THE LAW. 
     
     3 September 6, I832. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ he East India Company’s Wrought I ran Steam 
     
    
   
   
    
     Vessel. 
     
    
   
   
    
     =1 "1A steam-vessel hasjust been completed for 
     
     0 Hon. East India Company, which is built 
     
     wrought iron, under the superintendance of 
     
     'eutenantJohnson. She has been built by 
     
     essrs.Maudslay and Co., the celebrated en- 
     
     neers who furnish the steam apparatus for 
     
     e Government steam-packets, at their 
     
     , arfin the Belvidere-road. near Westmin- 
     
     ,ster-bridge. This extraordinary steamer is 
     
     wvintended for towing vessels on the river Gan- 
     
     .ges; it is, however, not yet decided whether, 
     
     ~:. after she is launched, she will be taken to 
     
     fipfevw and sent out in one of the Company’s 
     
     ,; shi s, or whether she will be taken into a dock, 
     
     Panda vessel of large dimensions built pur- 
     
     so as to enclose her, to hear her to 
     
     The whole of the vessel is 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
       
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     ’ sely 
     
     ' or destination. 
     
     . uilt ofirou with the exception of her deck, 
     
     :f which is of plank; she is flat-bottomed; the 
     
     .iron is half an inch thick, in large plates, 
     
     ' which is rivrted together by curiouslyecontrr- 
     
      ved rivets on an improved method. Her length 
     
     71 is 125 feet, and she is abont twenty.four feet 
     
     ' 'n breadth. and eleven feet between decks. 
     
     be number of rivets used in building this 
     
      'esscl is upwards of 30,000, and it is expected 
     
    

    
     that she will not draw more than one foot ele- 
     
     , 'en inches water. The steam-boats at pre- 
     
     ' ent used on the Ganges are found not to an- 
     
     swer, on account ot some 'worm which eats 
     
     ' into the wood, and in a few years destroys 
     
     ,; them. This has led to the determination to 
     
     ;‘ build iron steam-boats. She has been seven 
     
     *months building, and lately 300 men have 
     
     ‘ I'been employed upon her; and. when her steam 
     
     3 engine is on board, with all the apparatus and 
     
     I,“ the fitting-up. it is computed that she will 
     
     have cost 20,0001. Although the cost is im- 
     
     ' ease, yet, from the durability of the materiel, 
     
     here is but little doubt that the Company will 
     
     . s2 gainers in tho end. Iler steam-engine is 60 
     
     "horse power, and the interior will be fitted up 
     
     with every convenience in a very handsome 
     
     anner; the sides are painted black, with 
     
     bite streaks, and altogether she has a. very 
     
     ht and elegant appearance. This vessel 
     
     launched from Belvidere wharf Saturday 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
         
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BRITISH AMERICAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     afternoon, the first of this description that 
     
     ever floated on old Father Thames. The En- 
     
     deavour Richmond steam-vessel was engaged 
     
     on the occasion, and moored close off the 
     
     wharf. A number of the Directors of the 
     
     East India Company and theirfriends were in 
     
     the Endeavour, and also the friends and ac- 
     
     quaintances of Messrs. Maudslay. Every 
     
     thing beingin readiness, at precisely tq’n mi- 
     
     nutes past three o’clock, r. at. the signal was 
     
     given for launching, and she glided 
     
     smoothly off the stocks, and dashed into the 
     
     Thames in the most majestic style possible, 
     
     amidst the shouts of the multitude. The 
     
     Chairman of the India Board struck her 
     
     on the bows, as she went off,- with a bottle of 
     
     wine, and named her the ‘t The Lord William 
     
     Bentinck.” 
     
    

    
     Our readers may rely on the authenticity 
     
     of the following announcement :—On Saturday 
     
     morning a French gun-brig of war appeared 
     
     off Boulogne, and sent in her boats, with a de- 
     
     mand for all the pilots of the ort, who were 
     
     then examined, and as manyo them as seemed 
     
     to be acquainted with the navigation of the 
     
     Schcldt were detained, and the rest dismissed. 
     
     Orders were next sent northward for the pi- 
     
     lots of Ambleteuse, Calais, Dunkirk, 8w. the 
     
     same distinction being observed in command- 
     
     ing the service of those only who _had ex- 
     
     perience in the Sceldt navigation. The pilot: 
     
     from the northern ports proceeded on Sunday 
     
     and Monday to Boulogne, where they were 
     
     taken on board by the gun brig: and on 
     
     Wednesday morning she was seen standing 
     
     away under a ress of sail to the westward, 
     
     in the course 0 Cherbourg, where, as prepara- 
     
     tions for such an event have been made upon 
     
     the largest scale, it is supposed the com- 
     
     bined French and British squadrons will ren. 
     
     dezvous, preparatory to the great attack upon 
     
     the independent King of the Netherlands... 
     
     Standard. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Caution against Cholera—People should es- 
     
     pecially take care not to eat ices, or rather 
     
     ice-creams, at least in the way in which they 
     
     are usually taken in England after a various 
     
     dinner. When the stomach is loaded, an in- 
     
     jection ofa thick conserve is enough to sur- 
     
     prise the heartiest stomach. Let the coagula- 
     
     ting power of cold be added to this mass, at 
     
     the precise- time when an active stimulant is 
     
     most wanted, and it is really a wonder that 
     
     the patient does not expire on the spot. 
     
     Several cases of cholera in wealthy life are 
     
     owing to this barbarous but common practice 
     
     of eating “ clotted" ice after a hearty meal.— 
     
     .Morning Paper. 
     
    

    
     Copy ofa Despatch from Viscount Goderich, 
     
     His Majesty’s principle Secretary of State for 
     
     the Colonial Department, to His Excellency 
     
     the Lieutenant Governor. 
     
    

    
     No. It Downing-street, 
     
     lst August. 1832. 
     
     Sir, 
     
    
   
   
    
     I have received your Despatch ofthe 14th of 
     
     April last, numbered 15, enclosing an Address 
     
     of the House of Assembly to yourself, praying 
     
     the appointment ofa Court ofEscheat. 
     
    

    
     Ihave to express my entire approbation of 
     
     the discretion which induced you to suspend 
     
     your decision on the appointment of a Court of 
     
     Escheat, until you could receive instructions 
     
     from me. The appointment ofa Court of Es- 
     
     chcat is 5 measure to which the Crown must 
     
     always have recourse with reluctance; and 
     
     which should never be adopted except with 
     
     great deliberation. In the present instance, 
     
     it is proposed, that Lan’ds should be forfeited in 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     Prince Ewward Island, for the non-performance 
     
     of a condition requiring each Township to be 
     
     settled with a number of inhabitants, forming- 
     
     the proportion of one person to eve 200 
     
     acres within the Township. For the purpose 
     
     of reinvesting Lands in the Crown, under a 
     
     breach ofthis condition, the Assembly would 
     
     considerit sufficient, as may be inferred from 
     
     the proceedings before the Committee on this 
     
     subjectfihat a Township should be proved tocon- 
     
     tain acertain numberofacres, and not to contain 
     
     a certain number ofsettlers. The establishment 
     
     of this point might be enough tojustify aforfei- 
     
     ture under the letter ofthe Grants ; but I can- 
     
     not feel that it would form a fair and equitable 
     
     ground for proceeding to that extent. I am 
     
     assured. and the statementis supported by its 
     
     intrinsic probalrlity, that some Proprietors 
     
     have sent out more than the number of persons 
     
     which would have settled their property in 
     
     the prescribed proportions, but that the 1'- 
     
     sons have subsequently changed their resi- 
     
     dence to other Lands. These Proprietors 
     
     would forfeit their grants, under the mode of 
     
     proceeding contemplated by the Assembly. 
     
     Other Proprietors, on the contrary, without 
     
     making any effort for the fulfilment of the con- 
     
     ditions imposed on them, find their lands settled 
     
     in the prescribed proportion, by the s ta. 
     
     neous resort of independent emigrants. hose 
     
     Proprietors escape, under the proceedings 
     
     contemplated by the Assembly. Thus it is 
     
     obvious tl at the proposed course could not be 
     
     followed without great injustice. A bounty 
     
     would be given to Proprietors whose lands are 
     
     good and inviting to settlers. at the expense of 
     
     Proprietors whose lands are inferior. ltmay 
     
     be suggested that the course could be 
     
     amended, by requiring Proprietors whose 
     
     lands do not contain a number of Settlers, to 
     
     prove that at least they have made the at- 
     
     tempt to provide that number of settlers. In 
     
     this manner, however, a long and doubtful 
     
     inquiry would often become necesssary; while 
     
     [consider it essential to the institution of 
     
     proceedings for forfeiting Lands to the Crown, 
     
     that they should be capable ofa speedy deci- 
     
     sion, and of one capable of been foreseen 
     
     nearly with certainty. Unless with these» 
     
     conditions, I never should consent to unsettle 
     
     the minds of the Colonists by appointing a 
     
     court of Escheat. 
     
    

    
     In concluding this despatch, I think it right 
     
     to advert to a rumour, that much restlessness 
     
     prevails among certain classes in Prince Ed- 
     
     ward Island, from an expectation that the 
     
     property of the owners of Townships will be 
     
     Escheated, and that any portions now occu- 
     
     pied will be vested in the occupants, without be. 
     
     ing subjected to rent or other obligation. 
     
    

    
     I cannot attach much credit to this rumour; 
     
     but at the same tune it may be proper to 
     
     make one or two observations upon it. If an 
     
     lands were Escheated in Prince Edward Islan , 
     
     it is probable that such portions of them as are 
     
     actually occupied would be continued to the oc- 
     
     cupying tenants at their present rents. There 
     
     would however be no remission of the condi. 
     
     tions on which the lands are now held of the 
     
     Proprietors; and assuredly there would be no 
     
     free grants. This mode of dealing with the 
     
     public propert has been abandoned in almost 
     
     every British Colony. You will shortly receive 
     
     instructions for abandoning it also in Prince 
     
     Edward Island, and for substituting in its 
     
     stead,a system of alienating by Public sale 
     
     such lands as there may be occasion to dispose 
     
     of. I have taken this notice of the sub‘ect, in 
     
     order that, should such a misconception 6 pro - 
     
     bable, you may be able to prevent the tenants 
     
     oflands in Prince Edward Island from formin 
     
     the erroneous notion that they would gain any 
     
    
   
   
    
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