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TO THE “LIVERPOOL MERCURY.”

We have noticed in one or two of our English papers a paragraph copied out of the “Liverpool Mercury,” purporting to be a true statement of the particulars con- nected with the Delegation from this Island to the British Government, for the removal of Sir H. V. Hunt- ley. We have no doubt that the “ Mercury” received its information from the mouth of the veracious gentle- man who plumes himself on being the representative of all the men, women and children in thisColony. But if, the ‘Mercury’ knew as much of him as we do, his com- munications would be received with extreme caution. Before we proceed to make any comments on this beau- tiful admixture of truth and falsehood, we shall insert it here for the amusement of our readers :—

“Prince Epwarp Istanp.—A deputation is now in Londun, bearing a petition to the Government not to re-_ new the appointinent of the present Governor of Prince’ Edward Island. Circumstances have for some time rendered a continuation of Sir Henry Vere Huntley in his office any thing but desirable; and the well being of the colony would, no doubt, be served by the appoint-

ment of some other gentleman for the administration of its affairs. Indeed, no other course would seem to be

conditional resignation—that is, if Her Majesty would

THE EXAMINER.

e will no longer favour them,

and according to their “ peculiar

The wisdom of such an argument 1s modesty which

nor govern the Isl course” of policy ! about as worthy of admiration as the : dictated it. Certainly, had the Editor of the “ Mercury reflected before giving insertion to this passage, he ne- ver would have made his paper a vehicle for such pal | pable nonsense. Mr. Pope’s profound knowledge of constitutional proceedure shines through every word of it.

In giving the names of the distinguished triumvirate charged with the impeachment of His Excellency, we are told that Mister Palmer “only resigned his seat at the [Executive] Board in consequence of his own and the public feeling in regard to this question.” Now, this is a desperate attempt at strangling the truth. So anxious was he to hold the seat, thathe tendered only a

permit him, the aforesaid Mister Palmer, to wink at the solemn oath of an Executive Councillor, by campaigning it in England against the officer he was sworn to advise and serve—he would cling to his Executive honours, notwithstanding the obstinacy of the Lieutenant Gover- nor, according to Mr. Palmer’s own declaration, in de- clining to act upon his sage advice. So much for his “own” statesmanlike “feeling in regard to this ques- tion.” As to the “public feeling,” we should like to

at all politic, ‘rom the number and station of those who

know what portion of the people is meant. Ifthe whole

object to his peculiar course of action. The deputation consists of the Hon. Mr. Pope, speaker of the House of population of the Island were called upon to give their Assembly; the Hon. Mr. Palmer, representative of| opinion “in regard to this question”—(we mean Mister Charlottetown, and Andrew Duncan, Esq., one of the} paimey’s relinquishment of the title ‘ Honourable’}—we

rincipal merchants of the Island. The second named. as peatiaan was a member of the Executive Council, and | would speedily find that gentleman or some of his friends

only resigned his seat at the board in consequence of|—Collard, for instance—repudiating such a test, and -his own and the public feeling with regard to this ques-| damning them for a set of meddlesome, officious fellows.

tion. The petition bears the names of all the sheriffs,/pye « public” referred to, we presume, are the “ free

thirty-six justices of the peace, forty-three commissioners | : ® of ; holding judical office, and about four thousand three) "n4 independent electors” of Charlottetown, on whose

hundred electors, including all the principal merchants behalf the stupendous intellect and incomparable wis- and other inhabitants of the Island; and the prayer of| dom of the late Councillor is most especially employed

the petition is supported by the recorded opinion of a in the senatorial arena. The “feeling” of Charlotte-

majority of the present members of the House of As- : ; sombly’ Welt Such a movement will doubtless meet|‘°W" ‘2% however, manifested in a totally different

with prompt attention at the Colonial Office, where the ™anner from that indicated by the “Mercury,” for an good government of our distant provinces is regarded as| Address was actually presented by some of “the most

-an object of the first importance.” respectable and influential”—(never forget, gentle read- “ Circumstances have for some time rendered a con- jer, to make your most profonnd obeisance when remind- ‘tinuation of Sir Henry Vere Huntley in his office any ed of these famous people)--entreating and beseeching thing but desirable.” The “circumstances” it would their idolized Statesman not to jeopardize the safety of not be “ at all politic” to detail; but we will dare to the State Barge by declining to help Sir Henry through give them in a very few words. The most powerful|the shoals and breakers by which it was surrounded. A ones are, that Sir Henry would not suffer Mr. Pope to year or two ago, when the immaculate Joseph not only govern the country, and quietly submit to that gentle- turned sulky upon, but positively mutinied against his man’s dictation in every matter connected with its|commander, we were told that if he left the Ship, the * affairs”--that he has had the hardihood to release him-| whole crew and cargo would inevitably go to the bot- self from the blighting influence of the Compact—that tom ; and, in compassion for the sweet souls, the gene- he has sundry times admitted Mr. Rae and others of the rous man remained on board, until by some mishap he Liberal party to his presence—that he has given a seat, was compelled to walk the plank. Fortunately, he was at the Council Board—formerly held by Mr. Pope—to a not only not missed, and all hands saved from a direful gentleman who has had the misfortune to incur the dis-| shipwreck, but the Vessel of State has sailed on ina pleasure of the immaculate Joseph, and who has the! more trim and steady condition ever since. But when double misfortune of not being “a well-beloved cousin” the Honourable Edward Palmer first thougit of taking of the Compact—that he has given divers small offices, up his hammock--or when others feared he might do such as those of Magistrate, Commissioner, &c. &c., to so, because the Captain dared to hold consultations in persons against whom the elect long since fulminated his cabin to which he was not a party--the pencil of a the ban of proscription, because of their lamentable pro-| Raphael could not picture the consternation and affricht pensity to radicalism—that he has, on several occasions, which seized upon the timorous souls of a few of the made the most inconvenient inquiries into the manage- lady-like passengers in the cabin, and their servants in ment of public offices—that he has prohibited certain the steerage. No earthly power, it was thought, could gentlemen, entrusted with thecontroul of public monies, save the Ship when He would have left her tothe mer- from making many profitable speculations in those mo-/cy of the treacherous waves—HeE, whose “ eye in a fine nies, contrary to the wise and wholesome practice by| phrenzy rolling,” had scanned the heavens—had fore- which the rule of Sir Henry’s predecessors had been olen the storms that convulsed the elements—knew happily distinguished—and that he has set his face every dot upon the Chart by intuition, and had crow against all pleurality in the possession of official situa- familiar with every cape and promontory which la ‘ — _— to the discomfort of the “ respectable and | the devious course of the hapless Ship, as hea tie a a - | . i iv femtocell omega ev ane cs ct St ‘i caaadeiaiteds ame ae Pi c pre was in amy—nay, downright murder in the first iinet Eale ce tas * pie, ac, | gree, to suppose, ima gine or conceive, that his inesti- , rkable “ circumstances mable services could be dispensed with. He should be otro tinea — ee “ anything vas somtined, at al] risks, to give sweet aid and counse]— € people at large, but to a select|to make a holy sacrifice of his genius for the safet few in Charlottetown. advantage of the State; until—ah! woe fa aoa y and The reason why His Excellency should be recalled, 'evil hour the Consignes Earl Grey, decla sae a according to the “ Mercury,” is Certainly avery omni- thought the Shi ld ail ith i i : clea vo. g p could sail without him. And, miracu- potent one: it is to be found in the “station of those! lous to relate! on, on she sails with all her can who object to his peculiar course of action.” His Ex-| furled—her crew as “merry as a marriage oar po ceilency, having given office and emolument to several fident of weatherin th ig vas entiemen who stood in need of th ee £ m, and who now pay | never dreading the oft-foretold repose

The parade about the sheriffs, justices of the peace,

“and ¢ommissioners holding judicial offices,” is really the

most amusing part of the paragraph under consideration.

Most of these people were thrust into their situations

during the dictatorship of Mr. Pope—thrust in, as agents

or instruments to be used by him whenever there might be an occasion for them, as there was in the getting up

of the Petition against His Exceliency. They, with an

instinct peculiar to them, consequently regarded Mr. Pope, and not the Lieutenant Governor, as their bene- factor. They are servants worthy of their Master, and their Master of them. Few of them ever troubled them- selves with any nice considerations or reflections as to the utility of one set of political principles more than another: they received their posts with the implied, if not expressed, understanding, that principle and prac- tice were to be kicked to the devil, if the immaculate Joseph so commanded. We can, therefore, afford to smile at the egregious vanity which prompted their being thrust into the foreground of the caricature presented to the public by the Delegates. But we may ask what are the mighty results which have been achieved through the interposition of those petty officials? Last May the same parties made a grand display at the election of the Hon. Mr. Coles, in opposition to that gentleman; and assisted as they were, in every onset which they made by some of the bigger fish, the new Councillor, almost single-handed, beat every man of them, and would beat them again, as they have never before been thrashed ; but, unhappily for the frailty of poor human nature, they can endure many a whipping before the conceit can be driven out of their silly noddles. They imagine, poor souls, that their offices give them influence and power ; but the people of this Island—the hardy yeomanry who despised them at the last Election—will turn up their noses at them with as much contempt, as a veteran com- pany of regulars would manifest on the battle field to- wards a handful of raw militia recruits. We would as soon think of employing, in any political enterprise, a bevy of fat old women, who could do nothing more than wheeze, and cough, and drink their bohea, as the whole batch of justices, and commissioners, manufactured by Mr. Pope. What a pretty figure they would make upon the hustings! There is not one out of every twenty, though mad enough for any thing else, who would dare to encounter a constituency : if such a small proportion of them did, there could not be the shadow of a doubt of their having attained the last stage of insanity. Truly and sincerely, our political differences have not stifled in our breast every feeling of compassion; we feel for those misguided gentlemen; and we think that if Mr. Pope, who has led them into all their monstrous errors, is not, strictly speaking, indictable under the law which prohibits cruelty to animals, he has certainly merited the reproach of every right thinking man, for puffing up those poor people to such a lamentable degree of flatu-

lency. It is somewhat difficult to foretell the conse- quences of such a proceeding: for a month or two we

have seen many a face puckered up with laughter, which was, indeed, sometimes decently suppressed—excited

on conlemplating the ridiculous plight into which their master had plunged them; but when Earl Grey’s Des-

patch was published, in which those justices, commis-

sioners, &c., were pointedly declared to to unworthy of belief, the cachinations of the Snatchers had subsided

into a profound feeling of melancholy and commissera-

tion, and a fearful foreboding of something rash—some-

thing out ofthe common order of things, pervaded every

generous breast. We do hope, the crest fallen justices,

&c., will yet make a struggle to be men ; and endeavour to remember, that if it were not for those little misfor-

tunesand defeats, they should ever remain in ignorance

of their true position.

“The prayer of the Petition is supported by the re- corde¢ opinion of a majority of the present members of the House of Assembly.” This is the last sentence of the pamgraph above quoted, which we deem it necessary to notice ; and we can confidenty inform our readers that it is entirely false. We know the names of the “ present members of the House of Assembly” who have not sup- ported the prayer of the Petition. They are: Messrs. Rae, Coles, Clarke, N. Conroy, J. Warburton, Fraser, Mooney, Jardine, Whelan, M acintosh, D. Macdonald, Le Lacheut ; leaving eleven on the other side—the Speaker's name net being included; but, independently of those

him for his generosity by the darkest ingratitude—ougkt

“In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.”

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already enumerated, who did sor support the prayer of the Petition, there ere Messrs. Hugh McDonald and

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