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     the night before; they replied (if any of them 
     
     were there) in the negative. Then if the 
     
     Judge should not be so indulgent or good 
     
     natured as to wait some two or three hours 
     
     for the Lawyers to “ make ready” he of 
     
     course adjourned the Court to the next 
     
     day. Now Mr. President with all these 
     
     examples staring us in the face, I think it 
     
     would be degrading in this Club to cOnfine 
     
     themselves to such business-like, and I 
     
     suppose I may add such ungentlemanly ha- 
     
     bits, as Mr. Hardbottle’s motion would do 
     
     if carried into effect. (The Muon struts 
     
     up) JVIr. President, Quel que soient as 
     
     conditions Je nem’y soumetlrai jainais (Or. 
     
     der, order, (from several parts of the 
     
     room.) [wont be put down Mr. Presi— 
     
     dent, I am able enough to translate my 
     
     quotation,although I dont know the French 
     
     language “Grammatically” yet I have a 
     
     good recollection, and that enables me to 
     
     translate my text, and asI was at the 
     
     examination of the “Grammar School” 
     
     on Thursday last, and heard some of the 
     
     Members ofthe House offlssemblg exp iund- 
     
     ing the languages to the pupils; it is I think, 
     
     “ I wont submit to these conditions whatever 
     
     they may be” Now Mr. President, as I 
     
     have been 'so much interrupted,l shall re: 
     
     serve my speechification until some other 
     
     time; at the same time I would recom- 
     
     mend that this Club would take pattern by 
     
     the’Honse of Assembly, or some other re- 
     
     pectable Body, and I think the less we say 
     
     abbot them and their customs the better, 
     
     as I do not wish to quarrel with any person, 
     
     and depend upon it Sir, that we had better 
     
     say nothing about them. Plutus stands up 
     
     and says:— 
     
    
   
   
    
     Juditum admissi risum teneatisg 
     
     thentem dieere verum quid natal? 
     
    
   
   
    
     There Mr. President is a Specimen of my 
     
     Latin for you, and I dont suppose I should 
     
     have ever knowu so much of that language, 
     
     if I had not been present on Thursday last 
     
     as well as my Hon. friend the Major) at 
     
     t e examination of the “ Charlotte-Town 
     
     Groomer School” where I heard the Mem- 
     
     bers of the House of Assembly expound the 
     
     languages so systematically. Now Sir, I 
     
     have given you the above quotation for 
     
     tree. reasons; first because it answers my 
     
     purpose in the present instance, and se- 
     
     condly,be’canse it acquits the Membersot' 
     
     the House of Assembly of the charge 
     
     which has been made on them; “ That there 
     
     are none of them skilled in the languages, nor 
     
     Memalics either ” Now Mr. President, 
     
     if such were the case, the natural conclu- 
     
     sion would be; what business could tho-y 
     
     'have had at the examinatiOn ofthe “ Gram- 
     
     mfar School?” as they Would not ofcourso 
     
     know what progress the pupils had made, 
     
     Mr understand what was passing there. 
     
     Bittfthe' better to ' remove that impres- 
     
     sion, I will giro you the translation, as I 
     
     heard bathe occasion. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BRITISH AME RICAN. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ Can it be faulty to repeat 
     
    

    
     A dialogue that walk’d the street! 
     
    

    
     or can my graveslfrs‘endsforbear 
     
    

    
     J1 laugh, when such disputes (hey hear! 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Now Mr. President will you not say?— 
     
     .Rccordor Lectionis vel Leclionem. Al. all 
     
     eventsl think I have proved to your sa- 
     
     tisfaction the erudite manner in which the 
     
     House of Assembly can examine pupils at a 
     
     “ Grammar School.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     I shall now proceed Sir, to disprove the 
     
     Doctor’s arguments respecting the attention 
     
     of Members of this Club to a strict line of 
     
     disenpline. He in the first place thinks 
     
     that because the House ofAssembly sit sel- 
     
     dom more than Shours each day, and that 
     
     these Shom's costs the countiy H5 or l.16. 
     
     Now Sir, he cannot pretend to say. that if 
     
     the House ofAssembly thought proper to 
     
     sit 6 or 9 hours each day, that double 
     
     or treble the business could not be done, 
     
     and consequently, a great saving of time 
     
     to Members, ~and expense to the country 
     
     would be the result. 'Nor can he say that 
     
     it' the Supreme Court was as well con- 
     
     ducted some 50 years ago—or the Judges 
     
     at that time as attentive and as expeditious 
     
     in forwarding the business ofthe Court, as 
     
     Judges are in the present day! that there 
     
     would be now such an extraordinary long 
     
     list of “Cases’ standing over for trial; 
     
     consequently Circuit Courts would not be 
     
     necessary, the expense thereof would be 
     
     saved to the People. But Sir, I beg to be 
     
     expressly understood, as not laying any 
     
     blame whatever with the House ot'Assem- 
     
     bly or Supreme Courtot' the present day. I 
     
     only mean to infer, that if the practice had 
     
     been different in former days as it is very 
     
     reasonable to suppose,it would be conti- 
     
     tinued so, and that norret‘orm would be ne- 
     
     cessary in the present day. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Here Mr. Pincnshion rose and said, 
     
     that Hon. Members should be confined as 
     
     to time in speaking, that otherwise there 
     
     would be nothing done but speechifying. I 
     
     move Sir, that the Messenger be sent for 
     
     some of Brenan’s “ Imperial Irish "’his- 
     
     key ” Ordered accordingly. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ialso move Sir, the Messenger be sent 
     
     to “ Green Bush Collage” and invite “ Mr. 
     
     Barber” to become a member ot‘this Club 
     
     Ah! yes, he is an excellent hand I am 
     
     sure in his profession. Ordered accord- 
     
     ingly. 
     
    

    
     Ordereed that 2000 copies of J. L. L.’s 
     
     system of Leather-making be printed, and 
     
     sent over to England for the use of “ John 
     
     Bull.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ordered that this Club adjourn until 
     
     Monday the eleventh day of March next. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ Club Room, February 15, 1833. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     To the honourable the Club, in general,” 
     
    

    
     . clove met. . ' 
     
     The Petition of Baron Cranberry 
     
    

    
     Humbly Showeth, 
     
    

    
     That your petitioner is one of thew 
     
     pectuble Gentlemen possessed of land-s 
     
     Cobbett’s sand bank, whose territ 
     
     were lately invaded by incendiaries ex, 
     
     ting insubordination,levyingcontributioqs b; 
     
     35. 4d. each from our dependants, and}; 
     
     looting magazines of wheat and oat, 
     
     carry onthe war against us, and when 
     
     any of us ask for supplies in order that we 
     
     may appear as formerly at yOllrjovial AS_ 
     
     sembly, we are threatened that these trea. 
     
     sures shall be applied to l'ec 
     
     wellpaid and heavily armed troop who will 
     
     directly come down upon us in aid of 0m. 
     
     refractory tenants. 
     
    

    
     And your petitioner further heard,that 
     
     one Commander Hooper had actually done 
     
     so, and was also instructed to apply the ma. 
     
     gazines under his charge, to send delegates 
     
     across the Herring pond to form alliance 
     
     against us, that a former officer of ours, 
     
     (whom we had latelydismissed, was promoted 
     
     to manage the money matters of this troop, 
     
     was to be sent with the General and Drill 
     
     Sergeant for that purpose, (the latter oili- 
     
     cerintcnds reforming their discipline and 
     
     shortning the periods of their enlistment. 
     
    

    
     And your petitioner further states, that 
     
     to forward their views, the said troop have 
     
     ordered military roads to be cutthrongh our 
     
     territories to which they make us contri- 
     
     bute, in order to weaken our defence, and 
     
     compel us to yield our rights, that they 
     
     may divide the spoil among themselves, and 
     
     that your petitioner further states, that said 
     
     troops are guilty of most indecorons con- 
     
     duct when expecting a feed, and when 
     
     informed that certain Sums were to beat 
     
     their disposal for a consideration, a part of 
     
     them took to cheering and caparing, as if 
     
     the dancing madness that is said to have 
     
     once seized the shoemakers and tailor! 
     
     of Germany had come amOngst them. 
     
    

    
     And your petitioner also states, that this 
     
     troop like an Irish‘ Grand Jury, created 
     
     lucrative offices, the amount of which is 
     
     collected with so much vigor that they 
     
     seem to consider such persons as your pe 
     
     tioner to be in existence only as a sponge to 
     
    
   
   
    
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     things thus obtained among themselves to 
     
     the injury of honest and deserving persons; 
     
     and in despite of the lirst rule of you? 
     
     honorable body, members of the trool’ 
     
     have often been disguised at the muster, 
     
     and some have become so unruly, that the 
     
     commander had to dismiss the drill, but 
     
     that he claims pay for this day, as “13”” 
     
     for examiniig school-boys in the learned 
     
     languages and sciences; from such person! 
     
     as your petitioner, who is already grow“ 
     
     under so many burthens, that in short, 
     
     he fears he will have to submit along Md 
     
     other loyal persons like himself, 'end 7“]