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REPLY 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Hon. CHARLES YOUNG'S 
 
 LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT BEQUEATHED 
 TO HIS LATE CONSTITUENTS THE ELEC 
 TORS OF THE THIRD ELECTORAL DIS- 
 TRICT OF QUEEN'S COUNTY, 
 
 BY 
 
 WILLIAM DOUSE, Esq. 
 
 FORMERLY A MEMBER OF THE COLONIAL 
 LEGISLATURE FOR QUEEN'S COUNTY, 
 
 PBINCE EDWABD ISLAND. 
 
 " TBI HUIUlf MIin> IS A. STRAiroS C0MF0T75D." 
 
 CHARLOTTETOWN : 
 
 PRINTED By JAXfiS D.HAS2ARD, QUEBU'S PRINTER. 
 1840. 
 
REPLY. 
 
 « But I see what you want j you want excitement. 
 '•How would politics do? It's a wide field, and 
 "some considerable sport in it too. Agitate the 
 "country; swear the church is a-goin' to levy 
 " tythes, or dissenters to be taxed to support them, 
 " or that the Governor is a-goin' to have a martial 
 <* law. Call oflice-holders by the cant tarms olCom- 
 " pact shques and official gang, and they will have 
 " to gag you with a seat in the Council, or somethm' 
 
 'L°» fi^^^^^^> ^^ ^^ ^^y <ioa't-" Samuel Slick to 
 Eul Dill. 
 
 To THE Honorable CHARLES YOUNG, Piovisional 
 Legislative Counciixor. 
 
 Much esteemed Sir, 
 
 By the Gazette of the 22d ultimo, I perceive that His 
 Excellency the Lieutenant Governor has been pleased 
 provisionally, to appoint you to a seat in the Legislative 
 Council ; and by your address to your late constituents, 
 1 also see that you have at once accepted the appoint- 
 roent. ■^'^ 
 
 This address appears to be an apologetic and exculpa- 
 tory epistle of no measured length, proceeding from self 
 accusation, which has seemngly wisely dictated to vou 
 thus to anticipate and to defend yourself from the 
 charges which you expected would be brought against 
 you by your deluded constituents, at the bar of public 
 opinion. *^ 
 
 In this your anticipatory defence, which by the wav,is 
 drawn up with much of what we may terni legal ino-e 
 
 larly of the Electors of the Third Electoral District of 
 Queen's County, but yet I think more especially ol my 
 sell, as your Chi^ODDoneni: at vmir Into anA nn-o! n.iP:' 
 
fied Election, closely to enquire, how far you have truly 
 estimated the charges of political npostacy which may 
 be brought against you, and how far you have made 
 provision to shield yourself from the expected storm. 
 
 When you tendered your services to the Electors of 
 the Third Electoral District of Queen's County, I opposed 
 you upon principles which I then declared, and to which 
 I still adhere ; but, it appeared your pnnciples nere more 
 phasing in their sight, and your pledges more satisfactory 
 to them, and they did you f you ! ! you .'.'/ a mere stranger to 
 most of them .'.'/.' the high honour of electing you their Re- 
 presentative !!!.'.' 
 
 In imitation of your own course, I will, besides mser- 
 
 ting the substance of one of ray cards,circulcated among 
 
 the Electors on the occasion already spoken of, favour 
 
 you with the insertion of two others verbatim : the first 
 
 merely states, that " my public and private character 
 
 " during a residence of nearly twenty years was, I be- 
 
 " lieve, known to the most of them ; and that should 
 
 " they deem me worthy of their confidence, I should use 
 
 " the same efforts for the improvement of their section of 
 
 " the County as I did when I formerly had the honour to 
 
 "represent them;" and this I will now add, that if they 
 
 had done me the honour they conferred upon you, I 
 
 would not have deserted theni as you have done, for the 
 
 sake of a mere empty appellation of honour 
 
 A celebrated English statesman was in the habit of 
 saying, every man had his price. You might be adduced 
 as aninstanceof the justice of his observation. It is now 
 evident you have had yours, and that by no means a 
 great one. Vanity may instigate us to make great pre- 
 tensions in the eyes ot others; but there are vejy fcAv 
 who do not secretly know their own value; and that 
 you, as well as some above you, were fully sensible of 
 yours. I question not; children and childish minds, ge- 
 nerally speaking, are pleased with a rattle, tickled with 
 a straw. 
 
 You may remember that when the Election was ad- 
 journed from Belfast, you proposed to the Electors that 
 they should give me three cheers, for (as you expressed 
 it) my gentlemanly conduct; but how far you merited 
 a return of the compliment from me at Lot 49, when in 
 a most ungentlemanly manner you tore up my Hand- / 
 bills, I will not now stop to enquire. Notwithstanding 
 the havoc you then made of tham, I have been able to 
 procure a copy which escaped your destroying hands, 
 
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and now for my own gratification and that of the public 
 I will insert it, and your own as a guide to any one 
 who may wish to complete a full length portrait of a 
 political deceiver. 
 
 CHARLES YOUNG 
 IS A REFORMER, 
 
 And ts determiHtd, if returned, to do hix utmost 
 
 CoHStstait/,/ nith the principles of the British Constitution. 
 
 To have thti Fishery Reserves opem I to the Puhlir • 
 
 To have the loyalists Redressed; 
 
 To have the 
 
 TENANTRY RELIEVED 
 
 E^om their Oppressive Burdens; 
 
 And is also pledged not to accept of any Office of evwhmnU 
 
 under Government, nor any Land Agency. 
 
 ^The copy below was issued by me at the Election, ji, 
 
 REFORM. 
 , .r- ^J^^^ES YOUNG IS A REFORMER!! 
 
 Is this Reform Annexation to Nova Scotia, and depricins: 
 
 you of your Franchise ? 
 
 C. Young mil throw open the Fishery Reseires ! Jhes he 
 
 man to rob Frccliolders and Leaseholders of their fronts <• 
 
 C. Young will redress the Loyalists ! Can he do it in fate 
 
 of the despatch of the Home Government ? 
 
 ^^Z^f young wHl relieve the Tenantry of their burthens ! 
 
 WUl he pay their Rents for them with some of his smrc 
 
 CASH! 
 C. Young will take no Agencies nor Government 
 OFFICES!!!!!!!! 
 Did he not came here to look for Land Agencies ? Has he not 
 canvassed for the Clerkship of the Assembly t 
 C. Young is a Reformer ! Will he pledge himself to 
 Reform Lawyers' BILLS? 
 Avaunt Ye!! 
 On the occasion of your tearing up my handbills, I did 
 not retaliate further than by severely reprimaudinff you 
 for your improper conduct, and at the close of the Poll vou 
 again proposed three cheers for me. The Electors kind- 
 ly responded to your proposal, at the same time telliuir 
 you that it was not from any want of personal respect 
 for me that they had declined giving me their votes • 
 they shook hands with me, and stated thfiv had known 
 me tor many years, and that their only objection to^me 
 
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 was my being a Land Agent ; and to you they observed, 
 that uniess you looked well after their interestx,you would have 
 no occasion to prtsent yourself for their suffrages a stonul 
 time. 
 
 Having thus prefaced, I will now come to the grand 
 inquiry, whether, during the very short time you were in 
 the House, you are justly entitled to so much self-praise 
 as you have taken to yourself in your document published 
 in the Royal Gazette, or whether you redeemed your 
 pledges or not. I well remember the mighty promises 
 you made to your constituents at the time of your Elec- 
 tion; and on carefully examining your short political 
 career, which may aptly enough be compared to the 
 glancing of a " Will ot the Wisp," or, perhaps, still more 
 correctly speaking, to a " flash in the pan," or an un- 
 shotted and useless discharge from a musket— I can 
 observe no light which you have left behind you for a 
 guide to others, nor can I perceive that in any way, you 
 have weakened the defences of your political opponents, 
 for, happy man— happy at least in your own estimation— 
 aiemies you say you have none, either personal or politi- 
 cal, although in my ignorance I had, until better inform- 
 ed by you, always considered political opponents and 
 political enemies as synonimous and convertible terms. 
 
 Your own view of your parliamentary career, iiow- 
 ever, differs widely from mine; and I shall, therelbre, 
 with the licence of a reviewer, proceed to dissect ami ex- 
 amine that history of it, the writing and reading of which 
 has no doubt afforded yourselt so much gratification; 
 but which, unfortunately for its author, carries to the 
 minds of the public no more conviction favourable to 
 him, than would a perusal of " Gulliver's Travels" con- 
 vince a reasoning mind of the truth of the adventures 
 therein narrated. 
 
 In your history of your parliamentary career, you, in 
 the first place, assume credit to yourself on account of 
 the commutation of the Colonial Secretary's fees which 
 was effected by the House in their last Session, you say, 
 you have been told, that by that commutation, a saving 
 of nearly £300 has this year been made to the Colony. 
 That the amount of saving is correctly stated, I very 
 much doubt, but the public accounts will clear that ques- 
 tion. I will proceed to consider what credit is due to 
 you, for supporting the call for such a commutation. I 
 for one will plainly tell you, how much I think you may 
 fairly claim on that score. You acted the part invariably 
 played by all envi'nis political fortune-hunters, eagef- 
 
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 ly on the one hand panting for honours which they have 
 no native dif,'nity to support, and on the other, sordidly 
 longing for emoluments, to which their merits will never 
 entitle them, they are ever ready to join in full mouthed 
 cry, against the more honourable and more fortunate 
 men, whom they behold in the enjoyment of both. 
 Thus, sir, I assign to you in full measure all the muTii 
 due to you for the share you had in etfecting that com- 
 mutation which, by the bye, had been proposed, and for 
 the which, the Bill was framed by one of the Honorable 
 Members lor Georgetown, before you had taken youc 
 seat in the House. 
 
 You next acknowledge, a.i your second pledge, your dcter- 
 min«*ion to do your utmost, consistently with the priiicipica 
 of the Britisl» coiistitulioii,to have the lishery reserves thrown 
 open to the public. Well, 1 will take it for granted,that in this 
 instance, you did your utmost, but that utmost it must be 
 allowed was but trifling. That utmost did not enable you to 
 draft such a fishery reserves bill, as could, without evident 
 infraction of law and justice, give a final quietus to the ques- 
 tion. Neither, it appears, did your u'inost retain you in 
 your place when a division was about to ensue, on the ques- 
 tion of the proposed address to the Queen, after the rejection 
 by the House, of tho amendments to the fislicry reserves bill 
 went down to them by the Council. Your utmost, it appears' 
 was not able to fix your volatility on tliat occasion. Before 
 I dismiss this part of your parliamentary conduct, I will just 
 hint to you that you have shewn but little wisdom in your at- 
 tempt, in tiiis part of your defence, to heap new abuse upon 
 the Land-owners; and as little will it accomplish your main 
 object, the divertmg from yourself of the just resentment of 
 the deluded tenantry, especially when it is remembered that 
 although the draft of that Bill was the work of your hands 
 those hands were only those of an interested and hired scribe! 
 
 I am now to consider in what way you prove you , 'emp- 
 tion of your pledge to have the Loyalists redresses Upon 
 this head you say but little, and that little, without any injury 
 to its weight or moment— or to your literary taste and dis- 
 cernment—might easily have been made less. You tell your 
 late constituents that the Loyalist Bill had been passed be- 
 fore you took your seat in the House,and that the Council re- 
 jected it, on the ground that a similar Bill passed in the pre- 
 vious Session, had been disallowed by the Queen. This sim- 
 ple statement is so far correct, and it besides fully exonerates 
 the Council from all blame on account of their rejection of 
 the Bill. By your own shewing they acted with firmness, 
 but temper towards the House, and with proper delieaev 
 ij.,„.^., .,..„.r i\l>jui iTitoueoo. licre uivu wanung occasion. 
 
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 or prrhaps tioM, afraid to arroign the Council n. you formerly 
 1.(1; and .hull I ,ay afraid, lest your provmonal Lpoi, mJit 
 
 •idviscrs of the Crown, for their counsel give.i to the Quceti 
 r gardu,? the Loyalist claims-you once inorc with coar'c 
 invective, assail the owners of property, and rai dy cX! 
 vour to turn from yourself the resc'nt.ncnt of you late con 
 «t.tue„t3, whom you have so grossly deceived, to thoe whoso 
 dehnquences you would gladly have U,o tenantry to bS 
 are greater than your own. "^-iit-tt- 
 
 I next in order come to the consideration how yon have 
 redeemed your pledge " to have the Tenantry relieved-" an I 
 
 ZZtr'C^'^'JT ''''''"'''' "r'^''"^^ you Skit n 
 
 appear, but as I believe most people regard it, your hiinorri. 
 u<./, not to use a still stronger e;ithet,''appeal to the Afmigl - 
 
 already d scussed, to arrogate merit to yoursoif-Iess reason 
 
 --less tliau none there cannot easily be. But not oiily i, 
 there no merit due to you on this point, as wiu ^ the 
 
 fouTavf ae ual v"? '"" *"^" "^^ °"'^ ""'^^ "° "^"'^ ^' 
 tenantry bt ii^ **"".'." .""^ """""^ »"J'''-y ^° "»«"y o<''h« 
 tenantry, by your delusive express bns. You and vour 
 
 Suuty'Kr' ;''?•"- ^^''"'"se of the ignora:::.^':^ 
 
 Ss hav7m Y ""^''••\""'^^'y are but too conunon amongst 
 feri of^h! '"'*. '"•'^ «'^?gg«'-ated the grievances and s5f. 
 ces?f such If '"''''V" ^^'^''' °''" ^y^*"' """' »he consequon- 
 pJoductL nf r"*" *""'"' '•" ""^i^ "Stances, been the actual 
 fnr,^v ^i \*'°?^ yery gncyances and sufferings, which be- 
 fore existed only ,n imaginaUons, highly excited by the art- 
 
 I;!' wnfrh"'"!' '^"1 interested speeches of that noisy, hun- 
 gry wo fish pack, whose deserts a.e but too clearly pk:tu?ed 
 «ri countenances, in which may variously be rcad-vanUv 
 
 SlnnUh h ^''^°/*-^'"«")«" Of a Robespiefre-the snarling, 
 snappish, half-starved spirit of an Elwes-the steady-S 
 stolidity of the Ox, with that utter vacuity and want^of ^ll 
 
 fact SSn [ ^'^'"^ r •"'"''^'^'J^ distinguishes those utsns^ s of 
 faction, whose sole power lies, in casi of a division, in iheir 
 being allowed numerically to 'pass i" to the calendar Jf men 
 I agree with you, Sir, as to the fertiUty and salubrity oS 
 S'^ K-l"''' but I should as soon expect to see the bed 
 of snow which now covers our soil, instantaneously removed 
 by the warm and genial breath of an Italian spring, aSdIhe 
 next moment to behold the country smiling in aKe rich- 
 ess and beauty of a paradise, and to behold every where in 
 It our ancient men surrounded by all that can deliSeh^ 
 hearts, seated like patriarchs ol" old, undertheir «°o,U fig 
 trees, eazino- uDon ♦h«!- <iftrL- »-•!"-'•-. ,,,..''"8 
 
 . „ » -D uj-uij .j.vii ••ocKsj anil uKii vine-covered hiils''— 
 
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 as beliere that jour impracticable and visionary schemes 
 will ever, or that you hope they will ever— notwUhstandinir 
 your frequent hypocritical and highly disgusting appeals to 
 the Almighty— be the means of making the |)«opl(! of the 
 Island peaceable, contented and happy. I do believe, how- 
 ever, that in process of time, the condition of our agricultur- 
 ists will be much improved; but tlils I expect from other 
 sources than those to which you h;nc been tcacliing them to 
 oolf. Such a change I liopc will ulso be greatly accelerated 
 bv the immigration from Britain of intelligent niid respecta- 
 ble farmers; of men who can introduce improved and scien- 
 tiOc systems of agriculture; and to whom some who arc too 
 obstinate to learn, or too idle to practice anything like sys- 
 temaUc operations, must give place, and to whom they must 
 leave the enjoyments of those blessings which the soil, tha 
 bountiful mother of all, is ever ready to shower from her law 
 upon those who are not too idle or unskilful to court her 
 favours. In commenting upon the determination of Govern- 
 ment not to interfere with or change the tenure of lands and 
 your remarks upon the imposition of a Penal tax— you sav 
 the tenant would not be bentHted, he would not be rdievetl 
 but would be in a worse position than before, because the 
 greedy landlord, or his crafty agent, would wrest from him 
 the little substance ho had gathered around him, in order to 
 meet the increased demand. 
 
 Without expressing an opinion on the situation of the 
 tenant, or the propriety of the tax, I may here obscrvr that 
 greediness and craftiness are only phantoms which exist iu 
 your own brains. And now Sir, although your observation 
 appears m general terms, yet as it occurs in an address to 
 those who were lately your constituents, many of whom arc 
 tenants upon property under my manngemcnt, I think I may 
 lairly infer, that you wished to excite a bad feclin" nmona 
 them. Your envenomed expressions will, notwiUistandinS 
 your malignant intention, have no cfl'eet, for the iiersonsi 
 allude to, are, I believe, convinced that my inclinations to- 
 wards industrious persons are neither harsh, unfeelinc, nor 
 rapacious; and I am proud and happy to state that on no 
 property m the Colony have coercive measures been more 
 rare than on the property in question— although provocation 
 and ill-advice to tenants, in several instances, obliged me to 
 take legal proceedings. Under the same head you next ob- 
 sarve, the only feasible plan for the relief of the tenant, should 
 the government refuse to interfere, or purchase the lands, 
 would be a compromise of the arrears of rent, and which 
 arrears it is impossible the tenants can ever pay. In this 
 scheme I can recognise nothing but impolicy and injustice to 
 the honest and industrious tenant,both which must be enuallv 
 
 evident to ynnrapir Thp* "TT -Tii!- '-• -'• ■»- • .• 
 
 "- -' -.K.. jvJuF pvftcjnion VI lus unpoucy 
 
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 and injustice should prevent your recommending (to serve 
 your own especial purpose) what you know would be so ac- 
 ceptable a boon to the indolent and dishonest: and whai 
 would also be very readily accepted, even by others of i^ bet- 
 ter character, excites in me no surprise. It is of a piece 
 with the usual practise of those fretful, envious, schemine 
 and restless agitating beings, who linding themselves sunk 
 jar beneath the level to which vanity and ambiUonhave 
 Uught them to aspire, hope that by the exciUng of popular 
 commotion, some convulsive throw may elevate them to dis- 
 tmction, as earthquakes frequently throw up to the surface 
 what otherwise might for ever have remained buried in its 
 proper sphere— obscurity. But, before I leave this topic, I 
 wculdjust enquire who, generally speaking, and wfeat are 
 the characters of the persons who are most heavily in arrears 
 ior rent] Are they to be found among thr sober, honest, 
 steady and mdustrious portion of the tenantry in the Island! 
 I dely you to prove that they are. No, Sir, they are to be 
 round among those who by habits of continued dissipaUon 
 have left themselves, their wives and their children, destitute 
 ol necessary and decent comforts,by being satisfied merely to 
 fell as much wood, and to half cultivate as much land, as 
 would enable them, in some degree, to gratify their appetites 
 lor tobacco and rumj and who, in the prosecution of such in- 
 dulgence, have, to complete their ruin and misery, fallen 
 into the company of some itinerant agitator and preacher of 
 i-scheat; whose doctrines yielding them a prospect of release 
 from all obligation to pay rent, have only fos' ered and encou- 
 raged their slothful and vicious habits, and prevented their 
 gathering around them any substance by which decently to 
 support their families, and stUl less, by which to meet the de- 
 mands of their landlord. No, Sir, neither you nor your co- 
 adjutors have yet done— and I venture to say you never will 
 do— any service to the agriculturists in the Colony. You 
 are its present bane, and as such your names will be held in 
 execration by the children of those whom by sophistry vou 
 have first olind-folded, and then by declamation goaded on 
 to rum. * 
 
 Let me next enquire who are those among the Island ten- 
 antry whose dwelling houses, offices and farms afford the 
 most pleasing prospect, and speak most plainly of the wis- 
 dom, industry, comfort and abundance, which are the por- 
 tions of thtir occupiers] Do not these farms, almost without 
 excepUon, belong to those who have honesUy adhered to the 
 contracts into which they had voluntarily entered: and who, 
 il they found they had what they may call rather hard bar- 
 gains, yet have honestly endeavoured to do their best, and 
 make the most of them. 
 
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 I now come to consider what yon call " your two last 
 pledges," and which are, that you would not accept of anv 
 office olemohiment »nder Government nor any Land 
 Agency. When yon made this promise, T really believe 
 you expected you would be enabled to keep it, altho' ol 
 yoOT expectation respecting the others, I can by no 
 Wieans say so much. You had been disappointed of ob- 
 laming a land agency, your chief object in cominij 
 nither, and you were conscious that your juvenility f for 
 I will give you credit for so much modesty) precluded 
 all chance of your being called to the Bench, and less, I 
 J>resume, would not have gra?fied your vanity— so lor 
 then, I thmk this promise was honestly made, and so far 
 t give you credit; therefore, to use your own words « J 
 need say nothing further to you on the subject" although 
 to your, " although I may state that I have been offered 
 three Land Agencies and refused them," I will take th 
 liberty to add a simple (?) It is certainly an assertion 
 which must provoke a doubt. Imayhere remark that 
 a. respectable member of society, Samuel Nelson, Esq. 
 to use his own words, asked you on the hustings, in the 
 presence of the Public, the reason why Jack would 'nt 
 eat his Supper, and your reply was, because he could'nt 
 get it, he said "that you were in the same predicament, 
 tor nobody would trust you with an Agency." 
 
 From these facts, Honourable Sir, ijmir generous coh- 
 stituejitsyiin perceive that you have only « kept the word 
 of promise to 'the ear, and broke it to their hopes," you 
 have not fulfilled their hopes as regards their local in- 
 Jerests; and they may jostly complain that, by your 
 having accepted a seat in the Council, you have broken 
 your promise with regard to the improvement of their 
 roads and bridges. Your examination " with your own 
 eye has not repaired them, although you received so 
 
 much kindness and hospitality" for the promiae to do 
 
 The resolutions you alluded to as " passed at several 
 district meetings oj; the County," lyou might have con- 
 fined yourself to tocO were, it is said, prepared by 
 "your own hands J' However, aUowing them to have been 
 all you represent them, they merely show how desirous 
 I'^.^^'^T^^''^^ were of supporting you, under the im- 
 pressionthat your delusive promises and pledges were 
 sincere; and your faithless mgratitude to them is there- 
 by only placed m a stronger light. 
 
 I would pass over your observations Jrespectiae the Le- 
 giBiative uouiioiJ, had you omitted to refer to the resolu- 
 
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 S iXCaTi;-r; o)T''^^^^^ ^^ -so- 
 lutions passed' irAprKsfrthTr'""''?^^'^^^ '^^■ 
 
 their opinions of the SutioL i^. ''f- ^?"*=^'' containing 
 
 by the Writy of t e'^To^^' Houst' "ff ^^ ^''^' 
 are m accordance with mv Zn .^a' r ^\^'® "P^mons 
 such of your constitupnt?L' ""^^ for the benefit of 
 I refer to^he Sue Slay A'ltO^^' ''^" "^'^ ^^^'"' 
 
 from that weigh^o? Session wh'ii^^ ^^"^''^ 
 
 them to the dust." S cnm^ Tr .1^.^^' '''"^^^^ ^orne 
 circumstances rhavinr, ilT °^^he tenantry are in low 
 this Colony,) 'aSha/e d?ftrnh° ""^'^ '^^^' ^^«^« '« 
 both admit aidTsretl,?t«?r' '° '^^^^^^ ^^^^h, I 
 I have any kuowled'e of th^ir 1 ^^ '^-""^ f^'""' ^^"^ 'hat 
 alluded to Tf;^;,X ^^'^''^^''^•"*'''' in the District 
 lievelhem e ther Lv tt' ^""^''^ ^"^ difficulties you "e 
 
 . by bestowilig u^'nVem anvl°n °r " ^^"^ ^'^^^^^'^^•"' ^^ 
 which you s5 Ion- aStf.i?K°fy'''''' '"'"?'»« cash, 
 was peihaps as httle Sv In ?h«t ^'"*' ^^^^^^"2^ '^ere 
 I have no Soubt both bSL f ^^^\ ^' '"* y^"'" Promises,) 
 you for the K That 1 "^'t 'f^-^^*' ^'^^^^ thank 
 your duty lo endeavnnr t. V '' ^"'^ '' s^'"' however, 
 grievaiice^s of any tIZt arisL°;'f "'^^^ '' '''''''' 'he 
 ment of either JndC ;,rTen? Z,nT ""^f ' ^''^^'- 
 stituents I freelv adm^^t hn. fu ' ^"?°"^ ^^"^ ^l^'e con- 
 wiU not enable you to Vhew it. ''"''''* investigation 
 exist m the District l^L^^oXSteT' ^"^^^"^^ 
 
 arnongThL^Sg^a't^^^^^^^^ »i«'"^^ that 
 
 distresses SSTci^a Sdln^.S- ^''^'% ^^^^ ^^^ 
 were provoked by ve^r^; al^alaS^rcSueT' ^'^^ '^^'^ 
 ^'^^^Ttl^lX^^' '^T^' o^ ^h'ch lands have 
 999 yearsTsome at 6d S^^ '^ ^'' ^"''"^"^ ^^^^ for 
 more^han'ls s^^Per acS^'ln v!;?'"' ^?^^'^' ^ ^^^«k, at 
 in this Island, wh?ch 1 ttnt • ^T ^^^ ''"tate o/24 acres, 
 the lands Sded (o vJu w.'' °^>.'' vM""' ^"^"^y than 
 thing more not unhkelvTr ^Z?^'^'^ ^'^^'^ ^°^ ^^'"e- 
 you may not be aware of it mlf/ ?'' ^"i"^ ' ^"*^ though 
 less evei in the Klv «f 'n?^ ^i^"'*' ^"^^ ^'^^^^'^ ^""^ "inch 
 comparison aoneaTX ^harlottetown. Who, in this 
 on? The'rdKf'?K T'^ exorbitant landlord, you 
 which you SS 5 *^ tenantry from the oppression, 
 yoti Wish to persuade them tbev labour nnd-r 
 
ise of Assembly, re- 
 y- It occurs to my 
 ght it expsdient to 
 stuuents, thereso- 
 ouncil, containing 
 5u upon the people 
 e. These opinions 
 I for the benefit of 
 It have seen them, 
 
 pledge, that you 
 ! tenantry relieved 
 has almost borne 
 enantryare in low 
 ■n they came to 
 
 contend with, I 
 le time, deny that 
 i in the District 
 lifficulties you re- 
 your energies." or 
 ur surplus cash, 
 
 (although there 
 » your promises,) 
 mts would thank 
 5 still, however, 
 >st to redress the 
 iny unjust treat- 
 g your late con- 
 st investigation 
 iuch grievances 
 id. 
 
 t District, that 
 ears, only two 
 , and that these 
 uct. 
 
 hich lands have 
 lerally held for 
 few, I think, at 
 itate o/24 acres, 
 sr quality than 
 ased for some- 
 5 J and though 
 iased for much 
 
 Who, in this 
 
 landlord, you 
 fie oppression, 
 labour under 
 
 I 
 
 
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 S?li?* ^^^^^^^ H ^^^^"^ ^*^^s '^an those displayed in 
 the following copy of a placard, with which you former- 
 ly had some acquaintance. It exhibits your tender mer. 
 ?l^^°^^^^l:'''POJ"' ^feeding tenant," who became the 
 l!fSf' J'i'^"^ "[ y°"'' generosity of feelmg. I will 
 merely add upon the subject that, indeed, - he ts almost 
 b9rne down to the dust," yet it is not " by his greedy land- 
 lord or his crafty agent." * ^ 
 
 LOOK AT THIS 
 
 Electors of Lots 49 and 50. 
 
 Is tJiis C. 
 
 Young's Reform and relieving you oj your 
 Burthens? 
 
 Tvi^il ni^'^'^'A ^r'll "^ ^'^ ^2, brought an Action of 
 Trespass— Mr. Charles Young teas his Attorney— the case 
 wasn^er brought into Court, but decided by Arbitration, 
 Mr Young, without furnishing Mr. Ryan mth a Bill of 
 Costs, obtatns his signature to a Warrant of Attorney, enters 
 up Judgment, end •" 
 
 BEHOLD THE CONSEQUENCES!!.' 
 
 SHERIFF'S SALE. 
 
 .>cS rr"r € " J?*^"^ of Statute Execution to me directed, 
 nZi.V^ ^'' i^/?;e5<y'5 Supreme Court, at the Suit of 
 Charles I oung, against Michael Ryan, I have taken and 
 siezed as the property of the said Michael Ryan, viz: 
 
 utI: i' J^'^''^! ^^{^ ""''^ Leasehold Interest of the said 
 Michael Ryan, m and to One Hundred Acres of Land a 
 little more or less, being part and parcel of Lot or Township 
 Number 32, in Queen's County. ^ 
 
 I do hereby give Notice, that I will Setup and Sell at 
 Fubltc Auction, at the Court House, in Charlottetown, on 
 
 ?Jw«f ^'; /' -^""'^ ^""K'-^ ^P"^^' IS'^1' '^^ ^A« hour of 
 nveive clock, noon, the above recited property 
 
 JOHN S. MAC DONALD, 
 
 vu..^a) r^jr n« , „ Sheriff of Queen's County, 
 hhenffs Office, 21th March, 1840. 
 
 MEN OF LOTS 49 (J- 50, Mr. RYAN IS NOW IN 
 CHARLOTTETOWN JAIL '^""'^^^ 
 
 r\ZZ ««" *^^ f^T''''^ *^^* y°^ ^ave been selected, 
 tf.^l l^V""^ ^^5'°''' political principles, to fill your 
 present situation, the stepping stone to which they placed for 
 you. Into the reasons which induced your appointment 
 I presume not to enquire, but whatever those ?eSs 
 may have been, thev can. bv no Tnflan« iust^f" "on- h- 
 sertion of the trust reposed in you: ^hi? tra^tC t 
 
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 vcr intended to l^ your stepping stone to the Council, and 
 yon would have done yourself infinitely more honor by 
 lespsctfully declining the appointment, than you have 
 achieved by its acceptance; and that, in the eyes both of 
 your constituents and of your political opponents. Sam 
 •Slick says " he never looks on a desarter as any great 
 shakes." How your constituents will look upon you, 
 remains to be seen; although some among them, I under- 
 stand, feel very much disposed to award you that treat- 
 jnent generally bestowed upon puppies when they offend 
 against propriety. 
 
 I must take the libc v to notice the following sentence 
 of yours; in which we iiave so contemptible a display of 
 mock modesty and pretended humility, as I have no 
 doubt must have called forth a sneer of contempt from 
 the least intelligent individual, who may have honoured 
 your epistle with a perusal. " You may, and I have no 
 '•doubt will get a man of surpassing ability to myself to 
 "■ represent you, but that you will get one more alive to 
 .' your interest or more desirous to serve and do his du- 
 <' ty towards you than I have been, afid will continm to be, 
 .' I will never believe." 
 
 What, Sir, do you imagine any one will suppose that, 
 in your heart, you believe a man of abilities surpassing 
 yours, can be found? You! a man who has shewn him- 
 self to be the legal adviser of the House of Assembly; 
 Ihe man whose hands prepared the " voluminous Fishery 
 Reserve Bill;" the man who can holdout to the people his 
 hope of seeing this Island become, through his instrumen- 
 tality, a second "land of promise;" and, to crown all,the 
 man who for his condemnation ot, and opposition to, cer- 
 tain avow d and constitutional principles of Her 3[ajes- 
 ly's govcrnment,hasbeen selected as an individual whom, 
 in an especial manner, Her Majesty shall delight to ho- 
 jiour! Away with hypocrisy so disgusting, so sickening 
 to common sense, as your "pretence that you believe any 
 laan, at lea^t in these Colonies, can be found of abilitie's 
 surpassing yours. Your mind is certainly n st ran ae com- 
 pvnnd: all boast, this minute; all humility, the next. In 
 your silly pretensions to humility, you remind mc of the 
 philosopher, in whom pride was" as conspicuous, through 
 his filth and rags, as ever it appeared beneath imperial 
 purple.— Whoever may be your successor, Sir, or what- 
 ever mav be thought of his abilities, surpassing, or other- 
 wise, 1 hope he will, withall, be one possessed of tho,' , 
 voluable, those sterling endowments, common sense, ana 
 v'om'n'.iri honesty; one who will not eneouratje cxpccta- 
 
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 tions which he really knows can never be realizcil: one, 
 the sincere, but not cajoling friend of his constituents; 
 one who will not make it his whole business to sow 
 jealously and mistrust bet>veen those, whose true inter- 
 ests are severally best promoted when mutual confidence 
 and good will prevail between them. Your successor. 
 Sir, I hope may be one anxious to prove himself a watch- 
 ful guardian of the rights and welfare of the Tenant; a 
 promoter of agricultural improvements; ihe general, not 
 partial, friend of the country; a lover of peace and order; 
 and a hearty admirer and supporter of the Constitution 
 of his country. Such a successor, Sir, do I wish to see 
 serving your constituents; and such a successor, if duly 
 supported in the House, would do more for his constitu- 
 ents, and the country generally, in one Session, than any 
 number of such men as can have no political influence 
 or existence, unless by the creation of agitation for the 
 promised attainment of some unattainable object,could effect 
 through the whole duration of a Parliament. May your 
 late constituents then. Sir, have the good sense and good 
 fortune to select such a man; and they will not only be 
 benefited by his attention to their local interests, but by 
 his strict impartiality on all questions affecting the more 
 general interests of the Colony. 
 
 Now Sir, under no fictitious signature, I must reluct- 
 antly bid you adieu for the present; reluctantly, for I have 
 left much unsaid, both to you and to the Electors of the 
 Third Electoral District, which nothing but my want of 
 time, and a claim to a larger space in the medium through . 
 which I have chosen to address you, would have induced 
 me to withhold. 
 
 I am. honorable and much esteemed Sir, 
 your most obedient humble servant. 
 
 WILLIAM DOUSE. 
 
 Charlottetown, Dec. 2Sth, 1810. 
 
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