leges which belong to the representative chamber. It is an evil, incident to small communities, that public questions can hardly be touched without degenerating into personal quarrels, and reason and justice are too often lost sight of while suspicion and rancor prevail.

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XX.

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Sir John Wentworth to earl Camden, 21 March, 1805, gives a state of H. M. council :

S. S. Blowers, esquire, chief justice and president of council. Attends duty with great assiduity. Resides at Halifax.

Alexander Croke, esquire, judge of vice admiralty. Resides at Halifax, and attends his duty in council regularly.

John Halliburton, esquire, physician to H. M. naval hospital. Sometimes prevented attending by professional duty.

Benning Wentworth, esquire, secretary of province. Resides at Halifax, and attends regularly.

James Brenton, esquire, puisne judge of supreme court. Resides at Halifax, and attends regularly in council.

John Butler Butler, esquire, deputy commissary and storekeeper general. Resides at Halifax, and regularly attends his duty in council.

Michael Wallace, esquire, treasurer of the province. Resides at Halifax, and attends his duty in council regularly.

Andrew Belcher, esquire, merchant. Resides at Halifax, and attends his duty in council.

Two vacancies, viz., C. M. Wentworth and L. Hartshorne. He recommends: Richard John Uniacke, attorney general and speaker, 26 August, 1801. Edward Brabazon Brenton, deputy judge advocate general in B. N. Amerîca, 5 February, 1802.

Charles Hill, esquire, an opulent and respectable merchant, 26 August, 1801. George Henry Monk, esquire, one of the judges supreme court, 5 Feb'y., 1802. Charles Morris, esquire, surveyor general of lands and register in the court of vice admiralty, 5 February, 1802.

John Beckwith, esquire, "a gentleman eminently qualified," 5 Feb'y., 1802. Hibbert N. Binney, esquire, collector of impost and excise, 23 June, 1804.

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In council, 5 Feb'y., 1805. A grant to Edmund Ward, a loyalist, of 860 acres, in county of Annapolis. [Mr. Ward was the father of Edmund Ward, who published the Free Press, newspaper, at Halifax, for many years.]

Mr. Printer.

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The following small tribute of affection, inscribed to the memory of the late Mr. COCHRAN, a gentleman so universally respected in this island, may not be unacceptable to the generality of your readers.

Yours, &c.,

BON AMI.

Nova Scotia now will drop a tear

TO COCHRAN's name, deservedly so dear;
He, in whose breast's implanted ev'ry worth,
That did pronounce him of no sordid birth.
His manly heart was with each virtue form'd,
And early piety his bosom warm'd;

No rugged passions reign'd within his breast,
No anxious fears his virtuous mind opprest:
But all was there quite placid and serene,
There truth and candour consummate did reign,
There justice, uncontroul'd, his breast did sway,
And being just, he walk'd in mercy's way.
All who knew him, did at once proclaim,
His manly virtues and exalted fame;
His sole, and only wish, was to do good,
And being so himself! was understood;
For ever shall this island own his worth,
His actions of themselves so bright shone forth;
This country of his justice rung applause,
Whilst he was guardian of this country's laws.
Alas! unhappy when his presence lost,
Call'd by his Sovereign to a higher post :
Our tears unfeigned at his departure flow'd,
And his known virtues in our bosom glow'd:
But ah sad fate! his meekness could not save
The much lov'd youth from an untimely grave.
A watery tomb was destined for his lot,

Far from his home, and from his friends remote ;
But heaven's decrees none can presume to scan,
His days were numbered and his time was come.
An aged mother now is left to mourn
The hapless fate of a beloved son ;
Tears unavailing are her only store,
Until she greets him on that happy shore,
Where kindred souls do meet in joy above,
To sing the praises of their mother's love.

Charlotte Town, 16 April, 1805.

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Married, at Halifax, May 3, 1805, by the Rev. the Rector of St. Paul's, Vice Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell, K. B., commander-in-chief of H. M. Fleet on that station, to miss Mary Uniacke, eldest daughter of R. J. Uniacke, esq., of this town; and

Thomas N. Jeffery, esq'r., Collector of H. M. Customs, to miss Martha Maria Uniacke, second daughter of the same gentleman.

Died, on Tuesday last, in the 43d year of his age, Mr. Archibald Gay, Editor and Printer of the N. S. Gazette.

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The news of the battle of Trafalgar, and the death of Nelson, was received in Halifax about December, 1805, and the town was illuminated in consequence.

CHAPTER XXI.

1806. On saturday, 15 February, lieut. general Gardiner, the military commander-in-chief, died at Halifax, and was buried on wednesday, 19th, at St. Paul's church.-In May, Sir John reiterates his complaints against Tonge, with a new charge,. that of "commencing an attorney," which he calls improper, and as "adding to his means of insinuation." Sir John meant to state that Mr. Tonge acted as a barrister at the circuits of the supreme court, and seems to have feared that his success as a forensic orator might strengthen the popularity he enjoyed.

Wednesday, 28 May. In council. A dissolution of the general assembly was resolved on, writs to be made returnable 7 August next, and proclamation ordered. Sir John Wentworth and his lady made a long tour this season through the N. W. parts of the proviuce, and both returned in improved health. Mr. Uniacke returned from England in August, and brought out an instrument by which the archbishop of Canterbury annulled all the statutes passed by the governors of Windsor college. They had been framed on some rules of Oxford, and were considered by his grace too restrictive and illiberal.

Tuesday, 18 November, the new assembly met, (9th general assembly, Ist session.) The members returned were: County of Halifax: Edward Mortimer, Simon Bradstreet Robie, Saml. G. W. Archibald, Wm. Lawson. Annapolis Thomas Ritchie, Henry Rutherford. Lunenburg Lewis Morris Wilkins, Edward

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County of Cumberland: Henry Purdy, Thomas Roach. Kings Jonathan Crane, John Wells.

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Queens: John Parker, George Collins.
Hants: William Cottnam Tonge, Shubael Dim-
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Shelburne Jacob Van Buskirk, James Lent.
Sydney: Joseph Marshall, Edward Irish.

Town of Halifax: John George Pyke, Foster Hutchinson.
Truro Thomas Pearson.

Yarmouth Samuel Sheldon Pool.

Of the 39 members returned, 31 were in attendance and were sworn in, in presence of Mr. Belcher, one of the council. The 8 absent were messrs. Robie, Rutherford, Lent, Marshall. Barss, Campbell, Sargent and Pool. Among the new members are several who afterwards became prominent public men -- Archibald, Lawson, Ritchie and Haliburton. Two candidates were named for the chair: Northup proposed Tonge, and Pyke offered Wilkins. Tonge was elected, (by a majority of one only-Sir F. W. letter 13 July, 1807, to lord Castlereagh), and having been conducted to the seat by Northup and Dimock, spoke thus: "Gentlemen. A second "time elevated by the general voice of my fellow-members "to this dignified station, I receive with the deepest sensibi

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