but the last escaped his fate by throwing a hatch overboard and jumping on it. After near four hours' floating, he was picked up by an American fishing vessel, and carried to Hingham. The wife assisted Jordan in the slaughter, and the mate (Kelly) remained at the helm, intimidated, and took no part. Jordan went to the Bay of Bulls, and intended to carry her to Ireland; but as Stairs had got to Boston, and the news of the affair spread, he and his family were seized and brought to Halifax, and so was Kelly subsequently. A trial of Edward Jordan and his wife took place at Halifax on the 15th and 16th November, 1809, before a special court, held under the Royal authority, according to the act of 11 and 12, Will. and Mary. The judges were 15 in number, viz.: the lieut. governor Sir George Prevost, bart.; vice admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, bart.; Blowers, Butler, Wallace, E. B. Brenton, Hill, Uniacke, and Morris, councillors; Robert Lloyd, H. M. S. Guerrier, John Conn, H. M. S. Swiftsure, lord James Townshend, H. M. S. Æolus, John Simpson, H. M. S. LaFurieuse, captains Royal navy; Samuel Hood George, secretary of the province, and Thomas Nicholson Jeffery, collector of the customs at Halifax. After a full hearing, the court unanimously found the prisoner guilty of piracy and murder, and his excellency pronounced the sentence of death. His wife was adjudged not guilty. Kelly was afterwards tried and convicted, but was respited and pardoned. Jordan was hanged on the beach near Freshwater bridge, on monday, November 23, and his body afterwards hung in chains on a small hill close to the shore of the harbor, a few yards to the North of the road that runs West to the round stone Tower above Point Pleasant. Heath left a wife and two small children in destitution. Jordan is described as a dark-complexioned man, of about 38 years old. Kelly a short lad, of about 22. Dr. Croke declined attending as one of the court, as his claims to preside over it and have a veto, which he demanded as judge of admiralty, were not agreed to.

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XXIV.

( 1.)

to May, 1809. Married, by the Rev. Dr. Inglis, George Pyke, esquire, of Quebec, to miss Eliza Tremain, daughter of Jonathan Tremain, esquire, (of Halifax.)

(2.)

Sissiboo, April 3. Colonel James Moody died, aged 64. He was a celebrated loyalist, who had been very adventurous in the American revolution. His descendants settled afterwards in Yarmouth.

(3.)

July 2. George Deschamps, esq'r., only son of the late hon. Isaac Deschamps, died at Halifax, aged 72.

(4.)

[From the N. S. Royal Gazette, of July 4.1

"On Saturday last a most superb entertainment was given by the right hon. "lord James Townshend, at the Fountain tavern, on his promotion to the rank "of post captain, and appointment to H. M. S. Squirrel, to his brother officers. "The evening was past with the greatest conviviality. The company broke up "at 12 o'clock." He subsequently married here a miss Wallis, whose brother became an admiral. In the gazette of 10 July, capt. Shortland's 'grand dinner' is mentioned also. Among the guests, lord James Townshend, captain Scott, and other naval officers, major Battersby, &c.

(5.)

Tuesday evening, 22 August, 1809. Married, by the rev. Dr. Gray, at the seat of Sir John Wentworth, bart., Richard Cunningham, esq'r., of Windsor, to miss Sarah Apthorp Morton, eldest daughter of the hon. Perez Morton, of Boston, and niece of lady Wentworth.

CHAPTER XXV.

1810. There was no assembly held in 1788, which, I thought, the only year in which this occurred; but I find that in 1810 no meeting of the legislature took place. In January, Sir J. Wentworth, being about to go to England, made Mr. Wallace his deputy as surveyor general of H. M. Woods in America. 5 June. Sir George Prevost, in consequence of the absence of members of council, recommended James Stewart, esquire, the solicitor general, and Thomas N. Jeffery, collector of customs, to be made members of that board. An act of 1809, provincial statute, 50, Geo. 3, chapter 15, had raised the salaries of the assistant justices of the supreme court from £400 currency to £500 currency each, besides travel fees, and increased their number from two to three. Sir George Prevost accordingly appointed Foster Hutchinson, the senior barrister of the' Nova Scotia bar,' to the additional judgeship. Sir G. P. says He is a man learned in the law, of good estate and' 'irreproachable character, and in consequence of this appoint-' 'ment has vacated his seat as a member of the house of' 'assembly, and resigned a lucrative situation he has held ' 'with credit for many years under government, and is in ' every respect deserving of his majesty's favor.' All this was as true as it was honorable to this gentleman. He had held an office of military commissary, besides his law practice. He belonged to the family of the historian Hutchinson, of Massachusetts, and was connected with governor Mascarene. Judge Hutchinson's reading was not confined to law books. His tastes were classical and refined, and withal he was a polished

and truly amiable gentleman, and, above all, a man of remarkable integrity. He was not robust, and did not live long to enjoy the dignity of the bench.

Sir J. B. Warren, vice admiral, and John Nicholson Inglefield, commissioner of the Navy yard at Halifax, prayed for grants of land in Nova Scotia-Warren for 4000 acres and Inglefield for 2000, and the lieutenant governor wrote on each application to lord Liverpool, recommending their requests. The lords of the treasury this summer concurred in the suggestion of Sir George Prevost, that the money paid by the province for militia arms, should be appropriated to the established church in Nova Scotia, in aid for repairing and completing churches, &c. Sir G. P. had prayed for an increase of the salary of the lieutenant governor, and he was now notified that £1000 per annum, to commence from 1 January, 1809, should be proposed for that purpose in the next estimate to be laid before parliament. (It was £2000 a year in 1814.)

There appears to be very little of local affairs during 1810, of which I can find any record. The newspapers of Halifax are filled with the war in Europe, &c.—the sailing or arrival of men-of-war, and ordinary advertisements. The official letters of the governor are brief and few. Occasionally a play is notified, performed by the officers of the garrison. The Rockingham club has its saturday dinner, at 4, P. M., (held, I believe, at the Rockingham inn, about 6 miles from town, West side of the basin.) Addresses are published from the inhabitants to general Hunter and admiral Warren, and the merchants of Halifax give the latter a public dinner on the 26 November, at Mason hall, at which Mr. Belcher presides, and Mr. Hartshorne is vice president,—and about 160 sat at table. Saint Patrick's day has its public dinner, &c. In fact, while war raged elsewhere, Nova Scotia was peaceful, busy and prosperous, (on a limited scale), and free from disturbance, agitation or crime.

October 2. The 2d battalion of the 8th regiment arrived at Halifax in H. M. ships Diadem and Regulus. Major-general Balfour and daughters came passengers in the Diadem. On

the 8th same month, these vessels took away the 23rd regt., (Royal Welch fusileers), on their voyage to Lisbon.

I have before me the list of justices of the peace appointed February, 1810, in the N. S. Gazette. In each county the several members of H. M. council are first named solicitor general Stewart, and Mr. George, the provincial secretary next; in Halifax, John George Pyke was custos rotulorum; four episcopal clergymen and two presbyterian ;-83 in all for the county of Halifax, which then embraced Colchester and Pictou.— Hants justices were forty in all, and in this number four episcopal clergymen ; John McMonagle was custos. Kings, fortythree justices; John Chipman, custos; one clergyman of the establishment. Lunenburg, twenty-two justices; D. C. Jessen, custos; one clergyman of the establishment. Queens, twentyfive justices; Joshua Newton, custos. Shelburne, thirty justices; Gideon White, custos. Sydney, twenty-seven justices; Thomas Cutler, custos; one clergyman. Annapolis, fifty-one justices; Thomas Millidge, custos; one catholic clergyman— four of the establishment. Cumberland, twenty-seven justices; Charles Baker custos. The councillors, and solicitor general and secretary, are included in these totals.

1811. January 19. Sir George Prevost transmitted to the earl of Liverpool a petition from merchants and others, of Halifax, praying that the king would permit the coal mines in Nova Scotia to be opened and worked under such regulations as it might be advisable to establish. He tells the minister that there is evidence of coal abounding in this province, and that in parts of it, veins of coal were partially wrought by the proprietors of the soil whereon they are found, for their supply of fuel and their neighbours, notwithstanding the restraining clause inserted in all grants to prevent such practice; and he recommends that the petition be acceded to by the crown. (Some of the early grants only reserved mines of gold and silver.) Sir George also sent to the minister memorials from Dr. Croke and Mr. Butler, members of council, praying for a grant of 4000 acres of crown land each, and mentioned that the other members of that body wished for a similar mark'