364 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND . county, was appointed agent for the island, to carry home the petitions. Previously, however, to his leaving, the Governor thought fit, as if to crush the whole proceedings by a coup de main, to issue attach¬ ments out of the Court of Chancery, against Mr Stewart , and the other gentlemen who formed the committee for Queen's county, under pretence of their being guilty of contempt of that court, by taking upon them to state, in one of the resolutions of the county meetings, the grievous truth, that the Gover¬ nor had sanctioned illegal fees in that court, since his appointing his son-in-law, a lieutenant on the half- pay of the 98th regiment, to the offices of master and registrar. Mr Stewart , however, escaped over to Nova Scotia with the petitions, and the necessary evi¬ dence to support the charges they contained; and, at the advanced age of sixty-six years, came to Eng¬ land, in the month of December. He succeeded, soon after his arrival in , in having the Governor and Chief Justice removed from their offices. The Governor, meantime, arrested the other gentlemen of the committee, and had them brought up before him¬ self as chancellor, and ordered them into the custody of the sergeant -at-arms. But , from the great assem¬ blage of people at Charlotte Town on that day, and dreading that the inhabitants would become despe¬ rate if their representatives were confined in the cells prepared for them in the common prison, he did not venture to commit them. He, at the same time, suspended the highly-respected and learned Attorney- General, Mr Johnston , merely for having the hardi-