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     Mott’s Cofi'ee is guaranteed. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     by a relative, in 1844, and soon became a partner in the 
     
     business. On the death of the senior member of the firm, 
     
     1851, he purchased the estate, continued the business and 
     
     embarked largely in the fisheries, and took his two brothers 
     
     into partnership. The firm became large buyers and 
     
     exporters of the products of the province, and engaged ex- 
     
     tensively in ship building. In 1h7l, he removed with his 
     
     family to Charlottetown, and shortly afterwards disposed of 
     
     his interest in the business to his partners. He had been 
     
     consular agent for the United States, at Georgetown, for 
     
     twenty-five years before his removal to the capital. He 
     
     had entered political life at an early age, and was returned 
     
     to the House of Assembly in 1854, as one of the repre— 
     
     sentatives for Georgetown. At the next general election 
     
     although he polled a majority of the votes, he was unseated 
     
     on the change of parties, by scrutiny in the house in 1859. 
     
     When the Legislative Council first became elective in 1863, 
     
     he was elected thereto by the second district of King’s 
     
     County, and again returned by the same constituency in 
     
     1868. Whilst a member of the opposition, the Government 
     
     appointed him one of the delegates to confer with those 
     
     from the Government of Nova Scotia, and New Bruns- 
     
     wick, at the Charlottetown Conference, of first of September, 
     
     1864, on the expediency of the union of the three provinces 
     
     when the deputation from Canada was received, and the 
     
     subject of a general confederation of the British America. 
     
     provinces informally discussed. He was also in the same 
     
     year a member of the delegation to Quebec, which arranged 
     
     the first terms of confederation for the Dominion. On 
     
     submitting these to his Island constituents, at public 
     
     meetings, they were not approved, and he did not after- 
     
     wards advocate this measure until terms more favourable to 
     
     the province, and more acceptable to the people had been 
     
     obtained, when they received his strenuous support, both on 
     
     the platform and in the le islature. He was first called to 
     
     the Executive Council in Ir. Coles’ administration, formed 
     
     March, 1867, and continued in that of Mr. Hensley, and also 
     
     Of Mr. Haythorne, until the defeat of the party in September, 
     
     1870. They were succeeded by Mr. Pope’s government, of 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Mott’s Spices are the Best.