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here from New York by General Howe, to march against them, but the rebels had no- tice and got away. They took two schooners belonging to the Island. His Majesty’s brigantine “Cabot,” Commander Edmund Dodd, which was lying in the harbor, started in quest of the marauders, but could not come up with them.

In February, 1777, Callbeck writes to Lord George Germain, that he was endeav- oring to persuade a man or two, with a Mr. Stewart, one of his officers, to attempt a passage in a small canoe to Nova Scotia, and hoped to succeed if the weather proved the least favorable. “The same was effected by Governor Patterson, and, if this second attempt succeeds, it will be a means of re- moving an objection which many people have made against living here, the being so long shut up from an intercourse with the rest of the world.”

In April, 1777, Lord George Germain informed Patterson, in London, that a vote of three thousand pounds had been given for the civil establishment of the Island, and adds that it is His Majesty’s pleasure that he return to his government, on the first op- portunity of safe conveyance, which the governor did not do till three years later. Accompanying Lord Germain’s despatch was an estimate of the civil establishment and incidental expenses attending the same, from the Ist of January, 1777, to the Ist of January, 1778, as follows:

To the salary of the Governor in Chief ...... £1,000

To the salary of the Chief Justice ......... 400 To the salary of the Attorney General ...... 200 To the salary of the Secretary and Regis-

trar .................................... 300 To the salary of the Surveyor of Lands. 180

To the salary of the Minister of the Church of England ............................. .. 160

To the salary of the King’s Agent ........ 150 To the salary of the Clerk of the Crown and Coroner ................................ 120

To the salary of the Clerk of the Council. . 80

To the salary of the Naval omcer ......... 100

To the salary of the Sheriff or Provost Marshal ................................ 100

To an allowance for a Private Secretary, and for despatch boats to and from the continent, and also for stationery, fire- wood, &c., &c ...........................

£3,000

In May, 1778, Lord George Germain again informed Patterson that he had re- ceived the King's commands to signify to him His Majesty’s pleasure that he imme- diately return to his government and avail himself of the first opportunity of a safe conveyance thereto. Patterson did not leave till the next year, when he was eight months on the way, having wintered according to Lieutenant Governor DesBrisay, either in Georgia or New York. He arrived in Charlottetown on 28th June, 1780, having been, he writes, six months of the eight at sea. His leave of» absence for twelve months had been stretched out to five years, but he seems to have been working in the Island’s interests during his long absence. Writing to Lord George Germain, on 6th July, he says: “I arrived here on the 28th ult. * * * My voyages (for I have had several) have all been uncommonly long, and, considering my anxiety to be here, they were to me excessively tedious. I was eight months from the time of my sailing till my arrival, six of which I was at sea.”

He also speaks most highly of Mr. Call- beck’s management of affairs during his absence. The colony had improved in his absence, he believes the population had doubled, and says, “They. are comfortable in their situations, have large stocks of cat- tle, and abound with all the necessaries of life, as far as they regard the table.”