5« PAST AND PRESENT OF "His Lordship entirely approves of my having forborne to comply with the address of the House of Assembly , which prayed for the suspension of the chief justice; he re¬ marks on the absence of the evidence against him. upon which the Assembly state them¬ selves to have proceeded, and adds, that, un¬ less some great and serious criminality be proved against the chief justice, he should consider himself bound to refuse his ac¬ quiescence to any proposal for his removal." The Assembly , on 5th August, unani¬ mously adopted a series of resolutions, em¬ bodying their grievances against the Lieu¬ tenant- Governor . They set out, in sub¬ stance, that the House of Assembly are the sole judges of what are breaches of their privileges, and have at all times a right to complain to His Majesty of any such breach committed, or supposed to be committed, by the Lieutenant - Governor , or any other whom the House cannot bring to account by their immediate process. That the journals ought to be received by the Lieutenant -Gov ¬ ernor, as containing correct statements of the proceedings of the House. "That the convening of the members of the last House of Assembly , and the laying at the same time .before them the extract from Earl Bathurst 's despatch, for their in¬ formation, and then instantly dissolving them, without affording them any oppor¬ tunity of making a reply, or of convincing Earl Bathurst of the facts, and also His Ex ¬ cellency's refusal to this House of comply¬ ing with their address, requesting that he would be pleased to furnish them with a copy of the declaration of persons alluded to in Earl Bathurst 's despatch, clearly evince to this House His Excellency 's total disin¬ clination fairly to enter into merits; and that he has attempted virtually to disfran¬ chise the loyal inhabitants of this colony, by allowing the declaration of officious, un¬ authorized persons to be sent to His Maj¬ esty's ministers, in contradiction to the fair representations of the Legislative Assembly of this Island." That the conduct of the Lieutenant -Gov ¬ ernor has tended much to withdraw from him the confidence of the people. And they concluded with a resolution to present an address to the King, beseeching him to re¬ fer to the address of the last House, of 5th January, 1819, and the documents accom¬ panying it, and also to these resolutions, and praying that His Majesty would make such order as would, in future, secure to this colony the constitutional rights of its in¬ habitants. An address of the whole House, to the King, on the lines of the resolutions, was adopted, and the speaker was instructed to request the Governor - General , the Earl of Dalhousie, to transmit it, with the docu¬ ments, to His Majesty. It was evident that the relations between the Lieutenant - Governor and the House of Assembly were becoming more strained. The day following that on which they adopted the address to the King, the As¬ sembly adopted the report of the committee on public accounts, which stated that, "in the application of the monies, there appear to your committee many payments which are of an unprecedented nature, but, as the House of Assembly have no control what¬ ever over any part of the disposal thereof, your committee deem it unnecessary at pres¬ ent, to make any further remarks thereon, more especially as the representations of former Houses, on that subject have had no salutatory effect." The same day, the House adopted a reso¬ lution, deeply lamenting that the Lieuten¬ ant-Governor, in transmitting to the colo-