PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 113 four pages of three columns, each about ten inches long, was well supplied with the for¬ eign news of the time, published the local news in brief, and all the official advertise¬ ments, together with a few mercantile adver¬ tisements of the more enterprising of those adventurous men who supplied the early set¬ tlers of mis Island with necessary articles f6r consumption and use. "The Royal Gazette and Miscellany" was published by Mr. W. A. Rind , Printer to the King's Most Excel¬ lent Majesty. Before he departed for Washington, Mr. Rind imparted a knowledge of the art of printing to James Douglas Bagnall , a son of Mr. Samuel Bagnall , who came here from New York , with his family, at the close of the Revolutionary war. Mr. James D. Bag- nall. was born at Shelburne, Nova Scotia , in the year 1785. He early became a printer and published for a short time, very soon after the dawn of the nineteenth century, a small paper called the " Royal Herald ." It is stated that the circulation of this journal amounted to but sixty copies, sufficient for the-whole reading community of Charlotte - town. Naturally the " Royal Herald " was found to be unremunerative. After some years Mr. Bagnall gave it up and went to Halifax, leaving Mr. J. D. Haszard , then a mere boy, to print the official proclamations and other notices required of the King's printer. In the year 1811 Mr. Bagnall re¬ turned and again essayed the publication of a journal, to which he gave the name of "The Recorder." This journal was, after some years, superseded by the " Royal Ga ¬ zette," and after Mr. Bagnall ceased to be King's printer, by the "Phoenix." Mr. Bag ¬ nall continued to print and publish newspa¬ pers, to meet the small requirements of the public in respect to printing, and at times to 8 represent Charlottetown in the Legislative Assembly , until the year 1843, when he re¬ tired to the country in ill health, living for a few years on the North River Road, four miles from Charlottetown , and afterwards in Bedeque , where he and his wife died and were buried. He passed away in the year 1856, at the age of seventy-one years. In the meantime, his nephew, namesake and pupil, Mr. James Douglas Haszard , had long ago reached the foremost place in the journalism of the Island. Mr. Haszard had the distinction and honour of being the first native of the place to enter the journalistic field. Born in Charlottetown on the 27th of June, 1797, he frequented his uncle's print¬ ing office when a child, and very early in life became expert in the art preservative of all arts. He was even able at the age of eleven or twelve years to perform the small amount of official work that had to be done in the King's printer's office while Mr. Bagnall was absent in Halifax. In 1806 he went to school in Charlottetown to Mr. James Robertson , and in 1810 he took a short course of study in Halifax. After a visit to Rhode Island , where he was engaged in superintending the printing of the laws of that state, Mr. Has ¬ zard returned to Charlottetown and was warmly welcomed by his relatives and friends. Lieutenant Governor Smith also received him very graciously and offered him the office of King's printer. At the same time the autocratic governor advised him to be "wary of certain demagogues and dis¬ turbers of the peace." On Saturday, the 20th of July, 1823, the " Register," published and edited by Mr. Haszard , made its first ap¬ pearance. It is to this paper that we are in¬ debted for a record of those troubled times. The high-handed and unlawful acts of Lieu-