PRINCE EDWARD ISLAM) !-•; preferred by Mr. Cambridge , withdrew from the courts and returned no more. His after fate is partly told by several absent debtor judgments recorded against him by his creditors. To the end of the year 1799 the bar remained at three— Peter McGowan , attorney general; Charles Stewart and Thomas Price . These were joined in 1800 by John Wentworth and Joseph Robertson . Mr. Wentworth first appeared in' court on the 24th of June, 1800, when he produced the King's commission appointing him at¬ torney general. On the 4th of November following a charge of malpractice was brought against him in the supreme court and under this cloud he disappears. Mr. John Stewart 's history throws some litrht upon Mr. Wentworth 's career dur¬ ing the few months he held office as attorney general of this Island but leaves in darkness the rest of his story. Mr. Stewart says, "whoever recommended him had much to f answer for." On die first day he made his appearance in the supreme court he.injformed the audience that he had been picked upon by their sovereign as a person Qf distinguished abilities to come to the Island to regulate their affairs and see justice done; the court and even the Gov ¬ ernor he treated with the greatest insolence. Nobody seemed to know what to do with him.. In the course of two months, accord¬ ing to his own account, he received four hundred retaining fees. Soon after he left the Island when his numerous clients lost their money. Fortunately for the Island and the peace of the colony he was succeeded by a gentle¬ man as remarkable for discouraging litiga¬ tion as Mr. Wentworth was anxious to pro¬ mote it by every means. Mr. McGowan now resumed the duties of his office as attorney general and contin¬ ued to hold that position until his death in 1810. His appears to have been a notahle career. Born at Bridgenorth, Shropshire, England , in 1762, he was admitted as at¬ torney of the King's Bench at Westminster in 1782. Seven years later he joined the bar of this Island. On the 10th of Novem¬ ber, 1798, he received His Majesty's commis¬ sion appointing him attorney general. From the time of his admission to the bar of this colony until the closing days of his life he took his place in the forefront of almost every legal battle, and through that strenu¬ ous time when the greater number of his rivals were retired involuntarily from, t^e lists he kept his course with a steady rein. For distinguished professional jervice ren¬ dered by him on behalf of the ctowii in an admiralty case tried in Halifax the British ('•< <\ eminent granted a pension to his widow equal to his former salary as attorney gen¬ eral.. This pension she enjoyed until her death at the age of ninety years. Another barrister who successfully crossed the line bettveen the centuries was Charles Stewart . He was admitted to the Island bar in 1774 and was for many years a clerk of the crown. This office he resigned in 1704 in order to resume the practice of his profession. On the death of Mr. Mc < '■■ >wan he was appointed attorney general. His • minutes of court have furnished many of the * facts herein set forth. An honorable career was ended by his death in 1813. Disregarding historic warnings we may now pause at the century's close to "look back" upon the work accomplished. The administration of justice had been carried on for thirty years during one of the