PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 133 colony." That in Trinity Term, 1814, the court sat for fifty-two days to try twelve jury cases. Hilary term, 1815, thirty-nine days to try fifteen jury cases. Michaelmas term, 1815, seventeen days to try one jury case. Hilary term, 1816, forty-four days to try eleven jury cases. Trinity term, 1816, twenty-one days to try four jury cases. Michaelmas term, 1816, eighteen days to try two jury cases. Hilary term, 1817, thirty-three days to try thirteen jury cases. Trinity term, 1818, twenty-one days to try nine jury cases. But this is only the first clause in the in¬ dictment. In 1814 it is charged that the jurors were kept in attendance throughout the whole month of July, whereby their ordinary duties were left undone to their great loss, and to add to their woes, they were fined for non-performance of statute labor. The great length of the term was partly owing to an adjournment from 26th July to 11 tli August for the purpose of "accommo¬ dating two barristers who obtained leave to quit the court alternately." It is further al¬ leged that judgments have been tardy, fluctuating and indecisive, that on one claim for seven shillings the costs amounted to seven pounds twelve shillings, that the court had been kept open on one occasion for forty-one days in order to enable the receiver general to obtain certain undue advantages. That he nominated for sheriff a person who, he knew, was in the last term, found guilty of a "heinous offense against public peace." That he was accustomed publicly to try private soldiers and other like persons for petit offences which should have been tried by ordinary magistrates. That by reason of the premises he had brought contempt upon his high judicial of¬ fice, had been guilty of conduct oppressive and illegal constituting a violent infringe¬ ment upon the rights of propriety, that in short, "his appointment had been, a misfor¬ tune to the colony." Having thus exhausted their supply of condemnatory epithets the assembly came to the following conclusion: " Resolved , That for the reasons afore¬ said it is inadvisable that the chief justice should any longer be retained in an office which he hath proved himself incapable of filling with that dignity, propriety and inde¬ pendence which are insuperably requisite in such an office and which the British consti¬ tution demands." This resolution passed without a dissenting voice. The assembly¬ men returned to their homes a few days afterwards and waited for something to happen. When next they met they were assured by Lieutenant Governor Smith that he had sent a copy of the address to the secretary of state for the colonial department and was still awaiting their reply. In 1820, notwith¬ standing all that had been said and what was done, Tremlett was still chief justice of the Island and president of the council. In popular estimate he had made no progress. In 1823 mass county meetings, held at St. Peters Bay and at Prince Town respectively, joined him with the governor in one con¬ demnation and resolved that a petition be presented to the King to remove them both. The resolutions thus passed by Kings and meetings were, with slight variation, passed at a meeting that was held in in the same year, and