68 HISTORY OP PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. rebellion in the island, for the people were exasperated. Chagrined beyond measure at Stewart's escape, the lieu¬ tenant-governor determined to lay a heavy fine on the other members of the committee, and sequestrators were appointed to enter upon their property and secure the amount; but being now alarmed at unmistakeable symptoms of a popular tumult, he prudently ordered proceedings to be delayed till his judgment could bo enforced. The defence was ably conducted by Messrs. Binns and Hodgson. On Saturday morning, the twenty-sixth of July, 1823, appeared the first number of the Prince Edward Island Register, printed and edited by James D. Haszard , in which newspaper all the proceedings to which we have alluded were published. For the publication of these, Mr. Haszard was served with an order to appear at the bar of the court of chancery, being accused as guilty of a contemptuous libel against the court and the officers of the court. Mr, Palmer was agent for the prosecutor. Mr. Haszard was asked if he would disclose the authors of the publication complained of, —which he agreed to do. The parties were Messrs. Stewart , McGregor, Mabey, DockendorfF, Owen, and McDonald. Addressing himself to Mr. Haszard , the chancellor said: " I compassionate your youth and inexperienee ; did I not do so, I would lay you by the heels long enough for you to remember it. You have delivered your evidence fairly, pjaiuly, clearly, and as became a man ; but I caution you, when you publish anything again, keep clear, sir, of a chancellor ! Beware, sir, of a chancellor ! " And with this solemn admonition, Mr. Haszard was dismissed from the bar. But the rule of the chancellor was destined not to be of much longer duration ; for on Thursday, the twenty-first of October, 1824, His Excellency Colonel Beady , accompanied