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by 2511‘. Stewart, arrived in a brig from Bristol, after a passage of twenty-eight days. “ He was loudly cheered on landing by a great concourse of spectators, and was received on the wharf by a guard of the Slst regiment and a number of the most respectable inhabitants.” A public meeting of the inhabitants, called by the Sheriff, Mr. William Pope, was held for the purpose of voting an address to the lieutenant- governor. Colonel Holland, Mr. Hodgson, and Mr. Binns were appointed to prepare it. “ \Ve feel,” said the inhabit- ants, “ the utmost confidence that the harmony which ought always to exist between the government and the people is perfectly established, and that your exeelleney will believe that loyalty, obedience to the laws, and a love of order is the character of the inhabitants of Charlottetown. er cannot omit on this occasion to express our unfeigned gratitude and thanks for the attention which His Majesty has been graciously pleased to pay to the interests of this colony, in confiding its government to your excelleney’s hands, and to add our most fervent wishes that your admin— istration of it may be long and happy. The town was illuminated in the evening, and, to the credit of the inhab- itants of Charlottetown, the exuberance of joy and festivity on the occasion was not marred by any impropriety, or insult to the man who had exercised his functions with a harshness and tyranny which made him the most unpopular governor who ever ruled on the island. The new governor was entertained at dinner in the “Tellington Hotel. John, Stewart was chairman, and the Honorable George “Wight croupier. It is only fair to say, that an address was pre- sented to the late governor, previous to his embarkation for England, signed by the members of council, principal officers of governmenthand two justices of the peace. Considering the character of Governor Smith’s administration, there is a

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