the subject of controversy to the end. He died at Mount Stewart on June 22, 1834. Stewart's second wife, Mary Anne , had died on May 10, 1832, aged 42 years. The first Mrs. Stewart , his bride of the 1780's, according to an old story, had not been disposed to rest peacefully among the shades. Many were the occasions when nocturnal travellers of by-gone genera¬ tions were startled to behold her ghostly white-clad figure walking through the gardens of Mount Stewart . Stewart's third wife, Mary Rain , sur¬ vived him. Of his legitimate children, only Magdalen, the wife of George Birnie , his London agent, outlived him. Considering, however, that she was al¬ ready sufficiently well provided for, Stewart left Mount Stewart and num¬ erous other properties to Helen Olympia Littler , the daughter of his late son, Captain Henry Stewart . The bulk of the residue of his estate was bequeathed to his wife, his "good friend" Mary Rain . Also remembered, however, was his natural son, John Stewart . Nor did he forget his ser¬ vants, Donald McCallum , Janet Weir and Helen Barrow who were with him up until the time of his death. In the old Cemetery, Charlottetown , two freestone monuments, in an unfortunate state of neglect, mark the final resting place of Stewart and his second wife. The inscriptions are as follows: "To the memory of John Stewart , of Mount Stewart , Esquire, De¬ puty Paymaster General of H.M. Forces , and Collector General of Quit Rents in this Island, who departed this life the 22nd day of June , A.D. 1834, aged 76 years. Intimately connected during a long and active life with the leading interests of this country. The energies of his mind were ever devoted to the advancement of its interests. 'The paths of glory lead but to the grave'." "Sacred to the memory of Mary Ann, wife of John Stewart , of Mount Stewart , who departed this life the 10th May, 1832, aged 42 years, lamented by all who knew her for her many excellent qualities, and en¬ deared to the neighbourhood in which she lived by her benevolence and charity." That death failed to still the controversy associated with the af¬ fairs of John Stewart is apparent from the fact that, within a few years, proceedings were contemplated whereby his will should be set aside and his marriage annulled. Certain lands inherited from his father, the Chief Justice , were, by the provisions of the latter's will, to be passed on to "the heirs male of his ( John Stewart 's) body lawfully begotten." It was argued that this had not, indeed, could not be done and that, therefore, as stipulated, "for default of such issue" the lands should have gone to the descendants of the elder Stewart's other sons, Charles, Robert and James in that order. Large bequests had actually been made to Mary Rain , Stewart's wife of two years, and, although these bequests did not involve the entailed lands, it must have galled the land-conscious Stewarts to see so much of the family's patrimony going to a relative newcomer. At any rate, Colonel Peter Stewart , John Stewart 's nephew, acquainted Peter MacGowan , agent for Mount Stewart Estate, with his intentions of com¬ mencing a lawsuit and sought to obtain the powerful support of the Es¬ tate's proprietor, Sir John Hunter Littler , to this end. It was here that the scheme foundered, as Major Littler , in a letter from Lahore, India, —24—