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The Acadians than living in Hustico, Malpec, Tignish and Rollo Bay, needed the services of a priest so grievously that the Abbe de Calonne leaving his home at Pert-la—joie (now known as the Warren Farm) went to their assistance, and for a short time resided in Rustico and attended all the Acadian missions. At length, finding the labours of a missionary priest in so wild a country too severe for a man of his-advanced years. he at the earnest solicitation of the Bishop of Quebec. repaired to the town of Trois Rivieres where be became Chaplain to the Ursuline Convent, and where he died in 1822. Thus Charlottetown became again dependent upon the occasional visits of the good and ever worked Father Mthchern. who for some years after the departure of the abbe Richard. who succeeded the Abbe de Calonne in Rustico, was the only priest in the whole Province or indeed in the thinland for many miles around. At that time but a small number of Catholics of divers national- ities were scattered about Charlottetown and its environs, and no attempt had been made to organize them into a regular congregation. '

Father Mthchern. though on the best possible terms with the authorities, was not officially recognized as a Catholic Clergyman and had never Ventured upon wearing in public any form of dress that would denote his ecclesiastical state. On the morning of the lhth of July 1812. a schooner. the Anaeligue by name, dropped anchor in Charlottetown Harbour, and from it, gorgeous in purple soutane and gleaming cross

of gold. landed the Right Rev. Joseph Octave Plessis. Bishop of Quebec, attended by I five priests all in ecclesiastical attire. Upon the river's brink waited Commissary General Holland, who welcomed the Bishop to the city, and requested him to name the

hour that would be most convenient for him to call on the Lieutenant Governor. That dignitary. it. Desbarres, although eighty five years of age. was so active that at

the first news of the declaration of war with the United States, he had called out

the Militia of the town. and at the moment of the Bishop's arrival was actively

engaged in reviewing the force.

Having named evening as the time at which he could nest conveniently call at