CALLBECK MADE PRISONER. 23 object for which it was voted. The power for the recovery of the quitrents, with which the governor was thus invested, was not speedily exercised, as lie was anxious not to offend the proprietors, through whose influence the payment of the civil establishment of the island was placed on a more satisfactory footing. During the governor's absence in England the Hon . Mr. Callbeck , being the senior member of the council, was sworn in as administrator. In November of that year, a ship from London, having on board a number of settlers, and loaded with a valuable cargo, was unfortunately wrecked on the north side of the island. All on board were saved, but the cargo was cither lost, or destroyed to such an extent as to be of little value,—an accident which involved no small hardship to the inhabitants. In this year too a memorable incident occurred. Whilst the good people of Charlottetown were living in apparent security from hostile aggression, two American armed vessels which had been sent to cruise in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in order to intercept English ordnance store-ships, supposed to be on the way to Quebec , entered the harbor, and a landing was effected without any opposition, when the administrator, Mr. Callbeck , Mr. Wright , the surveyor general, and other . officers of the government wore made prisoners, and put with such valuable booty as the Americans could lay hands on, on board ship, and conveyed to England . On arriving at the head-quarters of the American army, then at Cambridge , General Washington disapproved of the hostile act, dismissing the principal officers from their commands, telling them that " they had done those things which they ought not to have done, and left undone those things which it was their duty to have done." At the same time he dis¬ charged the prisoners with expressions of regret, and re¬ turned all the property.