66 HISTORY or PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

of sending a message, on the fifteenth of December, to the assembly, requiring both houses to adjourn to the fifth of January following; and before the business in which they were then occupied was finished, and when the lower house was on the point of adjourning, in accordance with the said message, it was insulted .by Mr. Carmichael, the lieutenant- governor’s son-in-law and secretary, who, advancing within the bar, addressed the speaker loudly in these words: “ Mr. Speaker, if you sit in that chair one minute longer, this house will be immediately dissolved,” at the same time shaking his fist at the speaker; and while the house was engaged in considering the means of punishing this insult, the lieutenant-governor sent for the speaker, and, holding up his watch to him, said he would allow the house three minutes, before the expiration of which, if it did not adjourn, he would resort to an immediate dissolution ; and this extra- ofdinary conduct was soon after followed by a prorogation of the legislature, in consequence of the house having com- mitted to jail the lieutenant-governor’s son for breaking the windows of the apartment in which the house was then sitting. The lieutenant-governor was also charged with screening Thomas Tremlet, the chief justice of the island, from thirteen serious charges preferred against him by the house. He was also accused of degrading the council by making Mr. Ambrose Lane, a lieutenant of the 98th regi— ment, on half pay, and then town major of Charlottetown, a member of it, without having any claim to the position, save that of having recently married a daughter of the lieutenant— governor. Another member was a Mr. “Tilliam Pleace, who came to the island a few years previously as a clerk to a, mercantile establishment ; from which trust he was dismissed, and then kept a petty shop of his own, where he retailed spirits. These were some of the charges brought against