98 HISTORY 01“ PRINCE ED‘VARD ISLAND.

fatal to his excelleney’s popularity and usefulness. The committee, with a negative sar *asm which the governor must. have felt keenly, simply passed a resolution expressing regret, that any public measures—in reference to gorernment

house over which the society had no control; should

have been deemed by his excellency a sufficient reason for the withdrawal of his name as patron of the society ; and a resolution was passed, at the annual meeting, soliciting the honor of Ilis Royal Highness Prince Albert’s patronage, which, it is unnecessary to add, was readily granted.

In 1846 a dispute arose between the governor and Mr. Joseph Pope, which excited consideralfle interest at the time, and which resulted in a correspondence between the colonial office and the governor. It seems that Mr. Pope had op— posed strenuously, as an influential member of the house of assenibly,—he was then speaker,—a proposal to add the hundred pounds to the governor’s annual salary, and this generated in the mind of his excellency a very undigniiicd feeling of hostility to Mr. Pope, who had only exercised a right which could not be legitimately called in question. wWriting to Mr. Gladstone, then colonial secretary, the gov- ernor said of Mr. Pope: “As for any support from Mr. Pope, I am quite satisfied that in all his private actions, since the time of my persisting in reading the speech, at the opening of the session of 1845, respecting the debt he had aecmnulated, he has been my concealed enemy.” The gov- ernor resolved to get quit of Mr. Pope, as an executive councillm‘, and proceeded, in utter disregard of his instruc- tions, to etl'ect that object by suspending that gentleman from his seat at the board, without. any consultation with other members of the council, assigning to Mr. Gladstone, as his reason for dispensing with the usual forms, that he had learnt. from good private sources that the council, if

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