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     Governor Smith’s peculiarities were such, that he never got 
     
     along very agreeably with the Legislature when assembled for 
     
     business. In November, 1813, shortly after his arrival, he 
     
     convened the House, but at the end of two months—or before 
     
     the business of the House was completed—he abruptly pro- 
     
     rogued it; and more remarkable still, he did not deem it 
     
     proper to assemble another House for about four years, and 
     
     even then, as its proceedings were not satisfactory to him he 
     
     resorted to his prerogative of dissolution, with a view no doubt 
     
     of securing an assembly to his liking, in which he was also un- 
     
     successful , being dissatisfied he again by an Act of Dissolution 
     
     sent the members in 1820 to the polls, increasing the bitterness 
     
    
   
   
    
     and dislike which had long existed between him and his 
     
     people. 
     
    
   
   
    
     During the spring of this year intelligence. of the death of 
     
     George the Third was received; His Majesty having entered 
     
     upon the sixtieth year of his reign. On the death of the 
     
     King, which occurred on the 29th janu’ary, the Prince of Wales 
     
     ——who had already reigned as Prince Regent for ten years— 
     
     ascended the throne as George the Fourth, and was proclaimed 
     
     accordingly. On the news of the King’s death, sixty minute 
     
     guns were fired from George’s Battery at 12 o’clock noon, by 
     
     His Excellency’s command. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Of the several prisoners who at that period lay incarcerated 
     
     in Charlottetown Jail, was one Thomas McCarinor, being 
     
     charged with the grave crime of robbery. Having been tried 
     
     in the Supreme Court, he was found guilty, and sentenced to 
     
     receive three whippings in public, at intervals of three weeks. 
     
     On being taken to Queen Square, where the first punish- 
     
     ment was to be delivered, the prisoner after being divested of 
     
     his coat, vest and shirt, was then made fast to a strong vehicle 
     
     by cords bound firmly around each wrist, and a drummer from 
     
     the garrison—who had been engaged for the purpose~then 
     
     delivered thirty-nine lashes with a “cat-o-nine-tails” on the 
     
     man’s naked back, from here he was taken to the foot of 
     
     Queen Street, thence to the jail gate, where at each place the 
     
     same quantam were given. The punishment was looked upon 
     
     as being severe, and the authorities were censured for allowing 
     
     a soldier to inflict it. The punishment did not accord with the 
     
     Governor’s cruel temper who unduly interfered in the matter