62 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the 17th March, 1826, the Irish Benevolent Society in 
     
     honor of its tutelar saint, St. Patrick, celebrated their first 
     
     annual festival at the Wellington Hotel, the President, Frederick 
     
     Goff, Esq., occupied the chair. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The celebration of His Majesty’s birthday took place on the 
     
     23rd of April, a military review being held on Queen Square, 
     
     the Administrator, Mr. Wright, being the Inspecting officer. 
     
     At I2 o’clock the usual salute and firing of small arms took 
     
     place, then marching past His Honor and cheering for the king 
     
     ended the review, while a levee was held by the Administrator 
     
     at the Governor's late quarters in the evening. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Chief Justice having arrived from Nova Scotia, His 
     
     Lordship opened the Trinity Term of the Supreme Court on 
     
     the 27th June. He addressed the Grand Jurors in the following 
     
     congratulatory terms : “Gentlemen, it affords me great pleasure 
     
     to be enabled to state to you that the court have nothing what- 
     
     ever to give you in charge, as there is not upon the list returned 
     
     to me, one criminal or any other offence.” The troops in 
     
     charge of the garrison were relieved during this month by the 
     
     arrival of a detachment of the 74th Regiment under Lieutenant 
     
     Baker, while a second draft from the same Regiment, com— 
     
     manded by Captain Burnett, arrived a little later on in the 
     
     season. 
     
    
   
   
    
     During the morning of the 12th December, the firing of 
     
     heavy guns in the offings drew attention in that direction, when 
     
     the ship Mary, sixty—eight days from the Downs, was seen 
     
     entering the harbor. Governor Ready with his two daughters 
     
     were among the passengers, and as the ship was passing the 
     
     Edward Battery, His Excellency received a greeting of seven- 
     
     teen guns from that post. Landing on King’s Wharf, accom- 
     
     panied by his two daughters and by Captain Stewart, he was 
     
     received by a guard of honor commanded by Captain Burnett, 
     
     while a salute from George’s Battery and cheers of the citizens 
     
     bid him a hearty welcome. From the wharf His Excellency 
     
     was escorted to his new residence at Holland’s Grove, west of 
     
     Upper Prince Street. But he was not long in the enjoyment 
     
     of his new abode when called upon to mourn the loss of a 
     
     dearly beloved daughter. This young lady, who had been ill 
     
     on leaving England, died at Government House on the 14th 
     
     February, 1827. The obsequies observed on this occasion 
     
     were altogether military; the remains of the deceased were