66 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     reviewing the ranks of his soldiery,—the smiles of a happy 
     
     father illuminated his countenance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Rifles on garrison duty here were relieved during June 
     
     by the arrival of a detachment of the 52nd Light Infantry, 
     
     under the command of Captain Moorsom, who became 
     
     Commandant of the garrison. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Chief Justice Archibald having arrived from Nova Scotia the 
     
     Supreme Court was opened on the 24th June, when his Lord- 
     
     ship complimented the Grand Jury on the absence of a single 
     
     criminal case, and the peaceful and happy condition of His 
     
     Majesty’s subjects. This, however, was his last oflicial visit 
     
     to Charlottetown, as Edward J. Jarvis, Esq.,—an eminent 
     
     barrister—received the appointment of Chief justice for the 
     
     Island, arriving here prior to the opening of the next Court 
     
     term, and from henceforth the Chief Justice became a 
     
    
   
   
    
     permanent resident ofthe colony. 
     
    

    
     The General Assembly opened on the 5th March, 1829, with 
     
     the usual ceremony, Captain Moorsom being in command of 
     
     the guard of honor, while Captain Robinson had charge of the 
     
     artillery. On the 23rd April was celebrated the King’s birth- 
     
     day. A troop of cavalry, two companies of artillery, the troops 
     
     of the garrison, and the 61h battalion of militia were drawn up 
     
     in review order on Queen Square, all under the immediate 
     
     command of Captain Moorsom, and as usual after the review a 
     
     levee was held at Government House. 
     
    

    
     Early in the summer the brig Pandora arrived from Ireland 
     
     with a number of settlers, while a party of eighty-six settlers had 
     
     also arrived from the Isle of Skye. 
     
    

    
     At the opening of the Trinity Term of the Supreme Court, 
     
     June 23rd, Chief Justice Jarvis on entering upon the duties of 
     
     his office congratulated the Grand Jury and the country on the 
     
     total absence of any criminal case, and dismissed the jury 
     
     accordingly. 
     
    

    
     On the 25th July Captain Getin in command of a detach- 
     
     ment of the 96th Regiment arrived here in order to relieve 
     
     Captain Moorsom and the detachment in charge of the garrison. 
     
    

    
     Three hundred passengers from Tobermony reached here on 
     
     the 7th August, settling in various parts of the colony. 
     
    

    
     A company of equestrian performers also arrived here during 
     
     the summer and erected a large marquee on the ground in the