76 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the year 1837, a “ Ladies’ Benevolent Society,” under the 
     
     patronage of Lady Harvey, of Charlottetown, became organized 
     
     during the winter; having for its object pecuniary relief of the 
     
     poor and needy. At the first Bazaar for the sale of fancy and 
     
     useful articles, held in the Barracks, the sum of £72 was 
     
     realized and disbursed as follows :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     Pecuniary Relief to 45 families - — - - - £22 cos. 0d. 
     
    

    
     Firewood, Oatmeal, etc., - - - - - - r4 3 o 
     
    

    
     Blankets and Clothing supplied to 19 women and 69 children 35 17 0 
     
     £72 9 o 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the 24th of January, 1837, the Assembly met midst 
     
     military pomp and deafening sounds of cannon; and at the 
     
     prorogation, during April, the same military display was observed. 
     
     Upon this occasion His Excellency wore the full dress of 
     
     a major—general of the army, be having recently obtained that 
     
     rank, having gallantly acquitted himselfduring the late American 
     
     war, at the battle of Stony Creek in 1813. A small British 
     
     force having been attacked by a superior number of the 
     
     enemy, when a severe contest ensued, which lasted for some 
     
     time, but the British soldiers at length won the struggle and 
     
     the enemy retreated from off the field, leaving some prisoners 
     
     in the hands of the victors. 
     
    

    
     Major General Sir John Harvey had been appointed 
     
     Governor of New Brunswick. His successor, Colonel Sir 
     
     Charles A. FitzRoy, arrived from London on the 6th June, 
     
     and landed on King’s Wharf, receiving such military honors as 
     
     were due his rank. 
     
    

    
     The story of an English orphan who had lost her father 
     
     when only nine months old will doubtless be regarded with 
     
     interest. Though fatherless, she was nevertheless fortunate in 
     
     the maternal care which she received under her parental roof, 
     
     being educated in a kind judicious manner; blessed with 
     
     affluence she reached her nineteenth year, although being 
     
     secluded from all social society except that of her tutor, 
     
     spiritual adviser and a doting mother. Yet this young child 
     
     was destined to mark an important event in the history of our 
     
     own times. Early on the morning of the 24th May, this year, 
     
     the national banner, adorned with the Cross of St. George, the 
     
     Saltier of St. Andrew and that of St. Patrick, was hoisted upon 
     
     the flag-staff of the garrison, where it waved until the hour 0 
     
     sunset. Meanwhile, at 12 o’clock, noon, the citizens were