kingston published weekly by james macfarlane at his office in front streot kingston u c v vol 13 chronicle nec rege nec populo sed utroque seventeen shillings and sixpence per annum i if sent by mail twenty shillings saturday april 7 1832 no 41 who will not believe herealter with the poets that the swan expires in mournfully ravishing melody the swan bt mrs h khans midst the long reeds that oer a grecian stream unto the faint wind sighd melodiously and where the sculpture of a broken shrine sent out through shadowy grass and thick wild bowers drrrralsbaster gleams a lonely swan warbled his deathchantind a poet stood listening to that strange music o it shook the lilies on the waves and made the pinea and all the laurels of the haunted ahore thrill to itspasaion oh the tones woreeweet evn painfully as with the eweetnew wrung from parting love and to the poef s thought this was their language summer i depart o light and laughing summer fare thee well no tmg the less through thy rich woods shall mrth for one one broken heart and fare ye well young flowers xe will not mourn ye will shed odours fttill and wave in glory colouring every rill known to my youths fresh hoars and ye bright founts that lie fsr in the whispering forest lone and deep my wing no more shall stir your lovejy sleep sweet water i must die will ye not send one tone of sorrow through the shades 7 one murmur low shall nrthefnlmchimwrtvwhkrmw that i yoi child aan gone no ever gkd and froe ye have no sounds a t aloof death to tell waves joyons waves flow on end- fare ye well ye will not mourn for me btp boon too late phd on my pahirtgbrealh vain gift bf song why contest thofl thus oe mastering rich and strong in the dark hour of fate tt only to make the sighs of echovoices from their sparry cell s only to say o sunshine and blue slues o life and love farewell thueflowm th0 onr while mourn fully soft winds and wves made answer and luo ttwes buried in rocks along the grecian stream rocks and dim caverns f old prophecy vqktvreapond and all rhe air woe filw with that one sighing mund farewell fare we4h lord brougham the lord chancellor of england is admitted bf all friends and foes to be a prodigy and lie is a prodigy it may be questioned whether there is a man now upon the earth doing as much as he by the force of intellect or whose intellec tual labors can bear a comparison with hta- no there is no question it is possible indeed there may be some closet dreamer some scrib bles of fancies collected from the regions of im agination whose spirit is as active becsofle it 6agrmnt and wild and cannot be lamed but there rs no man upon the stage of action fami liar and concerned in the common tactics of life kfa bis powers am laying hid liiul to the rfljjfrrfy machinery of ha man qcietiesconu its energies and forming its shapes whose in- flmmcecan be compered to lord broughams iatiieinteuqcuialwgiid in time regions con- trolled by intellect he isa prince ofas lofty mien and equally persprcaeioos all- pervading and energetic as buonaparte was in arms hia conceptions hia decision his prompt execution of his purpose and in certain triumph are equal accustomed to success and usod to victoiy he is no less confident au bis opponents howev er noble however burdened wilh older and he reditary honors approach him with deference and quail before bis brighter sarcasm if he it provoked to deal with thesilri severity and el- the infliction of a long argument by declaring it unnecessary and anticipating the result i havejseen one of these gowned and wigged and powdered gentlemen writhe under the re proof of the chancellor for a dishonest manage- should and is now figuring largely in the dra ma of the statesman m y observer ment with his client and sk down in mortifica tion how came you sir to persuade your client to this bar for the paltry sum of 25 7 if be gains it he is sure to lose 200k to satisfy your pocket why did you not tell him that each party in this court must meet his own costs whe ther he be loser or winner 7 the energy of the present lord chancellor of england has effected what i do not speak from certificate i presume has not been done before for ages it is spoken of any how as unparalleled he has cleared the docket for a cause to go into chancery has heretofore been considered as hanging it up more likely than otherwise for posterity it must be confessed that lord brougham is somewhat wanting in dignity as president of a court or speakctofa legislative assembly he wears uneasy the gown and wig as unnecessa ry appendages he puts on and takes off the little oldfashioned threecornered hat in com pliance with ceremony but in a manner plainly indicating that he thinks it might as well be dispensed with impetuous in all the move ments of his mind he cannot brook unnecessa ry delays in cdurt or in the house of lords or in any business in which he bears a part he will interrupt any body at any moment whether in conversation or in any argument before his court orin a parliamentary speech in the house of lords if a sudden impulse touches his will to do so and to the great annoyance o those with whom he has to do be is very apt to be of- i m rnrifm ff mfy jm those sodden obstructions but absolutely rude he commits habitual outrages on good manners and the common decencies of life and ihnl while in the discbarge of his high official func tions where of all places more than others he ought tobc exemplary the lord chancellor in the celerity snd line of his appointments in the suddenness of arrest and in the sharpness of the angles he turns is not unlike a baboon he sits down upon the woolsack as quick as the nima and gets up a quick and hops and assumes another position with a very exact imitation of that imitative being and wherever he is and whatever be is doing he claims equally and equally receives tho attention and admiration of all- t beg your pardon air 0 no sir yfissir yeflsir if you please sir you are wrong there sir u allow me to correct you sir ice ate somewhat the style of hia in terruptions ami all done with an almost incon ceivable quickness lord brougham while lis tening attentively to others especially in com mon colloquy has a manner of twitching up the sides of his face by a violent muscular spam as if an invisible hand behind and over his head by an invisible cord inserted in the cheek and graaptng its principal muscles every now and then tltould suddenly and mechanically draw up those parts with great force it is a frequent and painful distortion lord broughams voice is sharp clear and quite womanish i should easily believe he had never been a sheridan in the study of attitudes or oratory and as to his elocution i can easi ly believe also that it never received its shape by the dicta of the art under the hand of a master but rather by the impulees of his feelings there is nothing remarkable about it unless in somerespecu it is remarkably odd and a most tmworthy pattern for imitation like all great minds he selects the plainest language but al ways pure his tones are silvery his range up- on the scale of intonation rather monotonous hiailuency ww an everninning stream occa sionally aborting a rapid with majestic and over whelming march and every now and then upon a great theme when his passions are stined up within him he astounds like the tremendous cataract of a mighty river or like the thunder from the lightning cioud it is not the nwmnr of the man that one is looking after or that one admires h is his thoughts and the thought which is neit to come we always expect something remarkable from a mind so remarka ble like himself forgetting the things bc- the cholera from the sout come he came like a despot king he hath swept the earth with a conquerors step and the air with a spirits wing subscription commence forthwith that any freeholder subscribing one dollar annually be admitted as a member and entitled to vote on all questions that shall affect the interests of the to the north hath the cholera i said society that a quarterly meeting he held esquire maintained in uninterrupted harmony rill 2 in the morning the fettivttfcaj of the iluy we shut him out with a girdle of ships and a guarded quarantine what ho now which of your watchers slept the choleras past your line theres a curse on the blessed sun and air what mill ye do for breath for breath which was once but a word for life is now but a word for death wo for aflection when love must look on each face it loves with dread kindred aod friends when a few brief hours and the dearest may be the dead the month pass on and the circle spreads and the time is drawing nigh when each street may have a darkened house or a coffin passing by our lot wcast upon evil days in the worlds wintertime the earth is old and worn with years of want of woe and of crime then out on the folly of ancient time the folly which wished you mirth look round on the anguish look rouud on the vice then dare to he glad upon earth for the kingston chronicle election at carleton on friday 9th march at the close of the con test for the county of carleton mr hamnett pinhey recited for the night to a house within two or three miles of the hustings where on the following morning at daybreak a crowd of the electors began to assemble in sleighs on foot and on horseback who with the victorious co- just named lours proceeded to escort him home to his own residence on march the force of the escort gra dually increasingunlilarrived at the grand nver there were not less than 200 person half of ways anticipate defeat in whatever shapes of ar- gument becomes jjie resources are infinite hind we march forth unto the things before and always ready for use his apprehension quick aa the lightniug and like the jigbtningfbnd of affinities and sure to ratch them to look at lord broughams face and head i have teen fifty grandmothers as handsome as he and equally promising ofgreatness although 1 do not profess to be a phrenologist i am in clined to think the science is in danger of being upset by hia ungainly specimen but however he may look like a grandmother as equally feminine and equally wrinkled all the world knowa that he has proved himself far more effi cient than he ordinary character of that respec table class of the human family under that prodigious nose and long and thiu face and ug ly head lie such treasures of thought and such elements of reasoning aa art rarely to be found in man lord broughams ordinary labors fill up about 18 hours of the 24mabors i rncan of intellectu al application a large portion of which arc iden tified with his official duties during the first year of his chancellorship lotely expired bo had but five days relaxation and thoso spent in tra velling as chancellor he holds the whole bar in per petual awe of his abilities compels them to des patch rebukes and straighten their tortuosi ties often saves them the trouble and the court as valuable as are the thoughts he baa just pour ed forth you see hit so intent on something he is just about to uttar and knowing by experi ence tbat you will not be disappointed he chains your hympathies tad yon bend forward with intensity of desire fcr what is cooling and are always sorry when he sits down he is apt to sit down aa unexpected as he gets up or rather as suddenly as a specimen of his parliamen tary speeches the part he took the last night of the late discussion of the reform bill will proba bly live as long aa any of his past things espe cially from tho notoriety and importance of the measure of which be may truly say quorum pars magna f to lord brougham appears as if he were con stantly and alternately soliloquising with himself and addressing to all around him onward onward do something do something it is a bad economy of life to do only ono thing when there is room to do two and both are worthy of being done lord brougham is an eminently practical man all theories he pushes and blows away in utter contempt except as they are good for immediate use he is certainly a great jurist apparently a good political economist dealing in the acienco from the largest to tho smallest them freeholders the first and the last in the field wis alpha and omeg they were there as well regaled as so numerous and unexpected a concourse of visitors could desire among the toasts that were given was prosperity to the county of carleton the bytonian u his excellency sir john colbomc this toast was followed by three tremendous cheers and a royal salute was fired from nine field pieces on the lawn at sun down the party took leave and proboaly to tho great relief of their new re presentative who must have been not a little fa tigued wirii the weeks campaign on the mon day mr pinhey went to bj town to felicitate his friends om their recent victory no sooner was it known than some hundreds of the inhabitants collected together demanding that he should be cwrirfdtbrrough the town at marthurs tav ern in the lower town the preparations com menced fair decorating the chair and six chair bearers afcnd preceded by music a great con course off people accompanied him through the town cheering occasionally as he passed the houses ot bis friends who had been most active ly engagwd mr pinhey intimating a desire to be safely lodged in the house he had first entered on his arrival in this province 13 years ago he was conveyed to firths tavern in the up per town from whence while the crowd were being entertained by the landlord he made his eritin disguise and retreated to the bouse of mr uagerman where he dined and where at midnight he was again assailed by his zealous friends and complimented with chen music fire works muskets and fowling pieces the ladies being alarmed mr hagerman stated thft mr pinhey from extreme fatiguetbad been un der the necessity of retiring to rest the crowd immediately withdrew declining to take either wine or spirits though earnestly invited by mr hagerman they then proceeded to the lower town where they called on the inhabitants to illuminate a demand that was cheerfully and almost immediately complied with with but ono or two exceptions on the following morning several of the most wealthy inhabitants signified their wish to give a public dinner to mr pinhey on thursday they then decorated their horses with ribbons ond with eight or nine sleighs ac companied him half the way home about eight miles when they bid him farewell and return ed to bytown at this public dinner in firths tavern between 25 and 30 of the residents of the town and coun ty met for the purpose as the requisition set forth to celebrate the election of mr ham nett pinhey as representative for the county when several resolutions highly creditable to the company and beneficial to that section of the province were agreed to the following ara the most important that under the sanction of a provincial ast passed in the llth of hia late majesty geo iv ch 10 whetoin it was enacted that when any agricultural society could bo established by a subicription of not less than 501 a like sum ethould bo paid in aid of such subscription to the treasurer of such society by his majestys re ceiver general a society to be called the carte- ion jgriathural society bo and it is hereby es tablished under the direction of a president by the directors ar mcanhurs tavern and an annual one by the society for the purpose of presenting receiving and arbitrating all claims thut shall be made on such society for whatever invention production or improvement rhatmay be likely to have or may have had the effect contemplated by the act that at such annual meeting each claimant shall produce atmar- thurs tavern or so near thereunto as may he convenient such stock grain seeds fruit agri cultural implements samples or other proofs on which such claimants may found their title to the consideration of the society that on the sdjne day and at the same tavern a dinner shall be provided for as many members as shall to the treasurer have signified their in tention to attend j such entertainment not to ex ceed the cost of five shillings a head exclusive of wines and that the said sum of fiv shillings paid by any memberto the treasurer shall enti tle such member to admittance j that collectors in each township of this county shall be appoint ed by the directors with whom tho treasurer shall correspond on all affairs that msy affect the interests of such society and it is resolved that a fair to be called the connty fair eball be annu ally held in this town the period of which to be discretionary with the directors a sum a- mounting to near 30 was immediately subscrib ed by the company present it was then resolved that since it had now be come indisputably expedient that for the safely and towftte fifth ronntvnf carlftnn as regnrds the administration of end and vriminkk jurispiu- 1 donee the said county should he rendered dis tinct and independent of the turning county of lanark a committee of twelve freeholders should be appointed for the puirpose of framing amenorial to tho legislature effect the same and that such memorial be pre to the le gislative council by the honorable colnnel lloyd and to the house of aembly by the re presentatives of the county cptain john lew is and mr hamnett pinhey m ith a request that thy wilt use all duo diligence fn giving validity to such memorial it was also resolved at the meeting that the advantages of a free press u universally ac knowledged would afford g03j facilities to the expression of public opinion and the progress of knowledgethroughout these townships and that therefore a journal shall be established in this town under such arrangements as the directors of the aigi- cultural sneiety mfty deem desirable on mr pinhey being called on by the chair man for a toast he gave qw friends in hteh- mend hwas then submitted that could a wa ter communication be madfe with richmond from the mississippi on one aide and from the rideauonthe other every land owner in ihe county would be benefitted by such on improve ment and it was finally resolved that a commit tee of thtee gentlemen be appointed to commu nicate wilhas many of richmond in order to as certain the practicability of acmplisbing a work so desirable the health of his excellency sir john col- borne was received with deafening applause and it being submitted that aa there were in progress throughout the province numerous ad dresses assuring his excellency of the unabated confidence entertainod by the subscribers in his excellencys faithful administration it was re sofred tbat a ivrfimlritullriwt appointed to df an address to his xcehency that such addrteg be first submitted for the adop tion of this inditing nd then the county gene rally the following is a copy of tho address to which we understand there arc already near 200 signatures at a public dinner at firths tavern bytown given with tha view of celebrating the election of hamnett pinhey esquire as representative in the provincial parliament for the county of carleton it is unanimously resolved that the following addtess expressive of the sentiments of the county be presented by that gentleman i to the editor of the kingsvfit chraticu sift in commenting on my former nicatioii you appear to havu lost your temper a little for which i feel sorry being informed thai you are an exceedingly good naturcd picas- ant humorous sort of a gentleman the un usual exhibition of bnd temper you hnve on this occasion displayed i of course ascribe to an ac cidental overflow of bite to which you arc no doubt in common with the rest of the sous of attain at times subject but uf which i trust you are ere now relieved and the tranquility and serenity of your mental part restored you sy that almost every sentiment which i have expressed is opposed to the principles which have hitherto regulated your editorial prac tice an assertion which i am not prepared to dispute hein altogether ignorant what those principles are as you have not yet that i know of since the commencement of your editorial career given your readers an expose of them and i could not myself for the very life of me discover whether you had any pdittiat principles at all not that i say you have not any but that i found it very difficult td discover from your leading articles whether you had or not this may he perhaps owing to the obturity of my in tellect hut i know several of your readers arc placed in the same awkward dilemma out of which l hope you will bo phased at no distant period to utwer us by stating openly and can didly what tbosu political principles are which regulate your conduct as a journalist i profess myself equally at n loss to discover how you have discharged a public duty hy submitting my lu- rubralioui i idl hicx i r any thin of a donperous tendency in them a in that caw i humbly conceive the proper course would have been to return the paper to tfafi wri ter if he thought proper to call for it or if not to plsce it among the other com mimical ions sent tn yon vrhich you diction being applied to the opposite party by ihe way it won your neighbour the ditorof the patriot who 1 think first applied it i will with your leave change it and call thejn the ultra- commu- bmctlfted party i am afraid that without any great breach of charity i mny put their piety on the same level with the loyalty of those whom i have denominated fairwe6lher loyalists how the effects are to be produced which you sayt ore so pregnant with evil to those under tbe cle rical controul of these persons you hav forgot ten to mention there is in fact some obscurity a- bont tliat sentence of yours but whatever these effects may be or by whatever mean they are to be produced they cannot be much mote danger mis to the well being of the province than tbe ejfect of giving political power to any set of priests no matter of what denomination how i have given a fatal blow to my loyalty by observing how imiccenffy or simply thought lessly if you will a considerable number of the people of kingston consented to affix their names to an address a great part of which was diame- ftricnlly opposite to their well known sentiments you havcjforgoiten to tell but contented yourself by expressing wilh characterise courtesy your doubts of my sincerityin saying that iiiexpressing nttacbrnent to the person of the king and satisfac tion with aw government i would cordially agree with the framers of the address whatthat repub lican policy maybe of which you speak i profess myself to be profoundly ignorant however when you have explained the nature of it and pointed out its great leading features i can tell you whether i am tainted with it or not as to your insinuation that i am a disaffected or disappoint ed person i meet it with a fiat denial i was born hred i intend to live and to use a hi- kimitan mod of rrrsinn ihiertd tn die deem unworthy of seeing the white i would light i admire tho modesty with which you disclaim the ability of answering alt the arguments 1 have adduced have you not then sophistry enough at command toctmse the worst side of hi ques tion appear the best or to use the language of dean swift when describing the business of la pula lawyers to provo that black is of- do you dislike the dirty business chari hope tbe utter supposition to be the traeone however be tbatasitmay i will pro ceed to notice the u comments you have made i would then aslynu by what right do you ctill in question my claim to the title of u a british subject is it because i have taken tho liberty to think for myself and to express my sentiments openly and fearlessly when i think there is oc casion for so doing not choosing to change my principles with every wind that blows from every part of the political horizon as is the fashion of certain people that i know ot as you have thought proper to call in question tbe sincerity of my professions i consider myself entitled to answer to the above questions begging leave at the same time to remark that those who are them selves governed by fixed principles are loss apt to question the sincerity of the prtfessions of others until such time as their actions afford a fair cri terion for so deing such a criterion you have not had in judging ao uncharitably of me for i challenge you to point out any thing in my com munication which can in the slightest decree tend in tbe judgment of any unprejudiced per- wiii tbimrriltihttrmydtoi i have taken to that title sir i have as good a right as any of thdse who have signed the kingston address and a far belter light than a great many of them- people who have no scruple in bawling to the utmost extent of their lungs god save the king but who if the order of the day were to change a little would havo as little scruple in calling oothy thing else you like these men i would dermic p iir ltuthrr you have mi a re presented me when you said that i asserted both parties to be eauauy sincere in professions of attachment to the great lead ing principles of the british constitution tho term tqvotty sincert i did not use being unable to ascertain whether both parties wrre equally sincere or if not on which side the balance of sincerity laya matter of very little conaeouence as i bclieveon whatever stile it shall be found it will be but very tnfling you do not like the term faction hcing applied to those who you sayhave wilh zeal and consci ous integrity supported and defended the coii- to the editor of the kingston chronicle the cpigrnm on the honours recently bestow ed by the people of york on little lyonmacken- xiti is very good in order to render it intelligi bly to all classes of your readers especially such as arc noi classical you should have ap pended a note explanatory of the distinction made hy the ancient romans between a ntunph and an ovation the latter being a lcssta trium phal procession granted to commanders who had only won an inconsiderable or unimportant vi tory and you might have shewn that the point of the epigram lay in the double sense implied in iho word ovation derived from the latin word orotfc which not only means the trtumpi ing in ihttitntr triumph but also the time oflty- g a little latitude is of course allowable to the poet who does not mean the time oftming ggt but tho time of being petted with them and at lyon mackenzie has been pleased in the warnithofhis vhluw indignation at the late loy al meeting of the soundhearted people of king ston to call thia honest and independent town a rotten and heartless place i think he may as suredly reckon on the honours of an ovation when he next appears among us and thakes the ambrosial curls of hia renowned wig in gra cious noda unto bis thronging admirers the longer he postpones his visit the more compteto will be the preparation and the mom effective the ovatory exhibition but to return to the couriers epigram i beg to observe that it answer precisely to the defi nition i have aomewhere seen of that sort of poem an epigram if smart and good in all its circumstances should be like a jeltfhag ifiuhtrittstf uu0tthwtfc tflj to hold a budget fall of wit and point it at the end auiz o his exceluftcy sir john c ol borne c ace c we his majestys fathful subject of the county of carleton deeply impressed with a sense of the advantages we derive from the pro tection of the british constitution beg leave to address your excellency that we may testify the great indignation we feel at the recent attempts made to weaken the confidence we have in your excellencys administration and to disturb the happiness we enjoy in this rapidly improved i stitution of the country granting that they are orccialingtbe paternal so as conscientious as you represent them and i items as every ono who docs anything at it province highly appreciating the paternal licitude which your excellency has ever evinced for the best interests of the proving we cannot but regard with contempt the efforts of alow de signing faction to disturb its peace when we left the parent country it was in the full hope of finding in the land of our adoption those enjoy ments and that independence which patient in- duatry ond obedience to the laws must insure in this we have not heendisappointed and wc ttust that those blessings will be long preserved to us through that unremitting attention to our inter ests which has so eminently characterised your excellencys administration permit us to as sure your excellency that wc are determined to support that government under which wc enjoy m many advantages and also to assure your excellency that we arc grateful and contented under it the most unequivocal proof of tho unanimity would be very sorry to say that thetc ore not sorne honest conscientious men among those who support the constitution as it now stands still i maintaio tbat the legislative council rather an important part of the constitution does not give satisfaction to the great bulk of the inhabi tants of ihe province that it is altogether un suitable to the circumstances of the country and that consequently those who are opposed to all innovation on the constitution arc only a faction i will go even farther ond assert that in point of intellect sound knowledge and gen eral information they arc an insignificant faction too although by dint of manaiivering they have succeeded in getting the management of the af fairs of the province into their own hands as you do not scorn to like the torm ryeraonian to the editor of the kingston chronicle sir the cormiranication signed civia which appeared in your last highly valuable journal is ono which i agree with the writerde mands the immediate and vigorous attention of the inhabitants of thia improving town and i have no reason to question the readiness with which the adoption of his advice will be em braced a correspondent in the last herald baa added another motive why this suggestion should occupy the public attention as far as regard the practice of filling our streets with dead animala and other filth calculated to produce putrefac tion and discaee we cannot expect like the fleece of gideon to be covered with the dew of heaven while all around is breathing a pes tilential atmosphere and should the plague for by no other name can the cholera be fitly distinguished be imported either by new york boston or tbe river st lawrence this hitherto favoured spot may be the scene of divine visita tion from ihe anxiety tbat every mailer of a steam beat or other vessel must naturally feel to exempt himself from any object however tri- flingly indisposed or remotely attccted with the slightest tendency to what bis imagination may timidly deaignate cholera hi in itself demands a consideration which if deferred may become too late therefore i propose an immediate meet ing of the inhabitants to lay the proper founda- i ion upon w zzrm i god save the kings a cuckoo sang thats unco easy said aye hich our hopes of a summers safety and eecurily may be humanly speaking firmly placed the alarm has already been sounded at lun- dys iaiie ond although inquiry has been very judiciously resorted to and tho existence of cho lera denied by competent medical authority we cannot in the alarm of the moment allow our selves to be persuaded that some cause does not exist for the feeling that has been expreascd when it is recollected bow many different opi-