“‘Holding the opinions that I have submitted to your Excellency, I feel that I cannot, consistently with the duty I owe to my constituents and the public, continue longer to hold an office and position as one of your Excellency’s advisers in opposition to my views on public duty. I therefore respectfully beg to submit to your Excellency my resignation of the office of Postmaster-General, and as one of your Excellency’s advisers; and further request your Excellency’s permission to publish and give my reasons for so doing, and the correspondence connected therewith.
I have, &c., &c.,
“‘Charles Connell.
“‘His Excellency the Hon. J. H. T. Manners-Sutton, &c., &c.’
“(Copy No. 3.)
“Memorandum of the Lieut.-Governor to Mr. Connell.
“‘Government House, Fredericton, May 19th, 1860.
“‘His Excellency the Lieut.-Governor accepts Mr. Connell’s resignation of the office of Postmaster-General and Executive Councillor, and he accedes to Mr. Connell’s request to be so far relieved from the obligations of his oath of office as will enable him to explain the grounds on which he has tendered his resignation to his Excellency.
“‘His Excellency will of course deem it right to communicate to his Council the contents of Mr. Connell’s letter to his Excellency of this day’s date.
“‘(Signed), J. H. T. Manners-Sutton.