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hon? and why did you give them a naval and fishing station worth more than them all, St Pierre, and Miquelon, and the best part of the coast of Newfoundland? For what equivalent did you give Java to Holland; your ministers could not be ignorant of its im- mense value, at least not if they could endure to listen to the able and satisfactory representations of Sir Stamford Raffles, when they agreed to so impolitic a concession ? What did you get from Spain? What from Portugal, for the expense of defending them ? Could you not have held Cuba, Madeira, and the Western Islands, as pledges, until they redeemed a reasonable portion of the debt due by them to your country? But your ministers seemed to have forgotten all in the delirium of victory, in the giddy fever created by royal attentions, and they negotiated, not as if the British army occupied Paris, but as if the legions of France held possession of London. In an evil hour you lost every thing by a treaty which your victories and treasures placed Within your grasp. But the genius of Bolingbroke and Chatham had forsaken, and Canning had not yet acquired influence in your negotiations,”

Note B, p. 409.

THE majority of the inhabitants of Cape Breton, particularly in the Bras d’Or settlements, being from the Outer Hebrides, we still discover their habits, manners, and customs, much the same as we find them at the present day among the people of Lewis, Uist, and Barra; and the necessary experience of all these islanders in managing boats, is a great advantage to them on arriving in Cape Breton, where, until they raise crops, they can always secure at least as good a living as they previously enjoyed, by the means of fishing. '