When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British
Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.
Among those of his relations who professed the modern faith of heredity it was well understood that in him the character of the late Myron Bayne, a maternal great-grandfather, had revisited the glimpses of the moon--by which orb Bayne had in his lifetime been sufficiently affected to be a poet of no small
Colonial distinction.
Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but
colonial, scarcely any intercourse but
colonial, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast.
Years before he had been a painter of some standing in a colony, and portraits signed 'Van Tromp' had celebrated the greatness of
colonial governors and judges.
This body of soldiers had been evolved out of the old regular army and was now a million strong, to say nothing of the
colonial forces.
Among them were journals and letters narrating expeditions by sea, and journeys to and fro across the Rocky Mountains by routes before untravelled, together with documents illustrative of savage and
colonial life on the borders of the Pacific.
He was one of that small, and now all but extinguished, class, whose attachment to royalty, and to the
colonial institutions and customs that were connected with it, had never yielded to the democratic heresies of after times.
Martyr, the
Colonial Secretary, told him yesterday that it was made out.
To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free: we pledge our word that one form of
colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.
The first is, that the federal legislature will possess a part only of that supreme legislative authority which is vested completely in the British Parliament; and which, with a few exceptions, was exercised by the
colonial assemblies and the Irish legislature.
The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd's List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and
Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies which threatened to raise their rates of premium, were unanimous on this point.
If he could go in the suite of some
Colonial Governor!