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so doing he will pay a compensation to history and will discharge the 
responsibilities which he cannot separate from the old King’s hon- 
ours.” 1 And who shall say that by doing in this manner all that now 
lies within his personal power to promote the good of the old Province, 
he may not be playing the part of that worthy servant who earned 
the high encomium from his Lord, “ Well done, thou good and faith- 
ful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee 
ruler over many things” ? 1 
The Dominion of Canada, embracing as it does the whole territory 
comprised in the ancient Royal Province of Nova Scotia, is governed 
to-day by a Baronet of Nova Scotia,f in itself a circumstance of great 
interest, but when it is further observed that Australia has for her 
Governor-General a Baronet of Nova Scotia;{ and that India is ruled 
by the son and heir apparent § of a Baronet of Nova Scotia; we find 
that the dream of the wise and far-seeing King has, after all, been 
realised; for, although King James the First built greater and other 
than he knew, when he projected the Order of Baronet of Nova Scotia 
to found and rule an Empire beyond the seas; nevertheless that Em- 
pire has arisen—a vaster Empire than has been,—and by the Light 
of Heaven’s Guidance, under the administration of Baronets of Nova 
Scotia, Viceroys of King Edward the Seventh, it increases, advances, 
and flourishes. 
+ Sir Gilbert John, 4th Earl of Minto, Bart. N.S., creation 1700. 
= Sir John Adrian Louis, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, Bart. of N.S., creation 1698; 
K.T., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.—Vide J. Foster, Baronetage of the British Empire. 
1883. 
§ George Nathaniel, ist Baron Kedleston; eldest son of the Rev’nd Sir 
Alfred Nathaniel, 4th Baron Scarsdale, Bart. N.S., creation 1641. 
