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rendered wild and delirious by becoming for a time a great com- 

 mercial center, and awoke to find herself only weakened by the 

 dissipations which the great carnival had caused; wiiile England 

 was humiliated by an award which compelled her to pay heavy 

 damages for injuries we suffered from the rebel cruisers which 

 she permitted to be fitted out in her ports. Tlie two countries 

 are bound together by the strongest of ties — blood, language, 

 mutual dependence, religion, literature and law — but the love 

 and respect of cliildren for their mother can be greatly impaired 

 and even turned into hate. It should never be forgotton, how- 

 ever, that the British Queen stood faithfully by the Union in the 

 days of its sorest peril, and that the great body of the British 

 people were also with us. 



The yellow fever prevailed at Nassau in the years 18G1, 18G3, 

 1863 and 1861, and resulted in the loss of many lives. 



The statistics of crime, disease and death, during this period 

 in Nassau, clearly prove this bad business to have been equally un- 

 favorable to sound health and good morals. There were commit- 

 ted to prison in the Police Co'urt in Nassau in 



1861, Males, 375, Females, 189. 



1863, " 523, " 223. 



1863 " 6S9, " 189. 



1864, " 891, " 221. 



There were tried for the more heinous offences in the General 

 Court in 



1861, 17.— Convicted, 13, Acquifed, 4 



1862, 34.— " 22, " 13. 



1833, 82.- " 59, " 23. 



1884, C9.— «' 75, " 24. 



