124 Timehri. 
Whilst on the subject of naval valour we turn to a set of hand-painted Crown 
Derby, Rose du Barry bands which were on the Saucy Aretheusa at Trafalgar. 
Each piece represents a sea scape with the quaint old ships of the period. It 
was in the possession of the late Admiral Brisbane, Governor of St. Vincent, from 
whose family I obtained it. The Brisbanes are connected with this colony 
through the late Nassau William Orange Forster. Forster's family were intimate 
with the royalty of the day. Some of the Forsters are stillim the colony. I also 
got from old Forster a large tortoise-shell comb made from the back of a turtle 
caught off their estate in St. Vincent. This was once used by the late Queen 
Victoria, who was a friend of the family. Her late Majesty wrote a letter during 
the Boer War to Mrs. Major Charley, one of the Forster family, commisserating 
with her on her loss when Major Charley was killed. I did what I could to get 
this letter but all the cajoling and entreaties I brought to bear on old Forster 
were of no avail. All the same I got from hima frame with scissors cut 
tissue paper of Gratton Hall, the Forster crest, basket of flowers, con- 
volvula, all of so delicate a pattern that it would be thought impossible 
to make it on tissue. There were two of them made. One was given 
to Queen Victoria, then a child, and the other to old Forster when he 
came to the West Indies to test his fortune. They were made by a lady 
who was of the household. 
An old two-shade wall candlestick on the gallery wall brings to memory the 
original owners, the Dalziell, of St. Vincent. Dalziell’s family intermarried with 
the Forsters with whom they were related. One of the Dalziells was in the 
British Guiana bank here; the other married and went to Venezuela. 
The Dalziells came from a family of soldiers and the legend is that in the early 
days of trouble ‘n England when the King was hanging out of sight all who were 
unfavourable to him there was one man who was a general favourite. A murmur 
went round as the rope was put round his neck, and the King in wroth swore 
that he would himself hang the man. “‘ Who dares prevent me?” said he. Out 
stepped from the ranks a man who went up to the King and said “ Dalziell, ~ 
meaning “I dare.’’ The King at once knighted the daring man and the life 
of the other was spared. 
A jug which would not be worth a shilling otherwise has some claim to history. 
I received it from old Spencer Cambridge who cared for the jug as much as he did 
for his wife. It was only when the old man was on his last days that he parted 
with it and then he told me its history. During the troublous times with the 
slaves a meeting was called at which the slaves on the East Coast, Demerara, 
including old Cambridge, attended and swore for freedom offering to give their 
life-blood for the cause. Human blood was poured in the jug and each man put the 
jug to his lip and then swore to give his life for the cause. The result we all know. 
pe were mown down like sheep. Those who survived bought Bachelor's 
Adventure which was near the scene of their Waterloo. The estate seemed to 
have been cursed for from the day of its purchase it was the subject of litigation 
down to the present time. One of Cambridge’s son is now in a good position 
at Panama and has been for years respec ted there, and another is a Barrister- 
at-Law, Mrs. Cambridge is still alive and hearty, 
