opened to him in vision, that when in the fourth generation, the third Prince 

 of the House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne of that nation, 

 which (by the happy issue of moderate and h r aling councils) was to be made 

 Great Britain, he should see his son, Lord Chancellor of England, turn back 

 the current of hereditary dignity to its fountain, and raise him to a higher 

 rank of peerage, whilst he enriched the family with a new one. If amidst 

 these bright and happy scenes of domestic honor and prosperity, that angel 

 should have drawn up the curtain and unfolded the rising glories of his 

 country ; and whilst he was gazing with admiration on the then commercial 

 grandeur of England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce 

 visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather 

 than a formed body, and should tell him : ' Young man, there is America, 

 which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of 

 savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show 

 itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the 

 world. Whatever England has been growing to, by a progressive increase of 

 improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing 

 conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, 

 you will see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life 1 ' 

 If this state of his country had been feretold to him, would it not require all 

 the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make 

 him believe it ? Fortunate man he has lived to see it ! " . . . I need not 

 remind you that the progress of America during the first three quarters of the 

 eighteenth century, which appeared so wonderful to the statesmen of that age, 

 was insignificant when compared with the progress of Australia and New 

 Zealand within the memory of many of those whom I now see around me. 



The centenary of the first arrival of Captain Cook in these seas has been 

 commemorated at Sydney by the erection of a statue in his honor. The 

 foundation stone of the pedestal was recently laid by the Duke of Edinburgh, 

 the great grandson of that sovereign whom Cook had proclaimed the lord of 

 this mighty segment of the globe. On that occasion His Royal Highness 

 spoke in words that well deserved to be recorded, as follows : — " One of the 

 happiest privileges which the members of the Royal Eamily enjoy is, that of 

 being able to do honor to the memory of great men and of noble deeds, by 

 their presence at such a ceremony as that which we are met to perform to-day. 

 But when the man whose fame we desire to commemorate, has, by a life 

 of great discoveries and of scientific research, increased so materially the 

 territorial extent of the empire, and has conferred so great benefits upon the 

 whole civilized world by his valuable additions to geographical knowledge, and 

 when, by these noble actions he has shed a lustre upon the profession to which 

 he belonged, and to which I am so proud to belong — I mean the maritime 

 service of the greatest maritime nation of the world — then indeed I feel that a 



