994 ISLES OF SUMMER. 
till two o’clock Sunday morning;” of “state dinners” at half 
past six o’clock given by G , abachelor; of supper at twelve; 
also of supper on another occasion at one o’clock at night, fol- 
lowed by music and dancing for she did not know how many 
hours; of a ball in the Assembly Room, when the Governor and 
suite were saluted by the band with the ‘‘ King’s March;” of re- 
tiring at four a. M.; of a ball in honor of the King’s birth-day, 
when flags ornamented the shipping in the harbor, guns were | 
fired, fire-works displayed, and the ‘‘dear five hundred” were 
permitted to unite with their superiors in doing honor to their 
sovereign. 
The pictures were drawn by a friendly hand, and though made 
more than half a century ago, we are inclined to believe that, 
with slight modifications, they will answer very well for the pres- 
ent day. From the little which we saw, and from information 
derived from others, we are of the opinion that the picnics, the 
balls, the nightly revels, the feasting and drinking, the whist 
parties and early morning hours for retiring, characterize to a 
considerable extent the fashionable and high life of this miniature 
colonial capital to-day, as in 1823-4. To the ball which the © 
Governor gave at the Government House while his wife and chil- 
dren were in England, some few of our hotel guests we know 
went late and returned in the small hours of the morning. His 
Excellency manifested in our presence at the ball which some of 
the ladies of our hotel gave in its dining hall, a great fondness 
for the waltz, and was reported to have taken part in each of the 
eighteen dances at the ball given by himself. One gentleman 
who attended the latter observed that the Governor was so occu- 
pied, while the heavy load of official cares was laid aside, in 
honoring his lady guests by kindly consenting to embrace and 
spin them around in the rhythmic circles of the voluptuous dance 
of the German, as to seemingly forget what genuine politeness 
