40 BEEMUDA. 



CHAPTER III. 



GOVEENMENT. 



Medical Practitioners — Government — Practical Eepublics — The 

 colonies of a free State — The Spanish possessions in America 

 — The evils and absurdities' of the Constitution of Ber- 

 muda — Party spirit — Private relations of life — A Tory and a 

 Radical ---Fainilies of different parties — The public spirit 

 extinguished — Tyranny of a majority — Eeform — ^Vice-regal 

 government, with a Council of Advice — Bitterness of party 

 spirit in the House of Assembly—Insult to the Eepresentative 

 of the Sovereign. 



The climate being so healthy-j a Stranger might 

 iiaturally suppose that there would be very few of 

 the inedical faculty in Bermuda; nevertheless, the 

 island is overstocked with M.D.'s — the young men 

 finding the United States so easy of access, the 

 expenses so trifling, and the good people of Bermuda 

 so easily satisfied with anything approaching -to the 

 degree of doctor — in fact, anything in the shape of 

 an American diploma is suflScientto entitle any one 

 to practise in the medical profession. 



