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the British colonies : where it is not only the con- 

 stant change and the individual tyranny of a governor 

 that are ruining the country, but the much greater 

 calamity of" one great party continually trying to 

 supplant and destroy the other at all hazards. All 

 persons of intelligence must allow that — the natural 

 advantages of climate and productions of this colony 

 being so great — if there were a government, how- 

 ever severe, which had the will and power to ensure 

 protection to capital and investment, and to suppress 

 the evils attending on the periodical elections to the 

 House of Assembly, Bermuda would become one of 

 the richest colonies of the western world. 



To remedy these evils, and to bring about a whole- 

 some state of things, we must have reform in the 

 colonial legislature, so as to keep pace with the 

 times. 



I would suggest, therefore, that instead of the old 

 system, a viceregal government with a Council of 

 Advice should be substituted; the Council to be 

 composed of three elements, or three different classes 

 of persons : 1st, the representatives of the people ; 

 2nd, the official servants of her Majesty ; 3rd, the 

 unofficial nominees of the Crown. 



The last general election in 1856, of members for 

 the House of Assembly, fully shows to what a degree 



