288 JUSTICE OF THE NEGOOS. 



see how any frail human being, educated a despotic 

 monarch, could help feeling angry should his pre- 

 sumed rights be questioned in such a manner by a 

 subject. I contend, therefore, that no injustice was 

 committed in the apparently arbitrary taking pos- 

 session of the valley of the Michael wans, when the 

 previous possessors of the land were remunerated, 

 as that is all our own Parliament demands on the 

 occasion of carrying out any public works. 



When William Rufus formed the New Forest in 

 Hampshire, his situation and circumstances were as 

 nearly parallel as possible with those of the present 

 King of Shoa, yet we are told that he did not observe 

 towards the ejected inhabitants, that justice which 

 characterized the proceedings of the Abyssinian 

 monarch. 



