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public notices, as such expressions, ' no notice of his re- 
peated threats', l will pay no debts after a certain period', 
1 will sell the obligation at public vendue,' would make 
people outside think them poor as church mice. " In the 
name of policy," he continued, " let us keep these things 
to ourselves." 
The latter years of Governor Murray's administra- 
tion were not favourable to clubs and societies, the feeling 
of the time running in political channels. The continual 
interference of the British Government in the shape of 
Orders in Council for the amelioration of the slaves, the 
dispute with Sergeant ROUGH, President of the Court of 
Justice, and finally the slave insurrection, tended to 
produce virulent party feeling, and prevent union for 
any good obje6l. In connection with ROUGH it may be 
mentioned that a sort of political club was kept up on 
Pin. Belair, which organised a procession through 
Georgetown on hearing that the Sergeant was dismissed. 
There was a transparency on a car reflecting on the 
President's behaviour, and an effigy, which would have 
been burnt before his house had not the Fiscal given 
orders to prevent this. The Governor is said to have 
been behind the scenes, and to have instigated the proces- 
sion, which stopped before the houses of obnoxious 
parties, hissing, jeering and throwing stones, while at 
Government House and that of the new President, Mr. 
DeGroot, they shouted loud hurrahs. 
With the advent of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, a different 
state of things was introduced. Both the Governor and 
his lady were very popular generally, and Camp House 
became the centre of a little scientific and literary circle, 
the like of which has not been known since. One of the 
