98 TlMEHRI. 
" were negle6ting a Colony which might yield them 
" wealth beyond the treasures of the old sugar planters, 
" S om S *° Florida, to Texas, to South America, taking 
" their energy and their capital to the land of the 
" foreigner, leaving Dominica, which might be the gar- 
" den of the world, a precious emerald set in their own 
" Antilles, encircled by the sacred memories of glorious 
" English achievements, as if such a place had no ex- 
u istence " (p, 160). Asked now, by Dr. NlCHOLLS, why 
young Englishmen went planting in so many other 
countries, " went even to Ceylon and Borneo, while 
" comparatively at their own doors, within a fortnight's 
" sail of Plymouth, there was this island immeasurably 
" more fertile than either," our Sir Oracle thus gravely 
delivers himself : — 
" The explanation, I suppose, is the misgiving that 
" the West Indies are consigned by the tendencies of 
" English Policy to the black population, and that a 
" local government created by representatives of the 
" negro vote would make a residence there for an ener- 
" getic and self-respe6ling European less tolerable than 
" in any other part of the globe." (p. 165). Surely, this 
is somewhat hard upon Dr. NlCHOLLS. Does Mr. FROUDE 
not consider him an energetic and self-respecting 
European ? Dr. NlCHOLLS might well have asked Mr. 
FROUDE why Englishmen go to Texas. Florida and 
South America, when they might go to Ceylon, with 
its government modelled on the Indian fashion The 
negrophobist writings of Mr. FROUDE are hardly likely 
to encourage young Englishmen to try their fortunes in 
Dominica. 
Things are not so bad in Dominica, as Mr. FROUDE 
