Mr. Froude's Negrophobia. ioi 
spot. He somewhat modestly observes : — " I could not 
" expe£l that I, on a flying visit, could see deeper into 
" the truth than Sir Spencer St. John had seen, but," 
he adds, with a fine touch of irony, " at least I should 
u not take with me a mind already made up, and I was 
"not given to credulity" (pp. 127, 128). An hour 
ashore at Jacmel, and perhaps one or two hours at Port- 
au-Prince, constituted Mr. Froude's mode of going to 
Hayti to learn what he could on the spot. This is a re- 
markable travesty of CESAR'S veni, vidi, via' / but then, 
Mr. FROUDE is not C/ESAR ; he is merely a worshipper 
of Caesarism. Would any earnest seeker after truth 
have thus turned his back, not once, but twice, upon the 
opportunity for clearing up those doubts as to the dread 
charges made against the Haytians, which he told Chief 
Justice Reeves he entertained ? Nay, was not the 
Knight bound, in honour of the lady DULCINEA DEL 
TOBOSO, to have remained in Hayti, and with his magic 
pen, so much more powerful than any sword, to have 
slain, in the sight of all the world, the grim giants who 
were keeping the beautiful damsel Haytia, in the Castle 
of darkness and in the chains of Vodu ? His illustrious 
prototype, as described in the pages of CERVANTES, 
would certainly not own him as a true Knight, or Cheva- 
lier sans reproche. 
Of Jamaica, the Queen of the British Antilles, for- 
merly England's most splendid Colony, Mr. FROUDE 
has nothing fresh to say. He stayed at King's House 
with Colonel JUSTICE who was then administering the 
Government of the island, and who, he thinks, had very 
likely never heard of the great Mr. FROUDE (p. 141) ; 
at Miss ROY'S boarding house in Mandeville, and with 
