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though some few # in private expressed their dis¬ 
satisfaction at the republican form of government 
about to be established; it seeming to them absurd 
that an island, to which nature had denied all inter¬ 
nal resources, should be proclaimed in a state of 
independence which it necessarily wanted the 
means of supporting. The bishop, however, and 
many of the clergy, at a yearly meeting^ of the 
“ spies and calumniators for the favor and protection of the 
(e new ruler.”—The latter, after mentioning some of the 
most severe articles in the proclamation, proceeds to affirm 
that “ they did expand a general horror all over the country; 
“ and that only the rascallity of a few people did approve 
them, for the gain of money and for the sake of getting 
“ some share in the disturbed government or rather in the 
(e high anarchy here. Very indebted officers, being misled 
“ by fair promises of more salaries, did submit or approve the 
“ altered form, to their lasting shame for having dispensed 
“ with that homage and duty they owed to their native soil. 
ff Many good officers resigned their situations, the most did 
“ not give in the least declaration. We (Magnus and Stephen 
“ Stephensen ), the Tatsroed and Amptman of the western 
“ part of the island, declared our wish to administer our 
“ offices only for the present year and according to the 
laws of our country.” 
* These persons, however, it must be confessed, were 
equally averse to their former government. 
f Count Tramp asserts that this meeting was attended 
only by a few of the clergymen of the neighborhood, “ who 
“ were surprised into a declaration in favor of Jorgensen, 
