chap, i,] WEST INDIES. 173 
It may be said perhaps, that in these cases the 
mischief to the public, exclusive of the precedent, 
was not very great. I could produce, however, 
many an instance, in the conduct of governors, in 
which something more would appear, I am afraid, 
than mere folly, and the ignorant misapplication of 
authority. But the task is invidious, and I willing¬ 
ly decline it. 
LIEUTENANT GENERAL, LIEUTENANT GO¬ 
VERNOR, AND PRESIDENT. 
In a government comprehending several islands, 
as that of the Leeward Charaibean islands, there is 
commonly appointed, together with the captain- 
general or chief governor, a lieutenant-general, who 
is next in succession. He is usually lieutenant-go¬ 
vernor likewise of one of the islands included within 
the general government, each of which, in the ab¬ 
sence of the captain-general, from that particular 
island, has its affairs administered by a lieutenant- 
governor, or the president of the council, most 
commonly the latter, as it is not often that the lieu¬ 
tenant-governor is on the spot; this appointment, 
in fact, being nothing more than the grant of a 
pension of jC-200 a year, which is paid by the 
crown. In Jamaica it is seldom that a lieutenant- 
governor is appointed daring the residence on the 
island of a captain-general, there being no establish¬ 
ment or provision for such an officer holding a dor¬ 
mant commission 5 who has therefore neither pow- 
