To make culpatory statements against others, [74] without ability to
prove them, is, to say the least, hazardous; but to make accusations
to formulate which the accuser is forced, not only to ignore facts,
but actually to deny them, is, to our mind, nothing short of rank
defamation.
Mr. Froude is not likely to impress the world (of the West Indies, at
any rate) with the transparently silly, if not intentionally
malicious, ravings which he has indulged in on the subject of
Trinidad and its politics. Here are some of the things which this
"champion of Anglo-West Indians" attempts to force down the throats
of his readers. He would have us believe that Mr. Francis Damian,
the Mayor of Port of Spain, and one of the wealthiest of the native
inhabitants of Trinidad, a man who has retired from an honourable and
lucrative legal practice, and devotes his time, his talents, and his
money to the service of his native country; that Mr. Robert Guppy,
the venerable and venerated Mayor of San Fernando, with his weight of
years and his sufficing competence, and with his long record of self-
denying services to the public; that Mr.
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