The rascally defendant thus gained his
case, and left the court in defiant triumph.
The four preceding cases are thoroughly significant of the original
method in which thousands of cases were decided by this model
magistrate, to the great detriment, pecuniary, [101] social, and
moral, during more than ten years, of between 60,000 and 70,000 of
the population within the circle of his judicial authority. What
shall we think, therefore, of the fairness of Mr. Froude or his
informants, who, prompt and eager in imputing unworthy motives to
gentlemen with characters above reproach, have yet been so silent
with regard to the flagrant and frequent abuses of more than one of
their countrymen by whom the honour and fair fame of their nation
were for years draggled in the mire, and whose misdeeds were the
theme of every tongue and thousands of newspaper-articles in the West
Indian Colonies?
MR. ARTHUR CHILD, S.J.P.
We now take San Fernando, the next most important magisterial
district after Port of Spain. At the time of Mr. Froude's visit, and
for some time before, the duties of the magistracy there were
discharged by Mr.
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