H.M.S._Alligator_ signalised the hoisting of the ensign with a salute of twenty-one guns.

After this impressive solemnity, Mr.Busby lived at the bay for six years.

His career was a prolonged burlesque--a farce without laughter, played by a dull actor in serious earnest.

Personally he went through as strange an experience as has often fallen to the lot of a British official.

A man of genius might possibly have managed the inhabitants of his Alsatia.
But governments have no right to expect genius in unsupported officials--even when they pay them L300 a year.