The object of The English in the West Indies is to make people at home feel an interest in their West Indian fellow-subjects, and that it did by the mere fact of its circulation.

His belief that the West Indies should be governed, like the East Indies, despotically, is a subsidiary matter, and the quaint parody of the Athanasian Creed in which he epitomised what he supposed to be the Radical faith is merely an intellectual amusement.

On the virtues of Rodney, and the future of the Colonies, he is serious, though scarcely practical.
"Imperial Federation," he wrote in 1887, "is far away, if ever it is to be realised at all.

If it is to come it will come of itself, brought about by circumstances and silent impulses working continuously through many years unseen and unspoken of.

It is conceivable that Great Britain and her scattered offspring, under the pressure of danger from without, or impelled by some purpose, might agree to place themselves under a single administrative head.