Nay, if a claim comes from _over water_, let it be what it may, it strikes us as a foreign and inadmissible claim.

The fate from which even princes are not exempt, humbler men must certainly submit to!" "I can understand the feeling, and I think it honourable to the young man.

Admiral Bluewater, you and I have had occasion often to rebuke this very spirit in our young officers; and you will agree with me when I say that this gentleman has acted naturally, in acting as he has." "I must corroborate what you say, Sir Gervaise," answered Bluewater; "and, as one who has seen much of the colonies, and who is getting to be an old man, I venture to predict that this very feeling, sooner or later, will draw down upon England its own consequences, in the shape of condign punishment." "I don't go as far as that, Dick--I don't go as far as that.

But it is unwise and unsound, and we, who know both hemispheres, ought to set our faces against it.

We have already some gallant fellows from that quarter of the world among us, and I hope to live to see more." This, let it be remembered, was said before the Hallowells, and Coffins, and Brentons of our own times, were enrolled in a service that has since become foreign to that of the land of their birth; but it was prophetic of their appearance, and of that of many other high names from the colonies, in the lists of the British marine.