Then they chock up the rest with advice to the Government.

Also, slurs upon the English administration.

The papers are all owned and edited by creoles--French.
"The language of the country is French.

Everybody speaks it--has to.

You have to know French particularly mongrel French, the patois spoken by Tom, Dick, and Harry of the multiform complexions--or you can't get along.
"This was a flourishing country in former days, for it made then and still makes the best sugar in the world; but first the Suez Canal severed it from the world and left it out in the cold and next the beetroot sugar helped by bounties, captured the European markets.