TRINIDAD. upon the shores of South America, I could not help thinking that the fitful glare and the dark atmosphere formed together an impressive emblem of the present state of that mighty continent. ' M a y thy darkness,' I murmured, 'thy moral and religious darkness pass away from thee, and light, and truth, and freedom, shine around thee hereafter in pure and unbroken splendor!' 58
The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion.
W e anchored that night at a little distance from the mouth of Chaguaramus Bay, memorable as the scene of the capture of the island by Sir Ralph Abercrombie. Hereupon they tell the following story in Port of Spain. Admiral Apodaca, having with great gallantry burnt all his own ships except one 74, rode off to the town as fast as his horse would carry him, and himself announced the event to the astonished governor Chacon. ' Only one ship has fallen into the enemy's hands! I have burnt the rest,' said the a d m i r a l : ' Burnt! burnt!' replied the g o v e r n o r ; ' but have you saved nothing ? ' S i , Se単or,' exclaimed Apodaca with Castilian e n t h u s i a s m , ' I have saved-- Santiago de Compostella!' --et
ostendit signum fatale Jacobi.
It is a fact that the excellent Chacon was disgraced, and the scoundrel Admiral, whom the Spanish government ought to have requested the English to shoot on the quarter-deck of the