(7, p. 66.)
Let the result,
Of all bad management the fault,
Now find its place.
Of all bad management the fault,
Now find its place.
The speaker here makes a sudden transition from the government of Captain Hobson, to near the close of that of Captain Fitzroy’s career. The mismanagement here referred to is that of not fully securing the co-operation and sanction of the Home Government before proceeding with such precipitancy in the forming of a new Colony, which looked like the elopement of an unruly daughter with her lover, more than an honourable departure from her mother’s house with the blessing of her parents—and consequently reaping the fruits of her imprudence.
