In 1787 he became a sort of provincial governor, being director of the war and Domaine Chambers at Cleves and Hamm.

The scandals of the Friedjung Trial led to the fall of the Governor of Croatia, but there was no change of system.

On that occasion a crowd of 5000 school children paraded the streets of Agram shouting "Down with Cuvaj" (the Ban or Governor of Croatia), and cheering the police when they tried to intervene!

Governor Pownal has given an elegant map of this Gulf-stream, tracing it from the Gulf of Florida northward as far as Cape Sable in Nova Scotia, and then across the Atlantic ocean to the coast of Africa between the Canary-islands and Senegal, increasing in breadth, as it runs, till it occupies five or six degrees of latitude.

The Governor likewise ascribes this current to the force of the trade-winds protruding the waters westward, till they are opposed by the continent, and accumulated in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hydraulic and Nautical Observations by Governor Pownal, 1787.

Other currents are mentioned by the Governor in this ingenious work, as those in the Indian Sea, northward of the line, which are ascribed to the influence of the Monsoons.

In consequence of this resolution, I applied to the Governor-General, Mr. Petrus Albertus van der Parra, for a pass to travel through the country: my request was granted; and, having procured every information.

The only conjecture that occurred to him was that the General, the jeweler's friend and protector, being gone, probably his enemies, the victims of wrong and abuse, were now rising and calling for vengeance, and that the acting Governor was pursuing him to make him disgorge the wealth he had accumulatedhence his flight.

Compare the duties of a governor of a state with those of the president.

And so purposeless and wanton had been these killings, that they had long been a mystery to the mounted police, even in the time of the captains, and later, when the creeks realized, and a governor came from the Dominion to make the land pay for its prosperity.

" "The Governor," suggested Dickensen.

Another person witnessed this love passage, the Marchesa Anna Mondragone, wife of Francesco's old governor and his chamberlainshe was on the balcony of the house at the corner of the Piazza to make her usual curtsey to the Prince.

Very wisely, young Antonio was sent to Pratolino with his governor and tutors, and in the merry company no personality could, in any way, recall unhappy incidents of the past.

It is doubtful if he hoped to become governor of the state, at least before an advanced period in his career.

But the mighty Nabob was unwilling to give her to the white-faced lover, even though he was the governor of Bombay, forbye having Balinsloe and Lindertes in Scotland too.

Indeed, it appears in every commission to the governor of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from 1763 to 1784, and after the treaty of peace of 1783, that the Province of Nova Scotia extended to the southern boundary of the Province of Quebec.

His Excellency EDWARD KENT, Governor of the State of Maine.

The Governor, in one of our earliest interviews with him, said, "the great crime of this island, as indeed of all the West India Colonies, has been licentiousness, but we are certainly fast improving in this particular."

The governor himself stated as an apology for the prevalence of licentiousness among the slaves, that the example was set them constantly by their masters, and it was not to be wondered at if they copied after their superiors.

He condemned severely the course taken in a particular instance by the late Governor, Sir Lionel Smith.

The appearance of the Governor about an hour afterwards, was the signal for an adjournment to dinner.

Mr. G. informed us that prejudice against color was rapidly diminishingand that the present Governor was doing all in his power to discountenance it.

They were kindly furnished us by the authors in pursuance of an order from his excellency the Governor, authorizing the special magistrates to give us any official statements which we might desire.

Being made acquainted with these instructions from the Governor, we addressed written queries to Major Colthurst and Captain Hamilton.