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and so, I believe did Captain Watkins
and 1113 Woodgate. The Chief Justice
was on the right, and the Colonial Secretary
on the left of your Excellency. During dinner my attention
was attracted by the Chief Justice's eccentricities on that part.
But I should not have thought of it again,
but for what recurred immediately after dinner; when the
Chief Justice with some excitement
and loudness of voice, called a servant and ordered the removal
of the lights from the table. Your Excellency remonstrated. As his Lordship persisted and carried his point,
From that moment your Excellency appeared to labor under some
uneasiness, and to be anxious for the termination of the party. I was to that cause that I attributed
the circumstance of your proposing "The Queen
and the Admiral" to toast, instead of two. "The Queen
and the Admiral!" To the same cause
I attributed your Excellency's leaving the chair somewhat abruptly immediately after the toast had been drunk. A trivial circumstance,
not worth relating, which occurred as you went out, showed that your Excellency's
departure was considered by the Chief Justice a little premature.
I certainly thought and think
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