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Show A BOOR GOVERNOR. The undiplomatic and ill-natured at titude of Governor Swetionhnm of Jamaica Ja-maica toward Renr-Admiral Davis will doubtless shock TjUgland moro than :t. will annoy Amoricn. Unless there shall appear mitigating circumstances not I now before the public view, it is likely that, the British Colonial office "will administer ad-minister a sharp rebuke, even if it docs not immediately recall the sarcastic sarcas-tic and undignified representative, whoso error in the rejection of kindly service tendered was magnified by the insolent manner of the rejection. Tt is not often that an English diplomat diplo-mat resident abroad or Iho English Governor of a colony commits such infraction in-fraction of the code of international amenities. Tho very infrcquency of I the experience "will add to tho horror with -which tho English government will view this improper and unjust tc-tnrn tc-tnrn to a friendly power. All idea that Governor Swottcnham was so overburdened over-burdened by the cares and anxieties following the catastrophe ihat the want of good manners could be excused, must vanish when the 'language of his letter is contemplated; for the governor -who, surrounded by death, desolation and tho threat, of plague, could pause to indulge in . cheap sarcasm was sufficiently free from the actual burden f the situation situa-tion that his act and word must be presumed to have been tho outcome of careful deliberation. Under tho circumstances the withdrawal with-drawal by Rear-Admiral Dan's was. of course, the only step possible; and while this country cannot afford to make any representations on the subject sub-ject to His Majesty's Colonial office, it is not unlikely that the American embassador, Whitclaw Reid, will receive re-ceive public or private assurance of the regret of Jlis Majesty's government govern-ment because of tho unfortunate episode. |
