Their reasoning was
so convincing, and their denunciations so impressive, that the Managers
got frightened, and cut off one of the Deputy-Storekeepers. The
President of Council now got more frightened than the Managers. He was
one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a
pamphlet. A pamphlet accordingly appeared upon the subject of the new
colony. The writer showed that the debateable land was the most
valuable acquisition ever attained by a nation famous for their
acquisitions; that there was a spring of water in the middle of the rock
of a remarkable freshness, and which was never dry except during the
summer and the earlier winter months; that all our outward-bound ships
would experience infinite benefit from this fresh water; that the scurvy
would therefore disappear from the service; and that the naval victories
which the Vraibleusians would gain in future wars would consequently be
occasioned by the present colony. No one could mistake the felicitous
reasoning of the author of 'The Present State of the Western Republics!'
About this time Popanilla fell ill.
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