The Negociation Looked Very Hopeful At One Time,
But It Was Not Followed Up In London, And It Fell To The Ground.
There
are few people who understand that it is not only desirable to do the
right thing, but to do it at the right time - that is, when
circumstances favour the doing.
I am entitled to say that, owing to the non-acceptance, at the time, of
our proposals, much delay in realizing the great object of settling the
government and colonizing the territory arose: inadequate terms for the
sale and purchase of the vast landed estate of the Company had to be
accepted from Canada; and the "wintering partners," not made real
partners, as recommended by Governor Dallas and myself, but held at
arm's length, had, at last, to be compensated for giving up the old
"deed poll" with a sum of 107,055l., paid in 1871 - ten years
after the date of our report to Sir Edmund Head.
But, "all's well that ends well," and the great work is, at last,
accomplished.
CHAPTER XII.
The Hudson's Bay Company and the Select Committee of
1748-9.
The history of the old co-partnery, the "Governor and Company of
Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay," ought to be written
by some able hand. Samuel Smiles or Goldwin Smith, with the aid of the
archives held by the Governor and Committee, would make a book which
would go round the world. To publish such a record is a duty incumbent
upon Mr. Eden Colville and his colleagues.
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