Tom Moore in Bermuda, a bit of literary gossip . 44. == Memoirs, vol. i., pp. 148-152. 23 Tom Moore in Bermuda two American ships for trial, whose witnesses I have examined,and whose cause will be decided next Sir Andrew Mitchell and his squadron were in winterquarters at Bermuda; and the admiral, writes Moore in anotherletter, has insisted upon my making his table my own duringmy stay here.^ Tradition, however, lays especial stressupon his visits at Walsingham, the country-seat of Mr. SamuelTrott, later president of the council and acting governor ofthe colony. ^The summary proceeding
Tom Moore in Bermuda, a bit of literary gossip . 44. == Memoirs, vol. i., pp. 148-152. 23 Tom Moore in Bermuda two American ships for trial, whose witnesses I have examined,and whose cause will be decided next Sir Andrew Mitchell and his squadron were in winterquarters at Bermuda; and the admiral, writes Moore in anotherletter, has insisted upon my making his table my own duringmy stay here.^ Tradition, however, lays especial stressupon his visits at Walsingham, the country-seat of Mr. SamuelTrott, later president of the council and acting governor ofthe colony. ^The summary proceedings against American ships, professedly en-gaged in neutral trade, by the British authorities was of course one of theprincipal causes of the war of 1812. Such a case, in which a cargo worthsome thirty thousand dollars was confiscated, is reported at length inthe pamphlet, Proceedings of the trial of the ship Two Friends, in thecourt of vice admiralty in Bermuda (Philadelphia, 1795). ^Memoirs, vol. i., p. 155. 24 Walsingham Lintrv-seat \vc colont. IV Walsingham, famous for hospitality, belonged for genera-tions to the descendants of Perient Trott, a London merchantwho in 1664 was husband of the Bermuda house stands, looking out across Castle Harbour, on aneck of land traversed by the highway from Hamilton toSt. Georges. Through an avenue of cedars one approachesthe ancient homestead, near the shore, between two mangrove-bordered lakes. It is, says Mr. Bushell,^ one of the oldest,if not the oldest, and undoubtedly the most interesting privateresidence in Bermuda . . here may still be seen a specimenof the early style of house-building — upright cedar studs,with lath and plaster between. Like nearly all Bermudabuildings, walls and roof are of white-washed limestone. Thehigh, empty rooms, with their woodwork of rich, dark cedar,the winding staircase, convey clearly the impression of formermanorial ease and present loneliness and decay. From the house a foot-path leads
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