. The Danish West Indies under company rule (1671-1754) . ing their spleens against their neighbors. King Liar ispublicly warned against writing any more impertinent mes-sages and against practicing the servile trade of J-c-b C-nt-r, apparently a Jew, is charged with a strikingresemblance to Judas Iscariot, and with refusing an invitationto dine upon a pale looking piece of pork, much the color ofhis phiz. ^ At least thirteen taverns played their part in thelife of St. Croix. Like Governor Clausen, when he labored inthe interest of the royal treasury, they too found it necessa
. The Danish West Indies under company rule (1671-1754) . ing their spleens against their neighbors. King Liar ispublicly warned against writing any more impertinent mes-sages and against practicing the servile trade of J-c-b C-nt-r, apparently a Jew, is charged with a strikingresemblance to Judas Iscariot, and with refusing an invitationto dine upon a pale looking piece of pork, much the color ofhis phiz. ^ At least thirteen taverns played their part in thelife of St. Croix. Like Governor Clausen, when he labored inthe interest of the royal treasury, they too found it necessary from Ireland and St. Martin, and one apiece from Germany, Curagao, Mont-serrat and St. Kitts. * Other titles of popular farces and melodramas are: The Beaux Stratagem,The Fair Penitent, The King and Miller of Mansfield, The Cheats ofScapin, Miss in her Teens, The School Masters Ballet, Damon andPhillida, The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage, The Inconstant, or theWay to Win liim, The Reprisal, or the Tars of Old England. 9 R. D. A. G., April 10, SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER: 1755-1917 249 to try to get on a cash basis. Clausens vigorous administrationsoon revealed a regular system of smuggling, especially on thesouth side of St. Croix, opposite to the port of Christiansted.^An Englishman was found on the island practicing the danger-ous art of counterfeiting. Law-abiding traits and the higher aspects of civilization arenot always reflected in the public records or the public press;but it seems clear that the population of the Danish islandswas as ingenious and versatile as it was cosmopolitan. If theevidences of wickedness and extravagance are numerous, itmust not be forgotten that times were good, and the means ofindulgence plentiful. The economic importance of the sugar producing regions wasimmensely enhanced during the Seven Years War and theperiod following. When in the early seventies Alexander Hamil-ton was serving his apprenticeship as a counting-house clerkfor the fir
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