CHAPTER XIV.
SATRAP RULE.
"Woe to the Nation," says a high authority, "whose King is a child," but far worse than even having a child-ruler is the fate of a Kingdom or Principality whose ruler is a hireling.

The Roman Empire was ruled in the different provinces by selfish and dishonest adventurers, who tyrannized over the people, farmed out the revenues, bribed their favorites and defrauded their masters.

Turkish Government or Persian Rule is to-day an organized system of extortion and oppression by unscrupulous Satraps.

Lord Selkirk's two governors, Miles Macdonell and Robert Semple, had been removed, the former by capture, the latter by death.

Alexander Macdonell in 1816 became acting governor and was confirmed in office for five or six years afterward.