Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-03-17
ENGLAND LOSES AMERICA
prT GETS AUSTRALIA AS A
DUMPING GROUND.
Third Lecture In Course of Univer-
sity Extension By Prof.
Muir at St. Johns
College.

Prof Ramsay Muir, NJ. A, deliver.
.s r0e third lecture in the course on
aCrllgial Riyalries OF the Great Pow.
am last night at st. Johns College.
The lecture was most interesting and
cas- delivered in the charming and
EigaIv entertaining manner which
.Ears.terizes the lecturers style At
nh. close of the lecture Prof Muir
had number of pictures thrown
mon rle screen illustrating both the
It,rur. Of last night and the previous
lecture % week ago.
Inst nights lecture covered the per-
,al Of the eighteenth century, chiefly
from fG-, 10 1888, at which time COLO
p.a' .ue-tions came to the forefront
IN The relations of nations one to the
othrr aud their eagerness to control
uaUe lt was an age when there
wrr. Eltat wildcat schemes TO con.
trr. trade 1t was the beginning of
thr nineteenth century when Napo-
leo. charged the nations with ,beiug q
nation OF shop keepers, but his sneer
came l century too late. In the eigh
f,.utu century, Prof. Muir said,
There was keen competition of slave
traao and old muskets ready TO burst
when handled, bad spirits and Bibles
vere exchanged for negroes that were
obtained so cheaply that they were
hacked SO tightly in the hold of the
vessels many of them died in trans
p0rtatuu
But the purchasers could afford to
lose q few rather than coddle them.
John Newton, the great hymn writer,
the lecturer said, was q slave trader.
There was double and even treble
aII
was eager to get the most of this lu.
crauye line Of traffic, although il was
most lastardly, wicked and cruel ever
urrIed on. Spain absolutely despised
aM .lmmerce aud she shut out all op-
u1rtuulties before this, but even she,
ful was eager to get control over
trade in this the eighteenth century
traffic The nations would fight ea' h
other for control of these trading sta
ttous and Holland and Portugal were
allied on the side of England against
Spain on the side of France Prof
Muir said whenever a war breaks out
in Europe You will find England and
France ON opposite sides. They set
India ahame they set the back woods
OF America atlame and they set the
world on fire with their seven great
wars from 1888 to 1915, when these
two great powers-England and
France fought on opposite sides.
France, the lecturer said, had bet
ter class of men. The French officers
showed greater skill and tact. No
man in England was equal to compete
with Montcaln. England suffered
many disadvantages in the first half
Of the eighteenth century and things
went in favor of France. She had
prestige, but prestige is a thing
hastily created and hastily lost. The
lecturer told of William Pitt, rs
much of a national hero in America as
u Europe. A man of imperial genins
Inspiring personality, whose egotis
ucai boast II know that | can save
England and no one else can, vas
none the less true; man who within
a year swept the French colony from
the seas and established naval supre-
macy for England. The lecturer told
how the French intervention rendered
immediate the establishment of Amer.
lea: how England lost America in
I5N3, hut gained another colony in
Australia and, said the lecturer, 1.-THE
duuuiug ground for Conviets lost in
America, she (Englsnd). had to make
"a new dumping ground in far Austria
Ii At this point of the lecture a
broad smile aud in some cases a sub.
duoi laugh, passed over the couute-
uauCcs of those in the audience, a sim
liar expression having recently excited
the ire ot BaItimoreans when given
utterauCe to by another lecturer, Mr..
Fraukel of New York CITY.
Prof. Muir spoLe frequently of Ma.
p2.sOu, and said the Frenchmar's
hero was Alexander the Great,
whose life Napoleon kept under his
pillow. BY 1910 England had become
the sGpreme power and the key to the
far East passed into her hands She
has practically a monopoly of trade.
Her ships cover all the seas of the
world. She is left at the beginning
OF t1e ujleteeSth century the only
power 90 acquire more colonies, and
This brings the course of lectures to a
period of cause rivalry. The fifth
lecture of the course will be given to-
night at Mcdowell Hall aud promises
o. be intensely interesting.