The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-28

successfully Lord Alexander OF Tulli-
brodie. ytscount OF Canada, Viscount
and Earl of Stirling. Earl OF Dovan
These were not merely barren and
high sounding titles. They carried with
them as gifts by charter or letters
patent vast empire in the New World
No poet ever was paid such price for
his songs as this rhyming ancestor OF
the hero of the Revolution. There We're
granted to him all of Nova Scotland
canada, including fifty leagues OF
bounds on both sides OF the St. Lawrence
River and the Great Lakes KING
James knew little and cared less tbont
the boundaries OF Canada. For all the
intelligence that he had regarding II
Canada might have stretched west
ward to China and northWard toBoreal
Pole But even these two mighty gifts
were not all. The third was "a tract
of Maine and the Island OF Stirring
and islands adjacent" The tract
of Maine" embraced all east or the
Kennebec River to Nova Scotia and
included Newfoundland. The Island
OF Stirling is now known as Lond Is
land, and on the western end OF TINS
and on Manhattan Island one OF those
adjacent" stands to-day the city OF
New York. the second greatest city IN
all the world 1t was the most pro-
digious gift ever bestowed on sub
ject by British sovereign. Yet, huge
, as it was, the claims OF the House OF
Stirling to this vast territory We're
subsequently, confirmed and recognize
ed by Charles l., and his successors
Along with these titles and landed
empire as large as the continent OF
Europe came tremendous political ana
administrative powers. Among otner
the Earl OF Stirling had the power
Of appointing 100 baronets, called
"Baronets of Nova Scotia" who We're
| to take precedence over all other bar
onets. Under this power the first EAR
of Stirling actually created more thaH
! 100 baronets. Nearly fifty of the bar
! onets OF Great Britain to-day owe
| their titles to patents granted by tho
| first Earl of Stirling.
! When New Amsterdam was unoe1
/ the Governorship of Peter Stuyvesant'
in 1859, the Earl Of Stirling sent an
agent to America to claim the. proprle-
torship of the Isles of Stirling. other
wise Long Island. The agent took pos
session of Shelter Island, but the
Dutch arrested and deported him as an
undesirable alien. Eight years later
another agent arrived, and he also was
promptly arrested and shipped to Hol-
land by the doughty Dutch Governor.
No permanent colonization was ef-
fected under Lord Strings proprie-
torship, although several attempts
We're made to colonize little spots IN
the far-hung empire across the seas.
In 1868 the third Earl Of Stirling sold
his rights to Long Island to James
Duke of York, when the latter came
into possession OF New York. The
price fixed was $1,000 (S35,000)--a less
sum than would be necessary to-day tt
purchase front foot of ground where
the skyscrapers stand on the lower
part OF Manhattan Island.
But the Stuarts We're royalty indif-
ferent about paying their debts, anc
nine years later. the purchase price
beins still owing to the Earl of Stir.
lin, the Duke of York made new
contract with nlm by which he agreed
to pay the Earl of Stirling out of thu
reyenues arising from his province o
New York, an annuity equal to %sl50
year, This annuity was never paid
and in 1863 nearly a century later
Mn1or-General Alexandria the Earl o
Stirling, thinking, doubtless. his It'll
Clear, and Two other heirs to tht
estates of Stirling, petitioned the Klng
praying for payment of the purehns
II money for Long Island granted Il
~ their ancestors &
( 1T was afterwards discovered an
c!aiNed BY. his descendants that tn