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a (Bas) powers of administration, rendered durable the work of Lord Clive. In the Western hemisphere General Wolfe wrested Canada from the French, who lost many other possessions also in distant climes. Discoverers sailed along with conquerors. In the distant Pacific and the Southern Seas Cook added New South Wales and New Zealand to the British flag, and though assassinated by the cannibals at Tahiti, it was not until he had discovered the Sandwich Islands, which he called after the then Lord of the Admiralty, a man whose name has been transmitted in a scarcely less durable form as the inventor of the Sandwich. But whilst England was asserting her power abroad, one of the greatest Ministers she has ever known developed her material resources at home. The second son of Lord Chatham, William Pitt, entered Parliament in 1782, at the age of twenty-two. Endowed with a ready and wondrous eloquence, and the learning of a ripe scholar, his first speech called forth from a member of the Whig party the exclamation, ‘He will become one of the first men in Parliament.’ ‘ He is so already,’ was another member’s reply. ‘He is not a chip of the old block,’ said a third; ‘he is the old block himself.’ So remark- able were his abilities, that in the following year, though only twenty-three years of age, he was ap- pointed Prime Minister, and remained head of the