A sum of 20 millions sterling was voted as compensation to the planters.
The currency of the colony, which had formerly twelve shillings to the pound sterling, was assimilated to that of England in 1842.
Both were admirable civil servants, and they had a mutual admiration for each other's sterling qualities.
Of recent years old Sheffield plate after long neglect has come into fashion again, and genuine articles in good condition have greatly gone up in value, often exceeding in cost those of more modern date in sterling silver.
Henry Stuart likewise held sinecure benefices in France, Spain and Spanish America, so that he became one of the wealthiest churchmen of the period, his annual revenue being said to amount to £30,000 sterling.
