Note 200 — Chapter XLIX
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In connexion, however, with the delays encountered in receiving the new constitution, Lord Grey was much reviled both in the Colony and in England. Sir W. Napier (Life of C. Napier, iv. p. 327) quotes the following epigram:—
“This point was long disputed at the Cape, What was the devil’s colour and his shape. The Hottentots, of course, declared him white, The Englishmen pronounced him black as night; But now they split the difference and say Beyond all question that Old Nick is Grey.”