SAMUEL CUNARD
becomes a leading citizen, he administers
Lord Dalhousie's bounty to the destitute
emigrants; he is appointed Commissioner of
Lighthouses; he becomes captain in the
fashionable Second Halifax Regiment of
Militia, and eventuially rises to command it;
he is a Fire Ward of the North Suburbs, andr
a member of the exclusive Sun Fire Com-
pany. Cunard's wharf is the centre of the
West India trade, and the firm keeps Lyle
and Chappell, of Dartmouth, busy building
ships for it, and giving employment to hun-
dreds of men. John Cunard is master of
one of their vessei=ls.
A brief matter-of-fact paragrap~h in a cor-
n,er of The Weekly Chronicle, of April 19,
1821, throws light on the Cunard method.
It is headed simply "Dispatch," in small
capitals, and runs thus: "The brig Mary-
Ann, J. Cunard, master, entered at the Cuas-
toms H-ouse on Monday, the 9th inst., dis-
charged her carg:o, 124' puns. rum and
4 hhds. sugar-took on board a full cargo
of fish, staves, etc., and saliled again on