independent dominion. When we aranyation of the first king Charles of England had lost to him his kingdom and his life, as Virginia had not suffered with the parent state, so she shared not in its joy on this event, and only by treaty as an independent dominion, would she consent to avail herself of the protectorship of Cromwell. Mr. Lee and Sir William Berkley conducted, on the part of the colony, the negotiation which followed her resistance to the armed |