The Peterborough Chronicle, not content with voicing this sentiment, gives Eustace a bad character.
Pensioners must be British subjects, poor, and not ex-criminals or of notoriously bad character.
Whalers, sealers and traders followed in the wake of explorers, the traders dealing chiefly in copra, trepang, pearls, tortoiseshell, &c. The first actual settlers in the islands were largely men of bad character - deserting sailors, escapers from the penal settlements in Australia and others.
He was a tyrant and a bad character.
