We in Monmouthshire are in a sort of hybrid county. A great many
people think we are in Wales and a great many people think we are not.
Cardiff is very jealous of us--jealous because we can get drunk on
Sundays and they can't. I hope we shall continue to be a county of
ourselves, and when this great Home Rule question, which is so much
talked about, is settled we shall, no doubt, have a Parliament at
Newport-on-Usk, or else at Monmouth-upon-Wye.
_Newport Athletic Club Dinner,
April 27th, 1891._