f witnesses and the conflict between
the Assembly and the Lieutenant-Governor. The conflict led to the
latter's removal, and, from that point of view, is not to be regarded in
the light of an unmixed evil.

FOOTNOTES:

[90] See the letter from Chief Justice Robinson to Lieutenant-Colonel
Rowan, Secretary, etc., etc., dated at York, 31st December, 1832, and
appended to the Report of the Committee of the House of Assembly on the
Petition of William Forsyth, dated April 1st, 1835. In one part of this
letter the Chief Justice says that the laying out of the lots took place
"some time between the years 1785 and 1790, and while General Haldimand
administered the Government of Canada." General Haldimand did not
administer the Government of Canada during any part of the time thus
specified--a fact of which Chief Justice Robinson ought to have been
aware. In a subsequent part of the same letter he properly gives the
date as 1786.

[91] See the report, p. iv., appended to the _Seventh Report of the
Grievance Committee_.

[92] The defence of these two suits would seem to have been the means of
considerably augmenting the Attorney-General's already ample income.
From certain accounts sent down to the Assembly it appears that a sum of
_L127 6s. 6-3/4d._ sterling were paid to him during the year 1834 for
"expenses incurred by him in defending two suits with costs in reference
to the military reserve near the Falls of Niagara."

[93] There was a very general belief throughout the Niagara District at
the time that Major Leonard, who was an obedient servant to the
Executive, had manipulated the lists from which the jurors in those
cases were selected. The truth or falsity of the belief cannot now be
pronounced upon, the circumstances upon which it was founded being
buried in oblivion.

[94] "He [Sir Peregrine Maitland] must have inferred that the Committee
proposed to examine these officers respecting the employment of a
military force for the ejecting of Forsyth from the land."--See Despatch
from the Colonial Secretary, Sir George Murray, to Major-General Sir
John Colborne, dated 20th October, 1828, appended to the Report on
Forsyth's petition.

[95] See the despatch, appended to the Report on the Forsyth Case, at
end of Grievance Committee's Report. The Colonial Secretary's despatch
quoted in the text will be found appended to the same Report.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE "AMOVAL" OF MR. JUSTICE WILLIS.

The Forsyth embro