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The very communicative temper of our friend Nicholls, will, there 
is no doubt ere this arrives, have put you, in full possession of the eclat 
that his name or rather his imprisonment has created— The Burdett 
business is a mere farce when compared to it, badinage apart, he has 
been most infamously treated, and I sincerely hope redress may be 
obtained for him. He may with truth exclaim in the words of 
the Celebrated Lord Chatham (affair of Wilkes in 1770) “that an 
outrage has been committed which struck at everything dear and sacred 
to the Liberties of Englishmen”— I can make every allowance for 
his indignant feelings, tho’ I sincerely regret his having made such a 
personal attack upon Goff and Rogers the day before he left York, as 
it has produced an address, which subjects his best friend to trouble, 
which ought to have been avoided. 
The General enters warmly into his hard case, and was not to be 
dictated to by such Gentry, nor was he to be humbugged by the repre- 
sentation of the attack having taken place in the “ Speaker’s appart- 
ments’— He was well aware that it happened at Jordan’s and 
declined interfering in the squabbles of a Tavern— I think it is 
probable we shall pay you an early visit, allow me in the meantime to 
make an unconditional offer of my services— Mr. Burwell will be the 
Bearer of a few cuttings of our best gooseberry trees, tho’ I fear from 
Mr. Hunter’s? report that the season is not favorable to them, he says 
a month hence some good might be expected from them— The General 
and Mr. Secretary Brock desire to be kindly remembered. 
Believe me My Dr. Sir, 
Most faithfully yrs. 
J. B. GLEGG. 
P.S.—The Nicholl cause ? has given a terrible shock to your Learned 
Friend,* who I understand declares, he has done more harm by dis- 
cussing the question than he can do good, if he lives 100 years!!! 


‘The well-known Jeffrey Hunter, Talbot’s confidential servant. 
7 Colonel Nichol, arrested by order of the House of Assembly, was ecar- 
ried off from his home in the Long Point District to gaol at York. He was 
released by order of Chief Justice Scott, against whom a resolution of cen- 
sure was, in consequence, passed by the House, and the Prince Regent was 
addressed with a formal request for his removal. Nichol brought actions 
for damages against the Speaker and Sergeant-at-Arms. The grounds for 
his arrest were words spoken by him at Jordan’s well-known hotel on King 
Street, with reference to Gough and Rogers, members like himself of the 
House of Assembly. h 
# Probably Chief Justice Scott. 
