| COYNE] THE TALBOT PAPERS 139 
Lieut. Col. Nicholl to Col. Talbot. 
My Dear Colonel. 
Ostrander one of the Davis party has just Called and paid the 
fees— I have told him that he must positively go to you before he 
takes up his lot— He will deliver you this letter—which encloses 
extracts of my letters to the Adjnt General & to Captn Glegg— TI have 
exhibited seven charges against Rapalje ! One of which for asserting 
and persisting in it that I had said no American could be a loyal sub- 
ject— Another for attempling to call out his Company after he had 
been informed that he was no longer to Command it in direct and open 
defiance of his Commanding Officer— Another for propagating a story 
that I had been the cause of turning him & Anderson out of the Mil- 
itia— You know how foul a lie that is and another for telling me a 
downright falsehood. 
I shall by next Opportunity send you a correct copy of the 
Charges— Mr Joe Ryerson? is a sly old Fox but I have now taken 
the right method to unkennel him. I am determined to ferret him 
out— And that the exposure of this band of back biters and Slanderers 
shall be complete. 
I send you the last papers I received [I expect Steel back this 
evening and if an opportunity offers afterwards — I shall send you 

all the news— 
God bless you My Dear Colonel believe me very faithfully, 
Yours, 
Rost. NICHOLL. 
N.B.—The Henry * mentioned in the paper is the Irish Renegade 

1Captain Abraham A. Rapelje, born on Long Island, 1776, died in 1841. 
He lived at Port Dover until after the war, when he removed to the neigh- 
bourhood of Vittoria. He raised a company, and served during the war. 
He succeeded Colonel John Bostwick as Sheriff of London District. 
?Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Ryerson, first Sheriff and Treasurer of the 
old London District, father of the celebrated Reverend Doctor Egerton Ryer- 
son, Chief Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada and afterwards 
Ontario. Five of Colonel Ryerson’s six sons entered the ministry, and all 
were more or less distinguished. 
3 John Henry, employed in 1808, and 1809, by Sir James Craig, Governor- 
General, to ascertain the state of feeling in the Northern States. His letters 
written in the capacity of commissioner or reporter were of no great im- 
portance in themselves. He was desirous of obtaining office—that of Judge 
in Upper Canada in 1808, that of Judge Advocate in Lower Canada in 1811. 
Failing in his attempts, he sold the correspondence to President Madison in 
the winter of 1811-12. It was laid before Congress and used to inflame 
the feeling against Great Britain. (See Kingsford, Vol. VIII, pp. 66-69.) 

