142 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Henry Bostwick? to Robert Nichol. 
2 Copies. 
Sir, (Printed Circular.) 
Having heard that it is currently reported, that you have made 
use of the following expression in my presence, that is—“ That no 
American can be a Loyal Subject.” And conceiving that the report is 
circulated for the purpose of influencing the Minds of the Electors in 
this Riding at the approaching Election to your prejudice—I think it 
but justice to you, positively and unequivocally to declare, that I never 
heard you express yourself to that effect; nor did I ever hear any 
language made use of by you, which could possibly bear that con- 
struction, or anything like it; And I may further add, that I have 
frequently heard you deprecate every system of exclusion as it respects 
Official Situations in this Province, and your conviction that it would 
be sound Policy in the Government to perniit Emigrants from the 
United States to participate in the different Offices of Honor and Em- 
olument in this Province, as it would, in your opinion, effectually tend 
to rivet their Attachment to this Government, and dispel any ill- 
grounded jealousies— You are at liberty to give what publicity you 
may think proper to this letter. 
I am, Sir, 
your obedient Servant, 
H. Bostwick. 
Woodhouse, 31st March 1812. 
To 
R. Nichol, Esq. 
Captain James Brock to Talbot. 
Dear Sir, York 4, April 18i2: 
Mr. Bird dreading an approaching storm is anxious to be gone, 
T have therefore only just time to acknowledge the receipt. of your Letter 
forwarded by him, and which I immediately submitted to the President, 
who desires me to inform you that he will take the first opportunity to 
lay it before the Executive Council— TI had hoped Mr. Bird would 


1Tieutenant Colonel Henry Bostwick of the Oxford Militia served dur- 
ing the War. His brother, Captain (afterward Lieutenant Colonel, and 
Sheriff) John Bostwick, was the first settler at Port Stanley. The latter 
married Mary, eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Ryerson. Col- 
onel Bostwick died in 1816. 
