[riddell] times of ROBERT GOURLAY 79 



NOTES 



Memo: — In these notes the contraction 



"Gour" is used for my work "Robert (Fleming) Gourlay as shewn by his own 

 Records," Ont. Hist. Soc, Toronto, 1916. 



"Nep." "The Banished Briton and Neptunian," No. 1, or "The Neptunian," 

 Nos. 2-39. 



1 "Mr. Gourlay's Case/ Before the/ Legislature/ with His/ Speech/ DeHvered 

 on Wednesday, July 1, 1858/ In Two Parts/ Toronto/ Printed at the Globe Book and 

 Job Office /1858." 



This 8vo pamphlet of 29 pages contains Gourlay's speech before the Legislative 

 Assembly of Canada, July 1, 1858, in his own behalf — a real Apologia Vitae which 

 he was permitted after much opposition to make, something he had been long 

 striving for — it is rather a poor performance evidencing "either complete loss of 

 control of himself or a marked weakness, bodily or mental." See Gour., pp.112, 126. 



* Gour. 83, 91. 122: Nep. No. 2, 6; No. 7, 72. 

 3 Gour. 17. 



* I have often heard Scotsmen — generally of other parts of Scotland, be it said — 

 assert "a' Fifeshire folk are a bit cracked": my own experience has been that they 

 are more than usually astute, perhaps "pawkie" is a better word. 



5 Gour. 8. 55. 56. 



•Gour. 10, 56; 83; Gourlay v. Duke of Somerset (1812) IVesey & Beames' 

 Chancery Reports, p. 68. 



^ Gour. 14, 56; Nep. No. 1, p. 15; No. 17. p. 180. 



«Gour. 15. 57; Nep. No. 25, p. 305, n. 6, p. 308 n.; Nep. No. 22, p. 238 n. 



The critics — mali homines — will no longer allow us to read the "Culex" as 

 Vergil's: and the "cana culex" of Plautus they say is an old rascal of a lover; but one 

 feels like saying "eho tu ... . cantrix culex" to our native songstress. 



» My life, "Gour" gives an abstract of most of these — those interested are 

 referred to that volume for a full account of Gourlay's extraordinary life. 



'" Gour. 27. 



•1 Gour. 28, 29. 



12 Gour. 29, 59. 



" Gour 29. 



"Canadian Archives, Sundries, U.C. 1818. 



i^Nep. No. 30, p. 427; "Chronicles of Canada, 1818," pp. 17-20. See note 17 

 (infra). 



" Of course "Felony and High Treason," a phrase in very wide use in those days 

 against all who expressed their discontent against the Government, however mildly. 



1^ The fact that the meeting was called a "Convention" was used by the Govern- 

 ment party to compare it to the "Conventions" of the French Revolutions and so 

 to discredit it as being republican and anti-British. I give an abstract of the meetings 

 taken from "Chronicles of Canada, 1818," pp. 17-20. 



Meetings of the Upper Canadian Convention of Friends to Inquiry, York, 

 Monday, July 6, 1818. 

 For the Present. 



District of Niagara 



Robert Hamilton, Esq. 

 John Clark, Esq. J. P. 

 Dr. Cyrus Sumner 



(Major William Robertson reported absent from 

 sickness) 



