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Chief Justice, Sir) James Buchanan Macaulay as Crown Prosecutor 

 on the Western Circuit, after saying that such appointments are not 

 made by seniority at the Bar, adds: "In my having suggested this 

 nomination, I hope, Sir, you will do me the justice to believe that 

 I had not the most distant intention of anything that could possibly 

 militate against any claim Mr. Hagerman may have to the honorary 

 distinction of a silk gown." ^'- 



The house temporarily provided for the County of King's Bench 

 at York was wholly unfit, and Samuel Ridout, the Sheriff, wanted a 

 warrant to pay two years' rent at £40 a year (Oct. 20, 1819-Oct. 23, 

 1821). 



The Government House, on lots 23 and 26, south side of Russell 

 Square, built of wood, was insured in the Phoenix Insurance Company 

 of London, England, for £3,000, currency ($12,000) for a premium of 

 £37 10s. and 5s. for the policy, April 1, 1822. 



John Beverley Robinson, in London, April 22, 1822, writes 

 Hillier that "Mr. Gourlay has just published his Statistics in three 

 volumes full, I am told (I shall get it to-day), of his old grievances;" 

 and of a surety he had not been much misinformed. 



Major McNabb, Sergeant-at-Arms, June 7, 1822, nominated his 

 son, Allan Napier McNabb, as Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms. Did either 

 foresee that the young man of 24 was to becom.e a baronet and Prime 

 Minister of Canada? 



Anne Powell, the self-willed but talented daughter of the Chief 

 Justice, met a watery grave off the Head of Kinsale when the Albion 

 from New York was wrecked, April 22, 1822 — the second of her 

 family to sink beneath the waves, for her brother Jeremiah had 

 perished at sea nearly fourteen years before. 



The will-o'-the-wisp of Perpetual Motion was not unknown in 

 our Province. John Thomas of "Gananock, upper candy," writes 

 to the Governor in March, 1822: "On the fifth of march i praid 

 ernestly to GoD to revel the perpetul motion to me if it was con- 

 sistent to his will and that night I dremp that i saw two machines that 

 went perpetully i saw a whele that went perpetully it was three feet 

 in sercumference and twenty three peces of steel fasned in the rim of 

 the whele all of an epull Distence a part and a pece of tode stone three 

 inches from the rim of the whele wich a tracted the steels and thare 

 ware copper slides that shed back and furred over the steels on the 

 whele went round when a steel got in range with the tode stone the 



'^Campbell's letter is dated May 28, 1822. 



Campbell writes July 8, 1822, that Hagerman had called on him and said he 

 was to accompany the Judge as Counsel for the Crown. 



