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and enclosed a copy of the letter; he had sent the former letter by- 

 private conveyance and was afraid that it had miscarried. He adds 

 that the amount of depredation in this year is without parallel, 

 principally by Americans {Nihil sub sole novtim) who boasted that 

 they would leave the land not worth a farthing for 40 years to come.^* 



I pass over the interesting attempt of the Lieutenant-Governor 

 to act as Chancellor in an "Ordinary" or "Common Law" Court of 

 Chancery, to repeal a patent of land granted in Lanark to Samuel 

 Swan in error — ^this is too technical to be dealt with here. 



My old town of Cobourg was, August 2, 1821, granted a " Fair." ^^ 

 Subscriptions were asked, November 8, 1821, by a committee headed 

 by Joseph Hume fof a monument to the Duke of Kent. 



The English Methodists were withdrawing from Upper Canada 

 (except the Garrison at Kingston). They did not wish to carry on a 

 warfare with the American branch as there was no evidence of inter- 

 ference in political questions by the ministers of the Methodist- 

 Episcopal Church and the prejudice against them was unfounded. 



The Reverend John Barclay, clergyman of the Church of Scotland 

 at Kingston, wanted an allowance, and asked Hillier in what part 

 of the "Scotch Established Church" in Kingston the Governor's 

 seat be placed, stating that in Quebec it was on the front of the 

 gallery opposite the pulpit. — Estate prudentes siciit serpentes et simplices 

 sicut columbae. His confrère, the Reverend John McLaurin, Minister 

 of Lochiel, U.C., who went there in 1820 and was paid £60 a year 

 "most in kind," had a congregation of 1,200 souls able to attend 

 church from the townships of Lochiel, Kenyon, Hawkesbury and 

 Caledonia — ^he also thought that the Scottish Clergy should be 

 provided for. There were only four of the Established Church — ■ 



'^Lot 3, Con. 8, Cramahe, is now in the Township of Brighton— there is a mill 

 privilege on the lot; the village of Codrington is on part of it. 



Henry John Boulton, the Solicitor-General, wrote Hillier from York, May 23, 

 1822, stating that the constable had been prevented from arresting two men stealing 

 timber at the River Credit and he asked for a military force. Andrew Whartfe, 

 the Deputy Collector, was instructed by Boulton to seize two vessels at the mouth 

 of the Credit River loaded with staves for export: he met with forcible opposition. 



'^The patent was issued to "John Spencer and his successors in office as sheriff;" 

 it was of a public fair "with all the privileges, customs, usages, court of pie powder," 

 incident to fairs and thedaws of fairs — the fair to be held "in the town of Cobourg 

 in the township of Hamilton in the District of Newcastle." The grant is endorsed 

 with the fiat of John Beverly Robinson, Attorney-General, and is dated August 2, 

 1821. This is the first notice of Cobourg which I have seen — the town had been 

 called "Hamilton." 



Port Hope, seven miles west, got a fair the same day with the same provisions, 

 the grantee being John Hutchinson. 



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