'&S LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



have done ; and though I feel your last act of kindness, if possible, 

 more than all j)ast favours, yet T must not tax your friendship at so 

 high a rate. Therefore, pray do not be oifended if I decline the 

 benefit you generously proposed, aud allow me the gratification of 

 knowing that you have received a trifling profit from what, in fact, is 

 jour own to dispose of as you please. The continued friendship of a 

 mind like yours will always afibrd me more real pleasure than acces- 

 sion of riches ; for few, very few indeed^ possess such feelings as 

 yours, and such a friend I shall feel the greatest pride in boasting of. 

 I have met with many instances of ingratitude, but your disinterested 

 'Conduct has a hundredfold overpaid me." 



The successor to Chief Justice Elmsley, in Upper Canada, was 

 Chief Justice Allcock. My MS. relic of him is dated from London, 

 3rd April, 1805. He writes to inform Mr. Justice Powell that 

 " Mr. Robert Thorpe, who succeeded Mr. Cochran at Prince Edward 

 Island, [i.e., as Judge], is appointed his successor in Upper Canada." 

 The vacancy on the Bench in Upper Canada had been occasioned by 

 ,a singular disaster, by which a judge, a solicitor -general, a sheriff, a 

 high bailiff, a prisoner, witnesses, and others were suddenly engulfed 

 in Lake Ontai-io in a Government vessel named The Sjoeedy, not one 

 person of those on board surviving to tell the tale. — -Chief Justice 

 Allcock then goes on to describe to Judge Powell how he has fixed 

 the Circuits. " He [the new judge, Thorpe] is here now, and I have 

 made an arrangement with him ahout the Circuits of this year, 

 which I hope you will approve of. I shall be obliged [he says] to 

 take the East in my way home, [^.e., from London], as I fear it 

 would be too late to go to-the West after my arrival at York. Mr. 

 Thorpe," he then adds, "is going to Prince Edward Island from 

 hence : he expects to sail from thence early in July for York with 

 his family, consisting, I think, of a lady and five children. His 

 arrival at York," continues Mr. Allcock, " depending as mine does, 

 on wind and weather, he agrees to go to Newcastle only, (to which 

 he says he will ride) ; so that I hope you will have no objection to 

 take Niagara, London and Sandwich. — Mr. Thorpe," he further 

 explains, " much wished to have some place he could ride to this 

 year, as he said his Lady's alarms would be such as to the dangers of 

 the Lake as to injure her materially, if he was to leave her on such 

 an expedition on her first arrival. Under aU circumstances," the 

 Chief Justice finally observes, " I could think of no other arrange- 

 ment." 



