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In Lord Chancellor King's time, amongst the fees and perquisites which he wished to regulate and reform were the supplies of stationery, provided by the country for the great law-officers.
Up to this time the annual revenue had not exceeded £700. In the same year, 1819, the 'Kirk' parish of Niagara applied for a grant of £100, and the law-officers of the Crown supported the claim. This decision stirred up the Anglicans. They formed themselves into a corporation in each province to oversee the administration of the Clergy Reserves.
Very likely the tide did enter into his calculations; but I was led to believe a little later and all the more because of his scared look when I hailed him from the boat that he had run into some tangle on shore that made him want to get away in a hurry before the law-officers should bring him up with a round turn.
Russell proved that he had been feeble, timid, mistaken, senile, but not dishonest. The evidence is convincing. The Lairds had built these ships in reliance on the known opinion of the law-officers that the statute did not apply, and a jury would not convict. Minister Adams replied that, in this case, the statute should be amended, or the ships stopped by exercise of the political power.
Our law-officers are prepared to treat him as a felon, irrespective of all claim to his character as a Member of Parliament. 'The danger will not deter him. 'You think so? 'I know it, was the calm reply. 'Indeed, said he, bending a steady look at her. 'What opportunities, might I ask, have you had to form this same opinion? 'Are not the public papers full of him?
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