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 From the injurious and unwarrantable remarks 
 which appeared in the Colonial Advocate, and in the 
 Obsorver, relative to a conversation which took place 
 between Mr. Willis and myself on the 18th June last, 
 I am compelled, in my own justification, to give you 
 a statement of what actually did occur at that time, 
 and to make some remarks :ipon charges which have 
 been advanced since. To those who know the cha- 
 racters of these two papers, and who know me per- 
 sonally, a statement of the kind, which I am now go- 
 ing to offer, would be quite unnecessary, but to those 
 who are unacquainted with me, and who, perhaps, know 
 bttle more tl.an the names of the journals 1 allude to, 
 the following statement may be in some degree useful! 
 
 I must add, however, that the Editor of the Cana- 
 dian Freeman has beheaved with more justice on this 
 occasion, in forbearing to state the particulars of the 
 case until he has heard both sides of the question, 
 
 Being aware that Mr. James Givins, who Mr. Jus- 
 tice Willis had informed me was to act as his Clerk 
 on the Eastern Circuit, had business to transact in the 
 District of London about the time the Assizes would 
 be held there for the present year, I asked him whether 
 he would not rather prefer accompanying my Father 
 on the Western Circuit, ^9 Clerk cf A^jzr^^ ^g i yrg^ 
 
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 quite anxious to affect a change, if|)ossibie,my Father 
 being desirous that I should be present at the trial of 
 an Ejectment cause, in the District of Batiiurst, in 
 which he himself was concerned, merely to prove a 
 demand of possession previously to suing out process. 
 I informed Mr. Givins, that 1 perfectly well knew the 
 Eastern Circuit to be the more lucrative of the two, 
 and that I would give him the difference, to which ar- 
 ratlgement he assented. I then communicted the cir- 
 cumstances to Mr. Willis, who expressed himself high- 
 ly pleased with the charge, and stated iiis entire sa- 
 tisfaction of it to several of my friends. Nothing 
 transpired for some time, and I took it for granted, 
 from what had passed, thai it was finally settled I 
 should accompany Mr. Willis as his Clerk ; indeed 
 he himself mentioned to my Father that such was the 
 arrangement. During the sitting of the Legislature my 
 Father received a letter from Mr. Willis stating, that 
 he had determined not to take me for his Clerk, as a 
 cause would come before him to be tried in which my 
 Father was interested, and that he did not wi?': the 
 purity of his motives in the least suspected. • Howe- 
 ver, before the receipt of this letter, my Father had 
 come to the conclusion not to allow me to act in this 
 situation for him. The arrangement, I have just 
 mentioAedj became the subject of conversation be- 
 tween Mr. Willis and my Father on the first day of 
 last Trinity Term, when, I am informed by my Fa- 
 ther, that he stated, he would not take me on the Cir- 
 cuit as his Clerk of Assize " <m any account^'' insinu- 
 ating, as my Father uhdereitood from his words and 
 
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my Father 
 the trial of 
 (athurst, in 
 to prove a 
 ut process. 
 II knew the 
 of the two, 
 > which ar- 
 ted the cir- 
 nselfhigh- 
 I entire aa- 
 Nothing 
 )r granted, 
 y settled I 
 k ; indeed 
 ch was the 
 slature my 
 ating, that 
 !^ierk, as a 
 
 which my 
 t wi«^h the 
 . • Howe- 
 bather had 
 act in this 
 
 have just 
 nation be- 
 irst day of 
 )y my Fa- 
 il the Cir- 
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 KTords and 
 
 manner, that he knew something to the prejudice of 
 my character. I instantly determined, for my own sa- 
 tisfaction, (and that I might convince my Father that 
 there really was no ground for such an objection) up- 
 on asking Mr. Willis his reason for what he had said. 
 I also intended to take the precaution of having a 
 third person present when I spoke to him, for fear 
 that he might afterwards make some improper state- 
 ments, which he has most certainly done, but observ- 
 ing him standing alone upon the Bank of the Bay, I 
 unfortunately addressed him without carrying this pre- 
 caution into effect. I asked him his reasons for my- 
 ing what he did, respecting me, to my Father 1 — To 
 which he replied, that my conduct had been so par- 
 ticularly bad, that he had seen me in the street 
 (pointing towards his own house) in a state far from 
 being sober. I told him that it was not the case, 
 (which I now possitively assert) and that I would not 
 descend to act as his Clerk, and further, that I might 
 at some future day have it in my power to demand 
 satisfaction from him, as a Gentleman, for the ground- 
 less aspersions and insinuations which he had thrown 
 out against my character. He told me to be cautious, 
 that he might be under the necessity of taking steps 
 against me, that I might afterwards regret. I told 
 him, that he was at full liberty to do whatever he 
 pleased. He then asked me to walk with him to the 
 Police Office, which I declined doing, saying, that he 
 might go and make his compkiint> and that ! would 
 be ready to answer it at any time.* At that moment 
 Lady Mary Willi* came up to us. He directed her 
 
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 to send immediately for a Constable, that there was a 
 " Jfaw" here who talked about satisfaction. I said, 
 Sir, you know perfectly well the satisfaction I mean,' 
 it is that which one Gentleman has a right to ask from 
 another when ho has done him an injury as you have 
 done me, but your standing in society precludes mc 
 from claiming that right. He then left me, in a most 
 violent rage, in quest, I supposed, of a Constable I 
 was afterwards informed by Mr. Widmer, that he had 
 made his complaint to him as a Magistrate, and re- 
 quested him to call at his house, and take his deposi- 
 tion. In pursuance of which lie did call, but by that 
 time Mr. Willis had altered his mind, and in order to 
 create more noise and trouble, had. determined to 
 make a complaint against me to the Government. 
 For that purpose on the 18th Juno last, he directed a 
 letter to Major Hillier, requesting him to lay it imme- 
 diately before His Excellency the Lieutenant Gover- 
 nor, stating in a most unfair, uncandid and improper 
 manner, the subject of the conversation which took 
 place between us on the day before, and making othe*^ 
 accusations against me equally unfounded, and such 
 as he ought not to have made, because he must have 
 known them to be untrue. He most unfairly pervert- 
 ed what I had said, so as to answer his own purposes. 
 He stated that, I said "I might find a time and place 
 where I would demand satisfaction," giving His Ex- 
 cellency to understand that, I intended to take some 
 unlawful advantage of him when an opportunity might 
 occur. This statement was unfair because it was 
 untrue. These statements of Mr. Willis were put 
 
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 into ihc hands of llic Attorney General for the pur- 
 pose of investigation, and being called uj)on to answer 
 them, I learned the fact of Mr. Willis' having insinu- 
 ated that, I would perhaps take his life (for no one 
 could misunderstand his meaning,) I wrote to him in 
 consequence the following letter as a second explana- 
 tion of what I had already said to him. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 York, June 33, 1828. 
 
 From a communication which thq Attorney Gene- 
 ral has had with me upon the subject of a conversa- 
 tion which took place between yourself and me, on 
 the 18th instant, T find you have made such a state- 
 ment as conveys the impression that, I had demanded 
 satisfaction of you, for an injury to my character, in a 
 manner that, might imply a threat of improper pro- 
 ceedings on my part. I beg to assure you that you 
 have placed a wrong construction • -.on my words, 
 which I was very particular to guard t»^ ainist express- 
 ly. I never could by any possibility so far forget my- 
 self as to threaten a Judge of His Majesty's Court of 
 King's Bench, or to call upon him for satisfaction in 
 the ordinary sclsc of the Term. Had I done so, I 
 should equally have forgotten my own situation and 
 yours, and should have acted in a manner which I 
 freely confess would have been most improper. I ac- 
 knowledge having said, under the influence of what I 
 considered great provocation, that you might at some 
 future day be placed in a situation, when I could claim 
 satisfaction from you as a Gentleman— that your pre- 
 
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 sent standing in Society precluded me from doing so 
 at this time. 
 
 The above explanation I gave you in the presence 
 and hearing of Lady Mary Willis, who came up to us 
 at the close of the conversation. 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient Ser\'ant, 
 
 H. SHERWOOD. 
 To Mr. Justice Willis, 
 
 His conduct was such upon the receipt of this let- 
 ter as to create suspicion m the mind of the person 
 who delivered it, and in the minds of his own ser- 
 vants that 1 had been taking another improper and un- 
 justifiable step, in order, os 1 supposed, to strengthen 
 as much as possible the feeling in his own favor which 
 he thought had bcc. produced by the false and scan- 
 dalous accounts published to my prejudice in the Ad- 
 vocate and Observer ; but for this there were likewise 
 no grounds. In his letter of the 18th June last, 
 which I have already mentioned, he stated that, "a 
 " man by the name of Scanlan, came to him on the 
 " 2nd June, to complain of me and other young men, 
 " having on the Friday previously broken his win- 
 " dows," when at the same time he knew the com- 
 plaint to be absolutely false, and had expressed his 
 conviction of its falsity as will appear by the following 
 statement of William A. Campbell, Esquire, Clerk 
 of Assize for the Home Circuit. 
 
 " Some time in the early part of this month, I met 
 Mr. Justice Willis in the public street, who mentioned 
 to me that a man by tbe name of Scanlan had made 
 
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 a coniplainl to him, ugaiiist myself, Mr. II. Sherwood, 
 and others, for breaking his windows a few nights 
 previous to this— I informed Mr. WiUis that there was 
 no truth in the statement, to which he replied, that 
 he had never believed it,— that he now felt perfectly 
 convinced of its falsity, and advised me to take legal 
 proceedings against Scanlan, for circulating so false 
 a report." 
 
 Wjrt. A. CAMPBELL. 
 
 York, June 20th, 1828. 
 
 But the inconsistency of Mr. Willis' conduct and 
 statements will be very evident when I state, that he 
 not only had admitted to Mr. Campbell his conviction 
 of the groundlessness of Scanlan's complaint, and 
 recommended him to prosecute the author of it ; but, 
 the person with whom, he expressly proposed to re- 
 place me as his Clerk of Assize, was the same Mr. 
 Campbell who was just as much implicated in Scan- 
 lan's charge as I was. Mr. Willis also states, that 
 " I was on ^f those recently convicted before him of 
 « the Type Uiot," I must confess that I am a little as- 
 tonished at the reference Mr. Willis makes to my 
 being one of those recently convicted of the Type Riot 
 before himself. A few months after Mr. Willis' ar- 
 rival at this place, he formed an acquaintance with 
 mo, which was quite unsolicited on my part, and while 
 we were living in the strictest intimacy he frequently 
 conversed with me upon the subject of this trespass, 
 and stated in terms thftt could not be misunderstood, 
 
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 that he r,.-;re((«J the forf example ; l,„t ,I,,1 „„, , ,„, 
 mo n.,rt the ,>i|,<.r„ conccrnd a. .11 „ . """• 
 
 enter into .1... f ,!'"""'"'''"■ "'''"■'"mscif could 
 enter into the feehngs which prompt-od m on il.ni 
 occasion, „„d „,,„„ ,,„ „„^ .„ ^ _^ ^^^^ «" " 
 
 .hat occurred a. ,h„, ,i„c, which ho had leurnod L"l 
 
 ho pub ,c pr,„,s, and fr„„ „,„,, ,„ „,,„„„ ^^^'^l^'"^ 
 
 nded fn„„d.hip, he kindly oflcred to „„i,„ ^\!Z 
 
 ud,es „,,d to ,»o his host exertions to go I on ^ 
 
 Itfe and frequently ,p„ke „f „, ,„ „ ,>„,,'^^\™ 
 
 of the grossest adulation. He was then „r 
 
 childhood, and so far lost Zl of ,T ™ '"^ 
 tween us wl,;..!, i ^ '^ "'"" •''■'tance be- 
 
 While c::;::rg:oX:t'i:Lr'''-^''^''" '''"■• 
 
 he did no. scruple to re ilo "" ^^"'"'' '"''' ''"''' 
 manner.gooda,.d^csperb!: r„::r^^^^^ 
 him m rank, and to lavish ext ava JnT" ! ™ 
 
 others against whom 1 sec him t„f„ ^'"''"^ "•""' 
 terate. The public are in fulT I """ "'"'' '"™- 
 ;;ok place onL cHmLTprseroT'::!,:!; ^ 
 
 imposed upon each of ,,/ A ''"^' '''"•^'' '«= 
 
 Excellency, an^ m wht^^l^ : ~^^^^^^^^^ 
 JUS, recetved information, which I ha Xe'ry rt so" 
 .0 behove co„ect, that oa Thursday last, h/cn" 
 
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 ;; ^^^.nyselO made useoi; and applied to mo,maIlu. 
 
 ^^ <fcc. and said 1 was setting up the standard of rebel- 
 
 on and barang-i,^. the people against his Excel- 
 
 lency, and made other ohservations of the iiko ef- 
 
 ;;rect even mfrontofthe Court House, ^and adds I 
 
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 om danger, and m a subsequent letter tc thp 
 
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 sionsV h"" ' """"^ ''^'" calumnious expres- 
 
 y, and that Buckley'« statement was corroberated 
 ^^-^^-^l^yTlnu>^^yMc?U.r.on, andBird, the 
 
 "B c lev H 7"' "'" """ '^'^"^"^'^ ^« ^-" by 
 Buckley. He also states in the same letter, that 
 
 subject. 1 hese charges I have been called upon to 
 explam and I declare them to be wholly fnlse, and t 
 IS fortunate for me, when a person in Mr. Wil is' sta- 
 t.on condescends to make such attacks upon me, that 
 ho has s.en lumself a latitude which enables m to 
 
 Bnd". ; "" "' '"^ P'""f^^« ^'--- Bird and 
 Bridgeland are known to be honest men, and to them 
 as well as to Mr. ^mall, I instantly refe red Mr wT 
 hs statement. The. statements will shew the rl t 
 of the reference, and when I add, that Bird and Brid ^e- 
 and are persons with whom I have never scarcely 
 had occasmn to speak on any subject, and that Mr 
 
 !ui Mr W r '' '^'" ''''''''y friendly terms 
 with Mr, Wilhs, I am convinced these documents will 
 
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 appear satisfactory, and will prove what grounds Mr, 
 Willis had for asserting that the falsehood was corro- 
 berated by Bird, in his presence. 
 
 Upper Canada, \ John Bird, of the Town of York, 
 Home District. I in the said District, Yeoman, ma- 
 kfcth oath and saith, that he never heard Henry Sher- 
 wood say, either in front of the Court House or any 
 where else, that " Mr. Justice Willis was raising the 
 standard of Rebellion in the Province," or say any 
 thing at all, in the slightest degree prejudicial to Mr. 
 Willis; that a man by the name of Timothy M'Pher- 
 son, as tliis deponent is informed, told him that he 
 had heard Henry Sherwood say, in front of the Court 
 House, in the presence of James E. Small, Esquire, 
 that " Mr. Willis was raising the standard of rebel- 
 lion in the Province," or words to this effect;— that 
 the said Timothy M'Pherson has several times en- 
 deavored to persuade him, this deponent, that he, 
 this deponent, heard the said Henry Sher.vood make 
 use of such expressions,— that a man by the name of 
 Nathaniel P. Buckley, a Clerk in the Crown Office, 
 as this deponent is informed, requested him, this de- 
 ponent, to go with the said Buckley before Mr. Jus- 
 tice Willis, which this deponent did— where he found 
 the aforesaid Timothy M'Pherson, and in the pres- 
 ence of the said M'Pherson and Buckley, this depo- 
 nent informed Judge Willis, that he never heard Hen- 
 ry Sherwood say any thing against hira at all ; and 
 this Deponent further saith, that the said Nathaniel 
 P. Buckley also wished to persuade this Deponent 
 
mds Mr. 
 as corro- 
 
 i of York, 
 man, ma- 
 nry Sher- 
 ise or any 
 aising the 
 [• say any 
 ial to Mr. 
 f M'Pher- 
 n that he 
 the Court 
 , Esquire, 
 I of rebel- 
 iect ; — that 
 times en- 
 ;, that he, 
 ;ood make 
 le name of 
 wn Office, 
 m, this de- 
 3 Mr. Jus- 
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 1 the prcs- 
 
 this depo- 
 leard Hen- 
 at all; and 
 
 Nathaniel ^ 
 3 Deponent 
 
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 that he had heard the said expressions, as mentioned 
 by Timothy M'Pherson, and wished him, this depo> 
 nent, to make Affidavit to that effect— which this De- 
 ponet dechned doing, as he had never heard any thing 
 at all, and couW not do so with truth. 
 Sworn before me, at York, aforesaid, 
 
 this 21ih day of June, 1828. 
 (Signed.) G. POWELL, J. P. 
 
 (Signed.) JOHN BIRD. 
 
 The expressions said to have been made use of by 
 Mr. Henry Sherwood, in my presence, in the above 
 Affidavit, are entirely incorrect. — Nothing to my re- 
 collection, foil from Mr. Sherwood but what was 
 strictly respectful to Mr. Justice Willis. 
 York, June 27th, 1828. 
 
 (Signed.) JAMES E. SMALL. 
 Upper Canada, ) James Bridgeland, of the Town 
 Home District. ] of York, Yeoman, maketh oath and 
 saith, that he never heard Mr. Henry Sherwood say, 
 either in front of the Court House or any where else, 
 that "Judge Willis was raising the standard of Rebel- 
 lion in the Province," or make use of any expressions, 
 at all to the prejudice of Mr. Justice Willis ;--that a 
 man by the name of Timothy M'Pherson, as this De- 
 ponent is informed, told him that he had heard Mr. 
 Henry Sherwood say, in front of the Court House, in 
 the presence of James E. Small, Es^;>iire, that "Mr. 
 Willis was raising the standard of Rebellion in the 
 Province"— or words to this effect.— And this Depo- 
 nent further saith. that he informed the said Timothy 
 
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 M'Phereon and Nathaniel P. Buckley, that he had 
 never heard any conversation of the kind. 
 Sworn before me, at York, aforesaid, 
 
 this 27th day of June, 1828. 
 (Signed.) G. POWELL, J. P. 
 
 (Signed.) J. BRIDGELAND. 
 
 jVrPherson, the person mentioned in those Affida- 
 vits, is a man of a notoriously bad character, who 
 has been frequently committed to Gaol, for insolent 
 and improper conduct; and Mr. Willis could httvo 
 learned his character from almost every person in 
 Town. He is a man with whom I have never spoken 
 a wore in my life.— Nathaniel P. Buckley, the other 
 person mentioned, now a Clerk in the Crown Office, 
 came out from England as a Servant to Mr. Willis ; 
 and whether from motives of gratitude, appears, from 
 this and other complaints of Mr. Willis', to have 
 made it a practice of repeating to Mr. Willis, every 
 idle tale he hears to his prejudice, even such as arc 
 spoken of in the Crown Office ; and if he did state, 
 what Mr. Willis says he did, (which I very much 
 doubt) he has made a statement utterly destitute of 
 truth. 
 
 M'Pherson had not the hardihood to say my con- 
 versation was directed to himself, but in order to 
 make his story bear the semblance cf truth, and that 
 my words should appear to have the eftect of doing 
 Mr. Willis a greater injury, he supposed it necessary 
 that I shquld have made use of the expressions " Ras- 
 
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 caj;' &c., before mentioned, to some more respecta=- 
 ble person ; and having observed James E. Small, 
 Esquire, the acting Clerk of the Crown, and myself 
 standing together in front of the Court House, he 
 seized upon this incident as a fit ground to devise; a 
 most infamous falsehood.— He stated to Mr. Willis 
 that, I made use of the expressions of which he com- 
 plains to Mr. Small, who was then, and now is, on 
 fnendly terms with Mr. Willis, and o£ whom Mr. 
 ^^ ilhs made immediate inquiry, and was informed 
 by Mr. Small, that there was no truth in what Mc- 
 Pherson stated; and was further informed by him. 
 that M'Pherson was a man of a very bad character- 
 entitled to no credit whatever. 
 
 To these assurances Mr. Wilhs thought it justifi- 
 able to pay no attention, but persisted in givino- pub^ 
 licity to the statement of a man who cannot bo be- 
 lieved, in preference to that of three persons of in- 
 tegrity and undoubted veracity. I appeal to every 
 honest man in the country, and ask if Mr. Willis has 
 substantiated a single one of his allegations a-ainst 
 me, and rather if he has not made most unfounded in- 
 smuations prejudicial to my character, for purposes 
 which I can easily understand. These reiterated ca- 
 lumnies, as I have proved them to be, have destroyed 
 my respect for Mr. Willis; but, I respect, as much as 
 any other member of society, the situation which 
 he lately filled. That situation can give him no ri^ht 
 to slander his fellow subjects, and if he does so,1ie 
 cannot expect that they will be restrained by any re. 
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 calumnies which his groundless charges have given 
 rise to. He has plainly and openly asserted, that since 
 the late assassination of the unfortunate nnan in the 
 public street, circumstances have transpired to cause 
 him to suspect " that hia life is not safc,''^ and he 
 connects this cruel and aggravating insinuation so 
 closely with my name, as to leave the public to infer 
 what he dare not assert. He insmuates he is fearful 
 I will take Iris life, yet he does not think it necessary 
 to have me bound over in sufficient sureties to keep 
 the peace, as he legally may do, and as every man 
 would do, who was sincerely apprehensive of losing 
 his life. Directly after the conversation between Mr. 
 Willis and myself, his first impulse, before he allow- 
 ed other feelings to predominate, was to apply to a 
 Magistrate, which I have already mentioned, but he 
 thought his ends would be much better answered by 
 complaining to the Governor, who cannot possibly af- 
 ford the necessary relief in such a case, and to whom 
 he has openly stated his fears — but not content with 
 proceeding thus far, he now, it seems, sends to His 
 Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colo- 
 nies the charges which, I think, I have very satisfac- 
 torily shewn to be utterly untrue. Is this the con- 
 duct, I will again ask, that a man really apprehensive 
 of losing his life would pursue ^— or may 1 not very 
 justly ascribe it to a desire of gratifying the worst of 
 feelings at any hazard, and with whatever injustice 1 
 I have been born and brought up in this Province ; 
 I have lived four years m this society, where' I must 
 be perfectly well known ;— Have I ever been fovin^ 
 
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 to indulofc in habits of intemperance, even by my as- 
 sociates and schoolfellows ?—- -Have I ever been thought 
 a person wiio would commit assassination ? — Have I 
 ever been known to injure the character of my neigh- 
 bour by word or deed ?— No, God forbid !— Yet Mr. 
 Willis has the presumption to insinuate all. I am 
 well known here — my standing in society is a suffici- 
 ent proof of my good behaviour. I have relations 
 and friends holding high and respectable situations 
 under the Government, whose loyalty and attachment 
 to the British Constitution were never doubted ; and 
 I am perfectly willing that my character shall under- 
 go as strict a scrutiny as Mr. Willis'— I may be 
 thought to have expressed myself strongly, but I have 
 written as I feel, and Mr. Willis must know and feel 
 how much more I might have said with truth and 
 justice. 
 
 H. SHERWOOD. 
 Since preparing the above statement for publica- 
 tion, I have seen in the New York Spectator an ex- 
 tract taken from the Colonial Advocate, containing 
 the misrepresentations I have eluded to, on the sub- 
 ject of the conversation which took place between Mr, 
 Justice Willis and myself, which induced me to ad- 
 dress the following Letter to the Editor of the New 
 York Spectator : 
 
 To tlie Editor of the New York Spectator. 
 
 York, 16th July, 1828. 
 Sir, 
 
 Y^ou have made an extract in your paper of the 8th 
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 am stated to have grossly insulted Mr. Justice Willis, 
 with many other misrepresentations highly prejudicial 
 to my character. I now tell you that, the statement 
 to which you have ventured to give publicity is utterly 
 untrue. How the conductor of so respectable a paper, 
 as the New York Spectator, would presume to vilify 
 the reputation of any member of society, from the 
 statement of so flagitious and vile a person as Mc 
 Kenzie the Editor of the Advocate, is to mc astonish- 
 ing. — His unprincipled character must have been well 
 known to you long ago. It is so notoriously worth- 
 less, that no conductor of any useful and respectable 
 press, either in Upper or Lower Canada, will give 
 credence to any thing he asserts. Those who pretend 
 to place reliance on his statements, are men who will 
 catch at any thing to injure the character of reputa- 
 ble and good individuals, not that they belif ve 31c 
 Kenzie, for they are perfectly well aware at the time, 
 that they are disseminating malicious falsehoods. 
 
 A statement of the conversation which took place 
 between Mr. Willis and myself, at the time alluded 
 to, in the extract from the Advocate, is now in Press 
 and will shortly be sent to you ;--in the mean time I 
 beg you will insert thi^ Letter in your paper, 
 I am, 
 Sib, 
 
 Your Obd't. Servant. 
 
 H. SHERWOOD. 
 
 
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