Justice was undoubtedly perverted in Upper Canada in the most shameless way.

Weak in body at the best, Lord Selkirk by his misfortunes, losses and legal persecution began to fail in health.

With the sense of having been unjustly defeated, and anxious about his Colonists in Red River, he returned with his family to Britain to his beloved St.Mary's Isle.

He sought for justice from the British Parliament, but could there get no movement in his favor.

A copy of a letter to him from Sir Walter Scott, his old friend, is in the hands of the writer, but Sir Walter was himself too ill at the time to lend him aid in presenting his case before the British public.