1. Mar.20,1816, KB, BANQM. In this case the JPs were charged with exceeding their authority and illegally depriving various printers of their liberty. It is significant that Ludger Duvernay was one of the apprentices arrested. He later became one of the most significant newspaper writers to articulate the patriot cause in the Rebellion of 1837–38. For a longer discussion, seeNancy Christie,“The Counterrevolutionary Gaze: Runaway Advertisements and the Politics of Daily Resistance”(Eakin Lecture, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University,Montreal,October2010).