It is well known that the late Mr. Robert Nicoll,
editor of the Leeds Times, was compelled by severe illness to abandon his professional It is well known that the late Mr. Robert Nicoll, editor of the Leeds Times, was compelled by severe illness to abandon his professional engagements, and died soon afterwards. It is stated in the last num- ber of Tait's Magazine, that in his hour of need he received welcome aid from Sir William Molesworth a When his days were evidently drawing to a close, Mr. Tait wrote to Sir William Aloleswoith to the effect that young Nicoll of the Leeds Times bad been induced to leave his post, in the last stage of a decline, aggravated by the prospect of destitution, rendered much more bitter by the distress of those who looked to him for daily bread : but his wants were few—his time, in all proba • Wit}, to be short in this world—and little would suffice. Sir William, without an hour's delay. transmitted an order for fifty pounds, and a most kind and de- licate letter. It would be a sin to conceal this unosteutatious deed of benevo- lence in their Member to their late editor, from the Radicals of Leeds."
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