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perhaps, some truth in this suggestion. Being much at Court, he had 
become sated and disgusted with the artificiality, the frivolity, the vices, 
and dissipation of fashionable society; probably this had somewhat to 
do with his decision. Mrs. Amelia Harris intimates that he had been 
refused an appointment in the army he had thought himself entitled 
to. “Others again,” she adds, “said that neither Mars nor Venus 
presided at his birth.” This suggestion that he was not martial in his 
inclinations may be connected with the story already cited of his military 
experience in Flanders. As to “the lady in the case,” Colonel Talbot 
is said to have stated to Tozer, a Malahide settler, “to tell you the 
truth, I never saw but one woman that I really cared anything about, 
and she wouldn’t have me, and to use an old joke, those who would 
have me, the devil wouldn’t have them. Miss Johnson, the daughter 
of Sir John Johnson, was the only girl I ever loved, and she wouldn’t 
have me.” ; 
When Mrs. Jameson told him of the surmises relative to his early 
life and his motives for emigrating, he laughed, “Charlevoix,” said 
he, “was, I believe, the true cause of my coming to this place. You 
know he calls this the ‘ Paradise of the Hurons,’ now I resolved to get 
to Paradise by hook or crook, so I came here.” 
VI. ‘Tausot’s Motives. 
Simcoe in an official communication’ attributed the change in 
Talbot’s plans to his energetic disposition, which led him to prefer to 
the monotony of military life “the incessant and active enployment 
which he has undertaken.” 
According to Fanny Kemble, whose informant was evidently Lord 
Dacre, the latter was originally a partner in Talbot’s scheme of settle- 
ment. She states that, “ Lord Dacre,? at the moment of his becoming 
heir to that estate, was on the point of leaving England with Colonel 
Talbot . . . . to found with him a colony in British Canada, where 
Arcadia was to revive again, and at a distance from all the depraved 
and degraded social systems of Europe, under the auspices of these two 
enthusiastic young reformers. Mr. Brand had completed his studies in 
Germany and acquired by assiduous reading and intimate personal 
acquaintance with the most enlightened and profound thinkers of the 
philosophical school of which Kant was the apostle, a mental cultiva- 
tion very unlike, in its depth and direction the usual intellectual culture 

*Simcoe to Lord Hobart, Sessional Papers of Upper Canada, 1836. 
*Lord Dacre inherited his title from his mother, who had married Mr. 
Brand. The citation is from “Old Woman’s Gossip,’ by Fanny Kemble, 
Atlantic Monthly, 1877. 
