[coyne] THE TALBOT PAPERS TZ 
ing the Forest to form a farm; could I but be seen by some of my 
St. James’s friends when I come home to my frugal supper—as black 
as any chimney sweeper—They would exclaim, “ What a damn’d block- 
head you have been, Tom,”—but I say, no, as I actually eat my homely 
fare with more zest than I ever did the best dinner in London—it is 
time that I should beg a Thousand pardons for this intrusion, but I 
am satisfied of the goodness of Your Royal Highness’s heart, and sin- 
cerely praying that you may experience every blessing of this life, I 
have the honour to be with the most unfeigned gratitude, 
Your Royal Highness’s 
Most Dutiful 
and Faithful Servant, 
THomas TALBOT. 
To H.R.H. The 
Duke of Cumberland,* 
In H.R.H. the Duke of Kent’s, of 
11th October, 1801. 

H.R.H. the Duke of Kent to Lord Hobart. 
Archives Series Q, Vol. 291, p. 514. 
(Indorsed.) 
His Royal Highness 
The Duke of Kent. 
Castle Hill Lodge, Middlesex, 
My Lord, 11th October, 1801. 
It is at the request of my Brother, the Duke of Cumberland, that, 
as Secretary of State, for the Colonies, I trouble Your Lordship with 
the inclosed.? It is a letter to him from Colonel Talbot, late of the 
5th Regiment of Foot,* who was very useful to General Simcoe, when 
that respectable Officer was Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Up- 
per Canada. Your Lordship must understand that he is now retired 
from the Service, and is busily occupied establishing himself as a settler 
in Upper Canada. It appears he had a promise from General Simcoe 
of Lands, at the time they were together in that Country, but from 
some oversight, the Warrants for putting him in possession of them, 
were not made out, previous to the General’s leaving North America, 

1The Duke of Cumberland, son of King George III, became King of 
Hanover, on the death of his brother, William IV, in 1837, the Salic law 
preventing the accession of Queen Victoria to the Hanoverian throne. “A 
harsh and narrow-minded despot” (Encycl. Brit., XI, p. 447). 
2See the preceding letter, pages 75 to 77 
STalbot had sold out on Christmas Day, 1800. 
