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way, but don’t let that prevent you; the more letters the more chance 
there is of their coming to hand. Lady Erne is well and desires to 
be most kindly remembered to you. She has been very ill this summer, 
but has got quite stout again, and I hope Wortley air will set her quite 
up. Corbett and his six children are quite well, and he desires every- 
thing kind to you. Caroline herself sends you her kindest love, and 
I am ever, my dear Tom, 
Your affectionate friend, 
J. Ay Sie We 
“Pray do you ever intend to come and pay us a visit here in 
England again? I think the poor old country is still worth looking at, 
notwithstanding all her misfortunes and the losses of her greatest 
men that the last year has produced. Poor Fox, you see, could not live 
to enjoy the power he had so long and so eagerly coveted. He now 
lays within eighteen inches of his great political rival. Most certainly 
two such men are a great loss at any time, but more when times are 
such as we live in. Once more good-bye, my dear Tom. Let me hear 
from you as often as you can, for your letters from your quiet corner 
of the world are quite a relief to me. I am afraid you think me grown 
a complete croker.” | 
Thomas Clark ? to Colonel Talbot. 
Queenston, June 7th, 1808. 
Thomas Talbot, Esqre., 
Dear Sir :— 
The bearer Le May, Conductor of four Boats going round the Lake 
will deliver you three parcels—one containing news papers, one clover 
and Rye grass seeds—the other One hundred Dollars. By the Boats 
at this time I was in hopes to have sent up your other articles, but from 
8 of them having been siezed at Fort Niagara by the American Col- 
lector & 5 from desertion of the men being left at Kingston, puts it 

1 Pitt and Fox lie side by side in Westminster Abbey. 
? As Licutenant-Colonel. of the 2nd Lincoln Militia during the war of 
1812, Thomas Clark won considerable distinction. He was for many years 
“a member of the firm of Street and Clark, engaged in the Indian Trade; 
in which life he had much experience” (Kingsford, VIII, 339)... He married 
a daughter of Robert Kerr, surgeon, and died in 1837, aged 67. Thomas 
Clark Street was named after him. Colonel Clark was for more than twenty 
years a member of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada, 


