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upwards of twenty pounds coming to you in my hands. Mr, Wat 
Wheldale the Executor with whom I transacted this business could not 
inform me who your other creditors at Manchester were, consequently 
I was obliged to postpone any further steps on that subject in the 
expectation of your early arrival in England which I had so much 
reason to look for in consequence of what you wrote to me. 
I am much mortified to find you have been disappointed in the 
situation which you had entertained hopes of obtaining in Canada. The 
new Township of Malahide seems by your description to be well situated 
and a promising speculation. To make such projects completely fully 
answer it appears to me that we all labour under a deficiency of dis- 
posable capital. Under these circumstances perhaps it might be 
advisable to retain the controllership until you found the absolute 
necessity for resigning it. As I have written to Thomas by this post 
and have communicated to him all that occurs to me in which you 
could fee] interested you will not expect me to reiterate it. I shall 
therefor wish you every happiness & success begging to believe me to 
be ever very affectionately & truly yours, 
Bott 
ES: 
I know of threshing machine which I saw a few days ago for the 
first time at work. It seemed to answer the purpose perfectly, thresh- 
ing out the grain, but it breaks, as they all do, the straw very much. 
The expense of erecting it can not be very heavy. I shall not fail to 
procure a model of it, as I do not apprehend that a drawing on paper 
would be sufficient for your workmen. 
via New York. 
(Addressed) William Talbot Esq. 
Port Talbot, 
Niagara, 
North America. 
(Stamped) Paid 3, Oct. 3, 1810. 
W. M. Smyth to William Talbot. 
Dublin, 20th October, 1810. 
My Dear Talbot. 
I was much gratified and indeed surprized (most agreably) by your 
last letter of the 10th July. As to the one you speak of having written 
last October I have never received it & indeed as I feared my letter to 
