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you had miscarried I began to think you had droped the correspondence, 
which I should regret very much, as I have always had very great 
pleasure in hearing from all my friends & from you in particular. I 
shall do what I can for you about the plan of the threshing machine 
& when I procure it shall send it off to you without delay. I am very 
_ glad you are settled so much to your satisfaction & seem happy & con- 
tent. When I received your letter I little thought you had determined 
on remaining in Canada as the Governor who I saw last July told me 
you were coming over immediately by Gad & indeed I felt much pleasure 
in thinking to see you once more. But fate has decreed otherwise. 
My plans & intentions are also much altered since I last wrote. It 
has pleased God to remove my dear Father from this world; he died 
quite suddenly last March & left us all & my poor Mother particularly 
in sad affliction as it was a shock we were by no means prepared for. 
However Religion & an almost certainty that he is now enjoying the 
blessings of a well spent life has resigned us all & my Mother is thank 
God getting on. I am to live in future with her & my Sisters; she 
has purchased a house No. 6 Merrion Square (South) which will in 
future be my residence. My Brother Ralph dont go to Barba Villa 
till May next & he intends disposing of the Hospital to the best advan- 
tage. It has been determined by all my friends that it would be a bad 
place for me & besides I neither could or would give him as much as 
he may get elsewhere so I suppose we shall have quite done with it in 
a little time he has many looking out for it; but every body thinks I 
must have it of course, people like to meddle so much in other peoples 
affairs. As to my going to Canada ’tho your being there is a great 
temptation I fear it is among the improbable events of my life, but I 
hope you will some time or other take a peep at your friend this side 
the Atlantic unless Bony sinks us in the sea. Everybody here is meet- 
ing to adress the Throne to repeal the Union, this now is all the talk 
& the fate of Lord Wellington in Portugal which is not yet decided. 
I was sorry to see that your brother Neil fell a sacrifice to his country’s 
Glory in a late engagement. I suppose you have had the accounts long 
since. . . . . You may remember Jones who was in your Shop 
he is now in Dublin in a Shop here—he tells me your houses are going 
on famously. Whitehouse & Gaton are bankrupts & poor Mrs. Lake 
is dead this all the Liverpool news I know. I have no idea I promise 
you of going thear; business never was my delight but I am not the 
less obliged to you for your friendly offers; The Governor’s face is 
again in the old way I think it will be the death of him he has a 
great Horn out of one cheek—T hope in God he may leave you some- 
thing that will tempt you to leave those deserted regions (or rather 
