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gave me real pleasure to speak honourably of you and exert myself to 
the utmost in obtaining as many good people as possible to settle and 
make valuable the country adjoining and near you, thro the whole 
course of my journey of seven hundred miles in the States and among 
my friends in Lower Canada, last summer and autumn when I thought 
you the best of men and my real friend; and I wish you to be assured 
that no occurrence of my life has ever given me such real pain as to 
be obliged to think otherwise of you. I am therfore still willing to 
forget and forgive the serious injuries you have done me upon the 
exprinciple that I hope there is yet a latent spark of Honour in your 
Soul, (which pride and other passions have hitherto kept in a state of 
dormantry, which will now be awakened, and induce you to acknowledge 
with the immortal Pope that an honest man is the noblest work 
of God.) 
Under this hope I am still willing to go hand in hand with you 
as we had agreed in pursuing and effecting the laudable and pleasing 
task of adding to the strength by augmenting the numbers of His 
Majesty’s Subjects with thousands of Industrious Inhabitants and real- 
ize the pleasing anticipation which I have kept in view from the begin- 
ning of co-operating with you in trying induce them to be dutiful and 
Loyal as well as usefull and industrious subjects. 
In addressing you as above I have repressed my feelings as an 
injured man, and it will depend on your answer by the Bearer whether 
they will ever be called into action again. If he returns with a written 
statement from you, in any way your good sense may dictate, placing, 
me and my Settlement in that favourable and prosperous point of view 
we were in previous to your last journey to Yorke and your memorable 
return via Westminster, well, if not I shall immediately proceed to 
Yorke and lay the whole before the Lieut. Govr. and should any unfor- 
seen cause induce His Excellency to decide against me, that will fix an 
indelible seal upon your fate and mine. TI shall then turn to you the 
primary and ultimate cause of all my misfortunes, my present enter- 
prize having placed me in a situation that all my present and future 
prospects for myself and family must depend upon the event of it. I 
am therefore most solemnly and decidedly determined that the only 
means I will leave in your power to prevent me from effecting it, will 
be to deprive me of life; and the strongest motive that has induced me | 
to send you this, is to put it in your power to avert a resort to awfull 
and momentous alternatives, thus have I made up my mind and await 
your answer and as it may be, I am Sir, 
Yr. Humbl. Sert. 
sigd. S. Z WATSON. 
