[coYNE] THE TALBOT PAPERS Ns 
Report of Executive Council to Lieutenant Governor Gore. 
Copy. 
Executive Council Chamber, in the town of York, Saturday the 27th 
of April, 1811. 
PRESENT 
The Honble Thomas Scott Chief Justice Chairman 
The Honble John McGill 
The Honble Mr. Justice Powell. 
The Honble Prideaux Selby. 
Yo His Excellency Francis Gore Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of the 
Province of Upper Canada, &e. Xe. ec. 
May It Please Your Excellency. 
The Committee of the Executive Council to which your Excellency 
was pleased to refer the Memorial of Simon Zelotes Watson, state- 
ment of facts, and the Correspondence between him and Mr. Talbot, 
has considered with great attention the subject referred, and admitting 
the veracity of the statement, so far as it is supported by evidence, sees 
no Cause to advise Your Excellency to withdraw the Trust reposed in 
Mr. Talbot at the express desire of Mr. Watson. The Committee is 
sensible of inadvertence in not requiring from Mr. Watson the Names 
and Description of the Settlers in Lower Canada for whom the Tract 
in Westminster was to be appropriated, on his recommendation; and 
therefore, now humbly submits to your Excellency, the expediency of 
withholding all future Grants on such Recommendation, until Mr. 
Watson shall have deposited in the Council office, Lists of the Names 
and Descriptions of the Persons resident in Lower Canada denominated 
his followers, and thén only to such as shall appear to the Council, or 
be certified by Mr. Talbot, to be of that description. In thus offering 
its Opinion and Advice, on Mr. Watson’s Memorial, the Committee is 
desirous to mark with the strongest reprehension, the Memorialist’s 
Declaration, that the first idea he entertained of Restriction as to his 
followers, was from the Correspondence of Mr. Talbot. Whereas his 
Application was specific, and the Pledge of the Executive Government 
equally so, for British Subjects settled in Lower Canada. 
The Committee perceives so much disingenuity in this disavowal 
by Mr. Watson, of the Essence of his Contract, that it would recommend 
to your Excellency, to rescind the Order on his first Memorial, but from 
possible injury to his original Employers contemplating an immediate 
Sec. II., 1907. 8. 

