118 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Lieutenant Governor Gore to Colonel ‘Talbot. 
Private 
Government House 
York 25th May 1811 
My Dear Talbot, 
I have received your letter of the 13th (on the 22d) by your 
trusty Moravian who returns with the survey of Westminster. 
I am much gratified to find, that our proceedings meet with your 
approbation, as your friend the Chief says “ we mean to do well.” You 
have acted just as I expected, by not injuring your Agency, much con- 
fusion and perplexity will now be avoided—I have been making every 
inquiry about the laying out of Westminster, and find that there is as 
yet no third Concession,—but Mr. Watson having discovered after he 
had run out a Road, and a Concession on each side, that he was more 
remote from the River than he expected applied to me for permission 
to locate the broken front of the two Concessions for him and his 
settlers—When this Indulgence was granted I certainly entertained a 
different view of this persons speculation, from that in which I now 
behold it, yet having directed the reserve of the Front to be communi- 
cated to him, it must be strictly complied with, but I shall authorize 
no location on the broken Fronts, untill every lot on the street is occu- 
pied, and they will be kept open exclusively for Mr. Watson’s settlers 
no longer than the first of January next, conforming to the re- 
solution adopted in Council.—Mr. Watson should also expressly 
understand, that no location on his recommendation will be permitted, 
on Lots, or Parts of Lots, occupied by others (however improperly) 
before he went to the ground. It must remain with the Government 
to exercise favour, as strict justice to those Intruders may be advisable. 
I had forgot to mention to you, that I consider it absurd to extend 
Watson’s location out of the Road until that object is accomplished, 
more particularly as the Crown & Clergy Reserves were removed ‘ex- 
pressly for the purpose of facilitating the completion of this Road— 
Nothing further occurs to me respecting Mr. Watson. 
Mrs. Gore is certainly much better, although our hopes are 
damp’d—as to seeing England for some time—Perhaps we may get 
away in October—she says she will not permit me to say all the pretty 
things, which your prettier deeds towards her deserve (for she has got 
the matts from Bobby) but will write to you herself—Halton is em- 
ployed in a most important concern—viz—cotonning the Floor of the 
. Ball Room—for our elegantes to shove away on the 4th of June— 
I have sent you two John Camerons—The French (Boston Papers 
say) have entirely evacuated Portugal—Graham’s action near Cadiz was 

