144 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
You will see by the Papers that Sir Jas. Craig employed (that 
same Mr. Henry who was recommended to the Govr. as a Judge in the 
place of Thorpe) as a confidential agent in the States; the Treachery 
of the fellow fully justifies Governor Gore’s opinion of him. He has 
made public everything that was entrusted to him & he gives as a reason 
for it that he was disappointed in his reward. Mr. Maddison however 
has taken care to send Henry off to France before he laid his Com- 
munication before Congress, afraid most probably of his being too closely 
sifted by some of the members. 
I am Dear Sr. with great sincerity 
Most faithfully Yours 
P. SELBY. 
Miss Selby desires her compliments. 
Note—John McDonell! & Dr. Baldwin ? crossed the Ice this morng 
to the Point & amused themselves with a Brace of Pistols but no harm 
was done—some expressions in Court was the cause. 
Cou. TALBOT. 
Surveyor General Ridout to Talbot. 
Surveyor Gens. Office 
York 9th April 1812. 
Since my writing to you on the 3rd instant acknowledging the 
Receipt of your Letter of the 22nd March, I have received orders from 
His Honor the President to report to him respecting the Road Sur- 
veyed by Mr. Burwell in the course of last year under your direction, 
and communicating between Westminster and your road surveyed in 
1809. | 
In performing this Duty, I have to my extreme surprize discovered 
that Mr. Burwell, instead of running “a line for a Road, from the Road 
through Westminster to join Colonel Talbots Road as the Ground may 
best suit for that purpose ” as ordered by Lieut. Governor Gore, and 
agreeably to my instructions to him dated the 8th of June last, has 
begun his survey in the limits between Dunwich and Southwold at the 
distance of 200 chains or thereabouts in rear of the Road, called Talbot 
Road run by him in 1809, and has run parallel thereto, at the before 
mentioned distance, another line for a Road nearly through the whole 


1 Appointed Attorney General 28th November, 1811, and afterward Lieu- 
tenant Colonel and Provincial Aide-de-Camp to General Brock. Killed in 
action at Queenston Heights, 13th Oct., 1812, at the age of 27. 
?Dr. William Warren Paldwin, father of Hon. Robert Baldwin. 



