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deserted by the Gauls, has been sent to England as a present to the 
P. of W.— The Govt. of Spain has published a declaration of pardon 
to all who have acted with the French. 
I send you a copy of a paper I recd. yesterday from York—dis- 
seminate a knowledge of it—it will soon be done in print. 
If you knew but all that I have to say, to write, and to do, you 
might be able to estimate the value of so long a letter from 
My dear Colonel, 
Yours ever faithfully 
R. H. SHEAFFE. 
Local intelligence I leave to Lt. Col. Bostwick. 
Talbot to Captain John Haviland. 
Colonel Talbot sends the deposition that he was mentioning for 
Captain Haviland. to sign, and the Colonel will thank Captn. Haviland 
if he will send it back to him tomorrow. 
Dover Mills 
20th Decr. 1812. 
(addressed on the back) 
To Captain John Haviland, Townshend, 
forw’d by Squire Springer 
(This address cancelled. Re-addressed :) 
To the Honble 
Thomas Talbot 
Dover. 
London District 
to Wit 
Personally appeared before me Daniel Springer 
Esquire one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace 
for the said District, Captain John Haviland of 
Townshend, in the said District, who being duly sworn deposeth and 
saith, that he, being in possession of an Order of Council for 2,600 
acres of Land for his services during the late American Revolution, 
and being desirous to obtain the said lands in the western parts of the 
said London District—in the month of March 1811, he humbly made 
application to His Excellency Lieut. Governor Gore for permission to 
locate the same in the Townships of Malahide or Bayham, to which 
