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fellow subjects throughout his Majesty's empire, who admire and 
applaud the exertions of a free, brave and loyal people, manfully con- 
tending to preserve for themselves and their children the fostering 
protections of a virtuous, wise and powerful State. 
Government House, 
York, Upper Canada, March 3d. 1813. 
Talbot to Lieutenant Governor Gore. 
Duplicate. 
Port Talbot 20th March 1813. 
My Dear Governor 
I am well aware that you will exclaim how provoking to be at 
this distance pestered by that fellow Talbot, even so, but be assured that 
you did not leave a more steady and sincere friend or one who has 
more frequently prayed for the speedy return of yourself and my dear 
Mrs. Gore to Upper Canada than him. Nothing but urgent necessity 
could impel me to break in upon your time and comforts to describe 
the distress of mind, that has almost continually harassed me, since 
your departure, is beyond my ability, arising from the joint impertinence 
and contempt of the late General Brock and Ridout The Surr. Genl. 
to your orders and arrangements in respect to the Lands which you 
were pleased to place under my care. I am confident that your own 
recollection of circumstances will confirm my assertions that you had 
directed that in addition to the Talbot Road the Townships of Malahide 
and Bayham should be reserved for me to recommend actual settlers 
for who should be liable to the same settlement duties as those imposed 
on the Talbot Road. I was accordingly in the winter of 1811 fur- 
nished by the Surveyor Genl. with plans of the aforesaid Townships 
and shortly after assigned a great proportion of the Lands to a valuable 
description of settlers who had removed into this Province from Nova 
Scotia not for a moment suspecting that any interference would have 
occurred between the Government and myself, when to my unspeakable 
surprise and mortification, I was informed by accident, in the month 
of July last, that General Brock had granted to Mr. Hale the Paymaster 
Genl. at Quebec 5,000 acres, Mr. Stanton, a clerk in your ottice 600 
acres, and to a Presbyterian Scotch Priest 400 acres in Malahide & 
Bayham, without any condition of settlement, and which grants com- 
prehended the land actually occupied by the Nova Scotia settlers. I 
immediately remonstrated and applied to Genl. Brock for an explana- 
tion, requesting that he would have the injury repaired, by calling 
