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upon the list. Of the rest there are some few who have been formally 

 accepted as Candidates, and encouraged if duly qualified, to look for 

 ordination as opportunities shall offer; and the remainder, among whom 

 IS Mr. Burwell, are persons to whom no direct encouragement has been 

 given, or rather, who have only not been forbidden to look forward, at 

 their own risk, to entering into the Ministry. The impossibility that 

 exists that the Society should furnish Missionaries, to the extent in 

 which the country requires them, and their having of late rather outgone 

 their means, in their benevolent desire to serve us, made it necessary that 

 all such persons should be apprised, that nothing specific could be said 

 to them, and that they must exercise their own judgment, as to the ex- 

 pediency of continuing their studies. 



Under these circumstances it will be obvious to you that I cannot 

 give any direct encouragement, much less any immediate hopes to Mr. 

 Burwell; neither do I wish to discourage him. Your recommendation 

 shall be constantly kept in mind ; but unless he is endowed with great 

 patience and steadiness, he may be weary of waiting, before I shall be 

 dble to meet it as I wish. 



I am, dear sir, 



with much regard, 

 Ool. Talbot. your faithful servant 



J. Quebec. 



Adjutant General Coffin to Talbot. 



Adjutant General's Office 

 York, Upper Canada 

 3d. May 1825. 

 Sir, 



I have this day been ofiicially informed that in consequence of a 

 Resolution of the House of Assembly passed during its last Session no 

 further charge will in future be allowed for the Contingencies of this 

 office than what is fixed by Law. 



As that allowance is inadequate I have to desire that in future all 

 your Letters, Returns, or other Communications to this Department shall 

 either be post paid or transmitted in some other way free of Expense. 



I have also to acquaint you that Letters transmitted from this office 

 can no longer be post-paid here. 



