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P. S. — Dr. Lee, Sir, you will excuse me for directing this letter to 

 you, in it you will find sufficient to pay you for your trouble, and I wish 

 you to get it to my brother as soon as possible. And if my brother should 

 not see proper to take the land on those conditions, you may rest assured 

 that I shall pay you every cent. Please write me yourself how business 

 is, and how my brother is, and his family — on receipt of this. 



I remain Yours &c. &c. 



William Lewis. 

 Dr. Lee, Westminster, Upper Canada. 



Wm. Hamilton Merritt to Talbot. 



Dear Sir London July 2nd 1828. 



I am precisely in the same state of forwardness you left me, the 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer appears determined not to bring the meas- 

 ure forward — his Secretary has promised me for the last three weeks 

 that it would come on the next Monday or Wednesday and altho the 

 Cabinet determined on 13th May we should have the money — we remain 

 in the same situation still — I have wrote & called & stated, that delay 

 would ruin us as effectually as denial it produces no effect — I am out of 

 all patience — I hope to have nothing more in future to do with Govern- 

 ment. 



I had a letter from the Attorney General dated 17th May men- 

 tioning His Excellency the Lt. Governor & the Directors went from St. 

 Catharines to the Lake, in a Schooner, which was laden at the former 

 place and passed through the Canal Locks, Harbor &c. in fine style — she 

 carries 900 Bbls Flour under Hatches-equal to about 125 Tons burden. 



The work is all going on with great rapidity the onlp thing they 

 want is money. 



I showed the Letter to the Chancellor in hopes it would stir him up. 



You will see by the Papers when the Question comes on am in 

 hopes it will be this week. 



I am 



Dear Sir 



Most truly yours 



Wm. Hamilton Merritt. 



(addressed on the back) 



Hon. Thomas Talbot 



Ballinclear, Black Eock, 

 County of Dublin, 



Ireland. 



