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will return to York with this, and pray let me know by Post if my re- 

 commendation will be allowed. 



I had a most splendid Victory on St. George's Day, and nothing 

 could have gone off better. I long to see you. 



Very sincerely Yrs. 



Thomas Talbot. 

 (From the Orown Lands Department.) 



(Printed fly-sheet relating to the St. Thomas Meeting, 1833.) 



To the inhabitants of the Talbot Settlement ! ! ! 



It appears that the Pedlers of William Lyon Mackenzie's grievances 

 in this quarter, have taken the alarm at the aspect their cause has as- 

 sumed throughout the Province, and having in their zeal, when " hopes 

 were bright," exposed their secret views in such a manner that they 

 cannot now retract with any colour of decency, they are making the most 

 desperate exertions to mislead the Talbot Settlers. 



The Committees of Vigilance, from the two meetings held in Mala- 

 hide and Yarmouth, assembled at Burbee's Inn, in St. Thomas, on Tues- 

 day the 27th ultimo, resolved in secret conclave to entrust their cause 

 to a " Committee of Talent," consisting of Messrs. Lucius Bigelow, 

 A. B. Lewis, and George Lawton, which no doubt after an arduous but 

 certainly a very protracted labour gave to the world on Saturday last the 

 production signed A Freeholder, entitled " A Circular to the Inhabitants 

 of the County of Middlesex," typical no doubt of those circulating Free- 

 holders who have so busily peddled grievances throughout the County. 



'This Freeholder, the offspring of those Talented Individuals, (two- 

 ihirds of whom most likely have never taken the oath of allegiance,) 

 most shamefully slanders the Honourable Colonel Talbot's character — 

 misrepresents his motives in calling the meeting on the 33rd Instant, and 

 insults the inhabitants themselves by asserting that " an attempt is about 

 to be made to overawe and brow-beat them into into a publick expression 

 of sentiments different from their real political feelings." 



Now it is proper to inquire what motives induced this " Talented 

 Committee " to question Colonel Talbot's right to call a meeting and 

 advise his settlers as to their best interests, and also to examine how 

 the Freeholder has discharged the task he has gratuitously assumed of 

 exposing tlie conduct of designing men, and of representing the present 

 political state of the country. 



Before the Committees of Vigilance assumed their offices, the Talbot 

 Settlement was in a state of peace and harmony. Its inhabitants felt 



