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evil will it produce? I have already said you will not accomplish your 

 object and depend upon it that on the 24th of April you will be obliged 

 to admit that I said truly what you say about the disaffection to the 

 British Government is a false charge and you know it is. Shame Shame 

 that a man in you standing and at your age should thus Lend himself 

 as a tool to do dirty work — Recall the notice of your meeting the object 

 of your Party can be accomplish as well by circulating your address for 

 signatures which you can do without bringing a multitude of angry 

 men together I heard officers and privates of your Regiment say that 

 your Summons authorizes them to appear on the day with their Weapons 

 of War, and that they should do so — what will be the event God only 

 knows — I fear that you and a few others will find it more difficult to 

 direct the storm than to raise it — Recall your Xotice — 



This is from a Friend. 

 To the Hon. Thos. Talbot. 



If this puerile and contemptible production is from a Friend, he 

 may be safely classed among those friends with whom the Hon. Col. 

 converses through the window .when they come to visit him, instead of 

 allowing them to come within his doors. A man's affecting nerves must 

 be very blunt indeed if he cannot smell the pill box in this ungram- 

 matical, unpunctuated, and wrong spelt letter. There is no need of 

 spectacles to discover that more than one person was engaged in facili- 

 tating this bullying, nonsensical piece of stuff. Did they for one moment 

 imagine that they would induce Col. Talbot to withdraw his notice? 

 Col. Talbot is not a man who looks back when he has once put his hand 

 to the plough. Their very letter would rather have a tendency to en- 

 courage him to let the notice continue: for the whole tenour of their 

 grovling epistle plainly evinces that not Col. Talbot, but themselves 

 have everything to fear from seeing three-fourths of the male population 

 above sixteen meet together on the 23d. Towards the conclusion of their 

 filthy tirade these ingenious gentlemen are pleased to observe with re- 

 spect to the meeting " what will be the event God only knows." Now I 

 have only to say that it is as easy to conjecture the event of the meeting, 

 as it is to distinguish between a pill box and a pair of spectacles. 



(Draft in Colonel Talbot's writing of his speech ^t St. Thomas,) 



April 23, 1832. 



Silence and Attention. 



I find it necessary to begin by contradicting an assertion that was 

 published in a production addressed to the Inhabitants of Middlesex 

 signed Freeholder which was from bezinning to end nothing but trash. 



