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'Talbot to Hon. Peter Robinson. 

 Private 

 The Honourable 



Peter Pobinson, C.C.L. 



&c. &c. &c. 



York. 



Port Talbot, July 2nd, 1832 

 My Dear Commissioner : — 



Your letter of the 25th of June gave me much pleasure, so far as 

 to assure me that you reached York well and without meeting with 

 much difiBculty, but all public matters appear to be in a most dolesome 

 state, as relates to Cholera, and the disturbed situation of England. 

 Dr. Roll was with me this morning, just from old London, and informed 

 me that the last New York papers state that Lord Grey is again Premier, 

 and that there have been alarming meetings in the large towns of Eng- 

 land addressing the king in favor of Reform, 100000 in London express- 

 ing a desire that Willm the 4th would abdicate as he had not,resolution 

 to create the Peers required to carry the favourite measure. I am quite 

 in the dismals, and almost dread the arrival of the post which probably 

 will be here in less than an hour. 



His account also of the sufferings of the Emigrants, between Mont- 

 real and Prescott, is dreadful by the desertion of the Boatmen and the 

 cruelty of the Inhabitants, who will not admit any of the Emigrants 

 into their houses or furnish them with provisions, so that in fact the 

 poor creatures are dying on the banksl of the St. Lawrence by starva- 

 tion. I was much relieved by your account that only 7_ deaths had oc- 

 curred at York of Cholej-a on the 25th. Dr. Roll is a gentlemanly per- 

 son and practised some years in London. I am in hopes that he and a 

 Mr. Johnston from Ireland have made a purchase between them of a 

 lot on Talbot road, two miles this side of St. Thomas. Some of the 

 English Emigrants arrived at Port Stanley last week and one, a Boy 

 of 10 years old, died the Evening he landed, which has been, of course, 

 decided to be Cholera. 



The post is just come, but no letter, therefore adieu. 



Yrs very sincerely, 



Thomas Talbot. 



P.S. — Did you mention to the Archdeacon about the Reserve ad- 

 joining the village of London for the College, to be surveyed and sold? 



'T.T. 



(From the Crown Lands Department.) 



