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Talbot to Hon. Peter Robinson. 



Pi'ivate 

 The Honourable 



Peter Bobinson, C.C.L. 



&c. &c. &c. 



York. 



Port Talbot, July 8th, 1832. 

 My Dear Commissioner: — 



Your letter of the 2nd was a great relief, as I was most anxious to 

 hear how all my Friends in York were at this alarming time. I am 

 quite dolesome at the state of things in England, as the consequences 

 may involve us all in misery. William the 4th has much to answer for, 

 for had he been spirited after the first rejection of the Reform Bill and 

 called in the Wellington party, order and security might have been 

 restored, but as matters now are there is no saying the lengths refiorm 

 or change may be carried. However, it cannot avail any good croaking. 



Some of the English Emigrants have arrived and proceeded with 

 Mount to their locations. I am told a very healthy, well looking people. 

 By the way, when you write to Mount, pray have the goodness to say 

 that should he be authorized to purchase Beef Cattle for the Emigrants 

 that I have several head to dispose of, and now that I am giving you 

 trouble, I have another favor to ask of you — thro' the careless or wil- 

 fulness of the Surveyr Genls oflSce, a poor fellow, Tunis Swart, who I 

 had located on a lot on the Longwood Road in Carradoc, who had made 

 a large improvement and built extensively, lost his lot by a description 

 having been issued for another person, without the necessary authority 

 from me, when I was in York last winter Radenhurst gave me the num- 

 bers of several lots in Caradoc, as thrown open by the council for locat- 

 ing so that I might provide for Tunis Swart. He made choice of No. 

 19, in the 10th Conn, which I reported to Radenhurst, but to my morti- 

 fication and surprise he wrote that Swart could not have the lot in 

 consequence of Sir John in "Council having extended the time for Colonel 

 Bostwick to perform the settlement duties on his Militia Grant. My 

 request is that you will enquire of Radenhurst for lots that may be 

 vacant in Caradoc, and send me the numbers but be careful not to send 

 any numbers that are doubtful, for that I cannot run any more risk. 



The weather for the last week has been very hot, and I am sorry 

 to say that a few persons have died after a very few hours sickness, 

 which the Quacks pronounce to be cholera. 



However, within the last week I have had an addition of two regu- 

 lar bred physicians, who are establishing themselves in Loudon, Dr. 



