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great service to me to be amongst you for 3 or 4 days. Kindest remem- 

 brances to the Chief and Mrs. Eobinson. 



T. T. 

 The Honourable 



Peter Eobinson, C.C.L. 



&c. &c. &c. 



York. 



Sunday Morn, J. 27th. There was a large circle round the Moon 

 last night, a good sign for a storm. 



(From the Crown Lands Department.) 



Talbot to Hon. Peter Eobinson. 



Port Talbot, April 1st, 1833. 



Private 

 My Dear Commissr. — 



Your letter of the 25th of March certainly astounded me, as well 

 it might, for before I saw your statement of the expense attending the 

 Settlement of Adelaide, I should not have imagined it to have amounted 

 to anything like £4,000. I was told yesterday that in consequence of 

 the Issuing of provisions having been stopped, that a body of the Set- 

 tlers had come to the resolution of breaking open the Stores and taking 

 away all that they could find, last Thursday was the day fixed upon 

 for executing their plan, but I trust that nothing of that nature occurred. 

 Seriously, I am at a loss to conceive how a large proportion of the most 

 destitute of them can exist unless some assistance is given, until they 

 can laise some Potatoes and Indian Corn. 



In an} future case I strongly recommend that there shd not be any 

 expense in.urred in erecting Huts for the New Settlers, as I cannot 

 understand why they cannot build their own. Enough of so painful a 

 subject, besides my pen is so bad that it is with difficulty I can write 

 a word. 



One comfort is that the weather has since yesterday shown some 

 appearance of Spring, which will be more encourageing to the poor crea- 

 tures. Lake Erie, as far as I can see, has been clear from Ice for the 

 last week, but how it is at Fort Erie I have not heard. 



I saw Smith the Depy. Surveyr yesterday. He is now making out 

 his Plan and return of the Township of Brooke, and he described one 

 half of it very good, and the other nearly a Swamp. I was delighted 

 to hear so good an account of the Chief's House and yourself, and I 



