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Toronto is now the great City of the West the seat of Government with 

 all the great people of the realm. This removal will cost the Province 

 £6@£8000 — of the many very many packages brought up from Montreal 

 Bome are said to contain their winter supply of turnips. The old Parlia- 

 ment buildings are all restored again to their former state. The Gov- 

 ernment House is filled up with various ofiBces — our streets and, roads 

 are all put in order, and his Majesty Executive Government have their 

 hands full in maturing appointments and filling up all vacancies, all 

 well just now we shall see how things local go on, when Parliament meets. 

 I have reed a long & well writen letter from Mr. Gore of 27th Octr he 

 is quite well. 



W. A. 



Talbot to Hon. Wm. Allan 



My dear Allan:— Port Talbot 1st Dec. 1849 



I received your very kind note enclosing the necessary papers for 

 George Macbeths little money matters, and both myself and him feel 

 most grateful for the trouble you have taken, and I herein forward a 

 check on the Bank for the £6. 6. 8. Cu'ry you advanced. 



I am under great affliction by seeing in the papers the death of 

 my dear brother Lord Talbot de Malahide — Your report of Mrs. George 

 Allan is not so satisfactory as I expected, God bless you and believe me 

 ever most sincerely yrs 



Thomas Talbot. 

 The Honble 



William Allan. 



(Allan Papers). 



Talbot to Chief Justice Eobinson. 

 The Honble 



John B. Robinson, 

 Chief Justice 

 &c. &c. 



Toronto. 



Port Talbot 11th Dec. 1849 

 My dear Chief: — 



Your kind letter of the 6th Int. was I can assure you a great treat, 

 as the general report you give of all the members of your family, is 

 really quite cheering, but I am and have been for some time dismayed 

 with the frightful state of this country, little did I think when I first 



