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ciate its worth, without proclaiming it on the housetops — and making 

 ourselves ridiculous.. 



However high and respectable any person may be, and whatever his 

 exertions may have been for the public good — the industrious population 

 ou,ght not to permit an act, which by its fulsomeness, would be insulting 

 to him, or beneath their own dignity. And whatever may be the object 

 of designing persons, the Yeomanry of the country should never do any- 

 thing that the observing world would be obliged to call prostitution to 

 flattery. 



The inhabitants of this new and extensive chain of settlement, are 

 bearing the burden in the heat of the day. Most of us have increasing 

 families, and must exert ourselves to support them. We can therefore 

 but ill afford to pay our cash for attending far-fetched Anniversaries, 

 public festivities, cordial unions &c., as they are called in the Prospectus 

 before alluded to; knowing, at the same time, that such Associations 

 would have a tendency to lead us imperceptibly to scenes of dissipation, 

 and must like the baseless fabric of a vision, fall to the ground.) 



I am, with sincere regard. 

 Gentlemen, 

 Your most obedient and humble serv't 



M. Burwell 

 Soulthwold, Talbot Road, 18th April, 1817. 



The record of the celebration, held in pursuance of the prospectus, 

 is as follows : 



On the 21pt May, was held at Doctor Lee's Hotel, in* Yarmouth, 

 the Talbot Anniversary, to commemorate the Institution of the 'Talbot 

 Settlement, the President and Vice President, Capts Secord and Rap- 

 pleje directed the Address from Lieut. Colonel Burwell to the People 

 of the Talbot Settlement, in opposition to the Anniversary, asi well as 

 his letter to the Secretary, on the same subject, to be submitted to the 

 meeting. The Anniversary was attended by seventy-five persons. The 

 above papers being read, the resolutions were discussed, and unanimously 

 adopted. 



1st Resolution. — It is the opinion of this meeting, that it was 

 highly unbecoming for Lieut. Colonel Burwell, in such a manner to ob- 

 trude his opinion on a subject respecting which, every man should think 

 for himself ; his individual voice is not to sway the public mind, or over- 

 rule the popular opinion. 



3nd Resolution. — It is the opinion of this meeting, that Lieut. 

 Colonel Burwell's remarks upon the address voted to Colonel Talbot, 

 merely on account of his being the friend aTul foniider of tlii'^ Settle- 



