624 TONGE STREET AND DUNDAS STREET. 



" Introduction to the Diary of Walter Yonge, Esq.," published in 

 1848 by the Camden Society, says of Sir George that he was once 

 heard to say that he began life with .£80,000 of family property, that 

 he received £80,000 with his wife, and that he had been paid £80,000 

 by the Government for his public services, but that Honiton had 

 swallowed it all. All had been sunk in the " wool-mills " at or near 

 Honiton. (The Walter Yonge just mentioned was an ancestor of 

 Sir George's, who likewise represented the Borough of Honiton in 

 Pai'liament.) Sir George Yonge was buried at Colyton in Devon, 

 where his coffin-plate is preserved. But it appears that no tablet to 

 his memory has been erected. Doubtless a great error of j udgment 

 was committed when Sii' George ventured to meddle with " wool- 

 mills ; " ventured to engage in speculations connected with the manu- 

 facture by machinery of serges and broad-cloths. Actuated, it may 

 be, by public spirit in entering on such undertakings, and also by a 

 desii-e, perhaps, to become rapidly rich, yet wholly without practical 

 expei'ience in the conduct of such enterprises, he became, it is likely, 

 the dupe of sharpers. The broad pleasant acres of Devon, to which 

 he and his lathers had been wont to trust for comfortable revenue, 

 slipped away out of liis hands, and like Antaeus when lifted off from 

 the earth, the country gentleman, uprooted from the land, soon found 

 his power and influence gone. Although many bearing his family 

 name, more or less nearly connected with him by blood, have since 

 become distinguished in the world of letters and scholarship, we do 

 not, after him, observe any one of his name going up to the House 

 of Commons from Devon, and serving the State as Minister of the 

 Crown. 



Besides Yonge Street," we have in Ontario another memorial of Sir 

 George Yonge, in the name of the township of Puslinch, in the county 

 of Wellington, that being the name of a well-known family seat of 

 the Yonges near Ycalmton, in Devonshire; for although the sub- 

 division of the wide-spread sept of the Yonges to which Sii- George 

 Yonge belonged, was known strictly as the Yonges of Colyton, yet 

 it is to be observed that Burke, in his Landed Gentry, gives his 

 notice of the Yonges of Colyton under the more comprehensive head 

 of the Yonges of Puslinch. 



I now proceed with my memoir of the other personage whose life 

 and career I desire to recall, viz., Henry Dundas. 



