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"38 York Place. 26th March, 1819. Dear James: It was my 

 intention to have seen you immediately after I wrote to Captain 

 Tarbet, but I have been prevented by a press of bxisiness. On consult- 

 ing Captain Tarbet, I think nothing better can be done for you at 

 present than to proceed in his ship, and to put yourself under his 

 orders in every way he may direct ; and I am certain he will behave 

 towards you as your conduct may deserve. I have written to your 

 mother to that effect, and I should hope you will see the propiiety 

 of implicitly attending to your duty on board, so as to merit the 

 patronage of Captain Tai'bet. I have every disposition to give you 

 the same assistance to forward you in' life as I have given to your 

 bi-other Robert and to your cousins. But as your behaviour has not 

 hitherto been such as to deserve that countenance from me which I 

 have given them, it would be highly improper in me to make no 

 distinction. If, undei' Captain Tai-bet's commands, you conduct your- 

 self to merit his approbation and recommendation, I shall be most 

 happy on your return to receive you as I have done your cousins, 

 into my house, and to afford you all the assistance in my power to 

 forward your views in life. Biit I am confident your own good 

 sense must convince you that you have not behaved as you ought to 

 have done, and tliat it is absolutely necessary you should have a fair 

 trial, which you will have under Captain Tarbet, of shewing your 

 capability, and of proving the inclination to behave well and to 

 deserve attention. Captain Tarbet will order you such clothes, (fee, 

 as he may think you require for the voyage ; and I shall have an 

 opportunity of seeing you again before you sail. I am your well- 

 wisher and friend, Joseph Hume. Mr. James Crow, Ship York.''' 

 The young sailor, we will hope, weighed well these paternal words, 

 and turned them to profitable account. 



Sir George Arthur, who followed Sir Francis Head, was the last 

 Governor of the Province of Upper Canada. His name is before me> 

 subscribed by his own hand, to a long letter addressed to Bishop 

 Mountain of Montreal, from Government House, Toronto, 18th 

 December, 1838. This again is ecclesiastical in tone. The whole 

 paper is in the handwriting of Mr. John Kent, who for a time acted 

 as Private Secretary to Sir George. I transcribe the concluding 

 sentence : " The subjects brought under my consideration by your 

 Lordship's letter I am conscious are of the deepest importance. I 

 will give what attention to them I can bestow at present, and I do 



