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" I would die by more tlian Indian torture to restore my King and 

 iiis family to their rightful inheritance, and to give my covintry that 

 fair and natural accession of power which an union with their 

 brethren could not fail to bestow and render permanent. 



" Though a soldier, it is not by arms that I hope for this result : it 

 is volentes in 2Jopi(los only that such a renewal of empire can be 

 desirable to His Majesty ; and I think, even now (though I hold that 

 the last supine five years, and every hour that the Government is 

 deferred, detracts from our fair hopes) — even now, this event may 

 take place. 



" I mean to prepare for whatever convulsions may happen in the 

 United States ; and the method I propose is by establishing a free, 

 honourable, British Government, and a pure administration of its 

 laws, which shall hold oxit to the solitary emigrant, and to the several 

 States, advantages that their present form of government doth not 

 and cannot permit them to enjoy. 



"There are inherent defects in the Congressional form of government. 

 The absolute prohibition of any order of nobility is a glaring one. 

 The true New-England Americans have as strong an aristocratical 

 spirit as is to be found in Great Britain ; nor are they anti-monar- 

 chical. I hope to have a hereditary Council, with some mark of 

 nobility." 



He then proceeds to speak of the locality which he expected to 

 make the heart and centre of his new community, and of the name 

 which its chief town was to bear. 



" For the purpose of Commerce, Union, and Power," he says, 

 ' "I propose that the site of the Colony should be in that great 

 Peninsula between the Lakes Huron, Erie and Ontario, a spot 

 destined by nature sooner or later to govern that interior world. 



" I mean to establish a Capital in the very heart of that Country, 

 upon the Biver la Tranche, which is navigable for batteaux one 

 hundred and fifty miles, and near to where the Grand River, which 

 falls into Erie, and others that communicate with Huroo. and Ontaiio, 

 almost interlock. The Capital I mean to call Georgina. I aim to 

 settle in its vicinity Loyalists who are now in Connecticut, provided 

 that Government approve of the system. I am to have a Bishop, an 

 English Chief Justice, &c." 



He then observes that he is aware his views will be deemed 

 chimerical by some in England. He is nevertheless confident of 

 sympathy among many in the New England States. 



