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t ukrewh_ ("Nince that time 1 have heard nothing of Mr | . Dear Mr, Kixc.--!am very unlucky in | | King, or the settlement, and am very sorry s having been away from this place when you to learn from your letter that his philanthro.-- & called here to--day. 1 was at St. Albrias, in , pic echeme has been unsuccessful | : Hertfordshire. I fear I shall not be at home | 5 J x | e to--mortrow, and by the note you write to m« | No one has any authority to quote my | ( 558 J on rosurm to London early to morrow |\ name to the disadvantsge of Mr. King, and U Fe I shail, 1 regret to say, be uuable to be is f you think it would be any relief to his ho A Loncon to--morrow. You may be assured mind to have this disclaimer, you are quite 1 A¢ however, of my sincerest wishes for the wel at tiberty to forward this letter to him. I T l o o .°l o of y;mr colony at Buxton. I always releaso Mr, King from any pecuniary liability | look back with great ratisfaction and interest in regard to the £50. y | to what I saw under your guidance there in I am, doar Sir, | I 1857. 1 shall be unable jast now to make a Yours truly, | < i arge investment, but shall be glad to take (Signed,) no Towirr | .. ten thares, if that will assist you In case ( ie neat yPe | BJ ov rerain at Nortbampton to.morrow, 1 J. P. fer the West Riding York. & o. | 3seg you and your' frieed Mr, McKellar, Rev. Horrocke vockK . l [ _\ x.PPE., will cows and sleep here to marrow I allude to these to show that the groat bulk | L hall be at home by five or six on Tanurs: | I allude se to : e great bu ! § l{ 8 I have to go to London by the eight | of that money was in the first ph0e_muendod, | ' h « 'li _ ang shall be g'ad to seo you. i' ' and would have been given, as a gift, The 1| 6 « i-hm' ts 97 StJ --streot at 11:30, § charge of baving had the use of some of this | h vou wish it,at 2, m»ngs murey for my own purposes has been at. | i | * «.. A ith&1 tempted to be fastened on me _ Now, I ; 3 Yours faithfa' NC wish to explain what connection I had with l| t Braxora. it, and to in so, [ attempted to get possession { a seyig's b. 10, 1850 of the old books of McKellar and Doisen | € Brick Lan®, Fb, 10, lM ceased tod hla)v? any |conneczion with " § fika o to-- day paid the £50 cKellar and Dolseon in 1855, two yoar« I ,"]r);.::hsl:::'l plrol'l'!:"e:l to .4".','," for thae before Mr. Dolsen left When be loft he ,'I Cluin Sertiement. I profer to do this rath«r placed the books in the hands of Mr, Jesse-- | bgn sign any document whatever, and man, and I have writrea to him and also to ' I y {uther thap acoept the two shares. | Mr Scane, who also had the books, to try [ 6x , You may call it a loan or what you like, | and get them. They have been, however, J > s wigh to inocur any linbility. [ vunable to got the day--bouk and Jodg=r--the | A . t but 1 do no 4 R > booka I wanted. I, hownver, did the next $ p Believe me, dear sir, | beet thing. _ I wrote to the baok-- keeper | Yours faithfully, | ' whom Dolsen and myself{ had, and this is (Signcd.) J. Rowsin Brxrox, his reply :-- Reov. R. Eog. i Bay Cirv, Feb. 26th, 1872, ( P reey snn | | A. McKzenrarR, Esq , ) 50 Keeuusrox g.m;-,l 873 Toront», Ont. t An. 4, Lt\ Drix Siz, --I am in receipt of your favour | Drin Sig,--In reply to your not« of the | of 24th inst,, sccompauied by a copy of the | | 4th instaut, I can ouly say that L have _Ghe | Mail pewspaper, and cnll{nx my attention to | ' vazuost porsible reccl:cotion of naving given a» article contained thercin headed " Elgin g «y sum of money to Mr King. In fact, bat Frauds," and asking mo to state what I know | 3 for your note, 1 should never have thought of the matters reterred to, and also the means E ; again on the matter. | 1 had of ocbtaining my information. I may ' I have bo doubt, however, that T gave the | state that in the month of February, 1856, 1 | 5 g£25 wit'h the ;u"'",,den,t.udiu;-, that it wa» | was emplioyed by MoKellar and Dolsen as /A C 48 object good in itsolf, but with doubtiat | ncok.keeper and cashier, which position I ; | C¥ bability ot succers, on account of th« ' s occupied from thet dato till the summer of | $ A proba D}}1 Yi'fii"nltiea and imndeed I am con i-- 1868, when I left Th itham and became a re-- i ';.c"i'll?»k: d upon it as a gifs, not as atown | ai€ent of this State. All I know of the :Ii dent 1 1x p(theref')fe I make no claim Elein afeir is as follows:--In the latter | < ho Tey mas "ya'ndl hope you will tell Mé end of March or beginoing of© April, 1869, | A . tn the money, far as I .pv: conserned, [ hopo liev, Wm. King called npin me at your of-- /' King that, so fa a nce during your absence at Quebec, and Mr. $t be will pnever hear of the matter again. | o at C l t the dificultics Jolsep's abserce purchasing logs, ho told *4 Much regretting to bear 0 we be bad mado arrangements in Rog-- t * _ he has had to mect, laod for money to carry on lumbering ' I am, dear sir, operations in Buxton, that it was too late to MU| Yours truly, dlt]) anything at that poins that se:;ozia(, lmd | l Cl oo | theretore he must arrange with oKellar h | | (Signed) W. E. Fossres, and Doleen to purchase a cargo of staves | Rev. Horrocks Cooks, ""d".'," liu;,;)f tl;e Great Western Railway, wormsmmmee sls ¥ and bave them ship as he had agreed. ) . Privy Covnor Orric®, Jan. 18, 1873. l'{e at the ifio l';imep;:nded me a li-t.gt lia-- | of the »litics, which be wished me to pay out of '- ,,li"'" 'S a Bl':;? o,:)l;ly..? my:rn'::;t:emem- the money as soon as received, lmlf,)uyryning to | | :\;'. m:ba.t my late uncle, Joaiah For--ter, a eum between tifteen hundred aad two mpg utioned to me Mr. King's enterprise thourand dollars, and on that list was the ?"" l::' apeak with authority on his behalf, sum paid E. L. Stoddard, as pub!ished in his bc:li havep;o doubt that wore ho alive be letter to Mr Stephenson in the Mail of the | A o i u 1d take the same view of the matter l l6th of January, which you sent me. Tae | $ ;0" '£, Atany rate, as his acting excou: money was recoived, in all about t . thousand | g:rml):;ot.lld T uink I was actiog wrongly,and «oliara. 'The debts on Mr. King's scheduie { ' mn'tnr' to what 1 am surse would have been | * were paid. Mr. James MOL"P. of W ards-- j bis wisbh, in taking any steps for the recovery ville, who had beou employed in purchasiag | | of the n';ouey or the annoyance of Mr. King. logs during the winter, was engaged to par-- 1 | | 1 dext t4 chase a cargo of ataves Ho bought the | am, Gear §Ir, etaves at Mount Bryoges, and they were § \ Yours truly, #ent from there to Mesars D. C Thompsun (Signed) W. E. ForstEr, & Co., otf Quebec, to be shipped to William | , Horiothe Cocke. Millor, Fenohuroh--street, Loadon. (Witinentoes zes Mr. Thomaon wrote that freights ran so [ &1 Loxsuaro--sraekt, E6 C., high that if they were shipped to London t | 20th January, 1873. . | there would be a loes on them. I recollect f, . you yourself bad business in Kingston, and + ._ Dran Sir,--In roply to your ;:?w,' I from there you went to Quebec ta see if it > | be?z to say that T havs not any clatm what. were possible to have them sent ts Londou <ver on the Rev. Mr. Xing, the money I sub without loes You reported on your return | scribed toward the Eigin settliement being that they could enly be shipped at a protis | fzom the first a gift. as broken atowage, and that there woere so 4 ~a 1 am, deiar sir wany of them thoy could not be sent in that l t x t'ml way, and that you had Jeft them with Mr + , vure Sruly; Thomson to do the best h« could with | . J (Signed,) _ J. G. Barouay, them; be sold them late in the fall or earty PRav, H. Cooks, i© the winterand sent us the money, which, | <I i ts wiing at your requra:, 1 handed to I}fir. ll(liug; that | , "3, is all 1 know of the matter, No othsr monie= Lasus, January 7":13'3 belorging to Mr King or the Elgin Associa-- Dear Bir,--I bave this day received yours tion were in your possession either before or § , «f the 4th instant. ; aiter that date, during my stay in Chatha a 4 Bome ten years lgo or more, \f: fK;'S d':: ' Yours truly, f introdunced to me by a particular frien K f wine (since dead, Mr. Ubristy) who had |_ _ J M Warker® _ | [ | a visited his Canad:an settlement for escaped The morey was paid to Mr. King, and 1 y . blacks, and was much pleased and interested vappered to bave an account here of th« ¥ with what ho raw. »tave sale, which'Is &eogmonn;ed to $4 534, » 4 s leaving a profit of $92 08 in the transaction A I subscribed.£50 and fora short time I \ Tbat. sir. is what I had to do with that | + i ' ® * * | F ' } received some payments towerd intersa + | 6 (6gct }