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 THE INDIAN LANDS. 
 
 [From the Hamilton Spcctatoii, October 4th, 1848.] 
 
 The foUotvIng documents have been handed 
 us for insertion. The case has excited a great 
 deal of attention in this city and along the 
 Grand Rirer, and the correspondence is doubt- 
 less interesting to the parties more immediately 
 concerned :— 
 
 [Copy.] 
 
 No. 13. 
 
 To His Excellency the Right Honorable James 
 Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Go- 
 vernor-Qeneral of British North America, 
 &c. &c. &c. 
 
 My Lord,— In the Memorials I have had 
 the honor of addressing to your Lordship, the 
 painful duty has been lorced upon me of dfetail- 
 ing the hardships, sufferings, and deep distress 
 in which a very numerous body of Her Most 
 Gracious Majesty's dutiful, loyal, 'and industri- 
 ous subjects, nave been involved, by the mis- 
 takes, blunders, or something worse, ot the Of- 
 ficers connected with the C'^iwn Lands' De- 
 partments. 
 
 My last one handed your Lordship, by that 
 devoted friend of the poor emigrant, the Hon. 
 Adam Ferrie, in which was set forth the further 
 liardship of illegal incarceration in the com- 
 mon gaol of this place, together with a prayer 
 for liberation from such cruel incarceration.un- 
 der my then peculiar position, has met with no 
 reply. 
 
 Ishould not have deemed'it necesssary to trou- 
 bte your Lordship at presegtany further in the 
 matter, but the following MW be my apology:— 
 
 Learning, on my last visit to Montreal, that 
 this matter of dispute, regarding the Indians 
 and their lands, was an Imperial question, and 
 could not be disposed of by any authority here ; 
 and having, in iormer Memorials, prayed that 
 the various documents connected with the mat- 
 ter mav be transmitted for the oonsideration ot 
 Her Majesty, I should have been disposed to 
 await the issue of such application. 
 
 My incarceration of last January.for 30 days, 
 at the very time my wife was expecting in a 
 few weeks to become a mother, called forth a 
 letter to her friends in London, and directing 
 attention to the documents and promise in the 
 following : — 
 
 [No. 1.] " LoNDOK, 2nd April, 1847. 
 
 "The petition from Mr. Cheshire, with all 
 other documents, have been sent to the Colonial 
 Office, one of the Clerks promised they should 
 be placed before Lord Grey. The Clerk said, 
 Mr.Cs petition was toolong,but that ht would 
 
 put it into propnform for Lord Grey. He also 
 said, that whatever was done, would be by in- 
 structions sent out to Canada. 
 
 (Signed) " R. P. Bickerton." 
 
 [No. 2.] "34, St. James's Place, » 
 
 ••June 6th, 1848. ) 
 
 <* Sir,— Enclosed is the answer I have re- 
 ceived from Mr. Hawes, to the enquiry I 
 addressed to the Colonial Office at your request, 
 I may mention, that previous to writing, I spoke 
 to Mr. Hawes, and showed him the passages 
 you pointed out to me in the pamphlet, relatmg 
 to the case of Mr. Cheshire. 
 
 '* I am, Sir, yours faithfully, 
 
 (Signed) " Dudley Coutts Stuart. 
 " R. P. Bickertom, Esq-" 
 
 [ No. 3.] " Colonial Office, June 5, 1848. 
 
 "Dear Lord Dudley,— I bee to acknowledge 
 the receipt of your note of the 31st nlt.,in which 
 you have called ray attention to the ejectment 
 of Mr. Cheshire from certain lands in Canada. 
 I have caused a search to be made among our 
 records, and I can now safely say, that we pos- 
 sess no information upon the subject 
 
 " It is possible that Mr. Cheshire, owing to 
 imperfect survey of lands, has had lots assign- 
 ed to him which in reality belonged to the In- 
 dians, and from which, when the fact was as- 
 certained, he has been ejected. 
 
 <> duestions of this kind being entirely under 
 the control of the local government, it is to 
 Lord Elgin that Mr. Cheshire must apply for 
 redress. 
 
 " Believe me, very faithfully yours, 
 (Signed) '< B. Hawes. 
 
 Dudley S 
 
 "To Lord: 
 
 Stuart." 
 
 I have therefore, my Lord, thought it a duty 
 I owe to myself, fellow-settlers whom I repre- 
 sent, and to others faking a deep interest in this 
 matter, thus publicly to lay the matter before 
 your Lordship; at toe same ; time, calling at- 
 tention to the proceedings now going on here 
 in the Court of Queen's Bench ; as also other 
 presentments for riot, on the part of the Indians, 
 the particulars of which, I presume, will come 
 more fully under the attention of your Lord- 
 ship, through other and more important chan- 
 nels than, my Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's 
 ^ Most Obed't. Humble Serv't. 
 F. J. CHESHIRE. 
 City of Hamilton, Oct. 3rd, 1848. 
 
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