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Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included In one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre filmte A des taux de rMuction diff^rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reproduit en un soul cilchA, il est film* A partir de I'angie supArieur gauche, de gauche d drolte, et de haut en bas, en prenant la nombre d'images ntcessaira. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 ^■i"if • v/ic / 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. '%!% ( ; ' '^H/i^c "' A ' * If k--* . -■•„ ^"^^. %, d-.^. ,-;#-4#^- 1 . f- V.' , • • d r h.n^ ^^ / €:^^ie^ ^I2€<.^^^^^^<:t'*>^ /*T(^ «C4.<^ ■x ^ J M^iv U^6^0i^ <:4^ de^ /Uti£,c:,JL^ <^^/^ /Z^^^K/ ^y^ pTM^^^^^^-''*-^ /i& ^^' ^^^ /h*y a/(4€t^4ic^^4j ud y:^ic-94^nL^^^>c^ . 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