—In order to put your Lordship in possession of the state of the guarantee subject, I enclose the page 251copy of a letter which I sent to Mr. J. A. Smith on receipt of yours of the 6th.

I have made inquiry about Chapman's communication to Mr. Wynne, and am satisfied that it was not an opinion concerning the price of land that ought to weigh with anybody, but merely one of the many forms of fretful and half-angry complaint, in which intending colonists, preparing for a wreck of their hopes, are apt to express themselves.

I have the honor to be,