"If you agree to this, I will send the papers and my remarks to the
Land Commissioners at once, and see you (after getting their report) on
Wednesday next, or any day after it, except Friday.
"Pray let me hear by return.
"Yours very sincerely,
"NEWCASTLE."
"DOWNING STREET,
"6 _May_, 1863.
"MY DEAR MR. WATKIN,
"I hope and believe that the despatches in their final shape, as they
went out to N. Columbia on Friday last, and to Canada on Saturday, were
quite what you and the proposed 'N. W. Transit Company' would wish.
"I added words which (without dictation) will be understood as implying
'No Intercolonial, no Transit.'
"If you happen to be in this neighbourhood any day between 3 and 4.30,
I shall be glad to see you, though I have nothing at all pressing to
say.
"Yours very sincerely,
"NEWCASTLE."
CHAPTER IX.
_The Right Honorable Edward Ellice, M.P._
I have alluded to this remarkable man under the soubriquet attached to
him for a generation--"the old Bear.
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