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 Money if he had acted as he ought he would before this have been living on his own Earnings in a most Respectfull way as no Young Man from this Country had so Advantageous an Opportunity to provide for himself. When he has past his Examination You will give him what you think Necessary and let him shift for himself. If he had behaved Well and had passed his Examination I could have got him a situation of 150£ pr Annum. But his being Unqualified and his Misconduct put it out of my power. In a postscript to his letter of 21st Nov 1835 to Mr Epps he says he will go to Montreal to resume his studies if a hundred and fifty pounds are given him. What an Impudent demand What little Desire does this shew to qualify himself to earn his livelihood as a Gentleman if I had been in Canada when he made this most impudent demand I should have sent him at once about his Business and cast him off for ever as certainly after the Manner he has acted with my Brother if he had the least sense or feeling he would feel too sensitive of the Great Favour Great Charity done him in giving him an opportunity of reestablishing himself in the World that he would receive all that is done for him with the humility and Gratitude which such Unmerited Kindness and Indulgence deserve, and I cannot conclude this without assuring you that I duly feel for the manner in which you have been treated by a person whom you had treated so Affectionately and still do I feel it more severely as all this trouble was brought on from your desire to do good to others and to benefit me

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NB. . . You Disapprove of my having sent David to Paris. I did so in consequence of the fine Accounts my Brother gave me of Johns progress. ... Receiving such Accounts I was Induced to send David who I Expected would not only have the benefit of his Uncles protection but that also of his Brothers care how cruelly have I been Disappointed. How different was My Brothers Letter of 1834 and those received in 1835 are still worse. If you had Expressed the least desire for Davids remaining in Canada Mr Finlayson would have left him as he supposed after seeing the letters my Brother wrote me in 1833 in praise of John that My Brothers Marriage was the cause of Johns coming to Canada. But I cannot but say that instead of sending John to