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The Prince Regent that morning had personally dissolved Parliament, and Amyot tells Ryland that His Royal Highness was well received in the Park and streets. No fewer than four M.P.'s had begun to advocate Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage. Amyot is concerned to have particulars about an attack which took place in a Quebec newspaper on him and other absentee officials.

Amyot sends Ryland copies of the Debates on the ill-fated Union Bill. He explains that Londonderry did not care to press the Bill against Sir James Mackintosh's opposition. A misunderstanding has arisen among Amyot, Sir Nathaniel Burton, and Colonel Ready concerning the former's position. He will not relinquish it to Ready for a sum out of the profits, but he would accept Burton's offer of a �300 pension. Canning is talked of as Londonderry's successor.

Amyot hopes that Ryland will soon be able to send a remittance for Sir George Powhall, who is very downcast for want of it, being involved in lawsuits on his own and his sister's behalf. Amyot encloses New Year's greetings.

Amyot informs Ready that Ryland has waived his son's claim to Amyot's deputyship. The death of the Duke of Richmond has rendered impossible an arrangement which His Grace had planned, and so Lieutenant-Colonel Ready and Ryland will deputize pro tem for Amyot, until an arrangement can be made with Lord Bathurst's sanction, or the appointment of a permanent deputy becomes necessary. Meanwhile Ryland receives and transmits Amyot's salary and other sums due to Amyot from Mr. Taylor's representatives.

The collection consists of thirty-five letters, thirty-three of which are addressed to H.W. Ryland, member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, one to a Lieutenant-Colonel Ready, Amyot's deputy at Quebec at the time, and one to the Reverend William Ryland, curate of Sandridge, England, the son of H. W. Ryland. The letters concern chiefly private business matters and Amyot's relation to Lower Canada when he was its absentee secretary, the receipt of his pension when his secretaryship was commuted in 1828, and his activities with the British government on Ryland's behalf.