IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 4 1.0 I.I 1.25 rM 1^ 2.2 :^ 1^ lillM m .,. II 1.8 U IIIIII.6 V y^ Photographic Sciences Corporation :3WeS> MA!H STREET W(t5T'.«,N.Y. M580 (716) S72-4S03 4^ ^'' To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Heab, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gudphic Order, Knight cfthe Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, Sfc, S^c, S^c. May it please Your Excf.llency : We, Her Majesty's (Pitiful and loyal Subjects, the Legislative Council of Upper Canada, in Provin- cial Parliament assembled, beg to return our respect- ful thanks to Your Excellency for communicating to us the fact, which is at this crisis particularly impor- tant, that by the regulations of Her Majesty's Service the command of the Troops, and of the Militia em- ployed in defence of this Province, cannot be united in Your Excellency's person with the administration of the Civil Government. If Your Excellency were to continue to represent Her Majesty in this Colony, we are persuaded, that under present circumstances, such a separation of the Civil power from the Military Command would be likely to lead to very unfortunate results, since military rank and experience, although they are by no means incompatible with the peculiar qualifications which are requisite to give confidence, animation and effect, to the Military Force, are not always to be found united with them. We bi!g to assure Yuur Excnllency thai we learn with extreme regret, that the Civil Goveriiiment of this Province is to continue for so short a time in Your Excellency's charge. It is not known to u» upon what particular points Your Excellency's views have diiTered so essentially from those of Her Majes- ty's Government, that Your Excellency was induced to teiid'^r your r< signation ; but we know, that at no period in the history of Upper Canada hns its political condition been such as ought to be more satiiisfactory to the Ministers of the Crown : and we feel that not Upper Canada only, but the Empire, owes to Your Excellency a targe debt of gratitude, for your firm ftnd manly avowal, upon all occasions, of those senti- ments which became the Representative of a British Monarch, and for the unwavering support whichYour Excellency has never failed to give to the established principles of the Constitution. It is this fearless adherence to right principles, rather than to expediency, which has enabled Your Excellency to rally round the Government, in a mo- ment of danger, the arms of an united People : and to exhibit this Province to our Sovereign and to the world, in a posture which must command for its brave and loyal inhabitants the highest admiration and respect. If the result of Your Excellency's firm and un- compromising policy shall impress upon Her Majesty's Government the conviction, that they need not fear to support in Upper Canada the principles of the British Constitution, it will have produced an effect of infinite value to this Colony ; and will have supplied what we believe has been chiefly wanting to insure its perroa** tient tranquillity. But the Legislative Council cannot refrain from (expressing the regret with which they havQ observed, in the case of Your Exc«ll«ncy» and of your reapectad 6 and guilunt Predecessor, that your connection with the Government of this Colony haa seemed incapable of being^ protracted, with sutisfuclion to yourselves, beyond the period when it became evident that no submission would be made by you to a spirit of factious discontent^ which nothing can appease but the destruction of British rule. We beg Your Excellency to believe, that the Legislative Oouncd will ever entertain a grateful recollection of the justice and condescension which they have always had occasion to acknowledge in their intercourse with Your Excellency ; and that they participate deeply in the feeling of general regret at Your Excellency's approaching departure from this Province. JOHN B. ROBINSON, ; Spioakeh. Legislative Council Chamber, r/thday ofJan'y. 1838 F. B. HEAD. The Lieutenant Governor informs the House of Assembly, that in consequence of this Province being invaded and assailed by a foreign enemy, and being the scene of actual military operations. Colonel Foster, the Officer in command of Her Majesty's land Forces, has assumed the entire military authority and command over the Troops ; that he is also in command of the Militia ; and that the Commissary General at Quebec has communicated to the Officer in charge of the Commissariat here, that consistently with the rules of the Service, no expenses can be allowed unless sanctioned by the authority of the Military Commander, upon whom the protection of the Province has thus necessarily devolved. The Lieutenant Governor takes this opportunity to-communicate to the House of Assembly, that having had the misfortune to differ fri>m Her Majesty's Government, on one or two points of Colonial policy, he felt it his duty, on the lOlh of September last, respectfully to tender to Her Mnjcsty's Pprincipal Secretary of State for the CoIonie.«, the resignation of the important station, which for a short time, he has had the honor to hold in this Province. His resignation having bi.'on graciously accepted, the Lieutenant Governor has to inform the House of Assembly, that ho yesterday received official informa- tion that H(T Majesty has been pleased to appoint Colonel Sir George Arthur, to he Lic^itenant Governor of Upper Canada, and that His Excellency may be expected to arrive here in a few days. Under the peculiar circumstances in which the Province is at present placed, the; LientcMiant Governor feels confident, thut the House of Assembly will rejoice with him at the ap[)roaching arrival of an Officer of high character and considerable experience, whose rank in the Army will enal)Ie him to combine the Military command with the Civil Government of this Province. Government Houses • 15th January, 1838. [ \ ri To His Excellency Sir FRA^CIS Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^c. S^c, S^c. May it pleasb Your Excelleincy : We, Her Mnjesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons House of Assembly, in Provincial Parliament assembled, humbly thank Your Excellency for Your Excellency's Message of the 15th instant, communicating to this House, that '' in consequence m B ** of this Province being invaded and assailed by a " foreign eneray,and being the scene of actual military " operations, Colonel Foster, the Officer in corninand ♦' of Her Majesty's land Forces, has assumed the ♦♦ entire military authorUy and command over llit; ** Troops ; that he is also in command of tiie Militia ; " and that the Commissary General at duebec has " communicated to the Officer in charge of the Com- '* missariat here, that consistently with the rules of ilui *♦ Service, no expenses can be allowed unless sanc- *' tioned by the authority of the Military Commander, ** upon whom the protection of the Province has thus " necessarily devolved." In reference to this subject, we can only express our earnest hope that this regulation, which the rules of the Service appear to have rendered necessary, may in no respect impair the efficiency of the opera- tions hitherto planned and directed by Your Excel- lency, with so much success for the preservation and defence of the Province against the attack of foreign and domestic enemies. We are further informed by Your Excellency, that having had the misfortune to differ from Her Majesty's Government, on one or two points of Colo- nial policy, Your Excellency felt it your duty, on the 10th of September last, respectfully to tender to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, the resignation of the important station, which for a short time, Your Excellency has had the honor to hold in this Province, and that Your Excel- lency's resignation had been graciously accepted. — When this House recalls to recollection the events of Your Excellency's administration of the affairs of this Province — the universal respect and confidence with which you are regarded, arising from Your Excellen- cy's firm and uncompromising adherence to the principles of the Constitntion, and which has afforded 9 to the iuUabitaats of this Colony various opportitnities of proviirg, not by words merely, but by acts the most convincing and undeniable, their firm unshaken loyahy to their Sovereign, and their desire to maintain their connection with the Parent State, in contradiction to assertions end insinuations of a contrary tendency, we cannot but view with alarm the disclosure now made, that Your Excellency has felt yourself called upon to resign the administration of the Government on the grounds stated in Your Excellency's Message. If Your Excellency's measures and policy have not given satisfaction to our Gracious Queen, we are driven to enquire, in the most humble and respectful, but solemn manner, what course of policy it is that is expected by Her Majesty from Her Majesty's Repre- sentative in this Province 1 Deeply impressed with the duty of submission to the Constitutional exercise of the Royal Prerogative, we do not question the right of the Sovereign to select Her Representatives in this or any other Colony of the Empire — but we nevertheless feel ourselves impelled by a sense of duty, suggested by a desire to maintain our allegiance, (and which, on our part, can never be laid aside or forgotten,) humbly, but earnestly and emphatically to declare, that if any thing bp calculated to shake the attachment of Her Majesty's now truly loyal and devoted Subjects to Her Royal Person and Govern- ment, it is by acts of injustice, or the manifestation of ungenerous distrust towards Servants, who have served the British Nation so faithfully and nobly as Your Excellency has done. It will be the duty of this House, before the close of the present Session, and when more fully informed of facts, to express more at large the feelings and opinions they entertain on this painfully interesting and important subject. 9 ^-i^'i 10 In the meantime, wc bng to assure Your Excel- lency, that this House, and the people of the Province, will regard Your Excellency's relinquishment of its Government as a calamity of the most serious nature, and which may result in difficulties and dissensions that cannot be easily repaired or reconciled. We however are fully persuaded, that the blame can- not rest with Your Excellency ; and while we sin- cerely and most willingly acknowledge the zeal, ability, justice and honorable disinterestedness, with which you have conducted the Government of this Province, during your short but eventful and arduous administration of its affairs, we beg respectfully and affectionately to express, on behalf of this Province, our earnest hope, that Your Excellency's prosperity in future life may be commensurate with the claims, deep and lasting as they are, upon our gratitude — the approbation of our Gracious Queen — and the applause and acknowledgment of the British Nation. ;.. H,,L..„...:.. J . :. . H. RUTTAN, Spgakbr. Commons House of Assembly, 16th day of Jan'y. 1838. To His Excellency i^\R Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^c, ^c. S^c. May it please Your Excellency : , We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Legislative Council of Upper Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, humbly pray that Your Excel- lency will be pleased to transmit to this House copies of so much of Your Excellency's correspondence with the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the 11 Colonies, as relates to Ycmr Excellency's resignation of the Government of this Province, embracing the matter of policy npon which Your Excellency had the misfortune to differ from Iler Majesty's Government, so far as the same may, in Your Excellency's opinion, be with propriety communicated. , JOHN B. ROBINSON, Speaker. , Legislative Council Chambery 19th day of Jan'y. 1838. HIS EXCELLENCY'S REPLY. Honorable Gentlemen : It would afford me the greatest satisfaction to transmit to the Legislative Council, according to its request, so much of my correspondence with the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colo- nies, as relates to my resignation of the Government of this Province ; but after deliberate consideration I have come to the conclusion, that the publication of these documents migitt, under existing circumstances, embarrass my Successor, and might be considered as a violation of official confidence. So long as I remain in the service of Her Mejes- ty's Government, 1 do not consider myself justified in defen:. .'■ ■ Government House, Fr^dericton, N. B. Sir, . January 6th, 1838. With the highest satisfaction I comply with the wishes of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of this Province, by transmitting to Your Excellency, Resolutions jointly concurred in by thtse bodies, tendering to Your Excellency, and to the gallant Militia of UpperCunada, the unanimous thariks of the Legislature, and of the people of New Bruns- wick, for the able, prompt and energetic, suppression by them, and by your Excellency, unaided by any portion of Her Majesty's Troops, of the late insur- rection in the neighbourhood of Toronto. In doing this, I beg to add the expression of my warmest concurrence in the sentiments emboditjd in those resolutions, with the assurance that, while we feel the most entire confidence in the ability of Her Majesty's loyal Subjects of Upper Canada, under Your Excellency's guidance, to put down rebellion wherever it may shew itself, yet we cannot but regret that our remote position with respect to that Province, prevents our offering our more active co-operation. I have, &c. (Signed) J. HARVEY, M. General, Lieutenant Governor, His Excellency Sir F. B. Head, Bart. &c. &c. (fee. ■■, I ilil . 1 \: ft' ■'v^i;:'.^■' "' 14 ( ! ' ( i w ' / 1 New Brunswick f House of Adsemhly, ,^ 5tli January, 1838. Resolved unanimously, TImt tli« thanks <»f tliia Province are rliie, and should be presented to Sir Francis Bond Head, and the gallant Militia of Upper Canada, for their able, prompt and energetic, suppres- sion of the Insurrection, which lately took place in the iieiffhbourhood of Toronto. o Resolved unanimously, That the conduct of our fellow Subjects in Upper Canada, on this memorable occasion, so fully in accordanc e with their former high spirit and character, affords a glorious examf>le to the Sister Colonies ; and cannot fail to quicken the zeal and aniiuate the exertions of every loyal heart in these Colonies, in support and defence of ihe liberties they enjoy under British Laws and Institutions. Resolved unanimously, That our fellow Subjects in Upper Canada may rest assured of the lively sympathy of the inhabitants of this Province, in their loyalty and patriotic ardour, and of our most zealous co-operation in maintaining the Royal Authorities, and the inestimable advantages of our connexion with the Mother Country. (Signed) CHA'S. P. WETMORE, Clerk of Assembly. New Brunswick, House of Assembly, ' 5th January, 1838. * Resolved unanimously. That an humble Address be presented to His Excellency the Lieutenant Gov- ernor, praying that His Excellency will be pleased to transmit these Resolutions to His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. Resolved, That the Legislative Council be re- quested to join in these Resolutions. (Signed) CHA'S. P. WETMORE, Clerk of Assembly, 15 ♦I Niiw Brunswick, "' ' ' ' ;' ' . Lfgislative Council Chamber^ 5tli January, 1838. Resolved unanimously, That this House doth most heartily concur in the Resolutions of the House of Assembly, on the subject of the Insurrection in Upper Canada. (Signed) Wm. TYNG PETERS, . . t i Clerk, To His Excellency Sir Fkancfs Bond Hkad, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^*c. 8^c. 8^*c, May it please Your Excellency' : Wi<:, the undersigned, inhabitants of the City of Toronto, and its vicinity, having heard of Your Excel- lency's resignation of the Government of this Province, and of the speedily anticipated arrival of your Succes- sor, feel called upon to address you upon this to us unexpected evcint. The period of your Administration, though fraught with events of the greatest importance to Her Maj»;s- ty's faiihfid Subjects in this Province, and to tfie Em- pire at large, has been so short as to enable us to pajjs it in quick review, preparatory to the (expression of our opinion on Your Excellency's retirement. The recall of Your Exc«dlency's respected Pre- decessor, Sill John Colborne, so far as its causes were understood here, was calculated to create in our minds lively apprehensions, that in this, as in the Sister Province, the experiment of submission to factious opposition was to b(5 made; and that under the name of conciliation, encouragement was to be given to those whom we firmly believed to be inimical to the maintenance of our present Institutions. -^ ■ ' ■ < i^vrrr ■ 16 Nor were these apprehensions lessened when (from causes now fully explained and understood) w« saw individuals called to Your Excellency's Councils, whose political principles we were fully convinced were not such as prevailed with the vast majority of the inhabitants of ih« Province, and upon whom we justly looked as eriemies of British Supremacy, and of our conneciion with the Mother Country. Fortunately for the well-being of the Province, in a much less time than the most sanguine could have hoped, the views of these parties were disclosed, and an opportunity was afforded to Your Excellency of shewing to the people at large, that to you they might look in the fullest confidence for supporting the established principles of the Constitution. We feel it alike a duty and a heart-felt pleasure again to record our warmest admiration and respect for the penetration with which Your Excellency at once saw through their designs, and for the firm and uncomprising manner in which you met and bafiled them; and that although Your Excellency's course was treated with insult and obloquy by the then House of Assembly, who in a vain efftjrt at coercion stopped the Supplies, and made use of every eflfort to embar- rass the Government and compel submission to their views, Your Excellency persevered in your determina- tion to maintain our happy Constitution inviolate. The success of the appeal Your Excellency made to the loyal people of the Province, ought to convince every one who was capable of exercising a sound judgment, that a straight forward and raardy policy, based upon the maintenance of British prin- ciples, and upon an uncompromising hostility to all who were opposed to them, could not fail to meet our wants and wishes, and to secure our permanent tranquillity. al 17 In this view we strongly approved, as we siili continue to approve, of iliat proper and vigorous course, in the pursuing which Your Excellency dis- missed from office those who had made themselves prominent in a factious opposition to your policy, and who attacked Your Excellency in a manner which, as the Representative of the Crown, you could not liave passed by without a dereliction of duty to our Sovereign. .nv>;.> > , > ,«»; r^r ''"> • From that period, down to the date at which Your Excellency (as we have learned) felt it neces- sary to tender your resignation, we candidly confess ourselves at a loss to understand what policy it can have been on which a difference has existed between Your Excellency and the Ministers of the Crown, such as to have occasioned your retiring from the Government of Upper Canada — indeed it would have seemed only necessary to have contrasted the situation of this and the Sister Province, to have established the superior wisdom and soundness of the coarse pursued by Your Excellency over that which elevated the Author of the "Ninety-two Resolutions" to the Judicial Bench. But if further proof were wanting of the confidence Your Excellency's policy has in- spired, it is to be found in that burst of loyal and patriotic feeling which displayed itself on occasion of the insurrection — when from the east to the west the Province presented the animated and soul-stirring spectacle of gallant men struggling who should be foremost in the field, to subdue internal rebellion — to resist foreign aggression — and die, if need were, in defence of our Constitution and highly valued con- nection with the British Empire. Nor can we avoid alluding with mingled pride and pleasure to the expres- sion of kindness and high-minded sympathy which our late brief, but important struggle for our Consti- fi^. 1' I 1 ' :^:iJi ',«';■ I M *t > ■.■! 18 tutioii and Laws, b&s called forth fi'om our Sister Province of New Brunswick ; and while we hail wii-h delight the assurance, that they burn with the saoH) ioyal zeal and patriotic ardour which has animated the people of this Province, wo rejoice that under Your Excellency's Administration we have been able to shew those qualities and pursue that course, which has gained for us these gratifying expressions of ^ppror bation and esteem. .« r ; >^ ' ' The lesson which these facta is calculated to impress, will, we trust, never be forgotten ; and if it shall bring to the mind of Her Majesty's Minidters ii conviction, that by supporting in the Province British principles and British supremacy, and discountenanc- ing the foes of both, they will pursue a course alike honorable to themselves and gratifying to the people of Upper Canada. — Should this, we say, be the result of the events which have occurred during Your Excel- lency's brief sojourn among us, it will add another to Your Excellency's many and well-founded claims to our deep and lasting gratitude. In respectfully taking leave of Your Excellency, we cannot refram from expressing our earnest hope, that Your Excellency will find in the approbation of our beloved Queen, and in the opinions and support of all the sound-thinking portion of the British Nation, a reward for your never-ceasing exertions, and untiring zeal for the welfare of this portion of Her Majesty'* Dominions. ; : f^ ).. .,.-. r.-ih-- 'v^' o!---'i'-;^--ri M- To these expressions we also most cordially add our sincere wishes for the domestic happiness of Your Excellency, and your amiable Family. r!i<';i>i* j,i;v. Your Excellency will carry vi'ith you our public approbation ; our private sympathy ; and our kindly wishes : — should the possession of the onp or the other be gratifying to your feelings, it will serve to diminish the sincere regret we feel, in respectfully bidding you farewell. 19 To Hiti Excellency BiH FitANcis Bond Head, Baronet^ Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian ;ir.,. Guetphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military ;•! w. Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the ' Province of Upper Canada, Sfc, S^c. Sfc* May it please Your Excellency : ' " ■ " ' ' We, the Irish Inhabitants of the Town of Hamil- ton, in the District of Gore, beg leave to assure Your Excellency, that we have not oeen either indifferent or nnconccrned spectators of the thrilling events which have agitated these Provinces during the last three months.^ "'' '- -'^•;^-'--^^'--- -' ^'- ^ ^■;' -^'- '■ I *»' That having been astonished at the result of a meeting, stated to have taken place in this town on the first day of December last, professing to be a meeting of the Irish inhabitants of the town of Hamil- ton, and being, like most other meetings of a similar nature, calculated to produce the impression, that the Irish were discontented — and that while the avowed object uf such meetings and union was peace, the actual object was war and strife, — we felt it our duty to call at once a full meeting of our Countrymen, to ascertain whether the sentiments said to be theirs at the meeting in question, were so or not, — when reso- lutions were passed, expressive of our ardent and unquenchable attachment to Her Majesty's Person and Government — our abhorrence at the resolutions which had been passed at the various incendiary meetings which had taken place in several parts of the Province — our satisfaction of Your Excellency's conduct — and our non-participation in the views and sentiments set forth as those of the Irish inhabitants of the town of Hamilton, and which we published at length in the Hamilton Gazette of the twelfth of December last. ] :; j iv i.i., .n That having prepared an Address to Your Excel- lency! founded on these resolutions, wo were prepa- IKO ring to proceed to Toronto, to lay it before Your Excellency, when wo wore diverted from our purpose by the scream of Rebellion, and the tocsin of civil war, which had been sounded in the land. Laying aside our intervtion for the moment, we prepared to take the field, and with our muskets on our shoulders, resolved to lose our lives if necessary, in defence of the glorious Banner of Great Britain. . '< That since the unnatural rebellion has ceased, and having but just returned to our homes, from protecting the frontier of the Province from the incur- sions of our neighbouring allies, we were astounded at the intelligence we received, that Your Eju;eMency hud felt constrained to tender your resignation to Her Majesty's Governmenr, and that it had been accepted. Knowing as we do, that in all the leading features of Your Excellency's policy you have been sustained by nine-tenths of the inhabitants of this loyal Province, we confess that we heard this intelligence with dismay. M That we beg to assure Your Excellency, that we shall ever retain sentiments of the most lively gratitude, for having dismissed from yonr Councils the enemies of the British Constitution, and for the wise, bold and constitutional determination you have always evinced, in not allowing places of power and trust to be filled but by those on whose principles of loyalty and patriotism you could place the firmest reliance. In respectfully bidding you farewell, we cannot but express our firm resolution, only to support those principles which Your Excellency so unflinchingly maintained, and for which, in conjunction with our beloved brethren from England and Scotland, and with the natives of Upper Canada, wo went forth cheerfully from our homes to sustain with our lives, or gloriously perish in their defence, — and praying that the Giver of every good and perfect gift may hold 21 you uiid yuur beluvcd fumity in Hid holy keepingi and bye and bye bring yuu all lu tlirit Fleavenly re»t which only the good and righteous enjoy. '. v • •' >i>;'!'i ■'Uu • r f . « . lii , To His Excellency Sir FRA^CIS Bond Head, Baronel, -/■..i'.,- Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Orders Knight of the Prussian Military ,.„{* Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^c. fyc, Sfj, May it please Yoi;r Excellency : We, the undersigned Proprietors, Housc-holderd and other Inhabitants, of tho Township of Trafalgar, in the District of Gore, beg leave respectfully to ap- proach Your Excellency to express our unfeigned regret, that in consequence of a difference of opinion with Her Majesty's present advisers, you should have found it necessary to resign the Government of this Province. Remembering as we do, the critical period of Your Excellency's arrival among us, commissioned by our late most gracious Sovereign to carry into effect those remedial measures which he had with so much liberality been pleased to grant, and your pledge to act with the strictest impartiality, and conscientiously to perform the high duties of your office, dispensing equal justice to all — a pledge which, throughout your whole short but eventful government, vou have nohly redeemed, — we cannot but feel the strongest senti- ments of esteem and respect for Your Excellency, and of regret for your approaching departure from the Province. These sentiments are rendered doubly strong, when we review the important events which have occurred during Your Excellency's residence among us. We cannot forget, that on Your Excellency's ''I arrival here, you found ihc Province a prey to intestine dissention», caused by the machinations of a few factious demagogues, embued alike with a hatred of British feelings and British principles ; and the majority of the Commons House of Assembly, instead of com- plying with Your Excellency's quest, to join you heart and hand in endeavouring to heal these differ- ences, anxiously and eagerly engaged in fomenting and increasing them. That Your Excellency, instead of pursuing that vacillating and unmanly line of policy, which, while it discourages and weakens the friends of British Supremacy, adds courage and strength to its enemies, and which, but for the firmness of Your Excellency's respected predecessor. Sir John Colborne, and the bravery of our fellow-subjects, we have reason to fear would have proved the ruin of the Sister Province— at once shewed your determination to pursue a far different line of policy, and while by addressing your- self to the reason of an enlighted people, you testified your anxious desire to carry along with you the appro- bation of all the right-thinking part of the community, you at the same time distinctly and clearly proved, that the enemies of British rule and British feelings had nothing to expect from you^ by declaring your firm determination to maintain our Laws and hapyy Con- stitution inviolate. That Your Excellency's manly, straightforward, and honourable conduct throughout that trying period, was duly appreciated, and gained the confidence and esteem, and conciliated the affections of an overwhelm- ing majority of the inhabitants of this Province, was most convincingly proved, when Your Excellency dis- solved that House, and appealed to the people, who with manly British feeling responded to your call. Still more lately we have had experience of Your Excellency's firmness and prudence, and of the mutual m 23 esteem and confidence wliicli existed between Your Excellency and the inhabitants of this Province, when aiier the dismissal of every Soldier of Her Majesty's Troops from the Province, we have seen the enemies of our Sovereign, with all the advantages which that circumstance could afford them, dispersed and aniii-> hilated by the loyal Militia, flocking in thousands at Your Excellency's call around the standard of our Qneen and Constitution, and that too with scarcely the loss of a man. ;> . - - Your Excellency may, and we trust will he again employed by our most gracious Sovereign, in many important services, but we feel satisfied wherever, or in whatever manner employed, that, when that period arrives, (which we trust is far distant from Your Excel- lency) when you are about to resign the cares of this wor' J for the enjoyment of a better, no event of your past or future life will be regarded by Your Excel- lency with more satisfaction, than the anxious solici- tude which you have shewn during the late unnatural rebellion to spare the blood of the inhabitants of this Province — a solicitude which has, through the blessing of Divine Providence, been so eminently crowned with success. When, Sir, all these important events and con- siderations pass in review before us, we cannot but consider it extremely unfortunate that Her Majesty should have advisers who have deemed it expedient to remove Your Excc^llcncy, before you have had an opportunity of completing the good work which you have so well begun. Firmly and Btrongly ui? we have ever been, and hhVG proved ourselves to bo attached to our Queen nnd Constitution, wo cannot avoid asking ourselves the question — which of your valuable services can have given dissat'sfaction to Her Majesty's Ministers? — and humbly ejcpresssing our conviction, that nothing could possibly be more calculated to shake the attach- I 24 inenl and confidence of the people of tliid Province in the Home Government, than the removal, without just cause, of one who has performed such distin- guished pubhc services ns Your Excellency. T »i'f' t^' Satisfactory asi it would have l)£en to us to have been made aware o^ the points of difference between Your Excellency and Her Majesty's Advisers, we cannot but approve of your Excellency's honorable motives for declining to make them known ; but we must express our unqualified conviction, that were these points known, Your Excellency would not be to blame, but could shew that you have acted in the same straight forward manner you have ever done, preferring the manly, upright, and honorable line of policy, to the merely expedient — a line which, from the appointment of Sir John Colborne, we are now led to hope will be pursued in the Lower Province, and which we trust Your Excellency's Successor will continue to follow in this, as by so doing we feel assured he will gain the esteem and confidence of all good men, the respect of Foreign Nations, and the approval of his own conscience, rt^vfvtk , — an*r;.*o.*| iiti Although we are nut destined longer to enjoy your valuable services, we trust your talents will not be allowed to remain long unemployed, convinced as we are that wherever and whenever called into opera- tion, they will ever be exerted to the utmost for the advantage of your Queen and Country.,; ,. u mnuii^ Be assured. Sir, that wherever you go, Your Excellency will carry along with you the esteem and regrets of the inhabitants of this Province ; and with heart-felt wishes for your welfare, and that of your Family, and praying the Almighty Disposer of all to bless and protect you and them, wherever you may be situated — U >i. — T kfoj .iiii \ Wo remain, ■^iUihmi ivA- With^ every sentiment of ' f? ' ' ^ •If \nl f' 'M»i ./Is;;'-; il! Esteem and respect, (fee. &c. ' i. ercise of your powers, proceeded to oppose the revo- lutionary measures of tlie faction to which we have referred. How complet«ly Your Excellency suc- ceeded in tiie good work, lutlhe noble spirit wiiich pervades tlie present House of Assembly, and the utter annihilation of the revolutionary party, testify. It becomes us also to remember with gratitude, that when at a Inter period, the same party had the hardihood to raise tlie standard of rebellion — to Your Excellency's forbcs-nance, in the first instance, and your wisdom and firmness afterwards, are we indebt- ' ed, under Heaven, for the prospect which we now enjoy of handin*^ To His Excellency Sir Fka>cis Bond Head, Baronet, t,: Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian , j Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merits Lieutenant Governor of the ' Province ^f Upper Canada, S^c. S^c, Sfc, May it please Youu Excellency : ' .- ' f VVe Freeholders and irdiabitants of the Township of Nelson, respectfully approach Your Excellency 57 ia£ . >*:^-'.l ^ with sentiments of deep regret at the prospect of your early departure, and we assure Your Excellency that we shall ever remember with gratitude the zeal, ability and justice, with which you have conducted the affairs of this Province during the short but eventful period of your administration. We have seen with astonishment the desperate attempts of a few disappointed individuals to embar- rass the Government, and subvert our connection with the Mother Country; and admiring ns we do the un- shaken firmness with which you have maintained inviolate the British Constitution, we view your depar- ture from amongst us, at so critical a period, as un event deeply to be deplored. In the midst of our regret we, in common with Her Majesty^s other Subjects of this Province, have one cause of congratulation, that on Your Excellency's return to England you will be enabled to make such a full and complete representation of the slate of affairs in this Colony, that Her Majesty's Government will be induced to adopt such a course of policy as will ensure to us the advantages which our fidelity and attachment to our Constitution and Laws give us a right to expect. ^^ ; - ^' ' And it is our earnest hope that the same Provi- dence which has been so signally extended to us during the late rebellion, will continue to protect Your Excellency through«»ut your future career, and that the same esteem and respect with whi|>. We agree in the persuasion of our worthy repre- sentatives in the House of Assembly, ** that the blame cannot rest with your Excellency ;" and we do also with them, express "our earnest hope, that your Excellency's prosperity in future life may be com- mensurate with the claims, deep and lasting as they are, upon our gratitude — the approbation of our gracious Queen — and the acknowledgment and ap- f jse of the British Nation.*' There is one more subject of regret which we woi«id beg leave to notice, namely, that the short space of time since our retarn from the Line$,%ooisi widely scattered homes, and the still shorter period since we became convinced of the fact, that your Excellency had been superseded in the Government, has had the effect of depriving many of our townsmen the privilei^e of joining with us in this simple but sincere address ; and we would further express our belief, that sentiments favourable to your Excellency's character, as Governorand gentleman, are co-extensive with loyalty and good-feeling throughout the Province. We are Sir, on behalf of the Inhabitants of the township of Esquesing, as well as in our own persons, your Excellency's most obedient, and respectful humble servants — ;-«;-t,1f To His Excellency f Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronetp 55 Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian ^^Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of th9 ,^^^,f Province of Upper Canada, Sfc. Sfc. S^c, May IT PLEASE Your Excellency : •:v--;--: > - ; ■>,■;, .'^;''''^'..v'^Tf! We Freeholders and inhabitants of the township of Flamboro' East, respectfully approach your Excel- lency, impressed with deep sentiments of sorrow and regret at the early prospect of your departure from this Province. / We feel that in parlinsr with your Excellency w© shall be deprived, at ii critical juncture, of a Lieu- tenant Governor in whom every loyal subject must repose the most implicit contidence and hope. . ' We lament that our gracious Sovereign, by rea- son of the distance which separates us from the Parent State, must necessarily be precluded, at this moment, from deciding upon the resignation which in an hour "^ rMl 'f i«4ivr.4u so i'if^: I i of profound quietness and peace, circumstances in- duced your Excellency to tender. The astounding events which have occurred in our Province within a few weeks, must ever distin- guish that period, as one of the most important in the annals of Upper Canada; and we would assure your Excellency, that a grateful people will ever associate your name with the extinction of the foul and base rebellion which has lately disturbed our land. You will leave your Government, Sir, with the cheering consciousness that the traitors arm is un- nerved, and loyalty triumphant ; and wiiatever may result from the unkind and unrational conduct of a neighbouring State^ we fear no contradiction in affirm- ing, that your policy has been equally forbearing, honorable and wise. The great Nation, of which it is our happiness and pride to form a part, will we doubt not be firm in protecting her loyal subjects from injury, prompt in requiring retribution and satisfaction fur any insult she may have sustained. ■■rt^MS^ v k^.,^- We rest our cause upon its justice, and humbly and devoutly place our reliance upon that Almighty God who has in so signal a manner, at this time, stretched over us His protecting arm. With our kindest wishes for prosperity and health to your Excellency, wherever your Sovereign may call for your Service, wo bid you furcvvelk To His Excellency Sir FnAKCfs Bond Hrad, Baronet, Kr.ight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian fit 7: Guelphic Order J Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merits Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, Sfc, S^c. Sfc. Mat it please Your Excellency : ,' ^ We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, residing in the township of Nichol, having hoard with j> .. t\W . 'r\_J\ ■f the deepest regret, that your Excellency had tendered your resignation of the Government of this Province, and that your resignation had been accepted of by Her Mnjesty'a Ministers — beg leave in the most rcspecifiil manner to state to your Excellency, the heartfelt regret with which we have learned this resignation, and the consequent removal of your Excellency from amongst us. We regret the policy of Her Majesty's Ministers which induced them to accept of your Excellency's resignation. ,. The peculiar situation in which your Excellency found the Province, on your arrival — the many various and conflicting interests with which you had to con- tend — the result of the foul and unnatural conspiracy and rebellion which was so speedily suppressed by your Excellency's wise and energetic measures. — All these, and many more of your acts, serve to con- vince us of the inestimable value of your services, as our Governor, and the great and irreparable loss which the Province will sustain by your removal. But since we must lose you as onr Governor, permit us with all sincerity, to bid your Excellency — Farewell. ^ ,-.:;,,'; i*-;.'. .«/^ .-:.: v .. •.-,•,„,-■ You take witli you the best wishes and prayers of all loyal British Subjects — and you will have the gratifying reflection, that all your acts have tended to the glory and the good of this Province. May your Excellency long enjoy health and prosperity. To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gudphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Pro- vince of Upper Canada, S^c. 8^c, S^c. Mat it Please Your Excellency : We Her Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, resident in the town of Guelph, and its vicinity, have I 'if m n If learned with feelings of the deepest regret, that the f period is at hand which is to terminate your Excel- ency*s Guvernment of the Province of Upper Canada. Selected by a discriminating Sovereign to admin- ister the Government of this important portion of his dominions, at a critnis of extraordinary cmbarrniisment, you have amply jnsiifiKd the choice. Upon yonr ar- rival amongst us you found the Province torn by dis- sention, and the friends of con^titutionul government in doubt and despondency. Mow jrrenT, how happy has been the cimnge during yonr Excellf iicy's short but brilliant administration. Public questions of a perplexing nature have been satisfactorily set ot rest— the designs of a party whosit single object is now proved to be the overthrow of British supremacy, have been signally defeated — a spirit of the most devoted loyalty has been enkindled tlirougliout the Provihce, and the standard of public morals lias been exalted, by the straight forward integrity which your Excel- lency has dispUiyed. Those services have been already acknowledged, by a distinguished mark of your Sover2ign*3 approbation. It needed not therefore your noble conduct during the late unnatural rebellion, to confirrn our sentiments of respect and affection for your Excellency's person and government. Here you require no testimony from us — that testimony is better borne in the present general tranquillity of the Province, which during the progress of the recent revolt had not a soldier within its bounds ; and were it not for the audacious aggres- sion of the people of a foreign Nation there would now be but little to remind us that a rebellion had taken place. ... iV^-v-.;- -, - - • ,.- -r; ■-■ ■,-, - ^;^-:-/ . -y ■ At such a period we lament that the policy of Her Majesty's Government has been such as to lead to your Excellency's resignation, and we are unable to express our sorrow for the loss of a Governor whom we believe so well qualified to promote the peace and prosperity of the Province, to develope its natural re- sources, and to confirm it in its loyal attachment to the Parent Stato..VM i,f:. ,nj, ,^ i.. i >^,,.v;f ,:,"| -urv V '• And now, Sir, permit us respectfully to bid your Excellency farewell. Had it been in our power we would fain have retained you amongst ns, but since it is otherwise ordered, it is some consolation to us to know, that you will bear with you the good wishes and the blessings of all denominations of Her Majesty's ioyal subjects, and that you will enjoy what is better than all, the proud consciousness that you have done your duty. , M! 1 >7 'I If; ! *l: To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order ^ Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^c. S^c, S^c. May it pleasb Your Excellency : . i . ," ; , • ^ We, Her Majesty's dntifnl and loyal Subjects, the Inhabitants of the town of Port Hope, hereby beg leave to approach your Excellency, with the expres- sion of our warm attachment and regard to your Excellency's person and Government. 3 m ♦;*?.;. -k. ^ In common with the rest of our fellow Subjects, we view with admiration and gratitude, your Excel- lency's firm and uncompromising maintenance of the glorious Constitution under which it is our privilege to live, thereby giving the Inhabitants of this Province the opportunity of shewing as they have so decidedly done, their devoted and unshaken loyalty to their Sovereign, and their ardent desire to maintain invio- late their connection with their Father-land. W' I- \ W 94 If any thing were wnnting to cement the regard, attachment ond unbounded confidence in your zeal» ability, justice and honorable dii^interestcdnrss, which your Excellency has awakened in every true lover of hid Ooiintry, (hiriiifr your too brief, but arduous nnd very eventful, adtninistration of the Government, it would be ovor-abundantly supplied by your generous appre- ciation of, and reliance upon, the loyalty and right- mindedness of this Province, and by the |)roniptitud(», decision aud intrepidity with which you havu enabled that loyalty to exhibit itself, to the confusion and the defeat of parricidical rebellion, and treacherous aggression. With the deepest surprise, disappointment and regret, we have learned, that any circumstances could have occurred to have made you feel it your duty to relinquish the Government of this Province, and we feel it incumbent upon us to express our hearty con- currence with the sentiments of our Represeniativ<»8, and with them, " humbly, but earnestly and emphati- cally, to declare, ^hat if any thing be calculated to shake the attachment of Her Majesty's now truly loyal and devoted Subjects to Her Royal Person and Gov- ernment, it is by acts of injustice, or the manifestation of ungenerous distrust, towards men who have served the British Nation so faithfully and nobly as your Excellency has done." ^; ,.. , - . ; In bidding your Excellency a reluctant but IkiTectionnte farewell, we cannot refrain from indulging the pleasing hope, that the voice of this Province will be heard which unanimously calls upon our gracious Queen, to express her sense of your deserts, by som« token of approbation worthy of your Excellency's merits, and the importance of the Province which yOu have twice preserved to the British Crown. Praying that all prosperity, spiritual and temporal, may attend your Excellency and your amiable Family, we unwillingly bid you — Farewell. 55 Tq Hi9 Excellency ^iH Francis Bojvd Head, Baronet, ,yxTti Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian • jr In Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military , ;7;, Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the PrO' vince of Upper Canada, 8fc. 6^c. Sfc. Mat it Please Youu Excellknct: , .. ^;ir; . ■'^' Wo, tlio undersigned loyal iidiabiiants of the townsliip of Haldimand, in the District of Newcastle, regarding with utter abhorrence the recent atrocious attempt to inflict upon this happy Province, all the horrors of rebellion and civil strife, are anxious to assure your Excellen«;y of our nttaclunentand fidelity to our Sovereign and to the (jovernuient under which we have the happiness to live, and that we are ready to aid you in defending these blessings with our lives and property. We regret that ev«Mi a small portion of our fel- h)W Subjects should have been so devoid of common sens(% gratitude and true patriotism, as to suffer a few turbulent and degraded individuals, whose atroci- ties are unredeemed by a single virtue, to seduce them from their duty and allegiance, and incite them to rapine, murder and treason, by those triie means of delusion which Imve ever been resorted to by the wicked and mischievous, and by promises of plunder which could only operate upon base and sordid minds; but we rejoice, that an opportunity has been thus afforded of provi ng to the world, that your Excellency's confidence in the jreneral fidelity and loyalty of Upper Canada was well founded, and we trust, that the slanderers of this glorious Province, on both sides of the Atlantic, will be now silenced for ever. We have I<'arnt with feelings of indignation, which no languaije can adequately express, tiiat at a moment of profound peace, the people of the United States of America, in violation of all national and raoral obligations, are embodying troops, and arming "! ,. 1 i u ■ i S6 ; i?^ for the avowed purposes of invading oiir countrv— aiding tlie incendiaries, murderers and traitors who, driven hence, have sought their unhallowed protect lion— and thrusting upon us the r jsi oppressive, demoralizing and uncontro!!uble of ail tyrannies — a mob despotism — in lieu of the n.iid, free and efficient Government which we have the happiness to enjoy, under the wise and firm admitiistration of your Excel- lency. Tliey shall lind, that the same strong arms, and loyal hearts wh.ch recently overthrew domestic traitors, are eqiially ready to repci find chastise any audacious violation of our peaceful soil, by foreign plunderers and assassins. To His Excellency Sir Francis Fond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order ^ Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merits Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canadaf 6^c. Sfc. Sfc» Mat it please Your Excellency : We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subject?. Inhabitants of the township of Seymour, having heard with astonishment and indignation, that preparations for the invasion of this Province, have for some time been making by bands of lawless Americans, in alle- giance with those traitors who have recently iied from the punishment due to their crimes in this Country, feel it our duty to express to your Excellen- cy, our attachment to the revered Constitution under which W'i were born — our respect for the equal laws and mild G( /ernment of our adopted Country — and our firm determination to protect them to the utmosi of oar p'jwer. Engaged in the arduous duties of new settlers in ihi forest, and remote from the scene of the wicked and unnatural rebellion, which your Excellency's S7 firmness, and the loyalty of Her Majesty's Canadian Subjects, have so happily terminated, we have been unwilling to occupy your Excellency's time by a vain display of attachment to our Sovcjreign — a feeling which recent events have shewn, is 'Common to ail but the most worthless in this Provi-jcc. But we feel, that a period is now arrived, when it may be of impor- tance to your Exrcllency to know the sentiments of even the humblest of Her Majesty's Subjects, and that those sentiments should also be made known to those deluded persons beyond our frontier, who may have been induced to lend their aid to the degraded men who have escaped from our shores, by the belief, that they are espousing th« cause of the oppressed, when in fact, the only oppressors we have known, were those very persons, when placed by the unmerit- ed confidence of their countrymen, in situations of power and authority. We have read with great satisfaction, in the Speech delivered to the two Hourses of Parliament, at the opening of the present Session, your Excellen- cy's comments on the conduct of that portion of the Amerijdn people who have presumed to interfere in the domestic policy of our Country, and rejoice that at so trying a period, Her Majesty's authoniy should be delegated to an Officer so capable of preserving un- tarnished the spotless fame of the great Nation to which jt is our pride to belong. Vvith your Excellency, we shall lament the ne- cessity for an appeal to arms, in vindication of our outiaged liberties, but if the threatening storm should burst upon our land, with heart and hand, we shall then respond to your Excellency's summons lo pre- pare for the coming conflict. #!■ ii. : 1 ■ 1 To I ;: 38 To Hit Er£ellency, SiH Fbancis Bom> Head, Barone^t Knight Commandtr of the Royai Hanoveriw* Gudphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military .b ..Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^c, ^c ^Ct May it please Youn Excellency : t We, the undersiple committed to your charge, is capable of bestowing ; And we beg to assure your Excellency, that your efii* cient suppression of the late rebellion will long live in the memories of an attached and grateful people. ' We have the honor to be your Excellency*^ iii ,i; jnt servants — , .1 To His ExcellmcyS\R Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gudphic Order ^ Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, Sfc. Sfc. S^c. May it please Your Excellency : We, the undersigned Inhabitants at the River Trent t.:\ i^« vicinity, beg leave respectfully to approad' ik Excellency with expressions of regret, occasioned ,) your announcement to the Parliament of this Province, that a successor has been appointed by the Imperial Government to supercede your Excel- lency in the administration of the affairs of this Pro- n We canncxt but remember the circurastaacee. unddr ^hich your Excellency assumed the adminis- ;•! 40 tration of the affairs of this Province. The vexatious proceedings of the last Provincial Parliaments — your manly and British feeling in appealing to the sense of the Country — the response of the loyal people of this Province to that appeal — ai:d the full reliance which all the loyally-disposed placed on the adminis- tration of your Excellency ; — nor can we forget your forbearance towards the instigators and participators in the late futile insurrection — and successively, the firmness, decision and persona! intrepidity manifested by your Excellency, when the leaders of that insur- rection had by sophistry and otherwise, contrived to sifr up a hostile feeling, as well towards the peaceable Inhabitants of this Province, as the connection and supremacy of the B:iiish Government. ,. ,,„. 5,., We cannot help exprt.' < our satisfaction at the triumphant manner in whit : you have carried us through our difficulties up to the present moment — and our regret, that the Province should be deprived of your valuable services at this time. At the same time, wc cannot but feel, that the loyal part of the population of this as well as the Lower Province, have not been fairly dealt with by the Ministry in England during the last few years — as instructions have been invariably forwarded, by which the Governors in these Provinces have been hampered in their endeavours to encourage loyal feelings — and at the same time, that the factious and seditious have been encouraged to make demands contrary to the spirit of the British Constitution. In tendering our most respectful good wishes to your Excellency on your departure from this Province, at this most trying moment, and without at all depre- ciating the worth and merits of your successor, we cannot allow you to depart without entrusting you with our dearest request, to be laid before our gracious Queen when you shall triumphantly have established 41 the rectitude of your proceedings and intentions before Her Majesty's Government, as you assuredly will do. We therefore beg, that your Excellency will assure Her Majesty of our loyalty and affection for Her Crown and Person — of our attachi.jent to the British Constitution of Queen, Lords and Commons — and if any regret at all exists here, it is, that the Constitution of this Province is not more closely assimilated to that of Great Britain. We b»'g to remind your Excellency in truth of this assertion, on your approach to our gracious Sovereign, of the nature of tl,e population of this Province. The U. E's. who left the United States because they preferred a Monarchical to a Republican form (»f Government — the emigrants from the Parent State, nurtured under a Monarchical form of Government, and who, from their present contiguity to a Ilepublic, have seen nothing in the latter to prefer, but every thing to detest, when compared with the former. A sense of justice compels us to add, that many of our most attached fellow Subjects in this Province, are natives of the Republic to which reference has just been made; and if there are traitors among us, recent events compel us to acknowledge, we know that they are neither numerous nor influential. In leaving us, we beg to assure your Excellency, that you have with you our best wishes for your future prosperity, happiness and advancement. To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight ofJie Prussian Military Order of 3Ierit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^*c. S^*c. Sfc, May it please Your Excellency : We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the township of Norwich, sympathizing in common with the whole F m m^ m IffJP 42 community of this Province, at the unexpected removal of your Excellency from the Lieutenant Governorship, deem it our duty to address you on this occasion. : ^ i We lament exceedingly the fact — whatever may have been the cause — of your removal, and we cannot allow your Excellency to depart, without testifying our approbation of your conduct in the administration of affairs in this Province. • We admire the manly, straight-forward and vigorous course your Excellency has pursued, under the humiliating position a few misguided and unprin- cipled men have plunged this Province ; and we feel assured, that the tranquillity we at this moment enjoy, is mainly attributable to the judicious and sound views your Excellency has taken, and the spirited and firm resistance you have shewn. Accept, Sir, the heartfelt thanks of your sincere admirers ; and carry with you, wherever you go, our unfeigned prayers for your future happiness and prosperity. To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet^ Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gudphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merits Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canaday Sfc. S^c. Sfc* May it please Your Excellency : We, the Grand and Petit Jurors, of the District of Bathurst, in General Quarter Sessions assembled, and other Inhabitants of the District, there met together, very respectfully approach your Excellency, for the purpose of conveying at this period of great and interesting excitement, our unalterable attach- ment to the Person and Government of our most 43 If gracious and beloved Queen, and due determination to preserve, at all hazards, the connection that so happily exists between this Country and the Parent State, — truly sensible of the blessings we enjoy — grateful for the protection we receive — living under no species of oppression or misrule — enjoying liberty unbounded, and the free exercise of our religious principles, — we have hearts that revere a Government that confers so many benefits — we appreciate its jus- tice, and are satisfied with its rule ; — we therefore cannot but deplore, that in this highly favoured Pro- vince, where the administration of the Government is so justly and mildly exercised, abandoned, unprinci> pled and ungrateful wretches should be found, who would so far forget their allegiance, and their duty to their God, as to appear in the ranks of disafiiection and rebellion ; and who, setting all law at defiance, have openly appeared in arms, to subvert that Govern- ment, and destroy the peace, happiness and content- ment of Her Majesty's loyal and well-disposed Sub- jects, — but, that Merciful God — who watches over the just — who protects the innocent and oppressed — did not desert our loyal fellow Subjects in the hour of danger, — the struggle between good Government and Revolution in this Province, was short, — and the confidence which your Excellency so unhesitatingly reposed in the loyalty and fidelity of the Militia of Upper Canada, was gallantly exemplified by their prompt and effectual assistance, scattering to the four winds of Heaven, the traitors to their God, their Queen and their Country. The firmness and moral courage of your Excellency has not escaped our observation ; the zeal and ability manifested by your Excellency, nobly aided by the gallantry of the militia and -volunteers, in dispersing the accursed rebellious band ihat hovered round the Seat of Government, and threatened its destruction, together with the loyal and 54 i brave Inhabitants of Toronto, merit our grateful ac- knowledgments ; — and we do indeed sincerely lament our want of language sufficiently forcible to express our congratulations on so important and auspicious an event. The remembrance of the brave defence con- ducted under your Excellency's immediate command, will be long cherished as the proudest day in the annals of Upper Canada ; and while justice is tem- pered with mercy, it becomes your Excellency at the same time, however distressing it may be to your humane and benevolent character, to punish those whose talents and example were so nearly plunging this Province into the horrors of a civil war. To your Excellency, personally, we beg to tender our feelings of confidence and attachment, and con- clude with a fervent prayer, that success may ever attend Her Majesty's arms. To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gudphic Order J KniglU of the Prussian Military Order of Merits Lieutenant Governor of the Pro- vince of Upper Canada^ S^c. S^c. ^c. Mat it Please Your ExcellEiVct : r.v. We, the undersigned inhabitants of the townships of Torbolton, Fitzroy, Pakenham, MacNab, Horton, Ross, Westmeath and Pembroke, consider ourselves imperatively called upon in the present state of public affairs, to profess our loyalty to Her Majesty, and our determination to resist to the utmost of our power, the wicked and absurd attempts to dissolve the connection which at present exists between Great Britian and Canada, the maintenance of which, we firmly believe to be essential to the welfare of the Empire at large, and Jiore especially of the Canadas. 45 if In declaring our attachment to the British Con- stitution, we are influenced by a sense of the many advantages which we derive from it, and from a con- viction, that under no other form of Government whatever, can we hope for a continuance of the same internal peace, civil and religious liberty, and the same security for our persons and property," which we now enjoy. , ^., That we would cherish the most friendly feelings towards our fellow Subjects of French origin, and consider the great majority of the insurgents in the Lower Province as deluded by designing and inter- ested men, of whose cold-blooded atrocity in urging on a brave and once loyal and contented peasantry, to their own destruction, we cannot sufficiently express our abhorrence. If we could for a moment suppose the possibility of Papineau, Mackenzie and other rebels, succeeding in their mad projects, it is our opinion, that the people of these Provinces would be subjected to the tyranny of a gang of ambitious demagogues, who would be as insolent rulers as they have been bad Subjects, and from their recent conduct, it would appear, we should have to dread, under their domination, a repetition of those scenes of massacre and bloodshed which took place during the French Revolution. It is therefore our determination, in a reliance on Divine Providence, to aid by every means in our power. Her Majesty's Government and the Executive Governments of these Provinces, in putting down sedition and rebellion, and checking in the bud, the treasonable designs of revolutionists to bring on a civil war in these hitherto peaceful Provinces. , .; ., We consider our thanks most justly due to your Excellency, for supporting and defending our noble 1 1 ■■♦» V . i--«-.f -l/. . , 46 Costitutional Charter, and for the spirited and decisive manner in which your Excellency has suppressed the recent insurrection in the Home District. We would further respectfully express to your Excellency our conviction, that until these Provinces are again united under such arrangements as shall give to the population of British origin a fair and equitable weight in the Legislature, no effectual remedy will be found for the political evils under which both Provinces have so long suffered. We would humbly request, that your Excellency will cause a copy of this Address to be transmitted to His Excellency the Governor in Chief, and also to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies. ■„ <■■ T- -3 To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^c. S^c, Sfc, , ,,: May it please Your Excellency : ^. ; ^ • <, . 4; ^ ^• We, the Freeholders and House-keepers, resid- ing in the township of Oro, in the Home District, lawfully assembled in " Township Meeting," beg leave respectfully to congratulate your Excellency on the complete suppression of the late unhappy rebel- lion, (if the assembling together of a few cowardly rufiians under a wretched set of infidel leaders, for the purposes of plunder, rather than " Reform," can be so named) ; and it is with feelings of honest pride and heartfelt satisfaction, that we call the attention of your Excellency to the orderly, peaceable and gener&l good conduct of the people of this Province, as proved by the fact, that with a whole country up in arms, in the greatest state of excitement, hurrying in S': masses to tho scene of action, there is scarcely an in- stance of disorder; that while there has been the most zealous and devoted loyalty to our Queen and Constitution, there has been the most implicit obedience to the laws. ,- We beg leave to thank your Excellency for tho confidence you have shewn to the loyalty of this Country in sending the regular troops to the assistance of the Lower Province, and we trust, that the same principle will always, as now, be found sufiicient for the internal protection of the Province : and we hum- bly place our utmost means at the disposal of your Excellency, in the full confidence that they will be wisely employed. --^■■■H-r-K To His Excellency J Sir Fraincis Bond Head, Baronet, , Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian \; V Guelphic Order y Knight of the Prussian Military ', Order of Merits Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^c, S^c. S^c. May IT PLEASE Your Excellency : 5,. . We, Her Majesty's most faithful and loyal Sub- jects of the township of Moore, Western District of Upper Canada, respectfully beg leave to express to your Excellency, our sincere regret and heartfelt dis- appointment, at learning that the Colonial Secretary has been so unfortunate as to differ with your Excel- lency upon one or two points of Colonial policy. — We, however, venture to believe, that the recent dis- loyal and rebellious conduct which a few base and designing men have been the means of calling into action, and which was so promptly and decidedly put down (while confied to the Canadian population only,) by your Excellency, and the loyal inhabitants of the Province, will argue most powerfully in favor of your Ej^cellency's views and decisions. ■ * 1.1 ''' " f'' ''♦"' . . '1 " ' ,' ■ . ..'■■■''" Though short indeed has been the time we have been permitted to experience the great benefit and blessing of your Excellency's firm, manly, disinterest- ed and patriotic Government, still it has been amply sufficient to make us sensible, that the resignation of your Excellency, will prove a great, and not unlikely an irreparable loss, to the loyal inhabitants of this Trovince, — permit us therefore to express our un- feigned sorrow, that circumstances have compelled your Excellency to have recourse to such a step, for we are fully sensible, that it has caused, and will continue to cause, the most serious and sincere regret of thousands. At the same time, the most earnest prayers and hearty good wishtisof the inhabitants of this Province will attend your Excellency, and "he assured, that none will more sincerely and patriotically participate in those feelings than the loyal inhabitants of the town- ship of Moore. To His Excellenaj Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoveriari ^ Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merits LieutcrMnt Governor tf the Province of Upper Canada, Sfc, S^c, S^c, . ,<. May it please Your Excellency : * ;,.:-■> 4- The undersigned Inhabitants of the town and township of London, and township of Oxford, have just heard with much regret, that your Excellency had, in September last, tendered your resignation of the Government of this Province, and that Her Majesty's Government had been pleased to accept of your Ex- cellency's resgination.. The period at which your Excellency assumed the Government of this Province, was one fraught *A. »' \ 49 11 with extreme difficulty, owing to the formidable ap- pearance oftiiat base faction, which by the energetic measures of your Excellency, has been lately so signally overtnrown ; and the undersigned have watched with intense interest, the firm, open and straight-forward course, which your Excellency has pursued amidst difficulties so numerous and alarming. Although the undersigned were inclined to doubt the policy of allowing sedition and rebellion to gain even a footing in the Province, still they now freely confess, that had measures been taken to prevent only the machinations of the wicked faction, its ultimate designs would have been denied by many of its own partizans ; would not have been credited by many of the benevolent and well-meaning of the Province, nor would its overthrow have been so signal and complete. . < The undersigned would have rejoiced had your Excellency been allowed to remain to witness the sunshine and prosperity of this Province, after the dar'* shade of its sorrows had rolled away ; and it is wi ainful emotions they see the laurel, as it were, snuicned from your Excellency's brow when the vic- tory had been almost won. The undersigned however cannot but appreciate the feelings your Excellency will realise in future life, from the consciousness of having acted firmly and nobly, from hearing from time to time of the pros- perity of this Province, over which Divine Providence called you to rule ; and learning that the good are grateful for the benefits derived from your wise and firm, though short, administration. To whatever portion of the globe the future lot of your Excellency may be cast, the best and most fervent wishes of the undersigned shall accompany your Excellency ; and in taking leave of your Excel- lency, while expressing our own respect and gratitiide, G •"•;''■•'' '■.^,^■■ I.! #1' we fervently liiope, that your Excellency's noble and untiring exenions for the good of thi? Trovince, may be duly appreciated by our beloved Sovereign ; anc* that independently of any other, the conscio: sness of having done your duty firmly ^.nd uprightly amidst jHiccumulating difficulties, will be its own reward. i..^. J- 1 'f: J To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prucsian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Pro- V vince of Upper Canada, S^c, S^c, Sfc, Mat IT Please YojR Excellency : - ^^ The undersigned Loyalists of the town of Port Burwell and vicinity, in the District of London, have just learnt with painful feelings and emotions, that yo'jr Excellency had in consequence of a differ- ence of opinion with the Colonial Ministers, in Sep- tember last, submitted to Her Aiajesty's Government your resignation of the Government of this Province, and that it had been acceotjd of. In approaching your Excellency on this momen- tous occasion, we want language to express our sense of your Excellency's worth and persevering energies in supporting that bulwark of our liberties — the Con- stitution — during the short period of your eventful administration. Beset as you were, on your arrival amciigst us, with a variagated and most wicked com- bination of a heartless and traitorous clique of men, who had long sought a separation of this noble Pro- vince from the Mother Country ; you yet, with the boldness and freedom of an unshackled mind, almost singly met and exposed their abominations to the plain view of a loyal and a generous people ; though the difficulties v/ith which you were beset, had nearly overcome the Country's hopes — spreading dismay, ■■■ • .X, '"»*<*■■/■.'''■ ' "^ •,•.*-■ < 51 disunion and discord, by which the midnight of civil, political and moral darkness, had well-nigh covered the land miserably with its gloomy mantle — your ExceK 3ncy then nobly stepped forth, and in a consti- tutional appeal to the people of this loyal Province, you were more than sustained; and the result of that appea' fully bespoke the wisdom of your policy — the strength of your mind — the justice of the cause of truth and reason — and the redeeming qualities of good Subi'cts, when aided by a true knowledge of things or vnich to found their verdict. But the murderous clique, vho always boasted of public opinion, were not wl'ling to submit to the effect and result of their own doctrines, but traitorously, wickedly and murder- ously conspired to overthrow that very Government, to which they had hitherto professed to be the most loyal. The undersigned had long regarded the arrival of your Excellency in this Province, as a means, under Divine Providence, of checking the rebellion then rapidly progressing ; but when through the disap- pointment of those men, even of your Executive ConncM, who were for transferring the authority of the Crown into their own hands, desperate prepar- tions were making for open revolt; many loyalists regarded with painful anxiety, your Excellency's sei ming apathy in calling upon them to disperse the rebels by force, they can but acknowledge the mys- terious ways of Providence in bringing this unnatural and cruel rebellion to a happy and speedy termina- tion—the result still bears out your Excellency in the course you have pursued. The heterogeneous medley of principles co^itended for by those pretended lovers of " civil and religious lijerty," has long engendered in the minds of the unwary, those practical feelings of strife, immorality and irreligion, which is in reality, the views of their Mi' ml \'i' SSI h:i '% 52 II leaders, in sacrifising honor, honesty, truth, morality and religion, to the Moloch of their own emolument. Every paternal act of the best of Governments has been twisted and turned many ways to excite the pretended religious feelings of the weak and simple, under the specious garb of liberty of conscience — a by-word and Shibboleth for the most treacherous designs upon the very people who are duped by their pretended love of freedom. In frequent changes there is often danger, and always some degree of disorganization ; and inas- much as your Excellency had, by your steady, firm and unflinching conduct in support of our Constitu- tion, opened the way for our advancement as a peo- ple, we had hoped your Excellency might remain in your present exalted station, until the mild and refresh- ing fruits of peace and contentment should spread the benign influence of hopeful security, in the enjoy- ment of the fruits of honest industry throughout the Province ; but though through the course of ofllicial injunctions from the Colonial OflSce, the laurel is thus plucked from your deserving brow, an imperishable monument of a country's gratitude will shed its hal- lowed influence around your retirement ; and we still hope and trust that when the late struggle with an unnatural rebellion shall be made known to our gra- cious Queen, the distinguished favor of our Sovereign will be in unison with the feelings of a loyal and a grateful people. Your Excellency's observation of the capability and natural resources of this fine Province, will enable you to render us great services in making known to our fellow subjects in England, the safety there is for loyalty, wealth and honest industry, to be planted in this portion of the Queen's Dominions ; and we doubt not that your Excellency's graphic pen will place be- fore the British public, the favorable character of this Country and its loyal inhabitants. - • - •Xr--:\ i y^.^/-^ -■■■ • •• • ■ , . ■' ■ ^ •• ' *^^At a time when your Excellency is about to de- part this Province, an expression of feelings thus offered cannot proceed from any other motiv«> than that of olfuring a just tribute to your acknowledged worth ; and we beg to assure your Excellency, that on taking leave of this Province, you carry with you the devout prayers of a loyal and grateful people, to Almighty God, that your native shores may afford you the sacred welcome of a happy home ; and that you may be distinguished by some signal mark of Royal favor ; and that health, peace and happiness may attend your Excellency and family, in whatever station in life it may please God to place you. . . v . To His Excellency BiRFRA7ic\s Bond Head y Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order^ Knight of the Prussian Military . ,^^ Order of Merit , Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada^ ^c. S^^c, i^c. May it please Your Excellency : - 'We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the town of Kingston, beg leave to approach your Excellency with the most earnest assurance of our deep regret at your retirement from the Government of th.. Pro- vince. ■ .'--- '■• ''^'- ■ ' -' ' ' Your Excellency has been pleased to inform the Legislature of the Province, now in session, that having had the misfortune to differ from Her Majesty's Government, on some points of colonial policy, (yet unknown to us) you felt it your duty to tender your resignation. <. ;. , While we duly appreciate the delicacy of your Excellency's motives, in withholding at present from the public, a knowledge of the circumstances which induced you to relinquish the important station, which for two years you had held in this Province, we can- ^. '4-'r ;' I :i[li ^"^ 54 It not but express in terms the most distinct, our anxious concern, that any policy which your Excellency ha«^ adopted., during that period, should have met with the dissent or disapprobation of a Government, irt whose service your Excellencv has manifested, with consummate success, so much ability, zeal and firmness. We beg leave to assure your Excellency, that in this expression of our sentiments on the present try- ing occasion, we are not excited by the impulse of transient sympathy ; much less are we actuated by a spirit of indulgence, in the language of habitual com- plaint — a tone which has ever been foreign to the inhabitants of this town. We have always been amongst the first to acknowledge the various bless- ings we enjoy from our happy connection with the Parent State^ and the many favors extended to us by her rulers ; and for none of these do we entertain a higher sense of obligation, than for the judicious selection of your Excellency, to administer the affairs of this Colony. This administration, however to be lamented for the shortness of its duration, has been pregnant with events the most momentous which ever befel the des- tinies of the Province. In reviewing them the mind is filled with surprise, while the heart expands with gratitude to the disposer of all good, for the signal success, which on the most trying occasions has attended your Excellency's exertions. Your Excellency assumed the Government of this Province, as we have reason to believe, equally unwedded to political creed, and unbiassed by party distinction. You availed yourself of talent where it was to be found ; and freely admitted to your Coun- cils, men who, under the specious pretence of Consti- tutional Reform, had gained for their party a majority in the representation of the Colony. Yon thus af- forded a lest of their principles, to which the posseii- 55 n sion of power instantly proved an unerring touchstone. The professors of reform now stood forth as the un- disguised champions of revolution. The price of their services was the subversion of the Constitution. Your ground was promptly taken, and in standing firmly by the Throne, you roused the dormant loyalty of thosOf who hitherto were deluded by false profes- sions. To your able exposure of the designs of the faction, and to your forcible appeal to the good sense of the people, are we now mainly indebted for the present composition of an Assembly, industrious in improving the resources of the country, and intent on preserving our happy connexion with Great Britain. While in the full enjoyment of this salutary regeneration of our political condition, the revolt of the French Canadian inhabitants of a neighbouring Province became the signal for rebellion in this. The deluded adherents of *^ the movement party^' rising in arms to commit the most flagitious acts of treason, arson and murder, were in an instant ^^rnshed by the overwhelming power of our loyal Miiitia» under your Excellency's auspices. The flame which burst from the slumbering embers of sedition was in a moment extinguished ; and the leaven of iniquity working for our benefit, threw off the impurities of the mass, and purged society of its foulest ingredients. ^^ -^ ^?»^^ " The late hostile interference of certain citizens of a neighbouring State, till that moment on terms of the strictest amity and peace, is too recent to need recital. This ungenerous and unprovoked endeav- our to carry war into our border, by succouring a band of the most flagitious outlaws, has been frustrated in like manner with the attempt of our domestic insur- gents. " The name of every Militiaman in Upper Canada" had not been invoked by your Excellency in vain, for the arn of every loyal Canadian was quickly raised, to take ^hat vengeance, which the dispersion of the invaderb alone prevented. ■I »■ i I: 56 - .:i' IS This aggression made in defiance of the laws of nations, and in contempt of the civil authority, has furnished a salutary lesson to the people of Upper Canada. It has taught them that Republican insti- tutions, hitherto held up by a party amongst us, as a light to attract their admiration, are in truth a beacon to warn them of the quick-sands surrounding demo- cracy. It has inspired them with encreased attach- tachment to their own happy conditon, and afforded them a demonstrative proof of their strength to main- tain our enviable Constitution inviolate, against for eign as well as domestic invasion. With these recent examples of the working of good out of evil, by the all wise Ruler of nations, under whose supreme guidance von have for two years held the reins of our Government, we respectfully take leave of your Exceilency ; humbly expressing our hope, that vour Excellency may receive at the hands of our JF^st and gracious Sovereign, that reward which your eminent services have merited/ ^k*^/*H« *«o«« fic 'til- :'^j''<--%'.JfAf!'\ To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian y Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the ^,.-. Province of Upper Canada, S^c. S^c, S^c, ., May it please Your Excellency : »; :^*-~,t-<. o",' h.¥' We, Her Majesty's loyal and dutiful Subjects, Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the townships of Ernest-town and Amherst-island, beg leave most respectfully to approach your Excellency, and express the feelings of deep and unfeigned regret with which we have learned that circumstances have arisen, that have induced your Excellency to tender your resigna- tion of the Government of this Province, and that such resignation has been accepted by Her Majesty's fc KT i Goviornment. Aftd we further beg leave to assure your Excellency, that we duly appreciate and shall ever remember with gratitude, the many and great; advantages which the people of this Province have derived from your Excellency's able, firm and impartial, although shor;, administration of the Government of this Province, under circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, and we are firmly persuaded it is owing to the wisdom, energy and decision of your Excellency's measures, that an opportunity has been afforded to the loyal inhabitants of this Province, to evince their strong and unalterable attachment to the Government and Constitution under which we have the happiness to live/ and their firm determination and ability to defend them against all attacks of domestic treason or foreign aggression. Deeply impressed with these sentiments, we tender to your Excellency the assur- ance of our earnest hope, that Her Majesty's Govern- ment will duly appreciate and reward the important services rendered by your Excellency to the best interests of this Province and of the Empire, and that we shall ever feel the most lively interest in your Excellency's welfare, honor and happiness. ;J ^ vH^ ■fi' •fr#^^P^^p94M* To His Excellency Sir Francis 3ond Head, Baronet, :[ Knight Commander of the Roifal Hanoverian Guelphic Order ^ Knight of the Prussian Military \-- Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the •( Province of Upper Canada, S^c, Sfc, S^c. Mat it please Your Excellency : ^f Aware of your Excellency's great and continued exertions to discharge faithfully the duties of your arduous Office, — to discover and remedy the defects and wants of a new Country — fully sensible of the great ability your Excellency hath evinced in disen- tangling the numerous and difficult questions brought before you — and of the astonishing labor you have used to obtain information concerin;; the Province generally : and of the plans also of the enemies of pur Constitution, so atrocious in their nature— and to defend us in a time of unexampled trouble, — we can- not but entertain a hope, that such knowledge will be made available to the interests of this Province, and the Empire at large. We cannot but hope, that your active and efficient services will soon be acknowledged and rewarded by our youthful and beloved Queen— and that, exalted to some higher office of duty, your influence will be used in our behalf — and if in our behalf, (as this promising region contains the germ of a powerful Nation,) you may add to the welfare and happiness of the whole Empire, and of the world. We commend your Excellency and Family to the protecting care of that kind Providence, which hath "prospered your handy work." Far distant could we have wished that day to be, on which we were to bid your Excellency a respectful farewell ; *-^' a» Jbttt since it is otherwise appointed, we receive no small degree of consolation from the knowledge, that your Excellency will carry with you, the best wishes of all denominations of loyal Subjects ; and that you will be enabled to enjoy in another land, the great gratification — a consciousness that you have nobly performed your duty in this. >^' To His Excellency Sir FRA^CIS Bond Head, Baronet, I; Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian I Guelphic Order ^ KrJght of the Prussian Military I Order of Merits Lieutenant Governor of the % Province of Upper Canada, Sfc, 8fc, S^c. May it please Your Excellency : ■'■■%' ' ' .% We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the town- ship of M»donte, County of Simcoe, in the name of our fellow-subjects of the said township, have the honor to address you at a moment of deep regret and disappointment, at your unexpected recall from the Government of Upper Canada. In vain your Excellency would console a loyal people with the as- surance that your successor is an officer of high char- acter and experience. Impartial history, in recording the eventful period of your administration, will cele- brate your just estimation of the Canadian people ; and pronounce, in accordance with the impartial verdict of the British Empire, that to you, under the protection of Divine Providence, it is mainly owing that Upper Canada has risen indignant, and expelled from her soil, a set of traitors at present leagued with pirates, the opprobrium of a neighbouring nation. On your return to our Father-land, deign to carry to the foot of the throne, the expression of our loyalty and devotion to our Gracious Queen ; and explain to Her Majesty and the British people the sources of the late rebellion — and unmask the designs of those^ "'IT V- m • I '■ i, r-f. a»' 60 whoeter or wherever they may be, who, under pre- tence of reform and redrese of grievances, hoped to accomplish their revohitionary schemes. The hardy veterans, who marched with alacrity to put down rebellion, and who are now training us to the use of arms to repel the unjust aggression of a neigh- bouring people, will not be forgotten by you, nor suf- fered by a grateful country to languish, when their aervices are no longer required, in hopeless destitution. May your Excellency, Lady Head and family land in safety on the shores of Britain, and may the blessings of Divine Providence attend you in the ca- reer of honori loyalty and uncompromising integrity. To His Excellency t Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guetphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, ^c. ^c. Sfc, May IT PLEASE Your Excellency : '^{^ We, the undersigned Inhabitants of Saint Tho- mas and its vicinity, beg leave to offer to your Excel- lency the expression of our unfeigned sorrow for your Excellency's approaching departure from this Pro- vince, and should be wanting in gratitude, did we not come forward to testify unequivocally, our high admi- ration of the ability and firmness displayed by your Excellency, in administering the Government of this Proviace. -**^.4 .i.-^.^^ We cannot too strongly express our regret thtt any di^erence of opinion between Her Majesty's Ministers and your Excellency, should have caused your Excellency to resign the Governmont of this Province, convinced that the policy pursued by your Excellency was the best calculated to promote the welfare of the loyal inhabitants ol Upper Canaday 61 •'.;*■ . ,♦>.. and to maintain the connection happily existing be^ tvireen this Province and tho British Empire. Your Excellency wisely determined to repose confidence, in tiie truly loyal and great majority of the people of Upper Canada, who are now proud to consider your Excellency as one of their greatest benefactors. Dark clouds of gloomy apprehension hung over our political atmosphere' when your Excellency as- sumed the Government of this Province — these have been promptly dissipated by the wisdom of your Ex- cellency's administration, and a prospect of peace and prosperity already dawns upon us. Satisfied that a consciousness of having done your duty to your Sovereign and to the loyal inhabit- ants of this Province will accompany your Excellency through life, we beg leave to add our humble prayer , to the Almighty Dispenser of every blessing for your Excellency's welfare and happiness. 't ; 5 ; V f v '.. ■ .... -.- ,'. 7 ' ,-. ■- * Alt t^.,- . •».♦ To His Excellency SmFRATicis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian vH Guelphic Order^ Knight of the Prussian Military '{()_,, ^ Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Fror '■ vince of Upper Canada, S^c* 8^c, S^c, , .. . . .^ Mat IT Please Your ExcEiojiifcy i 'jl:, -i; *^ We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, resident in the village of New-Market and its vicini- ty, beg to assure your Excellency, that \^e learn with extreme regret, that the Civil Government of tliis Province is to continue for so short a time in your Excellency's charge. At the time when it pleased our late Most Gra- cioas Sovereign to select your Excellency to adminis- ter the Government of this important part of his DomiDion8,this Province was distracted by dissensioii/ 1^: Hi 8»f ^v^ proceeded, we have the conso- iation to believe, that your Exceilency^s administration of the Government of this Province, will receive the unequivocal aprobution of our most Gracious Queeoi and of the British Nation. % With these expressionp, your Excellency will carry with you our sincere wishes for the lasting pros- perity and happiness, of yourself and your amiable Family. To His Excellency ^\^ Francis Bond Hisad, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gudphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merits LieuttnuM Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, Sfc, S^c, ^c. - ':P May it please Your Excellency ; v.^^y^^ We, the Inhabitants of Peterboroiigh and iti vicinity, in the District of Newcastle, approach yowr Excellency, to address you on the eve of your de- parture for the soil of your birth, and to express our regret, that instructions which an upright and honora- ble mind could not conscientiously comply with, obliged you in the faithful discbarge of your difficult and important duty to your Queen and this Province, to resign a Government that has been filled, although arduously, with independence by Ensrland's Repre- sentative^, and security to its inhabitants. We cannot but review with satisfaction, the ex- traordinary political changes that have taken place since your arrival among us, and the call you made in the early part of your administration, to the sense and feeling of the peoplci on the dissolotiQJL of (he HcHMie ■'.''■>? «>^ ■:*Kv-;r^' 65 ice, : .rf.'ijiiii "; of Assembly ; late and present events but too fully prove, that your Excellency's decision of character saved our adopted Country from spoil and ruin. We beheld with surprise and displeasure, the active and unconstitutional part taken in the late dis- turbances by citizens of a neighbouring State, profes- sing friendship and neutrality ; and congratulate Great Britain on having a just and firm supporter of our national faith and honor. You have applauded the patriotism and loyalty of the Militia of this Country ; depend upon it, they consider it their honor, as well as their interest, to maintain inviolate the laws of our happy Constitution. If we have cause to lament our loss, we have likewise occasion to rejoice when we reflect on the representation that will be made in our behalf to our youthful and beloved Sovereign, that her Subjects in tjpper Canada are loyal ; and proudly claim as their birthright, the protection of the flag that waves over them, knowing that if it receives an insult, redress must fallow. if^^ i, ■ . t In adverting to our regret at your Excellency's departure, and to our unshaken confidence in your decisic, under the present singular aspect of public affairs, we cannot refrain from expressing our sincere wishes for your happiness, and commending you to that Providence, which has so signally interposed for the safety and welfare of our adopted Country. . On leaving us, you carry with you the great prize of having discharged the duties of your appointment, with honor, spirit and integrity ; you leave a people who deeply deplore your departure, and wh > affection- ately wish to your Excellency and Family — a safe and speedy passage to your native land* • • > ^* ^r ■i-f t '■"'I'll.. ■v.m -■A • -,'*fe' m 1;^ 66 To Hii Excellency 8in Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order ^ Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, Sfc, Sfc, Sfc» May it please Your Excellency : V"V, ■ "i ^i* ' We, the Inhabitants of Yonge Street and its immediate vicinity, learn with feelings of heartfelt sorrow, that your Excellency is about to leave us— • to leave us at a time when your policy in the man- agement of the Government of this Province has led to the happiest result. Thanks to your Excellency, there is not to be found in this Province a single rebel in arms — and to our foreign enemies we can bid defiance. *' Let them come if they dare." y^n^ Your Excellency's able conduct in the Cabinet, and gallant conduct during the rebellion, have won our hearts. You now know all the people in this Province, and we consider it a calamity to lose you at this time, 'fi' '^^- .-,o,^.s*tis.*.Hyv'>H'> -m^m^ We still cling to the hope, that you will remain with us. • •■•T:-^^ , i5- ri,^y^\nw^m'b¥ '^Mf :;«i.:^ To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, 1 Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^c. S^c, S^c. •'>yv4- May IT PLEASE Your Excellency ::. r^ V We, the loyal Inhabitants of the township of Tyendenaga, in the Midland District, U. C, beg leave humbly to approach your Excellency and represent — that we have with much regret learned that your Excellency is about to yield up the Government of this Province, which you have during a short but ' I'. 67 ai'- eventful period so ably administered ; and that we cannot omit an opportunity so favorable as the pre- sent to express our painful feelings at your departure, and our unqualified approbation of the numerous acts which have in a high degree distinguished your ad- ministration. Called to preside over the affairs of this Colony at a time when the baneful domination of a faction began to prevail, and when a serious doubt existed as to the attachment of the inhabitants of this Province to their Mother Country and British institutions, you assumed the^ reins of Government with a reso- lution to redress all real grievances, and a deter- mination to point out to many who had been deluded by the sophistries of wicked and artful men, that the imaginary grivances so cried up by them had no ex- istence. ■■ •'r'''r-'r-J^?r'v':y:--^^v:!>\7'^''^:.,/:r ' -;. i- '.. Gided with an energy of mind which enabled you to give good effect to your wise resolutions, the country told you when appealed to, that your opinion of its loyalty was not a wrong one — and enjoyed the well deserved pleasure of seeing the Province rise in its might, and proclaim that your judgment was cor- rect, and that no temporary departure from the prin- ciples of true British liberty would ever have effect when called upon in the manner you called upon them, to prove their loyalty and devotion to their country. When the Province had so redeemed itself, and began to enjoy the good effects of your mild admin- istration, we cannot sufficiently express our indigna- tion that a few misguided men, led on by others whose treachery could only be equalled by their hypocrisy, should dare to raise the standard of rebellion, and threaten yourself and us with what we hold dearer than our lives, the subversion of the British Consti- tution. But we rejoice to say, that the inhabitants uf ■kit:'' I fM s n TT 68 I'- '1 f I: this Province proved to your Excellency, that what they had so bravely maintained at the hustings, they would as bravely defend with their lives. We offer to your Excellency our congratulations upon the satisfactory result which your Excellency's prompt and determined conduct during the late rebel- lion has produced, and the undoubted character for loyalty which that conduct, and the general tenor of your Excellency's administration, has procured for the Province. And we beg leave to assure you, that in depart- ing from us, you take with you our heartfelt wishes for your future prosperity, and our prayers that in whatever part of the British Dominions Providence may allot to you, there may attend you a continuation of the bright career which your Government of this Province has obtained for you. We beg your Excellency to convey to Lady Head and your family, our fervent wishes for their happiness, and our assurance that they will always be in our remembrance. To His Excellency i Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet^ Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^c, ^c. Sfc. Mat it please Your Excellency : We, the Inhabitants «f the District of Prince Edward, beg leave respectfully to approach your Excellency with the expression of our deep regret, felt in common with the other loyal Inhabitants of Upper Canada, on learning that you have resigned the high and important station of Lieutenant Governor of this Province, filled by your Excellency with such honor to yourself, and lasting advantage to the Empire. m 69 ; >■ ;;« /• r. We view with alarm and dislrnst, the differencei in Colonial policy, which have at the present crisis deprived the Crown and the people, of the abilities and services of a zealous servant of Her Majesty ; which distrust and alarm we have the more cause to entertain, from our knowledge of your Excellency's firm, constitutional and judicious administration of the Government of this Province, during a time of diffi- culty unparalleled in its annals — a conduct which we had hoped would have received the continued graci- ous approbation of your Sovereign. We are fully sensible, that this Province and the British Empire have incurred a deep debt of gratitude to your Excellency, for your efforts in suppressing the late base attempts, by force of arms, to sever the con- nection at present happily existing with the Parent State, — an attempt which has exhibited to the world as traitors, many who, under the garb of reform and a cry for responsible Government, had so long con- cealed their real intentions. , We trust that while your Excellency's departure from the Government of this Province is attended with the deep regrets of its loyal Inhabitants, you will experience satisfaction in the assurance, that your Excellency is accompanied with the anxious solicitude of a grateful people, for your welfare and happiness, and with their sincere hopes, that your invaluable ser- vices while Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, will yet be duly appreciated by our Gracious Sovereign. To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, J" Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military ;3 Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Pro- ; vince of Upper Canada, S^c, S^c. Sfc. ^ Mat it Please Your Excellency: „ ..: ' ' - We, Her Majesty's faithful and devoted subjects, Inhabitants of the loyal County of Huron, have learned :# w h\i'i 70 I-?/" 1 » with the utmost regret, that your Excellency is about to retire from the Government of this portion of the British Dominions. From whatever cause this unexpected blow may have proceeded, be beg to assure your Excellency, that you will depart from Upper Canada accompanied by the sincere regrets of every well-disposed inhabit- ant, not only of this county, but we are satisfied of this Province, in whose opinion your administration of the Government, during the short period of your holding office, has redounded to your own honor, and has been of incalculable advantage to the people over whom it has pleased Providence, in infinite mercy to place you. Assailed as you have been since the commence- ment of your Government, by the insidious and open attacks of an insignificant and occult band of traitors, aided by a vicious and licentious portion of the public press, we have watched with intense anxiety the statesmanlike policy, and parental solicitude you have at all times displayed in protecting our freedom, and upholding our Constitution inviolate, ^-t^;^;^?^;; - Under your firm, temperate, and constitutional rule, and through the wise measures which you have adopted in the administration of its finances. Upper Canada is the only Government on the North American continent which has escaped national bankruptcy ; and misunderstood as we have been in the Mother Country, your Excellency's judicious and generous confidence in the loyalty and good feeling of the people, has de- monstrated to the world, that in the mighty empire over which it has pleased God to appoint Her Ma- jesty to preside, she has not a body of subjects more loyal and devoted than the people of Upper Canada, as unaided by a single regular soldier, we have proved ourselves willing and able, not only to suppress inter- n|l rebellion, but to repel foreign aggression from the 71 shores of Her Majesty's Dominions entrusted to our care. You are now, Sir, quitting our country, and as we have nothing to expect from you were we to flatter you, you may safely trust us, when we declare in honesty and sincerity of heart, that your departure inspires us with the sincerest sorrow, and that we strongly feel all the benefits that your too short stay has bestowed upon us. Permit us to wish your Ex- cellency all health and happiness wherever you may be, and that you may in future, should you ever be called upon to serve Her Majesty in any capacity, serve under those who are as capable of appreciating your merits and virtues, as we who have the honor to subscribe ourselves your admirers and well-wishers. di^::L iRiri-i^'i^:^* ,^>*.v -ViHii. To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian •f^i* Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military x& Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the ,;^ Province of Upper Canada, 3fc, S^c, Sfc» . »f;i. Mat it please Youb Ezcellenct : £ii.^,''^i ij^i'\ /;M'i '^^ We, the Inhabitants of the townships of West Gwillimbury and Tecumseth, in the County of Sim- coe and their vicinity, having heard of your Excellen- cy's resignation of the Government of this Province, cannot allow your Excellency to leave us without ex- pressing our unfeigned regret at your departure. We, who now address you, are principally emi- grants from the Mother Country, and were induced to make Upper Canada our future home, from the hope and belief, that we should there enjoy to the full extent, the blessing and protection of the British Constitution, which from our infancy, we had been taught to cherish and believe better calculated than any other form of Government, to insure our happiness $ it ifr vA (V> !, '!>■■' 'P' ' \!^'';: K-' .;;.MH| ■ ':;X 72 tli: .? ■ ;, vi' and prosperity. The preservation, therefore, of that glorious Constitution, in all its purity, is our most earnest wish ; and we in common with our fellow Subjects in this Province, feel truly grateful to your Excellency for the bold and uncompromising manner in which you have met and put down the various at- tacks that have been made upon it, during your short but eventful administration. Short as your Excellency's Government of this Colony has been, we feel confident, that it will be productive of lasting benefits, and that Her Majesty, after the most rigid scrutiny of all your Excellency's acts while here, will deplore losing the services of so efficient a Representative in this portion of her Dominions. While we earnestly pray, that your Excellency and Family may reach in safety your native land, we indulge the hope, that your Excellency will not forget Upper Canada, but by making known to our Gracious Sovereign, the loyalty and attachment of its inhabi- tants to her person and Government, use your influ- ence in having the British Constitution so administered as to perpetuate our happy connection with the land of our birth. ..^i-' '~^r. V- ; sm»-tf'ff ''t ,-;i- -.a I. To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian fi- Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the -% Province of Upper Canada, S^c, S^c, Sfc» May it please Your Excellency : ' • " ' We, the undersigned Officers of the Militia of late Western District of Upper Canada, having been informed of your Excellency's intended retirement from the high Office of Lieutenant Governor, cannot allow our representative, Mr. Prince, to proceed to *,.;?:.':,**■ n ; Toronto, without conveying by him our deep regret, that your Excellency should have deemed it expedi- ent to tender your resignation, and that Her Majesty should have been advised to accept such resignation. We beg permission to express to your Excellen- cy, the high opinion which we have ever entertained and ever shall entertain of your Excellency's admin- istration of the Government of this Province ; and most deeply and unaffectedly do we lament, that at this particular crisis, this country should be so sud- denly and unexpectly befeft of your mo£|t jii^portant §^|:vices as Lieutenant Governor. We heartily and sincerely hope, that your Ex- cellency may enjoy long life and happiness in whate- ver situation Providence may be pleased to place your Excellency ; ^nd we beg to assure you that we, in common with all Her Majesty's loyal Subjects in this Province, will eve^ entertain a grateful recollec- tion of your Excellency, as the Chief Magistrate and Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. , / To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, ~ ^i Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian ^ ;, : J Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, Sfc, Sfc, 8fc, ?. 5 May it p^ea9e Your Excellency : ; ■5V :t? ,'-> - '.» We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the undersigned Inhabitants of the County of Pres- cott, in the District of Ottawa, beg leave to approach your Excellency, with our unfeigned and ardent thanks for the able, zealous and uncompromising stand, which you Excellency has so uniformly and successfully made, in the defence and vindication of British principles, and of our glorious Constitution, against the unprincipled attacks of foreign and domestic traitors. K • 1' ■ fi if ' Ir: fl f. 74 ! W k ^ It ^ Ira By the splendid series of moral and physical achievments with which your Excellency's adminis- ; tration has adorned the pages of our Provincial his- tory for the last two years, your Excellency has erected a memorial of fame, which Upper Canada will proudly acknowledge and preserve to after ages. Yet, while we contemplate with grateful pride, the course and results of your Excellency's admistra- tion, we should do violence to our feelings were we to abstain from the expression of our profound regret, mortification and disappointment, at the sudden recall of your Excellency, from the exalted station which you have so ably and honorably filled during a period of unexampled danger and difficulty. On assuming the Government of Upper Canada, your Excellency found the whole Province distracted by the machinations of a seditious and Unprincipled faction. In two brief years, how striking the contr^^st ! Your Excellency's first appeal to the loyalty .id good sense of Upper Canada, -n Bt with a fitting and characteristic response from the brave and loyal con- stituency of the Province ; and the innate feeling and principle of loyalty which led a united people to rally in the support of your Excellency's administration in that period of trial and difficulty, have been still more strikingly manifested in the late momentous crisis. Your Excellency, though thus prematurely withdrawn from your charge, will have the supreme and consoling satisfaction of leaving the people of Upper Canada peaceful, loyal and united, and with nothing to regret, on their part, but the policy which has induced Her Majesty's Ministers to revoke your Excellency's appointment ; and in deploring that policy, we heartily coincide with the Address of the Honorable House of Assembly, on this subject, and especially in earnestly and emphatically declaring, that " if any thing be calculated to shake the attach- i ■v^> i, IP! mcnt of Her IVfajesty's devoted Subjects to her Royal person and Government, it is by acts of injustice, or the manifestation of ungenerous distrust towards pub- lic officers who have served the British Nation so faithfully and nobly as your Excellency has done." Respectfully bidding your Excellency farewell, our heartfelt prayers, and our best wishes, will accom- pany your Excellency and your amiable Family, on your departure from the shores of Canada* jit , «»>»»#< II I To His ExceliencySm Francis Bond Head, jBaroit^ Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order ^ Knight of the Prussian Military '^r Order of Merits Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, ^c, S^c, Sfc, ^'» May it plbase Your Excellency : We, Her Majesty's faithful and loyal Subjects of the township of Georgina, have learnt with unfeigned regret your Excellency's recall from the Government of this Province. Conscious of the various difficulties your Excel- lency has had to encounter in the administration of the Province, and of the firmness and decision your Excellency has displayed in meeting and overcoming them, we cannot but consider the deprivation of your Excellency's services, at this juncture, as a great pub- lic calamity, in a time of peculiar need. ifi^il r r We cannot allow your Excellency to leave us without expressing our conviction, that under the Providence of Almighty God, to your wise and judi- cious measures are we indebted for the suppression of a wicked and unnatural rebellion, whose object was the dismemberment of this Province from the parent country, and the ruin of every loyal supporter of Her Majesty's Government. , -.. 76 v;, ft- ;■■*--: ' I, In leaving this Colony, it must afford your Excel- lency a proud satisfaction to know^ that you carry with you the kindest wishes of a grateful people. To Ilii E^elltncy Sir FrAN 'v . 7:v. :; ;;; :r i ■ Not only do we deplore your Excellency's recall, but the period of it does not diminish that feeling. Your Excellency has hitherto stood by the helm, and 77 1,1 1. t ' ( guided our gallant vessel safely through the most critical and dangerous extent of her course ; and we had trusted) that your Excellency would have carried her into her haven, proudly and undamaged, defying foreign treachery and attack. We wore buoyant with the hope, that your Excellency would have reaped the laurels, and enjoyed with us the fruits of a triumph, which you had planned and brought almost to a happy consummation ; for it is our firm conviction, that but for your Excellency's decided and inflexible tone, which has enforced respect from within and without, a war, kindled by malevolence, had now desolated the entire length of our frontier. We would humbly entreat your Excellency to transmit these our sentiments to the Colonial Office, as a small testimony of our esteem for your Excellen- cy's talents and integrity, and our sorrow at the loss about to be inflicted upon our Province. We will merely observe, that the confidence inspired by your Excellency would have induced us to regard lightly the fatigue, privations and hardships, incident to pro- tecting our extended western frontier from foreign invasion, during the rigor of a Canadian winter ; al- though loyalty to our young Queen, and devotion to the mighty Empire to which we belong, will urge us to undiminished efforts, and we trust, with similar suc- cess, should a foreign and astute foe again dare to pollute the soil of our District. Your Excellency will depart with the cheering reflection of having, by a policy applauded by con- science, converted the gloomy murmurings of a Pro- vince, at your appointment over it, into a warm attachment, aud an unfeigned affliction at your removal. We bear witness to your Excellency's faithfulness and unremitting exertions in discharge of your duty to our Gracious Queen and to our Country. That Heaven may ever bless and prosper your Ex- cellency for it, are our fervent prayers. ; ■ ■ f 'I, " ' ''"^^n .' ' 3^'I^HI ' ^l^ld IB ■ii" i 78 b' f > 1 ! ?■ To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knighi Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military ,i:-'' Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the i!:i- Province of Upper Canada, Sfc, ^c. S^c^k i'>i. May it please Your Excellency : '.n s Wo,, the undersigned loyal Inhabitants of the viiiage of Streetsville and its vicinity, most respect- fully beg leave to address your Excellency, to express our feelings of deep and unfeigned regret at hearing of your Excellency's resignation of the Government of this Province, and intended retirement from amongst us. During the period of your administration, your path has been beset with numerous obstacles by a base and rebellious faction, but, through the sound policy pursued by your Excellency, your firm and de- termined opposition to their views, you have finally frustrated their unhallowed designs, and again re- stored to us the benign blessings of peace. We shall ever have reason to bear your name in our most grateful recollections as the saviour of our Country, from the hands of the bloody assas- sins who but lately polluted its soil. With feelings of deep interest for your welfare, we heartily wish your Excellency and your amiable Family, a safe and pleasant transit to the happy land of your nativity. In taking leave of your Excellency, we beg to tender you our sincere thanks for the important ser- vices which you have rendered this Province — in so impardaily administering its Government, and confer- ring so many inestimable blessings on its inhabitants. May health and prosperity be ever with you and your family. — Farewell. .'T'^*'' 79 To His Excellency Sir FRAff CIS BojvdHead, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military . ;!> Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Pro- vince of Upper Canada, S^c, 6^c» Sfc. May it Please Your Excellency : We, the undersigned loyal Inhabitants of the townships of Cramahe and Haldimand, having learnt, that we are about to be deprived of your Excellency's most valuable services and protection, which during the whole period of your Excellency's administration, have been so unremittingly and so successfijily exer- cised to promote the true interests and prosperity of this great and glorious Province, beg leave respect* fully to state, that this unexpected and unwelcome intelligence has filled us with dismay and the deepest regret. We should have lamented your Excellency's retirement from the Government of this Province, at any time since your arrival among us, but at the pre- sent juncture, and under the circumstances, so honor- able to yourself, which we have reason to believe have occasioned the misfortune, we consider the event as most peculiarly deplorable. We beg to express to your Excellency, our un- feigned attachment, and our ardent wishes for your future health and prosperity. To His Excellency, Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gudjyhic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^c. <^c. S^c. May it please Your Excellency : It was with feelings of unfeigned regret, that the Inhabitants of the town of Hamilton and its vicinity, saw the announcement, that your Excellency had 1*4. Ill" 80 been constrained, from some difference on the matters of Colonial policy with Her Majesty's Government, to tender your resignation as Lieutenant Governor of this Province. At the time of your Excellency's arrival in this Province, the House of Assembly was under the con- trol of an anti-British faction, who were straining every nerve to compel the Government into acts sub- versive of the Constitution, and to revolutionise the Country. Your Excellency, with signal vigor and ability, unmasked the designs of those wicked men : and calling around you the loyal Inhabitants of Upper Canada, overthrew their power, and procured a Par- liament true to British principles, and earnestly zealous for the best interests of this Province, r . In the general admiration excited by this act of your Excellency's administration, none more warmly participated than the Inhabitants of the town of Hamilton and its vicinity ; and we have felt equal gratification at the decisive conduct since displayed by your Excellency, in reposing, with such unhesitating confidence, on the loyalty and patriotism of the Inhabitants of Upper Canada, and in accompanying them, personally, to resist the wicked conspiracy of its internal enemies, as well as the subsequent aggression of its treacherous allies. By this extraordinary vigor, your Excellency has fully realised the expectations of the friends of the British Constitution in this Province, and called forth a display of loyalty which will serve as a convincing proof to the world, that British prinr-iples are too deeply seated in this portion of Her Majesty's Dominions, to be overthrown by a faction, let their professions be what they may. It now but remains for us to bid your Excellency a respectful farewell, and to assure your Excellency, that wherever your approving Sovereign may require " •"• ;t'-:',*''.T V'^W^ ^g?*? W?^*^" :l'.'!ilW.|«^ 81 your services, in no part of Britain's wide spread Empire will those services be more fully appreciated, or gratefully remembered, than by the Inhabitants of the town of Hamilton and its vicinity. m To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gudphic Order ^ Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merits Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, Sfc, 8^c. ^c. May it plgase Your Excellency : We, the Officers, Non-commissioned, and Pri- vate Soldiers of the Midland District of Upper Ca- nada, assembled and doing duty for the protection of Kingston, the Key of Upper Canada, which we feel justly proud in having held in our safe keeping since the outbreaking of the most foul and unnatural rebel- lion that ever disgraced the annals of a civilized com- munity, approach your Excellency as the representa- tive of our beloved Sovereign, at a time when every true Canadian and British heart feels keenly the loss we are about to (jxperience in the removal of your Ex- cellency from the Government of our Country, which you have so nobly shown can defend itself both against the mflrhinations of traitors to its Consti- tutions within, and the display of unexampled and unlookcd for enmity without, at a time too when from the lapse of nearly a quarter of a century of profound peace. Upper Canada was, it was supposed by those who arrayed themacilves against her honour and her peace, destitute of that military ardour which enabled her during the last war to set foreign invasion at defi- ance, with means apparently then also inadequate to the defence of her extended and exposed frontier. L \<\'\ if 82 III I IS* Your Excell(>rvey, attacked in lli6 capital by a band nf lawless hmmiider», no sooner sounded the cry "to artns,'* than ihie raj^acirtna and blood-thirsty spoilers were discomfited and disperse^d, attd ten thousand brave militiamen rushed to your banner from all parts, whilst here at Kingston ihe only struggle was between the Regiments of the Midland and Eastern Districts, which should, having first reinforced the Capital, secui'e the most important military position on the (a-reat Lakes. The marauders desired to apportion out amongst their rash and deluded followers our fertile and smil- ing lands, and finding the militia had so resolutely ejected them from the soil, sought refuge in a terri- tory whose people were tii a sia-te of profound peace with Great Britain. '■ An unholy union for a time kept the Erie fron- tier of Upper Canada in a state of actual war, but the invaders were speedily punished, and ejected for ever. ■*'■'■' To your Excellency's energetic measures the militia of Upper Canada owe the proud station they have otice again attained, and wiien you leave us. Sir, in their hearts will your memory and your name hold a fond and grateful recollection. in camp, in quarters, on the field, the militiaman and the volunteer will mingle the revered name of Isaac Brock with that of Francis Bond Head — both have led them to victory. And long in Upper Canada will the hearth re- sound with the cheering recollections of the Yongc Street dt^feat, the repulse at Chippewa, and last, thougli not least, the flight in the London District, and the disaster at Maiden. Then shall your name ** in our orii^ons he duly remcmhereAy^ and become familiar in our moulhs '* as household words J' ■I„.*._ ro- May your Excelloiicy also recollect vks, and m^y that Providcnco which |ias guid(?d yQU and us ihrough thia atorm in sat^Vity be your shield and your safe- gward, in yqur voyoge hompward^i and thfough life. . r.f't ■*% (V »«99« To His Excellency ^m Fbakcis Bom Head, Baronet, ; 75 Knight Commander of the Royal llamv^xian j^i, Gudphic Order f Knight of the Prussian Militaxy Order of Merits Lieutenant Governor of the •i,. . Province of Upper Catiada, $^c. Sfc. S^c, . May it please Your Excellency : - ^ "hiii:;! We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the town of Chatham and its vicinity, have lately heard, with sin> cere regret, that your Excellency has resigned the Q^vernraent of this Province. We cannot allow your Excellency to leave us without adding our assurance to that of the other Inhabitants of the Province, that we have ever admired the spirit by which your Excellency has evidently been actuated during your residence among us, and the open and manly policy of your administration. We add our feeble voice to that of every other loyal man in Upper Canada, in applauding your Excellency's energy and decision during the late unfortunate disturbances ; and we rejoice, that under your command, it has been in our power to prove our attachment to the Constitution and Laws of our fore- fathers. 'In taking IcL.e of your Excellency, we offer our best and most sincere v^ishes for your future happi- ness : and we assure you, that in the days of our prosperity, we shall not forget how nobly and firmly you stood by us in our short hour of trouble. 84 l'4 To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gudphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military ^^^ Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of t!ie Province of Upper Canada, Sfc. ^c, 8^c. May it please Your Excellency : We, Her Majesty's faithful and loyal Subjects, Inhabitants of the village of Paris and its vicinity, beg leave to address your Excellency on retiring from the Government of this Province. o It is much to be regretted that any difference of opinion on points of Colonial policy should have arisen between your Excellency and Her Majesty's Government at home, and more especially at this eventful period, when, by the machinations of a few evil and designing men, the Province has been nearly involved in all the miseries of civil and bloody war, but which, through the mercy of Divine Providence, your Excellency's prompt and vigorous measures, and the gallantry of the brave and loyal inhabitants of the Province, has been speedily, and we trust effectually, put down. The short period of your Excellency's adminis- tration enables us at one glance to bring under view the whole course of policy pursued by your Excel- lency, and we must confess we perceive nothing ema* r.ating from your Excellency in word or deed, which can in the slightest degree be interpreted as objec- tionable ; on the contrary, the wisdom and prompti- tude you have on all occasions displayed in upholding the dignity of the Crown, and maintaining our glo- rious Constitution inviolate, call for the highest ex- pression of admiration and gratitude on our part, and we trust when our youthful and most Gracious Qnecn shall be called upon to take a similar view of your Excellency's administration of the Government of ti^is li'l jProvince, Her Majesty will find no difficulty in award- ing to you a full measure of Her Royal approbation.* And now, on the eve of your Excellency's de- parture, we humbly beg leave to tender our warmest acknowledgments for the many benefits you have con- ferred upon ourselves and the Province at large, and in taking leave, permit us to express our ardent wishes for the happiness and welfare of yourself and amiable Family, and in doing so, we most respectfully bid your Excellency farewell. -.ff4 -J' '»»»#^# M W ^>t'i'.\,J V » '?:;/iV.ti To His Eoccellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian ;j; ,J Guelphic Order ^ Knight of the Prussian Military , / Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of tfpper Canada, Syc. S^c, Sfc, May it please Your Excellency : We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, Inhabitants of Bytown and vicinity, beg leave to express our most unfeigned sorrow to learn, that your Excellency has considered it necessary to resign the Government of Upper Canada. Unacquainted with the reasons which moved your Excellency to take such a step, we can only deplore the policy which divests the local Government of a necessary power, thus causing changes of Rulers prejudicial alike to the interests of the Colony and the Mother Country. ' ' We have seen with admiration, the energy and activity which your Excellency has exerted to ascer- tain and secure our best interests during your short administration, which under Providence, have saved us from the horrors of a civil war ; and we therefore the more deeply grieve, that we should be deprived of your Excellency's valuable services at this delicate and difficult crisis^ i;i %kh r* . ■■■'' ■ 86 'l^ Hi J. s.r if We humbly request, that your Excellency will bo p1eaa«(J to lay these our sentimenta at the foot of the Throne, *r,ri^) .^om tigj^r: . ■^mp-^j^Hil:}^^'. Amherstburg, Westebn Disthict, :^ ;,i,;, 22nd January, 1838. m; i.ui 2\> Ifw Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Oovemor of the Pro- vince of Upper Canada, S^c, Sfc, S^c. Mat it Please Your E^tCELLENCT : An appalling rumour having most unexpectedly reached this remote quarter of the Province, that your Excellency has either been recalled by the Home Government, or that you have deemed it expedient to tender your resignation — We, as a small but anxious portion of the grate- ful population of a Province which has twice owed its salvation to the wise, prompt and energetic mea- sures adopted by your Excellency in its behalf, most respectfully beg permission, in so unlocked for a di- lemma, to be put in possession by your Excellency of such information as will either set our fears at rest, or, by placing this astounding intelligence beyond a doubt, enable us, in common with the rest of the inha- bitants of Upper Canada, to take such immediate steps as may be deemed most likely to avert the most deadly blow that could, at the present eventful crisis, be struck at either the energetic patriotic exertions, or the rapidly reviving prosperity of the Province. Withholding the further expression of our opi- nions until favoured with your Excellency's' acknow- ledgment of this address. We have the honor to remain, with that devoted respect and admiration which must ever be due to the saviour of a Country, your Excellency's most obedient, and most humble servants — 87 To His Excellency t Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, iyi? Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian •rh . GudphicOrderfKnightof the Prussian Military i5t Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the hU Fromnce of Upper Canada, Sfc» S^c, S^c. ■ : . -' H" #( J! f ; »'>'«/'t* May it please Your Excellenov : We, Her Majesty's most dutifiil and loyal Sub- jects, the Inhabitants of the township of Dalhousie, in the Bathnrst District, having learned with deep and unfeigned regret, that it is your Excellency's intention to retire from the Government of this Province, beg leave to assure your Excellency, that we would deem it a matter of deep regret at any time, to lose the services of a man who has so uniformly proved him- self so able, and so promptly willing to devote his great power and unrivalled talents to the best interest of his Country ; and at a time like the present, when we have been threatened with one of the greatest evils that could possibly, in a political point of view, affect us. We only echo the sentiments expressed by the inhabitants of the Province in general, when we state, that we look on the removal of your Excellency from the head of the Government in the present state of the Province, as a calamity of no small magnitude. We admire the noble feeling which actuated your Excellency, when you so cheerfully, and so amiably represented our Gracious Sovereign in ex- tending the Royal clemency so well entrusted to your charge, to the poor deluded dupes found in arms against their fair and lawful Sovereign, who had been spurred Up and led to rebellion, by the base artifices of some of the most ungrateful and truly contemptible traitors, whose history has disgraced the annals of modern times. We rejoice with all the good and loyal in the Province, that the brave Militia of Upper Canada 88 All ;; if rap if has, under Divine Providence, been the chief means of crushing the late unnatural rebellion, and we ad- mire the wisdom of your Excellency, that trusted the noble deed to the loyalty of their hearts, and the prowess of their arms. The alacrity with which every Militiaman flew to arms at the call of his Country, will convince the world, that such a current of pure loyalty flows through the vast forests of Upper Canada, as the open or concealed enemies of the illustrious House of Brunswick, will never be able to stem. We have every confidence, that your Excellency will be pleased to represent the services of the gallant Militia Volunteers in the proper quarter, and we doubt not, but our excellent Government will in its usual munificent manner, reward the services of both ofiicers and men : and we trust, that so soon as your Excellency will see that their farther services at the time can be dispensed with, that you will cause our townsmen to be restored to the bosom of the' - families, from whence they will again spring like lions, when their Country needs their aid. ' ' -• ^V ' t In conclusion, we sincerely hope, that every comfort and happiness may be the lot of your Excel- lency, in your person and family, and that you may have a safe and pleasant passage to your native land, and be long spared as the faithful servant of our Sovereign, and the unflinching supporter of the British Constitution. ., . . j; r . Vt' t!r -Mi :Hi-> Sir, Canada Company's Office, 2'oronto, 23rd Jamuiry, 1 838. As Commissioners of the Canada Company, a public body possessing so deep an interest in the prosperity of Upper Canada, we beg to assure your Excellency of our sincere regret at your approaching retirement from the Government of this Colony. .^f;^ 89 Our official duty having of necessity led to fre- quent intercourse with your Excellency on the affairs of the Company, it affords us much pleasure, previous to your Excellency's departure from this Country, to tender our acknowledgments of the unvaried kindness with which your Excellency has been pleased to receive such communications as we have had to make, and of the liberal and impartial inter- pretation which has always been given by your Excellency to such parts of the Canada Company's Agreement with Her Majesty's Government as the attention of your Excellency has from time to time been- directed to. Wishing your Excellency many years of happi- ness and prosperity, . , , We have the honor to stibscribe ourselves, -- , Your Excellency's most obedient, . Humble servants, .- ^ > >S'--^' • W. ALLAN, ■' ■ '''' '^'^ f THO'S MERCER JONES, /^ ; \ .. : Commissioners, To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, ,. /, , Bart., Knight, Commander of the Royal ^ ' ' '- Hanovarian Guelphic Order, Knight of the . v " <; Prussian Military Order of Merits Lieutenant - -:► ^ Governor of the Province, of Upper Canada. To His Excellency i Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant (Jovernor of the Province of Upper Canada, ^c, S^c. Sfc May it please Your Excellency ; r We, the Magistrates ^u< loyal Inhabitants of the County of Hastings, beg leave to approach your Ex- cellency, and to declare — . M IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET {MT-3) ..»" ,Mi % Ua v.. 1.0 I.I 1.25 l^|2.8 ^ itf mil 2.0 2.5 'ii2.2 1.8 U IIIIII.6 ^- V] yl ^;; Photograpfe Sciences Coiporation 23 .VEST MAIN STREET WE«STER,N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 90 ^rj f^ u u That we have heard with deep regret that your Excellency is about to leave the Province, and we feel assured that it will by no means be considered valueless, that your Excellency should carry with yon into your retirement, the knowledge, that we, the loyal inhabitants of this county, consider that this Province is deeply indebted to your Excellency for the prompt and able manner with which you came forward in an hour of extreme danger and difficulty, and rescued the Country, and our beloved Institutions, from the horrors of a civil war, and the licentious control of a mob. ^^ Called as your Excellency was to the adminis^ tration of the Government at a time when revolution and rebellion threatened the destruction of British supremacy in this Province — surrounded by the mani- fold difficulties which false friends constantly placed before your Excellency as a '* stumbling-block," we can, and do, duly appreciate the firm and dignified manner in which you have ever maintained the integ- rity of the British Empire, and defended for the peo- ple of this Province, and maintained untarnished and unimpaired, their happy and glorious Constitution. > Great as is our regret, from the simple fact of your Excellency's having resigned the reins of Gov- ernment, our sorrow is doubly increased from the cir- cumstances which have led to it, and it proves, if proof were needed, that throughout the whole of your public career in this Province your Excellency has had but one object in view, namely, the good of the Province — the untarnished integrity of the Empire. Deeply is it to be lamented, that the advisers of Her Majesty have chosen rather to listen to the dic- tates of popular clamor, than the advice and opinion of an independent, responsible, and worthy representa- tive of their august Mistress ; for in pursuing this hasty '/ -,, ', ., ;> ^•». s i' '■■'t 91 course, and not aHowing time to test between their opinions, formed upon doubt, and your Excellency's, founded upon fact, and a positive knowledge of un- doubted proofs, they have deprived their Sovereign of the services of an able and zealous Officer, and tier Majesty's loyal subjects in this Province of the most efficient defender of their rights that it has pleased Providence should be sent to this Colony to admi- nister the Government. As the County of Hastings was first in the glo- rious contest of the elective franchise, to sustain the independent course your Excellency had marked out for yourself in the late political crisis, when rebels, under the guise of reform, sought to subvert our happy and glorious Constitution, so do we now declare our adherence to those great principles of political inte- grity, at the shrine of which your Excellency has been pleased to sacrifice the honor of being your Queen's Representative in this Province. i>^^;^ '^~ Should it so happen, that, in course of events, your Excellency should again return to this country to resume the reins of Government, now at a most critical period transferred to inexperienced hands, we should greet with delight and joy your return amongst us. ^-^- ' ''y^- -* '?^', '^""^'i^ ■ H^-^^w May a long, prosperous and happy life, and every blessing which Providence can bestow, here and hereafter, be the reward of your Excellency's conduct, and may Lady Head, and your Family, be benefitted in like manner, through the kindest dispensations of Providence, is the sincere prayer of us all. y < m ) .f -„ »-^- J v^.r:''; •f. - -v. '.-' • - .■ I- .■f-J 92 kit 1% 7'T. Vfi r4 To His Excellency Sir Francis BortiD Head, Banmet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gudphic Order, Knight of the JPrussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, S^c, Sfc* S^c* May it please Your Excellency : We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the town of Cornwali, have learned with regret, that having dif- fered in opinion with Her Majesty's Government, in' some important subject of Colonial policy, your Ex- cellency has been compelled from a sense of duty, to tender your resignation of the Government of this Province. The subject upon which your Excellency has been forced thus to differ, is unknown to us, and we cannot of course express any opinion upon the ques- tion at issue — but when we recollect the firm, vigor-f ous and constitutional manner in which your Excel<^-' lency has, under most unprecedented dangers and difficulties, upheld the prerogative cf the Crown, and maintained inviolate the liberties and privileges of Her Majesty's Subjects in this Province, we cannot but feel, that in accepting your resignation. Her Ma-i jesty's Ministers have inflicted a deep and lasting injury upon the interests of the Colony. #gr From the moment in which you assumed the Government of this Province, your Excellency has been assailed by the untiring opposition and ground* less hatred of a wicked and revolutionary faction. — Trusting for support in the loyalty of those you were called upon to govern, your Excellency offered a firm and successful resistance to the machinations of the leaders of this traitorous cabal In thus confiding in the attachment of a devoted people, your Excellency has been more than conqueror — for while the guilty have been driven from the flock, the deluded have been brought back to the fold. u ■y ■ 93 The feelings of the heart can only be honestly expressed in the simple and unpretending language of truth : and we trust your Excellency will believe, that in taking leave of you, we feel a sorrow as deep as the benefits your Excellency has conferred on the Province, will be lasting. We fervently pray, that; your Excellency will receive from the hands of our beloved Queen, the reward to which you are justly entitled, and that every blessing, spiritual and tem* poral, may attend your Excellency and family, where- ever it may please the Almighty Disposer of events hereafter to place you, , ._i ,-^.\. jt'.^iT ■,-. ^v.•,- To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet^ Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Chielphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, Sfc, S^c, ^c. May it^xeasb Your Excellency : --.^i We, the Magistrates, Freeholders, and Inhabi- tants of the County of Oxford, duly convened by public notice, beg leave respectfully to address your Excellency, and to express our deep concern at the announcementof your resignation of the Government of this Province. ii *-; ^ » i)>* . Under ordinary circumstances, we would receive this intelligence with painful anxiety, but in the actual situation of the Province, whether in respect to its internal state or external prospects, we must deplore the communication, as a great national calamity. When your Excellency assumed the Government, a factious organization, already marked by unequivo- cal symptoms, a determined hostility to the British Throne, and attempted in that spirit to control your Government, aod to overthrow our Constitution ; we m" 04 look back with unqualified approbation to your Excel' lency's firmnesa on that occasion, and to the constitu^ tional appeal you then made for support to the loyalty of the Province, and to which, under Divine favour, we now stand indebted for the preservation of our liberties. The same wise and uncompromising conduct had marked the entire course of your Excellency's Govern- ment, but although the limits of an Address will not admit of an enumeration of what has been thus done, under your directions, for the benefit of the Province, we cannot pass over the magnanimous and honorable course adopted by your Excellency in a moment of severe and most critical difficulty, when the whole commercial credit of America was shaken to its foun- dation. The noble stand then successfully made under your Excellency's auspices to sustain British integrity in her commercial engagements, amidst the contagion and temptation then spread around us, demands our gratitude not less than our admiration. But if our obligations are here great and lasting, we are at a loss adequately to express what we, and the entire Province, owe to your Excellency for the 4 wisdom, the promptitude and ability, you have dis- played in crushing the unnatural Rebellion attempted 1 to be excited in this hitherto peaceful ^nd happy land. We are aware that objections may be raised, by factious demagogues, to the policy of senditig the regular forces to the assistance of the Lower Province, but the devoted feelings in your Excellency's breast would have already convinced you, that appeal could ' confidently be made, under any emergency, to the ' same patriotism and loyalty your firmness and wisdom had already so triumphantly drawn forth. We feel that the Upper Province has nobly re- sponded to this call, and has marked in characters not 4 to be misunderstood, that its loyalty and attachment 95 l^\: to the British Throne, and to the Constitution atf established in this Province, is not to be shaken by domestic .laitors, or subverted by foreign duplicity. It is now demonstrated to the world that this Province seeks not, as she has been misrepresented, any aliena- tion from the Parent BiLate, and is determined at all hazards, to preserve a connection with which her best and dearest interests are identified. We are not of those who have any fears as to the result, except it arises from a change in the wise and provident government your Excellency has established. Our cause is a righteous one — no less than the defence of our altars and firesides — and as such, we can look for protection io Almighty power ; but whilst we hail with satisfaction the moderation and vigour of your Excellency's measures on the frontier, which demand our warmest acknowledgments, we are ready and willing, with our lives and fortunes, if need require, to sustain them, by repelling foreign aggression or interference of any kind, yet still desirous to cultivate, if permitted, the relations of amity with our neighbours. :% »; We lament that so little of this spirit has been shewn, by the insult offered to our most Gracious Sovereign in the invasion of our Province by an armed band of American Citizens, uncontroled by American authority, who have waged war and committed blood- shed on the Subjects of Her Majesty, engaged in the recovery of a part of the British territory, then audaciously held by rebels. We trust reparation has been or will be demanded for this outrage, in which the honor and independence of the British Empire is involved. Of your Excellency's feelings on this subject we can have no doubt, and are equally confident that in your hands no insult would be offered to the British Nation with impunity. -^ *^ Again we repeat our unfeigned regret, that at such a moment we are deprived of your Excellency's • >• ■■^'^'■■y\ -'-:::: : (■^ ■» f ^1 ^^■■^ rn- ion m- of ere the the 0U8 our appeal to the People, tb ftidCy^w t6"maintain the Con- stitution ; the reliance you placed upon their loyalty, at a moment when Her Majesty's forces were withdrawn from the Province ; and the energy you displayed in crushing a Rebellion, as unnatural as it was unforseen : when we reflect upon all this, we beg to assure your Excellency, that if any thing could shake our loyalty to our Sovereign, or our confidence in the justice of the Imperial Government, there are but few things that would be more calculated to do both, than the recalling your Excellency at so critical a period : and in these sentiments, we believe, would unite with us about a thousand of our fellow Subjects of this county, who, at the call of your Excellency's gallant and ex- cellent Predecessor, have gone to Lower Canada to assist in maintaining the peace of that Province, as well as to guard against the machinations of a portion of our republican neighbours. Trusting that your Excellency's important ser- vices to this Province, will meet with that approbation from our Gracious Queen which they so justly merit ; and that you and your family may long enjoy every earthly comfort, we respectfully bid your Excellency — Farewell. *>;*. ■S-\'i-. .i ':■:,'. Amherstburg, Western District, '^■ f^ 22nd January^ 1838. ' To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet^ «,>^,,, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian <■ j||: Guelphic Order ^ Knight of the Prussian Military 't-rS^'- Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the ti;^^: Province of Upper Canada ^ S^c. ^'c. S^c, ^ ^^ , May it please Your Excellency: v^. .s . . )'»'.i-; 98 ■i> undersigned, either residing in this immediate neigh- bourhoud, or assembled in arms at the call of their country, at this important remote point of the Canadian frontier, been despatched, when the truth of the para- lizing rumour of your Excellency's resignation burst upon them, in the public announcement of your Ex- cellency's message to Parliament, on the 15th inst. The object of their anxious appeal being thus unhappily anticipated, all that now remains to the undersigned is — ^without waiting for the honor of your Excellency's reply-^-at once to unite with the rest of the loyal and grateful inhabitants of Upper Canada, and more particularly with their spirited and talented Representatives in both Chambers of the Provincial Legislature, in the expression of the poignant regret with which they contemplate your Excellency's sud- den departure from a country which, in so short a period, has owed so much to the wisdom and decision of your Excellency eventful administration of its Government, at the same time that they are bound to admire that noble disinterested bearing which could promptly sacrifice all selfish considerations rather than submit to the humiliating un British predicament of being the servile instrument of carrying into effect, at the beck of an uninformed distant Colonial Secre- tary, measures which neither your sounder judgment nor better experience, on the spot^ could approve. ^' Coinciding, more especially, in the sterling sen- timents expressed by our Representatives in the House of Assembly, as embodying the direct unfettered echo of the feelings of a high-minded, loyal and discerning people, we deem it a waste of words to add here a single sentence to so noble, so perfect, and yet so well earned a tribute to your Excellency's merits, and therefore content ourselves with the simple expres- sion of our renewed affectionate regrets at your Excellency's approaching departure; and confidently 99 leaving the more just appreciation of your Excellency's invaluable services to the calm and dignified award of the Senate of our Mother Country, and the degree and nature of their high reward to the unsophisticated warm heart of our beloved Sovereign, unite in implor- ing the Divine blessing on your Excellency's future career, whether to be spent in the even and more happy tenor of domestic retirement, or to be devoted, as we hope it soon will be, to more stirring scened in the service of your country. j^> J!X"?"y 't>« ^rV^ ■i:r:'iig^'. A ■■f'V intly To His Excellency ^\R Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Gueiphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Pro- vince of Upper Canada, ^c» Sfc* ^c. j,.?^ i ., Jt Mat IT P1.EA8E YooR ExcELL£ncT : ,;' » ' ■"' ^ ^' ';j * We Her Majesty's loyal and dutiful Subjects, of the Township of Orillia^ again approach your Excel- lency, without any abatement of those feelings which indiMsed us, on the first day of the present year, unani- mously to express oor loyalty to the British Crown, and. our gratitude to your Excellency personally, for your uncompromising zeal and superior talent in the discharge of the aft'duous d^tied of this Province. '•' > ->:>!! We repeat that your intense application, talent, knowledge of the real causes of complaint, your en- deavour t« remedy all evils \krlthout compromising the Constitution, have been the means, under Divine Pro- vidence, of warding off the blow which has been, and now is aimed at us by the Subj-ects of a neighbouring power, professedly in amity with Great Britain. : That under all these circumstances we cannot avoid expressing our regret and alarm, occasioned by the notification of your Excellency's resignation, con- ■i< ''■-- h 100 veyed to the House of Assembly in your message of 15th ultimo. If that policy which has aroused such a universal burst of loyal feeling, expression and action, through- out Upper Canada, whereby rebellion against the Crown has been crushed, and Foreign invasion repel- led, be a just cause for depriving Her Majesty*s Sub- jects in this Colony of a wise and efficient Governor, and our Sovereign of his talented services in this important portion of the British Empire, at a time when a combination of every great quality, with a local and political knowledge of the country, is requi- site, we must, with all due humility and submission to the Laws we respect, but in the determination of upholding our glorious connection with the Mother Country and British Supremacy, reiterate our heart- felt regret at your Excellency's resignation, and our fears that the seeps taken by our Colonial Minister, and that line of policy required by him, must have been guided by the misrepresentations of our enemies, and the want of due knowledge in the affairs of the Colony. We believe it will be gratifying to your Excel- lency to be assured, that should the insolent and unprincipled spirit of encroachment displayed by the United States of America, lead them to attempt any further aggression on the shores of Canada, we shall not hesitate, in defence of the admirable Constitution and good Laws under which we live, to give all our energies, and hasten all our exertions, in repelling the insult and defending our Country, Laws and Consti-^ tution. 4^ We believe that the important events that have happened in this Province, during the administration of your Excellency, will long be remembered with deep interest, and vvill long have a most important influence upon the interests and prosperity Pfi^Q. British I'ossessions in North America. ^^ « -; --rw-^^ .in-'i 101 We earnestly trust that your departure from among us will be but temporary ; that our Gracious Monarch will be pleased to command a continuation of your valuable services, and that you may return among us exalted and invigorated with renewed powers. V To the whole of the foregoing Addresses His Excellency returned the following reply, verbally ex- plaining to the respective Deputations, that feeling it to be his duty not to write any thing on the subject of his retirement from the Government of the Province which could tend to agitate that question, he had resolved to give but one answer to whatever valedic- tory Addresses he might receive. Gentlemen : I sincerely thank the Inhabitants of- -, for the very gratifying expressions respecting my adminis- tration of the Government of this Province, which are contained in their Address. I ^\^ '■..- 4' :' - -♦*;- _,i V;H^::^.> -i- *: >'' Vr-' ' ■.;*P •V "I, ;- •to . fUv- ■-siofef^- ^fr' .->='^;^r '.^t -i^'^ "^M. . : :'^:%. ^' mmm' ..,'%' ".i,;Uj.J4 .»•» .^. It 'A i ,T^- i - - ■ :-t . ■ ,'■ S »ri- 1 , 1 */ . ' , ^ .(O , A^j, I,. *'■' !■■ I '. 'm ^a4ft-M>ii^t,vtW.- iff, - ,B :t ; £; .■' •i>^'»^*f/ ADDENDA/ v^..h ; o.i ;■ r.'.M^:f^^ The following Addresses, from Legislative aiid otKer public Bodies, had they been received in time, --^^" would have been placed with those of a similar ■'( description, at page 15. ••■♦n t '.'I'ii''! ^c-f Address delivered by the Honorable the Speaker of , J 4 , the House of Assembly, at the prorogation of the V ',, Provincial Parliament, to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, previously to the delivery ,,^ of the Speech from the Throne, Mat it fleabe Your Excellency : We, Her Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Sub- jects, the Commons of Upper Canada, have granted to our Sovereign Lady the Queen the Supplies neces- sary to enable Her Majesty to carry on the Civil Government of this Province for the present year. Upon looking back at the various important communications which havG been made by your Excellency to the House of Assembly during the present Session, we cannot but congratulate you and the country, upon the firm and noble attitude assumed by your Excellency in all those public documents which have emanated from your Excellency. When we reflect upon the occurrences that have taken place in Upper Canada, and upon its borders, within a few months past, and upon the distinguished part taken by your Excellency to maintain the honor and interests of our country, during that short but eventful period, we find equal cause of gratulation. Rebellion has been crushed — the attacks of perfidious citizens of a foreign power, have been repelled, and peace reigns triumphant within the bounds of your Excellency's Government. We trust that the pro- . I K.;' i 104 visions of the Militia Law, to which your Excellency has just given the Royal Assent, may, under Divine Providence, contribute to the preservation of this loyal portion of the British Empire from the aggres- sion of all enemies, whether foreign or domestic. From the message of your Excellency trans- mitted to both Houses of the Legislature, we have too much reason to believe, that the present will be the last time we ever shall have the honor of meeting your Excellency on an occasion like the present. In the name of the people of this Proviice, I offer to Your Excellency the expression of their deep regret, that your Excellency should have felt constrained to tender to Her Majesty your resignation of the Government of this Province, which your Excellency has administered with so much credit to yourself and advantage to the country. The people of Upper Canada will ever retain a grateful recollection of the services of your Excellency ; and they feel assured Your Excellency will meet with a due reward at the hands of our youthful and beloved Queen. It now only remains for me to present to Your Excellency, for the Royal Assent, the bill to provide for the support of the Civil Government of this Pro- vince for the current year. -' ,j y ;■:, i: f i %r. ■i'^^'.-l i:\-^y'\ .;•:,-, ,'.o^-' Government House,/ *^^ !>-.vv J > :^;« ij ItTf^ !: • fi Halifax, 6th Feb, 1838. ' «. At the request of the Legislative Council of this Province, I have the pleasure to transmit to your Excellency the enclosed resolutions of that Honorable Body, expressing their high admiration of the ener- getic measures adopted by your Excellency to suppress the recent rebellious outbrea'': in Upper Canada, and offering their thanks to Culonel Allan Napier MacNab, ■ • .'-••. ■<,; 105 T and the Militia under his command, for their gallant conduct on that occasion. ; ;^^ ■''vl have the honor to be, Sir, • h i^*> D vf^ 1^ V f Your Excellency's most obedient, i^ ''■^^•r :i vt Humble servant, ' ■" '■"^■•■'"^- '■:--'^A.:-.t; • C.CAMPBELL, ^v "Tt-r: His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, d&c. &.C, S&c, Toronto. (' ''^''. Legislative Council Chamber, =^^ ' 29th January, 1838. ^ On motion of Mr. Stewart, seconded by Mr. Ousley— ■.---■"-■; ■' ■ : '-'^ .-•"::'■■ t^:'"f--.:..: ^^-f - ■'"-■ Resolved unammously^-^Theit while the Members of this House view with the deepest i*egret the existence of rebellion in the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, they cannot refrain from expressing the gratification they have derived from those warm and animating displays of universal loyalty and attachment to the British Constitution and Govern- ment, to which it has given occasion throughout the British North American Colonies. Resolved unanimously — That the grateful ac- knowledgments of this House ought to be immedi- ately conveyed to His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, for the penetration with which he discovered, and the firm, prompt and energetic manner, in which he baffled and defeated the mad designs of traitorous men, to rob and murder those who prefer the blessings of the British Government to Republican Institutions, but more especially for the noble-minded reliance upon the courage and loyalty of the people alone, by which he was enabled to render most important aid towar'^s the suppression of the unnatural rebellion in Lower Canada. w p '■:--.i:!:* . 106 ^?,. Resolved unanimously — That the thanks of this House are also due to Colonel Allan Napier MacNab, and the loyal Militia of Upper Canada, for their gallant conduct in crushing in its infancy this rebel- lious attempt, and in exhibiting a noble example of the spirit with which Her Majesty's North American Subjects are determined to preserve their connection with their Mother Country, and to put down all endeavours to weaken or destroy it. Resolved unanimously — That this House view with astonishment and regret, the support and assis- tance, which in a time of profound peace and amity between the two Governments, have been afforded to the expatriated rebels by many citizens of the American Union, and this House trusts, that the efforts of the General Government of the United States will not be remitted, until such of its citizens as have been guilty of so unjustifiable a violation of the existing treaty and the law of nations, shall be punished with that severity which they deserve. Resolved unanimously — That while this House recognize in the British Soldier that devotion to his Sovereign and Country which has led to the effectual suppression of the rebellion in Lower Canada, and also to a long and dreary march at this inclement season, they cannot but rejoice that the absence of the Troops from the Upper Province has afforded gratifying and irresistible evidence of the deep-rooted attachment of the people to the British Constitution. Resolved unanimously — That an humble address be presented to His Excellency the Lieutenant Gov- ernor, praying that he will be pleased to transmit these resolutions to His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. . . JOHN C. HALLIBURTON, Jo Clerk.'**" * ^\jp- A s.;-r-- 'r'v ■ 107 ■*»• ' :.\. "r,: ^■^^'^^i^u-fitl Legislative Council Chamber, 5^- Slst January, 1838. # -^'■'Mesoked-^haX Mr. Stewart, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Ratchford, do wait upon His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and present to him the address and resolutions agreed to on the 29th of this present month of January. - y u-^t: Ms JOHN C. HALLIBURTON, r"|.. 'S .'■• ' ' \ Clerk. >vi^:.^ ik ■J.'....'. ,'_ • .. H *%^%***' :U\:H/ To His Excellency t Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, ^4^1 -Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian '^^uGuelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military ;«|^J* Order of Merit, Lieutenant Gomrnor of the .^|,^ .Projjmcc of Upper Canada, S^c. S^c, ^c. .^^ May it please Youu Excellency : ' ■■J>i-'?:?^?':: : .'''ii '":t-r-v .:/> ,;:'. ^.t' "■'We the undersigned, on behalf of the Execntive Committee of the Constitutional Association of Que- bec, having been informed that your Excellency is aboutto retire from the Government of Upper Canada, feel ourselves impelled, as well by a sense of justice to your Excellency's person, as by a sense of duty to our beloved Q,ueen, to express our deep regret at your Excellency's intended departure; and although circumstances have placed your Excellency beyond our reach for the more intimate and private relations of life, yet upon public grounds we feel ourselves called upon to acquaint your Excellency, that we deeply deplore the causes which have led your Excel- lency to resign the high and important station you have held in our Sister Province, the duties of which you have so ably and so faithfully discharged. The passing events in Upper Canada could not but be rpwarded by us as of the most vital importance lo thi.T! Proviticc, and en!eitaining this view, we have 108 ':¥: watched with the utmost anxiety your Excellency's administration. We have followed you through your prosperous career, and particularly during the event- ful period of the late rebellion, as whilst recording as we now do, by this Address, our admiration of your public conduct, we venture to express the hope, that Her Majesty^s Ministers will at length be convinced that the principles of the British Constitution alone are applicable to the good government of these Fro- ;. vinces. ^-^ '.., '■■■^"■' '".'■'. ■■ At a time when Constitutional Government has led to such happy results, from the exercise of a sound discretion, accompanied by a dignified and uncompro- mising course of policy, which has conspicuously marked your Excellency's administration in Upper -Canada, we are irresistibly led to attribute the present deplorable condition of the British and Irish inhabi- tants of this Province to a weak and vacillating policy, 80 directly opposite to that pursued by your Excellency. , We, therefore, deeply sympathise with the inha- bitants of our Sister Province on the loss they will so universally feel on the occasion of your Excellency's departure. In respectfully offering our sincere wishes for your Excellency's future happiness, and that of Lady Head and Family, we feel that we speak the senti- ments of the whole body of Constitutionalists in this District, in expressing the hope, nay, the conviction, that your valuable talents will ever be enlisted in be- half of these Provinces, and that the important services you have already rendered to Upper Canada, and the Empire at large, will receive that well merited reward, the approbation of our most Gracious and beloved Queen. ; ^^ . . - . (Signed) A. STUART, Chc'rman. W. BRISTON, Secretary, Province of Lower Canada, Quebec, 24th February, 1838. ■>dA •f^ i M ■:,\ To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Hbad, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian » Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military '* Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, Sfc. S^c, S^c, Ma¥ it PLEAeiiS YoUB EXCELLENCY : We the undersigned, Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Privates, of the First Company of Saint John's Loyal Volunteers, Light Infantry, residing at St. Johns, in the Province of Lower Canada, cannot possibly refrain from addressing your Excellency, in consequence of understanding, by the public Press, that you are about to retire from the Government of Upper Canada. - *^ .■».<▼ ?i.i r'.* e.-*' <■» , I •■*'©®9* To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian ^J,^. Guelphic Order, Knight of the Prussian Military '^" Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the -,''■) Province of Upper Canada, Sfc. S^c. ^c. May it please Your Excellency : . . , , ^ - ' We, Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the coloured Inhabitants of Hamilton and its vicinity, having heard with unfeigned regret, that your Excel- lency is about to leave this Province, feel ourselves called upon to address your Excellency on an occasion of the most poignant sorrow to all of us. v < v I! »■ 112 'T-tl:. Having experienced the blessings of living under your Excellency's most paternal administration of the Government of this Piovince, the benefits we have received will be remembered by our children's children with heartfelt gratitude, that Providence mercifully sent your Excellency hither, to succour the oppressed and liberate the captive. ' - We beg to assure your Excellency of our most devoted loyalty and attachment to the British Consti- tution, as under no other Government whatever, could we enjoy such extensive privileges and protection, and for which we can assure your Excellency, we are truly grateful, and in proof of which, we are ready at any time to sacrifice our lives in defence of that Government. And as we voluntarily left our homes and took up arms to defend this Province from an expected attack frcm rebels and pirates assembled on Navy Island, we shall at all times be among the fore- most to answer any call that may be made upon us, either to suppress rebellion in the British ProvinceSi or aggression by a flireign enemy. v* ^s^,??;^:^ -^.i We beg most sincerely to thank your Excellency for the humane and prompt manner in which your Excellency acted in the case of a coloured man of the Town of Hamilton, Jesse Happy, who was claimed by the American authorities, and whom you released from prison, and most nobly refused to surrender up to slavery—setting a bright example to our Republi- can and Democratic neighbours, of determined, stern Monarchical justice. We now most respectfully and sorrowfully bid farewell to your Excellency, and poor as we are, trust we shall never prove insolvents in gratitude for bene- fits received ; and rest assured, that wherever your lot may be cast, you will have the prayers of the coloured Inhabitants of Hamilton and parts adjacent, offered up to Divine Providence for the happiness of yourself and Family. Y 113 W. To His Excellency ^m FKA^cIs Bond Mead. Baronet, Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Orders Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the V Province of Upper Canada, S^c, S^c, S^c. May it pleasl Your Excellency : *'' We, the principal Chiefa and Warriors of the Six Nations Indians, residing at the Grand River, in the Gure District, beg leave respectfully to approach your Excellency, and to express onr sincere regret in learning that your Excellency is shortly to resign the Government of this Province, and leave for England. ,• . ^ Although your Excellency's stay in this Province has not been long, it will be marked as the most important period in the history of Upper Canada. — Your extended views for the improvement of this fine country, and the introduction of population and capital from the old country, must claim the admiration of all who desire to see it flourish as a British Colony, — and may it long continue to form part of that country to which our ancestors, from their earliest connection, clung with devoted loyalty. By your prompt and energetic measures, an unnatural rebellion has been put down. Our friends, the Militia of the country, behaved nobly — they in- stantly flew to your call, — our warriors were ready to have fought by their side. We regret your departure the more, as our interests and improvements as a rude people depend much upon the care and attention of the Executive of the country. Your Excellency has devoted much of your valuable time and attention to the improvement and wants of the red children of the forest, and par- ticularly to the Six Nations, who now adaress you ; — V m 114 ■ r^ ■■♦ and may your Excellency's liberal views, for the inn- provenr>ent of the poor Indians, be as heartily enter- tained by your successor, as they have been sincerely commenced. And when your Excellency reaches the shore of your home, convey to our Sovereign — our youthful Queen — that her red children of the forest are loyal, and that they feel; and largely appreciate, the kind and paternal protection of the British Government, between whom and the Six Nations the chain of friendship, although of long standing, has not been allowed to rust. In approaching your Excellency to bid you fare- well, the Six Nations take this opportunity of returning you their sincere thanks for your kind care and con- sideration of their wants ; and they pray the Great Spirit to protect and reward you. ^ ,^ ^ ^.^)^K ^,/i.-z'' ■■■'''.'' )f'f./'-k^J ■..; '^k^':!^^:;-\ ^tH; -■. ...^:i ?.i. -i > ' ' •*-,".■■ • i- •r- '.r-'-'. . 1 '-'.T'l'J ' V ; •'*i.! .U" il , 115 '. <''*"■ AddreM oj tht Patriotic Highlanders of Lockiel, to Hit ExctUency Sir Fruncu Bond Head, Baronett ifc. ifc. To His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Baronety Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian \ Guelphic Order ^ Knight of the Prussian Military Order of Merit, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada f Sec, 8fc, Sec, • May it please Your Excellency : We, the loyal, patriotic ond true-hearted High- landers, of that part of Glengarry called Lochiel, in the Eastern District, — sons of the heath -clad moun- tains of old Scotia, who never turn our backs on either our friends or our foes, do, in all loyalty and sincere affection, humbly approach your Excellency as the worthy and unflinching representative of our most gracious Queen, to express our abhorrence of the fopl and unnatural rebellion, which has raised its hydra head in both the Lower and Upper Province of this excellent Country. Wo are certain that the vigilant and precautionary measures which your Ex- cellency has adopted, will no doubt, ultimately crush the wretches who have thus unblushingly raised the standard of rebellion. But should, in the meantime, our humble but sincere efforts be needed, we swear by the memory of the past, — by the blessings of the present — by the hope of the future — by all that is worthy of ourselves, z.A of being transmitted down to our posterity, — that we are all, to a man, readv at a moment's warning, to march against the incenu«. 'es and rebels of this our adopted Country, and either to triumph or fall nobly in the strife ; and hand down immaculate to our posterity, the liberty, laws and religion, of our forefathers, — that liberty, that religion and those laws, that they heroically died to defend, find i5,3alcd with their blood, v ^ y. . ,v p lie •V -A. Whenever called upon by your Excellency, and that circumstances of necessity require it, we shall ever be found at the post of duty, ready to be instrumental in either putting down or exterminating the deluded and rebellious wretches who have most impiously rushed to arms in ^rder to break through all laws, divine and human, — to bring into contempt the dignity of our. beloved and most gracious young Queen — to subvert the laws of our beloved Country — and to over- turn our glorious Constitution, the pride and envy of the world. - '•f ■ HIS EXCELLENCY'S REPLY. Brave and Loyal Highlanders of Lochiel : The few remaining rebels who dared to insult the authorities of this noble portion of the British Empire, have absconded from its dominions, and the only enemies we have now to encounter, are a band of pirates who, under American leaders, have invaded our territory for the avowed object of plundering our lands and subverting our revered institutions. 1 feel confident, if this unprincipled aggression should continue, that in one body you will advance to exterminate the perfidious invaders of our liberties, or like Highlanders, perish ** With youi' backs to the field, And your feet to the foe, And leaving in batlld No blot on your name, Look proudly to Heaven From the death- bed of fame !" Government House, 13th January, 1838. (The Addresses presented to the Lieutenant Governor, contain upwards of fourteen thousand signatures.) m