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ADDRESSES, 
 
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 SIR JOHN COLBORNE, R. C. B. 
 
 LIEUT. GOVERNOR OF UPPER CANADA, 
 
 ON THE OCCASION OF HIS LEAVING THE PROVINCE. 
 
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 To m Excellency SIR JOHN COLBORNE 
 
 Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable 
 Military Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Go- 
 vernor of the Province of Upper Canada, 
 Major General Commanding His Majesty ? 
 Forces therein, S^c. 8fc. 8fc. 
 
 We the Mayor and Common Council of the City of 
 
 Toronto, learning that it is the pleasure of our most 
 
 Gracious Sovereign to relieve Your Excellency from 
 
 the Administration of the Government of this Province, 
 
 beg leave to assure your Excellency of our regret at 
 
 your departure, and of the gratitude which we feel, in 
 
 common with others His Majesty's Subjects, who have 
 
 understood and duly appreciated your Excellency s 
 
 labors, for the promotion of the welfare of this Colony, 
 
 and the happiness of its People. 
 
 The benefits bestowed on the Province, through 
 the exertions of your Excellency in promoting the 
 Education of youth, will ever make your Excellency s 
 name venerated in the Colony ; we have no doubt that 
 what your Excellency has so well begun will prove a 
 lasting good to the Province, and secure many happy 
 reflections in your Excellency's mind, when you are 
 no longer amongst us. 
 
 The encouragement of Emigration from the British 
 Isles into this Province, we are aware, has been an 
 object of your Excellen(7's anxious solicitude ; your 
 

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 Excellency, during your stay in Upper Canada, has 
 
 seen its prosperity mainly arise from this source. 
 
 Your Excellency has observed this City, in the course 
 of a few years, by means of extensive Emigration, 
 grow from a small village into a town of comparative 
 importance ; and your Excellency must perceive with 
 pain the depressing effe ,ts brought about by the di- 
 minishing of this great source of the improving and 
 prosperous condition of this community. It must be 
 pleasing, however, to reflect, that this depression has 
 arisen from circumstances beyond your control ; and 
 we feel deeply indebted to your Excellency for the 
 energetic use of all the means in your power, for the 
 promotion of an object in which the future prosperity 
 of this City is so much involved. 
 
 The kind and polite attention shown by your Ex- 
 cellency to the representations of this Body, on the 
 affairs of the City, and the deep interest which your 
 Excellency has always shown for its welfare, we are 
 bound at this period to remember with gratitude. 
 
 With our best wishes that your Excellency's life, 
 which has been hitherto spent so usefully and hono- 
 rably, may continue long, with honor and happiness 
 to yourself and bonefit to our common country ; and 
 that your most amiable and honored Lady, and family, 
 may be ble&sed with all happiness and prosperity.— 
 We humbly bid your Excellency farewell. 
 
 (Signed) R. B. SULLIVAN, 
 
 Mayor. 
 
To which His Excellency was pleased to. make the following Reply : 
 Mr. Matob, and Gentlemen of the Corporation, 
 
 I hetf you to accept my warmest thanks for this 
 kind Address. I receive it with great satisfaction.— 
 Be assured that I shall ever retain a lively interest in 
 your prosperity, and in that of the Province gen .ally. 
 
 I sincerely thank you for the expressions of your 
 good wishes for Lady Colborne, and my family ; and 
 I am confident they will always participate in the deep 
 interest I shall feel in hearing of your happiness and 
 welfare. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight^ 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bathy Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 S^c. 8^c. 8^c. 
 
 We, the undersigned. Inhabitants of the City of 
 Toronto, and its vicinity, beg most respectfully to ex- 
 press to your Excellency our sense of the many bene- 
 fits and advantages we have experienced und3r your 
 Excellency's Administration. 
 
 The excellent example which has been set to all 
 classes by your strict, though unostentatious attention 
 to religious duties, as well as the many extensive and 
 well conducted charities which have received your 
 patronage and support, together with that of Lady 
 Colborne, and family : your liberality during the 
 
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 period of the Cholera, in taking upon yourself heavy 
 personal responsibilities, are all circumstances which 
 have created indelible impressions on our grateful 
 recollections. 
 
 Your unwearied efforts for the benefits of this City, 
 and the Province at large, demand our grateful ac- 
 knowledgments ; your having placed at the disposal of 
 the Corporation the roads and bridges leading to the. 
 Peninsula, has been peculiarly acceptable to the City. 
 
 The establishment of that valuable institution, the 
 College, under circumstances of great difficulty, and 
 heavy personal responsibility, the concentration of the 
 Public Offices:, under similar difficulties, deserve the 
 sincere thanks of the Inhabitants of the City, and of 
 ♦he Province. 
 
 But above all, we feel it due to your Excellency to 
 express our gratitude for your unwearied and indefa- 
 tigable attention to the business of the Province ; your 
 unceasing and successful efiibrts in promoting Emigra- 
 tion, by which alone the best interests of this Province 
 can be secured ; yoar anxiety for the general extension 
 of Education, and the improvement of our puolic 
 roads ; and your efforts in obtaining surveyt? of parts of 
 the Province before unexplored, are all procfs of your 
 paternal solicitude for the well-being of those who are 
 placed under your government ; and will hand down 
 your name to posterity as one of the greatest beuefac- 
 tOTS of the Province. 
 
 In conclusion, we beg most sincerely and affectioo- 
 ately to express our anxious hopf;H, that prosperity and 
 iiappinosB may attend yourself and Lady Colborjvk, 
 
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with your estimable family wherever you go, and to 
 assure you that the blessings of all classes of persons 
 in this Province will accompany you. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 I return my best thanks to the Inhabitants ot 
 Toronto for their kind expressions conveyed in this 
 Address. 
 
 It is most gratifying to me to receive this proof of 
 the feeling which you entertain towards myself and 
 family. 
 
 It has been recently announced to me that my ad- 
 ministration of this Government is about to cease. 
 
 Some weeks before this communication was made 
 to me, I had transmitted to His Majesty's Government 
 my absolute resignation of the Government. 
 
 I was not led to adopt this measure by a desire to 
 avoid the duties attached to the office, although they 
 have been attended with much labor and anxiety. 
 
 1 hope these duties have been discharged in a 
 manner beneficial to the Colony. I have at least ne- 
 glected no efforts to that end. 
 
 I am confident Lady Colborne will ever participate 
 in the pleasure and gratification I shall receive m hear- 
 ing of the prosperity of this City and its vicinity, and 
 of the welfare and happiness of the Province. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 Sfc, S^c. 8^c. 
 May it Please Your Excellency : 
 
 When your Excellency's expected retirement from 
 the Government of this Province is the subject of such 
 deep and general regret, we, who have been educated 
 at Upper Canada College, but who are now engaged 
 in preparing for our respective avocationp in life, can- 
 not but feel it to be our dut> to express the sorrow we 
 experience at your Excellency's departure. 
 
 If the generality of the inhabitants of this flourish- 
 ing Province bear testimony to the numerous advan- 
 tages which your Excellency's paternal administration 
 has conferred on this Colony, and the uniform energy, 
 diligence and perseverance, so signally displayed in 
 all those matters contributing to the public good, with 
 what feelings of gratitude and esteem should we offer 
 our dutiful and sincere attachment to your Excellency 
 for the foundation of an Institution to which we are 
 indebted for the blessings of an education we now so 
 highly appreciate. 
 
 Upon your Excellency's assuming the Government 
 of this Province, your attention was happily directed 
 to the then existing state of Education, and discovering 
 not only that the growing wealth and commerce, but 
 also, that the character and genius of its inhabitants, 
 demanded acquirements superior to those which had 
 
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 hitlierto been atainable, and that unless opportunities 
 were immediately afforded for the instruction of youth 
 in the higher branches of Hterature and science, we 
 should be unable creditably to fulfil the various duties 
 to which, by our rank in society, we may reasonably 
 aspire ; with your characterestic promptitude the 
 foundation of Upper Canada College was determmed 
 upon, and in little more than two years this Institution 
 was placed in sucessful operation. 
 
 In giving us the means so eminently calculated to 
 raise the standard of clasical IJter'^turG in this Pro- 
 vince, we are happy to observe, that the more gene- 
 ^•ally useful, though less ornamental, branches of edu- 
 cation were not sacrificed to those suited to a more 
 polished and refined state of society. 
 
 Your Excellency, by presenting an annual Prize to 
 the College, for which many of us have contended, 
 has, we are confident, contributed much to that 
 generous spirit of emulation which, generally, m its 
 effects, is so highly beneficial to the pupils of a public 
 
 institution. 
 
 From the character Upper Canada College has 
 attained under your Excellency's kind and mumficem 
 patronage, it must ever remain an imperishable monu- 
 ment of the wisdom of your Excellency's Government. 
 
 On this interesting occasion we cannot but again 
 express to your Excellency our unfeigned regret at 
 your approaching departure from this Province ; and 
 while you !o »ve in our hearts a grateful recollection 
 of the noble boon you have bestowed upon us, in 
 establishing the College at which we have received 
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 our education, rest assured that our best wishes for 
 the happiness of yourself and amiable family accom- 
 pany your Excellency. 
 
 •» Di tibi dent annos, nam de te csetera sumes." 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 Gentlemen^ 
 
 An address from those who are now experiencing 
 the blessings of the extensive and liberal education, 
 whicli they have received at Upper Canada College, 
 cannot but be received by me with the greatest plea- 
 sure and satisfaction. 
 
 You are among the first who have demonstrated 
 the essential benefits to society which are derived from 
 the establishment of this Royal Institution. May yon 
 also ever take the lead in this Province as Christians, 
 as Citizens, as Patriots, as members of a community, 
 "qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servants 
 
 I thank you for the kind expression of your wishes 
 for myself and family ; and be assured that I shall 
 always watch with great interest the progress and 
 welfare of those who have been students at Upper 
 Canada College. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sie John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 
 S^c. S^e. Sfc. 
 
 ^^' Understanding, with much concern, that your 
 Excellency is about to leave this Province, We, the 
 Commissioners of the Canada Company, deem it only 
 our duty to tender our warmest acknowledgments on 
 behalf of that Association, for the uniform attention 
 which your Excellency has ever shewn to our Official 
 Communications, and your readiness to carry into full 
 effect all the engagements entered into by His Majes- 
 ty's Government with the Canada Company. 
 
 Permit us also to express personally our sincere 
 thanks for the facilities which your Excellency has at 
 all times kindly and cheerfully afforded us in our 
 necessary but numerous transactions with the Local 
 Government, and by which our various duties, which 
 might have been other^vise at times burthensome, 
 have been discharged with the greatest satisfaction. 
 
 Wishing v -rr Excellency many years of health and 
 prosperity, we beg, on the part of the Canada Com- 
 pany, to subscribe ourselves, 
 
 Your Excellency's most obedient, 
 
 And very humble Serv'ts. 
 
 ^' ^}^t^\r.l.^x^^ \ Commissioners. 
 THO'S. M. JONE8, > 
 
 Canada Company's Office, 
 Toronro, 14th January, 1836. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sm John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander Of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 S^*c. S^c. Sfc. 
 
 We, His Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects— the 
 Magistrates— Clergy— Freeholders, and Inhabitants 
 of the Township of Brantford, in the District of Gore, 
 beg leave humbly to approach your Excellency with 
 expressions of sincere esteem and regard for your 
 petson, and with heartfelt regret at your approaching 
 ffetirement from the Government of Upper Canada. 
 
 Wc cannot but feel, that diiring a long period of 
 seven years, your Excellency has, with untired perse- 
 verance, devoted the utmost patience and industry to 
 the disco i'ery and amelioration of the wants of the 
 Colony, and the greatest judgment in administefing 
 to the comfbrts and happiness of the numerous classes 
 of society, placed under your authority— that your 
 kind and fbstering hand has held out to the Emigrant, 
 on his arrival, every assistance, under the difficultieel 
 and deprivations he had to encounter in a new coun- 
 try, and your watchful eye has afibrded every encour- 
 agement to him in his after pursuits, where worth and 
 character entitled him to your regard ; whilst to the 
 natives and old settlers - ^the Province, who did not 
 Btand so much in need ot assistance, an equal urbanity 
 and kindness has been uniformly shown. 
 
 Placed as we ourselves are, on a tract of land sur- 
 Kv tliP Indiniis for sale, throuffh the interfe- 
 
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 rehce «f your Excellency, whilst we express our grate- 
 ful acknowledgments for the protection which was 
 afforded to our equitable claims for our improvements, 
 we cannot but admire the undoviating mtegrity and 
 care which guarded the interests of the Indians ; and 
 we trust that at the same time that body will enjoy 
 the fruits of a measure calculated to produce a con- 
 siderable augmentation to their funds, and that the 
 community at large will be benefitted by a land vvhich 
 might literally be styled a desert, being converted into 
 an inexhaustible field of productiveness. 
 
 From the universal degree in which these senti- 
 ments pervade us, it will be long before the absence 
 of your Excellency will be looked upon with any feel- 
 ings but regret; and every member of our community 
 will forever continue to regard your loss as that of a 
 patron and friend, whose considei-ation and kmdnesa 
 can never be effaced from his memory. 
 
 Offering to your Excellency, with these sentiments, 
 our heartfelt wishes for your future happiness and 
 prbsperity, we mos^ respectfully bid you farewell. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 I beg you will return my sincere thanks to the 
 Inhabitants of the Township of Brantford, for this 
 address, and for the kind expressions of their good 
 wishes towards me, which it conveys, and assure them 
 that I shall ever take a deep interest in their prosperity 
 and happiness. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sm John Colborne, Knigkt, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 Sfc. Sfc. fyc. 
 
 The humble and dutiful Address of the Freeholders 
 and Inhabitants of the County of Oxford. 
 
 We, the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County 
 of Oxford, have learnt, with the most unfeigned regret, 
 that your Excellency has resigned the Government of, 
 and is on the eve of departing from this Province. 
 
 We are desirous to convey to your Excellency the 
 expression of our affection and esteem for your per- 
 son, and of our admiration of the principles which 
 have guided you in the administration of public affairs. 
 We are firmly persuaded, (although doubtless other 
 causes have concurred) that your Excellency's un- 
 wearied diligence and paternal anxiety in adopting 
 and pursuing those measures which appeared best 
 calculated to secure the event, have been the means, 
 blessed by Divine Providence, of advancing this Pro- 
 vince to a state of prosperity, not even anticipated by 
 the most sanguine well-wishers of its inhabitants and 
 friends. Wo have also observed, and gratefully ac- 
 knowledge, the steady zeal and pious example of your 
 Excellency, to promote and set forth the interests and 
 power of the true religion established amongst us, 
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 welfare, temporal and spiritual, of your Excellency, 
 and of your family. ANDREW DREW, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 I beg you will acquaint the Inhabitants of the 
 County of Oxford, by whom you have been deputed, 
 that I return them my sincere thanks for their Address, 
 and the kind expression of their wishes for myself and 
 that of my family. 
 
 Be assured I shall always feel a lively interest in 
 the improvement of your fine County, and in the wel- 
 fare and prosperity of its inhabitants. 
 
 To His Excellency Sm John Colborne, Kmght, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 S^c. Sfc, Sfc, 
 We, the undersigned Inhabitants of the Village of 
 Streetsville, and its vicinity, beg most respectfully to 
 express to your Excellency our sense of the many 
 benefits and ad- tages which we have derived from 
 your Excellency's administration. 
 
 The excellent example which has been set to all 
 classes, by your strict, though unostentatious attention 
 to religious duties, as well as the many extensive and 
 
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 well conducted charities which have received your 
 patronage and support, together with that of Lady 
 Colborne and your family : your liberality during the 
 period of the Cholera, in taking upon yourself heavy 
 personal responsibilities, are all circumstances which 
 have created indelible impressions on our grateful 
 recollections. But above all we feel it due to your 
 Excellency to express our gratitude for your unwear- 
 ied and indefatigable attention to the business of the 
 Province, and most particularly we humbly beg to ex- 
 press our heartfelt joy and satisfaction at the kind 
 sentiments contained in your Speech to the House of 
 Assembly, wherein you assure us that the Constitution 
 of these Provinces will be firmly upheld. Your un- 
 ceasing efforts in promoting Emigration, by which 
 alone the best interests of this Province can be secur- 
 ed ; your anxiety for the general extension of Educa- 
 tion, are all proofs of your personal solicitude for the 
 well-being of those who are placed under your govern- 
 ment ; and will hand down your name to posterity as 
 one of the greatest benefactors of the Province. 
 
 In conclusion, we beg most sincerely and affection- 
 ately to express our anxious hopes, that prosperity and 
 happiness may attend yourself and Lady Colborne, 
 with your estimable family, wherever you go, and to 
 assure you that the blessings of all classes of persons 
 in this Province will accompany you. 
 
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 The Credit Indians in Council Assembled, beg leave 
 to address their Great Father Sm John Col- 
 borne, IC C. B. Lieutenant Governor of the 
 Province of Upper Canada, Sfc. Sfc. S^c, on 
 the eve of his departure from this Province. 
 
 Father : 
 
 When your Excellency arrived in this country 
 you found the Indian Tribes scattered, and in a wan- 
 dering state; they were then just beginning to turn 
 their hearts to the service of the Great Spirit. Since 
 that time, by your paternal kindness, nearly all the 
 surrounding tribes have been comfortably settled m 
 villages, and are now beginning to reap the benefit ot 
 a civihzed life, in which, it is hoped, they will still con- 
 tinue to increase more and more every year. 
 
 Father,— It must, no doubt, have filled your heart 
 with gratitude to the great Being above, to have wit- 
 nessed that your efforts to ameliorate the condition of 
 the Indians has not been in vain. 
 
 Father,— We have always found you a true friend 
 to the Indians, and it is with grateful feelings we re- 
 member all your benevolent acts towards us. 
 
 Father,— It is with much sorrow that we learn of 
 your intended removal from this Province, and this 
 feeling of regret arises from a consideration of the 
 interest and good will you have always manifested for 
 the temporal and spiritual welfare of the Indian Tribes. 
 Father,— We hope your Successor may possess the 
 same kind feelings towards us, and that he will en- 
 courage us in our improvements. 
 
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 Father,— All our young men, women and children, 
 belonging to our Tribe, join us in shaking hands with 
 vou in our hearts. 
 
 This is all we have to say. 
 
 Signed in behalf of the Credit Indians. 
 
 Joseph Sawyer, ) 
 Peter Jones, > Chiefs. 
 
 Samuel Wahboneb, > 
 
 Jiiwr Credit, 
 January 20th, 1936. 
 
 Tq His Excellency Sir John Cqujorne, KnighU 
 Commander of the Most HonorahU Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Frooince of Upper Cmada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces ifierein, 
 Sfc. S^c. Sfc. 
 May it Please Your Exci-xlkncy : 
 
 The Magistrates of the Newcastle District, in 
 Session assembled, beg most respectfully to express 
 their regret that you are so shortly to resign the Gov- 
 ijrnment of this Province. 
 
 Your unwearied spirit of devotion to the general 
 welfare of the country, abundantly testified by the 
 rapid march of improvement during your ExccUency'e 
 administration, demands our warmest acknowledg- 
 ment. 
 
 We feel called upon to express our deep sense of 
 the lasting benefits conferred on all classes of the 
 community by your impartial administration of the 
 Laws— your untiring zeal for the advancement of ge- 
 
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 neral Education, and the wholesome example afforded 
 by your Excellency, Lady Colborne and family, iti the 
 strict observance of every moral and religious duty. 
 
 Your personal exertions in developing the resour^ 
 ces of this Province, by which you have been enabled 
 to point out improvements, and suggest measures for 
 the increase of emigration, and the more effectuol set- 
 tlement of the country, afford additional prooft of th« 
 anxiety on all occasions displayed by your Excellency 
 in the discharge of the important and difficult trust 
 reposed in you by His Majesty's Government. 
 
 That it is the intention of the Home Government 
 firmly to uphold the Constitution of these Provinces, 
 we learn, with no small degree of satisfaction* from 
 the speech delivered by your Excellency at the open- 
 ing of the present Session of the Provincial Parlia- 
 ment. 
 
 Your residence for a time in the Lower Province, 
 as Commander of the Forces, will, we trust, have a 
 beneficial effect in checking the political struggles 
 which prevail there to so alarming an extent. 
 
 We beg leave, in conclusion, to take a dutiful and 
 affectionate farewell, by requesting your Excellency* 
 Lady Colborne and amiable family, to accept our 
 most anxious wishes, that wherever you go it may 
 please Divine Providerce to bestow upon you unin- 
 terrupted health and happiness— a sentiment in which 
 we feel assured all classes in this District heartily 
 participate. 
 
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 REPLY. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 I request that the Magistrates of the Newcastle 
 District will, accept my sincere thanks for this Ad- 
 dress. 
 
 There is no part of the Province in which I have 
 more friends and acquaintances than in this District, 
 and none, I assure you-, in whose welfare I have taken 
 a more lively interest. 
 
 The kind expression of your wishes for Lady Col- 
 borne and family is truly gratifying to me. 
 
 With my best wishes for your welfare and happi- 
 ness, I again thank you fo/ this mark of attention and 
 kindness, in my passing through your District. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 S^c. S^c. Sfc. 
 May it Please Your Excellency : 
 
 We, His Majesty's loyal subjects, inhabitants of 
 the Town of Port Mope, beg leave to approach your 
 Excellency on the occasion of your retirement from 
 the administration of the Government of this Province, 
 with this unfeigned expression of our regret for your 
 departure from amongst us. 
 
 We beg to assure your Excellency of our convic- 
 tion, (which we think we feel in common with a largo 
 
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 majority of the inhabitants of this Province) that in ail 
 your measures you have been governed by a sincere 
 desire to promote the welfare of this rising Colony— 
 and that whatever conflicting opinions may be enter- 
 tained respecting those measures and their effects, but 
 this one can be held of the motives which originated 
 them— Your Excellency's unceasing endeavours to 
 encourage and promote all public improvements in the 
 Province, and in this District particularly— your unde- 
 viating solicitude for the reform of our bad system of 
 education— your ready attention to all well-grounded 
 causes of complaint— the salutary influence of your 
 strict regard for religious observances — and your uni- 
 form and active benevolence, fully justify us in this 
 assumption. 
 
 We beg to convey to your Excellency our earnest 
 wishes, that in whatever station you occupy you may 
 continue to enjoy the blessings of an approving con- 
 science, and still witness the happiness and welfare 
 of those under your influence, augmented by the wise 
 and beneficent exercise of your power; and finally, 
 our fervent hope, that it will please Divine Providence 
 to bestow upon yourself. Lady Colborne, and your 
 amiable family, unremitted health and prosperity. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 I thank you sincerely for your Address, and I 
 assure you that I feel highly gratified on this occasion 
 in receiving from you this expression of your opinion 
 of my conduct and intentions, during my administra- 
 tion of the Government of this Province. 
 
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 ■ Accept my thanks for your kind wishes for myself 
 and family- ^ 
 
 To His Excellency Sm John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant GoUrnor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 tal Commanding m Bfajesty'u P<rrces therem, 
 , ^c. S^c. ^c. 
 May it Please Your Excellency : 
 
 We the undersigned inhabitants of Cobourg 
 a^d its vicinity, beg leave to offer to yonr Excellency, 
 on an occasion which, we regret, may be the last on 
 which we shall have the gratification of addressing 
 you in your public capacity, the most unfeigned assu- 
 rances of our esteem and attachment. The arduous 
 administration of the Government of this Provmce 
 which your Excellency has now held for nearly eight 
 years, and which you have regarded in the highest 
 degree paternal, we are aware is about to close. 
 Your Excellency came amongst us with the most 
 flattering testimonies from the subjects of your pre- 
 vious Government; and you cannot but feel the con- 
 solation of bearing away whh you the kindliest feelings 
 of regard and aflection from those who have expe- 
 rienced your anxious and unwearied care m this. 
 
 For the solicitude your Excellency has evincecj in 
 devising every means and forwarding every under- 
 taking for the improvement of this Province, in w uch 
 solicitude the District of N^.wcastle has particularly 
 
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 shared, we feel deeply indebted, but not lesa for an 
 example in domestic and private life, which could 
 not but heighten in all classes a reverence for virtue, 
 and a solemn regard for the obligations of religion. 
 
 May the future years of yourself and Lady Colborne, 
 and the amiable family who have been trained up by 
 your united example, be passed in that happiness and 
 honour which at an early age your Excellency won 
 in glorious fields, and which in later time you have 
 merited by an unsparing devotion of your time and 
 exertions to the cultivation and diffusion of the more 
 necessary and enduring arts of peace. 
 
 We bid your Excellency farewell, in the ardent 
 hope, that a gracious Providence will respond to our 
 prayers in pouring every blessing, temporal and 
 spiritual, upon yourself and family. 
 
 Cobourg, 27th Januaryy 1836. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 S^c. Sfc. 8^c. 
 
 We, the undersigned, inhabitants of the Village 
 of Colborne, and its vicinity, most respectfully beg 
 leave to express to your Excellency the high sense 
 we entertain of the many advantages resulting from 
 your Excellency's ad mi uiet ration of the affairs of this 
 Province. 
 
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 We are perfectly aware of the unwearied and inde- 
 fatigable attention you have ever paid in the discharge 
 of the public and important duties confided to you, 
 and your attention to the improvement and interests 
 of the Province. 
 
 The announcement of your intention to relinquish 
 the Government of Upper Canada, we received with 
 much regret ; such being your determination, we beg 
 you will be pleased to accept of our best wishes for 
 your welfare and future happiness, aiso that of Lady 
 Colborne and your amiable family. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir Johk Colborne, Knight^ 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty'' s Forces therein, 
 Sfc. Sfc. Sfc. 
 
 May it Please Your Excellency : 
 
 We, the undersigned, inhabitants of the River 
 Trent, and its vicinity, beg leave to take the present 
 opportunity of offering our assurances of esteem and 
 respect to your Excellency. 
 
 It is with extreme regret we learn that your Excel- 
 lency has relinquished the high station among us, the 
 duties of which you have so long, and so beneficially 
 for this Province, discharged. 
 
 In approaching your Excellency for the last time, 
 we beg to thank you for the recent assurances you 
 have given us that the Constitution of these Provinces 
 
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 is on no account to suffer alteration ; and we beg you 
 to assure our gracious Sovereign, of our love, duty 
 and loyalty, to his person, and that we, in common 
 with a great majority of the inhabitants of this Pro- 
 vince, rely with confidence on his wisdom and firm- 
 ness to enable us to transmit to our posterity the 
 blessing of the Constitution under which it is our 
 happiricss to live. 
 
 In taking leave of your Excellency, we would 
 respectfully assure you, that you carry with you the 
 respect, esteem and best wishes, of the Inhabitants ot 
 this part of the country ; and we would request to 
 offer our sincere wishes for the heaUh, happiness, and 
 prosperity of your Excellency, Lady Colborne and 
 family. 
 
 River Trent, 
 
 ^7th January, 1836. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight^ 
 Commainler of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty' 3 Forces therein^ 
 Sfc. Sfc, Sfc, 
 May it Please Your Excellency: 
 
 We, the undersigned, Inhabitants of the Town 
 of Belleville, and its vicinity, beg leave respectfully to 
 express to your Excellency our sense of the many 
 benefits and advantages we have enjoyed, from your 
 
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 Excellency's administration of the Government of this 
 Province. 
 
 As example, from those in exalted stations, tends, 
 in a peculiar manner, to incnlcate that due regard for 
 moral and religious obligations, by which society is 
 held together, we are much indebted to your Excel- 
 lency for that unostentatious public attention and 
 support which you have ever given to the cause of 
 religion. 
 
 The charities of your Excellency, and of Lady 
 Colborne, on all occasions, but particularly during 
 the calamitous period of the cholera, when the kind 
 hand of a benefactor was so readily extended by your 
 Excellency, to the needy and deserving, have made 
 indelible impressions on our hearts. 
 
 Your unwearied, and as we believe successful 
 efforts, in rendering justice and protection to all His 
 Majesty's subjects ; your strenuous exertions for the 
 advancement of the Agricultural interests; your anx- 
 iety to see established great and important internal 
 improvements for facility of Commerce ; your earnest 
 endeavours for the diffusion of the blessings of educa- 
 tion, and for the promotion of all such measures as 
 have a direct tendency to better the moral condition 
 and tlie commercial prosperity of the inhabitants of 
 this Province, command our warmest thanks. 
 
 We are also deeply indebted to your Excellency 
 for the encouragement of Emigration to this Province, 
 on an extended scale, and that from being a thinly 
 settled country, it has become one of the most promi- 
 nent Colonies in our beloved Sovereign's dominions. 
 
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 Manv are the causes for which we must regret yo«r 
 Excellency's departure from among us, knowmg, a 
 we dothat you have most faithfully discharged the 
 Itie'imposed on you by our ^ove-ign -.^^^^^^^^^ 
 over the welfare of the Provmce with paternal 
 licitude. . 
 
 That prosperity and happiness may ever attend 
 your Excellency. Lady Colborne and family, .s our 
 earnest prayer. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sra John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Mdmry 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 rat Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 Ifc. Sfc. Sfc. 
 MiY IT Please Voub Excellency: 
 
 We His Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the 
 Magistrates and other Inhabitants of the Count.es 
 Tf Lenox and Addington, having learned w.th deep 
 Lret that your Excellency has been recal ed from 
 h! Government of this Province, feel it a duty tha 
 we owe to ourselves, as well as an act of justice to 
 your Excellency, to express the high sense we enter- 
 Lin of the zeal, ability, integrity and impart alty 
 with which your Excellency has administered the 
 Government of th Province; the encouragement 
 wh ch y"ur Excellency has at all times so zealous y 
 S unremitti.sly extended to Emigration, and to 
 inttn improvement -.and to every measure having 
 
for its object the welfare, prosperity and improvement 
 of the Province, and the developement of its great 
 resources for Agricultural and Commercial industry 
 and enterprise, has been attended with the most hap- 
 py success ; and its rapid and Uiiparalelled increase 
 in population, wealth, and public enterprize, under 
 your Excellency's administration of the Government, 
 has entitled your Excellency to the lasting gratitude 
 and respect of all classes of His Majesty's Subjects. 
 Deeply impressed with these sentiments, and with 
 the lasting advantages which this Province has derived 
 from your Excellency's able, just, and popular adminis- 
 tration of its Government, we do sincerely and deeply 
 regret the policy that has led to your Excellency's 
 recall ; we trust, however, that your Excellency's 
 faithful, constitutional, and successful discharge of the 
 arduous and responsible duties of the high trust which 
 /our Excellency has filled in this Province, cannot 
 fail to be duly appreciated and rewarded by the ap^ 
 probation of our gracious Sovereign. 
 
 With the highest sentiments of respect and regard 
 for your Excellency's public and private character, 
 and with sincere and earnest wishes and prayers for 
 your Excellency's health, happiness and welfare— 
 We remain your Excellency's 
 
 Most humble and obliged Servants. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty' s Forces therein, 
 Sfc. Sfc. 8^. 
 May it Please your Excellency : 
 
 It is under feelings of no ordinary interest we 
 now approach your Excellency. With emotions of 
 doubt and anxiety we learned, that the unprecedented 
 commands of our Government had superceded the 
 administration which your Excellency has so long and 
 BO graciously held over us ; and all the tribute now left 
 for us to offer for the eminent services of so superior 
 a Mugistrate is our affectionate and reverential vale. 
 
 The impartial zeal — the ability and integrity which 
 has throughout characterised your Excellency's ad- 
 ministration of this Province, and which has so mate- 
 rially tended to the developement of its agricultural 
 and commercial resources, can only be outvied by the 
 lustre which already encircles your Excellency's name, 
 as associated with feats long ago recorded on the 
 undying history of our much loved mother land. 
 
 With gratitude we had, in 1828, to thank our gra- 
 cious Monarch for the choice he made, in sending 
 among us a personage who had, by his virtue and 
 bravery, won for himself the golden fame of public 
 opinion, and who, after a residence among us of seven 
 years, has realised all that could have been anticipa- 
 ted from so great a man, and now carries with him 
 the honest regards of all His Majesty's loyal subjects 
 throughout the Province. 
 
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 That a length of days and happiness may crown 
 Your Excellency and household, as the reward of 
 deeds so enrolled by principle and truth, will ever be 
 the prayer of the few obscure, yet loyal inhabitants ot 
 the village of Napanee. 
 
 Napanee, 27th January, 1836. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 ^f. S^c. Sfc. 
 May it Please Your Excellency : 
 
 We, His Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, 
 the inhabitants of Kingston, avail ourselves of the 
 opportunity presented by your Excellency's passage 
 ihrourh our Town, thus formally to testify the high 
 respect which we entertain for your Excellency s 
 public and private character, and to express our sm- 
 cere re^rret that your Excellency's administration of 
 the Government of th^ Province has been brought to 
 
 a close. „ 1, c 
 
 We beg leave to assure your Excellency ot our 
 
 firm persuasion, that in zeal for promoting the general 
 welfare, and a conscientious assiduity in the functions 
 of your exalted station, your Excellency hFts been 
 surpassed by none of your predecessors. Such, we 
 also fully believe, is the prevailing impression on 
 the minds of all classes of our fellow subjects through- 
 out the Province. 
 
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 The period daring which your Excellency has pre- 
 sided over the Councils of Upper Canada, is one of 
 no trivial interest. It cannot fail to be memorable in 
 the annals of the Colony, for the progress, not less 
 substantial than rapid, which has been made in social 
 improvement and the developement of many promising 
 sources of wealth ; for the accession to our population 
 of an unprecedented number of valuable Emigrants ; 
 for various projects devised to facilitate internal com- 
 munication ; and for that rising spirit of Agricultural 
 and Commercial enterprise which is fast laying for 
 this country, both broad and deep, the foundations of 
 its future political importance. 
 
 In taking leave of your Excellency, we beg most 
 respectfully to tender our best wishes for the health 
 and happiness of yourself, as well as of Lady Colborne 
 and your family, and we indulge in the hope that you 
 may long continue to enjoy the confidence of our 
 venerable King, and grace his glorious service. 
 Kingston, January 29th, 1836. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 Sfc. 8fc. 8fc. 
 We, His Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects of 
 the village of Gananoqui, in the Johnstown District, 
 beg leave, with sentiments of profound respect, to 
 approach your Excellency, and to assure you, that the 
 
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 maoy blessings and benefits conferred upon this por- 
 tion of His Majesty's dominions, under the adminis- 
 tration of your Excellency, shall long be remembered 
 by us, with the liveliest sense of gratitude and satis- 
 faction. That prosperity and happiness may ever 
 attend your Excellency and family through life, is 
 the fervent vi^ish and sincere prayer of the subscribers. 
 
 January 29th, 1836. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 Sfc. Sfc. 8^c. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 The inhabitants of Brockville, and its vicinity, 
 have learned vrith deep regret your recall from 
 the Government of this Province, impressed w'xth a 
 firm conviction that your utmost energies have been 
 put forth to promote the best interests of the Colony. 
 
 The establishment of Upper Canada College by 
 your personal exertions, and the repeated recommen- 
 dations to the Legislature to adopt measures for the 
 promotion of education, have fully evinced your great 
 desire to improve the moral condition of the people, 
 while your firm adherence to the interest of religion 
 has marked your determination to promote their spiri- 
 tual advancement. 
 
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 The encouragement held out by the Government 
 to Emigration, and the facihty which wag always 
 afforded to settlers in procuring lands, and the assis- 
 tance given in their settlement, has tended greatly to 
 effect that rapid improvement in the Province, which 
 has been witnessed under your administration. 
 
 The spirit of enterprise now prevalent in this Pro- 
 vince, and which has led to the completion of some 
 great works, ard the commencement of others for- 
 the advancement of Commerce and Agriculture, has 
 been fostered and promoted, and will forever remain 
 monuments of your wisdom aitd zeal. 
 
 However talented may be your successor, and 
 qualified to fill the important office which you have 
 surrendered, we cannot but deplore the change at the 
 piresent juLcture, when every exertion is making to 
 mutilate the Constitution, which it should be our 
 utmost wish to support and uphold, as the connecting 
 link between this and the Mother Country. Notwith- 
 standing the concession that has been made in the 
 Sister Colony, by assenting to the payment of monies 
 to an Agent of the Assembly, who is engaged in in- 
 creasing attempts to destroy the constitution, it is 
 with feelings of the greatest satisfaction we learn, that 
 although alterations may be proposed to remedy evils 
 complained of in the Provinces, the Constitution will 
 nevertheless be firmly upheld. 
 
 In whatever situation or circumstances you may be 
 placed, you and your amiable family will carry with 
 you the best wishes of the loyal inhabitants of thia 
 
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 Province for your prosperity and happiness ; and in 
 taking leave, we cannot refrain from expressing a 
 hope that you will retain a favorable recollection of 
 the country from which you are now departing, so 
 much to the regret of the well-disposed, and that you 
 will bear in mind, that although discontented indi- 
 viduals are to be found, the great body of the people 
 are loyal and contented, and firmly attached to Hia 
 Majesty's person and Government, and the constitu- 
 tion of the Province. 
 
 Brockxille^ 23rd January ^ 1836. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Uj)pcr Canada ^ Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty'' s Forces therein, 
 S^c. S^c, Sfc. 
 Sir, 
 
 We, the undersigned, on behalf of ourselves 
 and fellow members of the British Constitutional So- 
 ciety of the County of Leeds, consisting of a lGr,ve 
 portion of the Magistracy, Landed Proprietors and 
 Merchants, and upwards of two thousand of the male 
 adult population of the country, beg leave to approach 
 you, on the eve of your departure from this Province, 
 with sentiments of the most cordial attachment and 
 respect. 
 
 During the extended period which it pleased our 
 most gracious Sovereign to delegate to you, Sir, tha 
 exercise of the Royal power, within this highly favored 
 
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 and prosperous Colony, we have had every reason to 
 feel thankful for your paternal solicitude and affection 
 for the welfare of our fellow countrymen arriving in 
 this Province, and who may be considered as a British 
 rock, against which the combined waves of domestic 
 agitation and French treacheiy, may beat in vain. 
 
 Although we cannot, Sir, but regret your recall 
 from the helm of affairs in this country, when, through 
 a course of the most assiduous attention, you had ac- 
 quired a thorough knowledge of its resources, and a 
 correct understanding of the state of parties within it, 
 yet we cannot but anxiously look forward to the pe- 
 riod when, (we trust) a safe and prosperous passage 
 may waft you to the shores of our Father land, and 
 where, we have little doubt, but that you will convey 
 to the ear of our Royal Master, our justly venerated 
 Monarch, those sentiments of loyalty which distin- 
 guish his faithful subjects in this important appendage 
 of his Empire, and be enabled to afford to His Majes- 
 ty's present confidential advisers, that correct and 
 impartial knowledge of the true state of the political 
 affairs in British North America, which, judging from 
 recent circumstances, we most firmly believe they 
 stand in need of. 
 
 That Lady Colborne and her amiable family may, 
 with you, Sir John, enjoy all earthly bliss, is the fer- 
 vent prayer of. Sir, your faithful and obedient servants, 
 
 On behalf of self and fellow members, 
 
 R. D. FRASER, Chaimmn. 
 H. TIIORNHILL, Secntary. 
 County of Lfcdsi, U.C January 2^, 1836. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight; 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Farces therein^ 
 Stfc. Sfc. S^c. 
 
 We, the Magistrates, Clergy, and other inhabitants 
 of the Eastern District, cannot allow you to depart 
 the Province, without expressing cur deep regret at 
 being deprived, at this in?portant crisis of political 
 agitation in the Sister Cclony, of your invaluable 
 services as Administrator of the Government of this 
 Province--knowing, as we do, from past experience, 
 your undeviating attachment to the British Constitu- 
 tion, and your determination to "uphold" it at all 
 hazards, even at that of your own personal interest. 
 
 The loss that the Province must sustain by your 
 unexpected and sudden departure, will, in our opinion, 
 prove incalculable, and be attended with serious and 
 impairable injury to its interests. 
 
 The many and great improvements that have been 
 commenced and fostered under your Administration* 
 will, we fear, languish and be retarded in their pro- 
 gress and completion ; for although far be it from us 
 to cast any reproach upon the Administration of those 
 who have preceded, or to prognosticate ill of those 
 who may come after you, still we do not hesitate to 
 say, that none have succeeded in promoting the im- 
 provement of the Province in so great a degree as 
 has been effected under your Administration. 
 
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 But notwithstanding that the prosperity of the Pro- 
 vince may for a time receive a check, from the great 
 loss that it will sustain in your person, who may well 
 be styled its benefactor and protector, still we have 
 derived great consolation from the speech delivered 
 by you at the opening of the present Session of the 
 Parliament, as by it we are assured, that " whatever 
 measures may be adopted in consequence of the 
 enquiry of the Commissioners appointed by His 
 Majesty to investigate certain grievances said to exist 
 in Lower Canada," or whatever alteration may be 
 proposed to remedy the evils complained of, we may 
 rest assured that the Constitution of Upper and Lower 
 Canada will he firmly upheld. 
 
 In wishing you a prosperous and welcome return to 
 your native land, we earnestly pray that our Most 
 Gracious Sovereign will, in his wisdom, July appre- 
 ciate the inestimable irvices rendered by you to this 
 important appendage of his dominions ; and that he 
 will not fail to confer upon you those honours and 
 rewards which are ow/y due to the just, the honour able, 
 the disinterested, and the impartial. 
 
 Cornwall f 26th January, 1836. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sib Johpc Colborne, Knight^ 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gen$- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 S^c. S^c. 8fc. 
 We, the Clergy, Magistrates, and other inhabitants 
 of the County of Glengary, having learned with sin- 
 cere regret, that you have resigned the Government 
 of this Province, most respectfully beg leave to express 
 to you the high respect which we entertain for you, as 
 the late Representative of our revered Sovereign, and 
 our ardent attachment to our King and the Constitu- 
 tion, as established by law in this Colony. 
 
 These sentiments of loyalty we inherit from ances- 
 tors, who were ever conspicuous as the firm supporters 
 of Regal Government, and for their devoted attach- 
 ment and fidelity to their Prince. 
 
 We beg leave also to express to you our conviction 
 of the justice and impartiality of your adminigtrfttiOD of 
 the Government of this Province, during the time you 
 presided over its Councils ; and of the advantages 
 which have resulted to the Province from your exer- 
 tions, in affording encouragement to education, facili- 
 ties to emigration, and promoting every public im- 
 provement. 
 
 Your late visit to our County afforded us the highest 
 gratification, and confirmed us in the belief that no 
 personal inconvenience would deter you from visiting 
 all parts of the Province, to enable you to acquire a 
 perfect knowledge of the wants and wislies of its 
 
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 inhabitants ; and we looked forward with confidence 
 to the benefits which might have been the resuh of 
 your tour through our County und the eastern partd 
 of the Province. 
 
 We most sincerely wish yourself, Lady Colborne 
 and family, our warmest and best wishes, and hope 
 that your administration of the Government of this 
 Province may receive from our Sovereign that high 
 approbation which it so justly merits. 
 
 Glengary, 1st February, 1836. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty'' s Forces therein^ 
 Sfc. Sfc. Sf'c. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 We, the Presbytery of Toronto, in connection 
 with the Church of Scotland, were instructed by our 
 Synod, at the last annual meeting, to present to you, 
 as His Majesty's Representative, an Address in their 
 name, while we were also to put into your hands a 
 Memorial, for transmission to His Majesty's Secretary 
 of State for the Colonies ; but now, when we are 
 assembled, your Administration has ceased, and we 
 therefore beg leave, in our own name, to express to 
 you the aentimenlj and feelings which we entertain 
 on the occasion of your retiring from the exalted 
 station which you filled. 
 
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 The period of your Ad*^''*'5trftt!0»> confessedly ~ha$ 
 been distinguished for the increase of the popu- 
 
 lation of the Province, the development of its resources, 
 and its general pro^erity ; and the zeal and untiring 
 exertions with which you discharged your high duties 
 have, through Divine blessing, eminently contributed 
 to those important results. 
 
 We nay not affirm that the progress of vital reli- 
 gion amongst us has kept pace with that of wealth 
 and civilization — yet to you, who can appreciate the 
 supreme value of Godliness, it may be a comforting 
 reflection, that you have left the Province in a better 
 condition, as to the public and private means of Grace, 
 than that in which you found it. 
 
 The Church of which we form a part has, during 
 the bright period of your Govern ?rient, been consider- 
 ably enlarged : Ministers and CL irches having been 
 increased manifold, so that multitudes who lately 
 mourned over silent Sabbaths, and week after week 
 remembered with regret the Land of their Fathers, 
 as they thought of the days " when they went with 
 the multitude to the House of God, with the voice of 
 joy and praise," do now in the forest wilds, or in rising 
 villages and towns, hear the sound of the Gospel, and 
 receive from their Pastors the Bread of Life. 
 
 The pecuniary aid which His Majesty's Govern- 
 ment has granted to our Church has, so far as it goes, 
 been an important boon ; and though from the want of 
 it some congregations can with the greatest difficulty 
 support Ministers, while not a few are destitute of them 
 altogether, we believe that this has not arisen fron^ 
 any unfriendliness on your p^rt towards our Churph. 
 
41 
 
 We reflect with high satisfaction, that your private 
 walk, as well as your public acts, have always favored 
 the cause of religion ; and we trust that the counten- 
 ance which the public and domestic exercises of piety 
 have found in your example, will long operate bene- 
 ficially on our Provincial community. 
 
 We tender to you our hearty thanks for the courtesy 
 and kindness with which, in our intercourse with you, 
 we have been received ; and we would assure you that, 
 in common with the tens of thousands of our fellow- 
 subjects who have regretted your departure, we shall 
 always take an interest in you, wherever your connec- 
 tion with the service of our Sovereign may call you. 
 And now also we commend you and your family to the 
 protection and blessing of the God of Salvation to the 
 end, that you and they may, at the close of the pilgri- 
 *mage of life, enter into that rest which remaineth for 
 the people of God. 
 
 Signed in name and by appointment of the Pres- 
 bytery. 
 
 M. Y. STARK, 
 
 3Ioderator. 
 
 WILLIAM RINTOUL, 
 
 Presbytery Clerk. 
 
To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of tJie Bath, Lieutenant Governor <jf 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Mixjor G^jm- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 Sfc. S^c. ^c. 
 We, the undersigned, Freeholders and House- 
 holders of the Township of East Flamborough, beg 
 leave, with sentiments of deep gratitude and of pro- 
 found respect, to address your Excellency upon your 
 approaching departure from this Province. 
 
 We are well aware of the paternal anxiety which 
 has uniformly been your guide since you were called 
 upon to administer for our gracious Sovereign in this 
 valuable portion of the Empire ; and we now feel it a 
 bounden duty to express our unfeigned regret, upon 
 the prospect of losing a Governor to whom we owe 
 so much. 
 
 Whether it shall be his Majesty's intention to call 
 your Excellency to other services, or whether you aro 
 about to retire from the bustling scenes of public life, 
 the remembrance of those advances which Upper 
 Canada has made in moral and religious improvement, 
 in politicjil importance, and internal prosperity, during 
 vour administration of the Province, must for ever 
 prove a source of honest pride and of soothing recol- 
 lection. 
 
 That every blessing and comfort may attend your 
 Excellency, and all who are dear to you, is the fer- 
 vent prayer of those who now offer this address. 
 
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 « 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colbobne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty' »Fbrces therein, 
 Sfc. 8^c. 8^c. 
 
 We, the undersigned, inhabitants of tlie Town- 
 ship of Trafalgar, in the Gore District, beg l^ave to 
 express to your Excellency oyr ur^feigned regret on 
 learning that you have resigned the Government of 
 this Province, and have recently departed therefrom. 
 
 Whe^ we consider that your Excellency assumed 
 the Government of this Province at a period of un- 
 common difficulty, and requiring the most unremitting 
 exertions on your part ; that notwithstanding these 
 difficulties, your Excellency has been enabled, by 
 your prudent administration of the Government, to 
 leave the JVovince in a rapidly increasing state of 
 wealth and population ; our sentiments of regret at 
 your Excellency's departure are proportionally in- 
 creased, more especially when we look around the 
 country and perceive the numerous roads, canals, 
 harbours, and other works of public benefit which 
 have been either commenced, aided or completed, 
 through every part of it, under your Excellency's 
 fostering and paternal care. 
 
 Wherever, and in whatsoever station, it may be the 
 pleasure of his Majesty to employ the remainder of 
 your valuable life, (for such talents and integrity as 
 you possess, we cannot suppose will be allowed to 
 remain unemployed in the present situation of affairs) 
 
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 your Excellency, Lady Colborne, and all who are 
 dear to you, will carry with you our sincere prayers 
 for your future welfare and happiness, and for your 
 enjoyment of the blessings which your faithful ser- 
 vices, in the exercise of a high and important trust, 
 so eminently merit. 
 
 To His Excelhncy Sir John Colborne, Knight^ 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Frovincc of Upper CanadUy Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty^ s Forces therein, 
 S^*c. S^c. S^c. 
 
 The respectful address of the undersigned In- 
 habitants of the Township of Nichol, in the District of 
 Gore, Upper Canada. 
 
 We, the undersigned, inhabitants of the said Town- 
 ship of Nic'^.ol, haye heard with unfeigned regret of 
 your approaching departure from this Province, for 
 the interest and welfare of which, aiid of its inhabi- 
 tants, you have uniformly shewn the most anxious 
 care and solicitude ; and we cannot permit your final 
 departure, without manifesting the respect and esteem 
 which we, in common with the other inhabitants of 
 the Province, entertain for you. 
 
 Deeply impressed with these sentiments, we feel a 
 sincere regret at your approaching departure, and 
 beg leave to offer you our most fervent wishes for 
 your future health and happiness. 
 
 ^.5th January. Ib36. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 S^^c. S^^c. S^t. 
 
 May it Please Your Excellency : 
 
 We, the undersigned, on b'^half of the Society, 
 and for ourselves, take the opportunity, though late, 
 of expressing to your Excellency the deep sorrov^^ we 
 ieel at your departure from among us. 
 
 To your Excellency's unwearied effor+a in advan- 
 cing the best interests of this Province, do we at- 
 tribute its present flourishing state ; and when we 
 look around and behold the many corn fields waving 
 in the breeze, where but a few years before all was in a 
 state of wilderness, we feel still more deeply the loss 
 of that hand, which, through the blessing of Divine 
 Providence, contributed so m^ ch to so desirable an 
 end. And in the hope that the Most High may 
 shower every blessing upon you and your family, we 
 are, with the deepest respect, your Excellency's most 
 obedient, humble servants, 
 
 JOHN THOMSON, 
 
 President. 
 
 J. L. DARLING, 
 
 Secretary, 
 Of the Huron and Simcoe Agricultural Society. 
 
 Orillia, let February, 1836. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sir John Colbobne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Batk, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 8fc. Sfc. Sfc. 
 
 We, the undersigned inhabitants of the Town and 
 Township of Niagara,, assembled at a public meeting 
 held at the British Hotel, on Tuesday, the ninth 
 instant, for the purpose of addressing you on ypqr 
 departure from this Province, beg leave, as a slight 
 testimony of regard for your person and Government, 
 to communicate to you our views and feelings in rela^ 
 tion to your Administration. You are now. Sir, by 
 your resignation of the Government of this Province, 
 placed in a situation which, however exalted, renders 
 it impossible for you to give or take away any situation 
 which those who now address you may possess, or 
 desire to possess, and being so situated, the most vio- 
 lent opposer of your official conduct will find it impos- 
 sible to attribute to the people of Niagara any selfish 
 or unpatriotic motive in thus addressing you- 
 
 Influenced by no feeling but that of an ardent attach- 
 ment to you, and to your Administration ; actuated 
 by no motive but a love of British institutions, which 
 you so sedulously and so successfully endeavoured to 
 preserve unimpaired, we address you at this late 
 period, solely with a view of convincing you, your 
 Royal Master, and those who vainly attempt to asperse 
 vour character, that your conduct during your resi- 
 dence in this Province has met with our unqualified 
 
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 «,pprobatio!i ; and that the mild and liberal line of policy 
 which you pursued, will, in our opinion, cause your 
 name to be carried down to posterity, as onr^ of the 
 best of men, and as one of the most enlightened and 
 liberal benefactors of the Canadian people. 
 
 Some degree of selfishness may, at this moment, be 
 supposed to actuate our conduct, but if it be regarded 
 as such by any class of His Majesty's subjects, it must 
 be esteemed by every disinterested and enlightened 
 mind, as a kind of selfishness so general in its conse- 
 quences, and so universal in its intentions, as to induce 
 all who are capable of properly appreciating the motives 
 which actnatr the conduct of the free citizens of a free 
 and unrivalled Government, to regard our present pro- 
 ceedings more as a proof of sound patriotism, than of 
 selfishness or servileness. 
 
 The institutions of our happy country are now 
 assailed and sought to be subverted by many of ovr 
 Representatives in the Provincial Parliament. To 
 preserve those institutions unimpaired was the study 
 of your long and laborious administration ; and when 
 we assure you that, in our opinion, the Constitutional 
 exercise of the duties of your late important trust was 
 highly calculated to render more popular those insti- 
 tutions, you will naturally expect that we should state 
 unhesitatingly that we consider your departure from 
 amongst us as an event most deeply to be deplored* 
 We are fully satisfied that the duties which devolved 
 upon you, whilst presiding over the destinies of this 
 Province, were always discharged with a conscientious 
 regard to the rights and liberties of His Majesty's 
 Canadian subjects ; and we are equally satisfied that 
 every lover of his country, of its laws, its institutions, 
 
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 and the mighty Empire, of which we have the honour 
 and the happiness to form a part, will most cordially 
 concur with us in the expression of every sentiment 
 contained in this Address. 
 
 The lover of literature, the philanthropist, who 
 regards man of every clime, and of every colour 
 as entitled to equal rights, civil and political ; and the 
 exile from the home of his fathers, will ijever cease to 
 regret your departure from the land of h,s birth or of 
 
 his adoption. . . , 
 
 In you, Sir, literature has lost an uncompromising and 
 hberal supporter; Philanthropy a warm and generous 
 benefactor ; and the once proud and noble Abongme 
 of this magnificent Province a father, whose paternal 
 care and unceasing assiduity was likely, ere long, to 
 elevate the character and improve the condition of that 
 noble people to such a degree as would qualify them 
 for the enjoyment of the blessings of our cml and 
 political institutions, and the proper exercise of the 
 privileges which they afford to all who are by educa- 
 tion capable of properly appreciating them. You will, 
 therefore, receive this slight tribute of our gratitude 
 to you, our affection to our Sovereign, and our unal- 
 terable attachment to the Mother Country, as a proof 
 that we shall never cease to regret that any cause, 
 however cogent, could have induced you to resign into 
 other hands the trust which was confided to you by 
 our illustrious Sovereign. 
 
 Wishing Lady Colborne and your family that hap- 
 piness, to which their virtues so eminently entitle them, 
 we, with much regret, bid you adieu. 
 Niagara, 25th February, 1836. 
 
To His Excellency Sir John Colborjne, Knight, 
 Commander of tJie Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 S^'c. 8^c. S^c. 
 
 May it Please Your Excku.en€Y : 
 
 We, His Majesty's dqtiful and loyal subjects, the 
 inhabitants of the District of Prince Edward, beg leave 
 humbly to approach your Excellency to testify the 
 high resj)ect which we entertain for your Excellency's 
 public and private character, and to express our sin- 
 cere regret that your Excellency's administration of 
 the Government of this Province has been brought to 
 a close. 
 
 We beg to assure your Excellency of our firm con- 
 viction, that your Excellency's untiring exertions for 
 the general welfare, and conscientious discharge of 
 the duties of your exalted trust, has raised this Pro- 
 vince to a station, in the civilized world, that it would 
 not have reached for many years to come, under a 
 less zealous and impartial discharge of those high 
 duties devolving upon the representative of our beloved 
 Sovereign. The uninterrupted prosperity of the 
 agricultural and commercial interests of the Province ; 
 the increased facilities of education ; the unpreceden- 
 ted increase of population, of wealth, and of cultivji- 
 tod territory, during the period your Excellency has 
 presided over the Councils of Upper Canada, are 
 lasting monuments of your successful administration, 
 
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 and secures to your Excellency the best wishes of the 
 whole population, for your future health and happi- 
 ness. In taking leave of your Excellency, we beg 
 most respectfully to express our anxious hopes that 
 prosperity and happiness may attend yourself and 
 Lady Colborne, with your estimable family, and that 
 your Excellency may long continue to grace the ser- 
 vice and enjoy the confidence of our venerated King. 
 
 District of Prince Edward, 
 February 4th, 1836. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable 3Iilitary 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty'' s Forces therein, 
 S^c. S^c. *^v. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 We, the undersigned inhabitants of the Town of 
 Peterborough and its vicinity, respectfully beg leave 
 to express our regret at your departure from this Pro- 
 vince. Upon a retrospect of the events of the last 
 seven years, we feel that we would be wanting in 
 common gratitude did we not return you our sincere 
 thanks for the numerous benefits which you have, 
 during your administration of the Government of Upper 
 Canada, conferred on the Province generally, and for 
 the great interest you always took in promoting the 
 welfare of this part of the country. We hope that the 
 improvements in our water communications, which 
 
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 were always so strenuously supported by you, will still 
 be kept in view, and that we may have, ere long, what 
 nature has so pointedly marked out — an uninterrupted 
 navigation from Lake Simcoe to the Bay of Quinte. 
 With sincere good wishes for the health and happiness 
 of Lady Colborne and your family, and our fervent 
 prayers that the Almighty Giver of all Good may long 
 spare you to them and to your country. 
 
 We have the honour to be, respectfully, your most 
 obedient humble servants. 
 
 Peterhorouglp, 1st February, 1836. 
 
 'S' 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 S^c. 8fc. Sfc. 
 
 We, His Majesty's faithful subjects, inhabitants of 
 Perth and its vicinity, learn, with sincere regret, that 
 your Excellency has been recalled from the Govern- 
 ment of this Province, which has for so long a period 
 enjoyed your Excellency's fostering care and pro- 
 tection. 
 
 Under your Excellency's Administration public im- 
 provements have rapidly advanced ; the condition of 
 all classes of His Majesty's subjects materially im- 
 proved ; and the settlement of the Waste Lands of 
 the Crown duly encouraged. 
 
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 « 
 
 Deeply lamenting the departure of your ExceHency 
 from a Colony which has been so much benefitted by 
 your wise and judicious measures, and where your 
 public a'nd private virtues hav<fe been so conspicnotis, 
 we be^ respectfully, to tender to your Excellency our 
 sincere regards, and best wishes for the health and 
 happiness of yourself, and that of Lady Colborne and 
 amiable family. 
 
 Perth, January, 1836. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutennnt G our nor of 
 the Pracinte of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 ^•c. Sfc. ^*c. 
 
 We, tiie undersigned inhabitants of Richmond and 
 vicinity, cannot, in justice to ourselves, permit your 
 Excellency to leave the Government of this Province, 
 without respectfully expressing those sentiments of 
 attachment and high consideration which your arduous 
 dttention to the duties of your dignified station have 
 inspired. 
 
 The earnest and unceasing endeavours which have 
 been evinced by your Excellency to prcnote every 
 object which could contribute to the peace, happiness, 
 and welfare of this Colony, arc deserving of every 
 praise. The zeal with which you have encouraged 
 the improvement of our internal communications ; the 
 formation of permanent roads and bridges ; the placing 
 
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 the intjstimable benefits of education whhin the reach 
 of all classes, demands our acknowledgments. In the 
 proiriotihg of emigration by every means in your power, 
 the Province has made stich rapid acquisitions in indus- 
 try, capital, arid enterprize, as not to fear competion 
 with countries of much older, establishment. The 
 high and honourable feeling which has ever been so 
 conspicuous in the exalted position which your Excel- 
 lency has held during your Administration, has called 
 for the deep regret of His Majesty's loyal subjects on 
 this unexpected crisis of your relinquishment of the 
 Government of this Province. In tendering out 
 acknowledgments for the many advantagea which we 
 have derived from your Administration, permit u» to 
 add our earnest \<rishes for the health and happiness 
 of your Excellency, Lady Colborne and family ; for 
 your safe arrival, should you intend returning to your 
 native land; and that you may receive from your 
 Sovereign those thankful gratulations which your 
 eminent and faithful services have so justly merited. 
 Richmond, January, 183G. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John ColbcIrne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Ilonorahle 3Iilitary 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 Sfc. Sfc. Sfc. 
 Sir, 
 
 Wo, the undersigned, Inhabilants of the Town- 
 ships of Adelaide ahd Warwick, lament that the re- 
 
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 moteness of our situation precluded the possibility of 
 our offering you, previous to your departure from 
 Toronto, the assurance of the deep regret with which 
 we received the intelUgence of your removal from the 
 Government of this Province, and of the grateful 
 sense we entertain of the many benefits you have 
 conferred upon the country, during the period of your 
 
 administration. . 
 
 Your unremitting attention, Sir, to the important 
 duties of your station ; your zealous co-operation in 
 all plans having for their object the improvement of 
 the internal resources of the Province ; and your suc- 
 cessful efforts in the cause of religion and education, 
 estabhsh indisputably your claim to the title of one of 
 the best Governors Canada ever had. 
 
 That noble Institution, Upper Canada College, will 
 remain a lasting monument of your wisdom, and of 
 your benevolent zeal for the welfare of the rising 
 generation of this our adopted country. 
 
 The kind interest you, Sir, have uniformly mani- 
 fested for the prosperity of our infant settlement ; 
 your readiness to assist us in improving our roads ; 
 and your anxiety at all times to mitigate, as far as 
 possible, the difficulties naturally incident to our situa- 
 tion, have inspired us with feelings of personal at- 
 tachment and esteem, equalled only by our admiration 
 and respect for your public acts. 
 
 Wishing you, then, and your amiable Lady and 
 
 family, the enjoyment of happiness here and hereafter, 
 
 we have the honor to subscribe ourselves, 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Your faithful and obedient Servants. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sir John Colborine, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty'' s Forces therein, 
 8^c. Sfc. S^c. 
 
 Our Father : 
 
 We, the Chippewa and Potaganasee Indians, 
 settled at Coldwater and the Narrows of Lake Sim- 
 coe, have heard with great sorrow that you are going 
 to quit this country and return to the country of our 
 Great Father across the great lake. 
 
 We shall never forget that under your care we have 
 been brought to a greater knowledge of the Christian 
 Religion ; and we shall always remember, in our prayers 
 to the Great Spirit, to ask for his blessing on you. Not 
 satisfied with giving us this great good, you have also 
 given us land to cultivate, on which you have built us 
 mills ; you have given us houses to shelter us, and 
 have provided us with oxen and cows, and all things 
 necessary for cultivating our farms : so that instead of 
 being in the poor and often starving condition, in which 
 you found us, we are now well clothed and have 
 abundance of food. 
 
 You have also built schools, and sent us masters to 
 teach our children to read and write. 
 
 Although we have sometimes neglected these good 
 things, and have not been so attentive to your wishes 
 as we now feel that we ought to have beon, we know 
 that you have always overlooked this neglect as a 
 father would that of a child ; and we have at length 
 
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 become convinced of tiie necessity of doing all tliinga 
 that you have told us. 
 
 And now that you are leaving us, and goiag to see 
 our Great Father, the King, we ask of you to speak 
 Itindly of us to him ; say that we are thankful for being 
 placed under his care ; that we hope that we and our 
 children for ever may remain dutiful and obedient to 
 him our Great English Father, and that we promise 
 lo do all things that he may wish. 
 
 We would ask him to continue to us the kindness 
 he has always shown towards his red children ; and we 
 ask in the name of our brethren farther west and north 
 of us, who are now destitute of the good things yon 
 gave us, and are more miserable than we ever were, 
 that our Great Father would extend his strong arm and 
 provide them, as he done us, with the means of 
 •becoming like his white children ; that thoy may wor- 
 ship the^'same God, learn the same language, and 
 have the same means of obtaining food that are known 
 to our Grtat Father and his white children. 
 
 We shake you firmly by the hand— we pray that 
 your voyage across the Great Salt Lake may be a pros- 
 perous one, and that you and your family may always 
 
 live happy. 
 
 [Signed by eight Chiefs.] 
 
 Coldwater, February, 1836. 
 
 REPLY. 
 
 Montreal, 29th Fehruary, 1836. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I request you will have the goodness to commu- 
 
 nA Potacranaeee Indians my 
 
 
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 thanks for their address, and to acquaint (hem that I 
 shall ever feel the greatest interest in their welfare and 
 prosperity ; and that I recommend them most earnestly 
 to persevere in their exertions, profiting by the religious 
 instructions which has been appointed for them, and 
 giving all the encouragement in their power for the 
 support of the schools v»^hich have been established 
 for their children ; that I regret that I was not able 
 to attend more to their interests, during my adminis- 
 tration of the Government, and that I hope they are 
 now aware of the difficulties which I had to encoun- 
 ter at the commencement of that administration; but 
 that I trust the time is not far distant when I shall hear 
 of their exertions to promote generally the civilization, 
 both of the Indians of the settled Townships, and of 
 those who may be induced to take up their abode at 
 the Manitoulin Island. 
 
 You will also have the goodness to inform them that 
 I have commmunicated to my successor the project of 
 forming an extensive establishment at th€ Great Mani- 
 toulin Island, and for reserving that Island for the 
 Indians solely ; and I am persuaded hfe will take a 
 lively interest in carrying into effect the projected 
 arranijements. 
 
 I beg you will communicate to them my earnest 
 desire that now as they are acquainted with the bless- 
 ing of civilized habits, they will endeavour to bring 
 together their dispersed brethern, whose interests 
 have been too long neglected. 
 
 With my most fervent prayers for the welfare and 
 happiness of the red children of the forest, and with 
 
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 my best thanks for your kindness to them, and for the 
 zeal and exertion with which you have always laboured 
 for them, I hope the Almighty will grant you health to 
 proceed with the good work in which you are ei.^^aged 
 with so much diligence. 
 
 I remain, Sir, 
 
 Very faithfully yours, 
 
 J. COLBORNE. 
 Captain Andersoiv, 
 
 Superintendent Indian Deij't. 
 
 Cold water, Upper Canada. 
 
 To His Excellency Sir John Colborne, Knight^ 
 Commend cr of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, Major Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein, 
 ^v. Sfc. Sj^c. 
 
 May it Please Your Excellency : 
 
 We, the Clergy of the Church of England, resi- 
 dent in Lower Canada, embrace the opportunity 
 afforded by our present meeting, of approaching your 
 Excellency, with sentiments of unfeigned respect for 
 yourself personally, and of unqualified admiration of 
 the fidelity with which you have discharged the high 
 and important trust repog'^d in you by our gracious 
 Sovereign, during your administration of the Govern- 
 ment of the Upper Province. 
 
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 We deeply feel that, by the removal of your Excel- 
 lency from that Province, over which you presided 
 with so much honour to yourself and so much benefit 
 to the country at large, tlie interests of religion gene- 
 rally, and of our own church more especially, (of 
 which, we may be allowed to say, as we do in all 
 sincerity, you are an exemplary member and a dis- 
 tinguished ornament) have lost a tried friend and a 
 zealous supporter. And we beg to offer to your Ex- 
 cellency our cordial thanks for the attention with 
 which you have always regarded the interests of our 
 Church ; and we do gratefully acknowledge that its 
 present flourishing condition in the Sister Province is, 
 in a great measure, to be attributed, under God, to 
 your Excellency's kind and fostering hand. 
 
 We respectfully present to your Excellency, Lady 
 Colborne and family, the expression 'T)f our sincere 
 regard and best wishes for your happiness ; and we 
 fervently pray, that wherever it may please a wise and 
 gracious Providence to cast your lot, you may enjoy 
 "the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ," 
 and finally, by God's mercy, obtain everlasting life, 
 through .Tesus Christ our Lord. 
 
 Signed in behalf of the Clergy of the Church of 
 England in Lower Canada. 
 
 C. J. QUEBEC. 
 
 Montreal, 10th March, 1836. 
 
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 To His Excellency Sm John Colborne, Knight, 
 Commander of the Most Honorable Military 
 Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of 
 the Province of Upper Canada, 3Iajor Gene- 
 ral Commanding His Majesty'' s Farces therein, 
 S^c. Sfc. Syc. 
 
 We, the members of the "Western Clerical So- 
 ciety," assembled at our Quarterly Meeting, beg to 
 present to your Excellency the assurance of our un- 
 feigned regret that any circumstances should have 
 taken place to cause your resignation of the Govern- 
 ment of this Province. We have not been unmindful 
 spectators of the unceasing paternal interest which 
 your Excellency has exhibited in promoting the wel- 
 fare of this country. We are grateful for your Excel- 
 lency's expressed interest in the proceedings of our 
 Society, and for the gracious and ready attention to 
 the suggestions which, from a zeal for the permanent 
 establishment of our Holy Church we have ventured 
 at any time to offer. We are specially grateful for 
 the measure with which your Excellency has closed the 
 administration of Provincial affairs — the endowing of 
 such a number of Rectories, thereby recognizing the 
 establishment of the Church of England and Ireland 
 as a fundamental principle of the Constitution of this 
 Colony. 
 
 We cannot but express our thankfulness for the 
 uniform and edifying example which your Excellency, 
 Lady Colborne and family, have invariably given of 
 a holy observance of the Sabbath of the Lord, and of 
 
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 ciii iiiiiuuiuiui pciiruiiugo ana aciive support or eveiy 
 
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 institution whose object has been to advance the Glory 
 of God, or to secure the welfare, temporal and spiritual, 
 of our fellow-creatures. 
 
 It remains, in bidding a painful farewell, to assure 
 your Excellency, Lady Colborne and family, that our 
 united and individual prayers are, and shall be offered 
 to the Throne of Grace, that the God and Father of 
 Our Lord Jesus Christ would deign to guide you all 
 by His Counsel, to bless you with all spiritual bless- 
 ings, and finally to receive you to His Glory. 
 
 (Signed) FRANCIS EVANS, 
 
 Chairman, 
 
 WILLIAM BETTERIDGE, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Woodhmise, 3rd February ^ 1836. 
 
 Extracts from the Toronto Newspapers, 
 
 On Monday, Sir Francis Bond Head was sworn in 
 Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. 
 
 On Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock. Sir John and 
 Lady Colborne, with their family, left the Government 
 House. Almost the whole of the respectable popula- 
 tion of the town and neighbourhood thronged round 
 the spot, anxious to pay a last tribute of respect to a 
 family endeared to them by their virtues. There is 
 always somewhat of emotion exhibited, when we part 
 with a person whom we have known for years, although 
 there be nothing particulariy amiable or attractive m 
 
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 his character. How much more then must the feel- 
 ings be awakened, and the Hveliest regrets excited, 
 when we take a last look of one, who has not only 
 discharged the social duties in the most exemplary 
 manner, but who has ruled a Province for many years, 
 watching over its interests, and endeavouring to pro- 
 mote its advancement with the solicitude of an anxious 
 
 parent. 
 
 According to previous arrangement, the inhabitants 
 of Toronto accompanied Sir John, in sleighs, of which 
 there could not have been less than two hundred, while 
 an immense number of persons kept pace with the 
 procession on foot, and on horseback. The Mayor 
 (R. B. Sullivan, Esq.) and Corporation, the Judges, 
 the Gentlemen of the Bar, many of the Members of 
 the Legislative Council, and of the House of Assem- 
 bly, several Clergymen, and the most respectable 
 Merchants, the Orticers of the Garrison, a large body 
 of private individuals, and in fine, almost every body 
 with a drop of British feeling in his veins, hastened to 
 tender a parting homage to the virtues of their late 
 Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 When the procession had passed a considerable 
 distance bevoud the Turnpike, the sleighs advanced 
 before that of Sir JohnColborne, and drew up on each 
 side of the road, leaving an open space for him to 
 pass through. This he did very slowly. Every one 
 uncovered as he drove by, and gave and received a 
 LAST FAREWELL. Never before did we witness so 
 much feeling with so little show. Sir John and Lady 
 Colborne were visibly aifected. and could not conceal 
 the painful yet pleasing emotions which the scene 
 
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 inspired. Nor was this feeling not reeiprocal on the 
 part of the spectators. Many persons were moved 
 even to tears, and gloom and sorrow overshadowed 
 every countenance. All private pique, all personal 
 animosity, all petty disappointment vanished at this 
 moment. Throughout the immense mass of human 
 beings assembled ran but one kind and general feel- 
 ing of regret. Men gazed fo. the last time on the 
 forms of those who had showered down blessings on 
 poor, — on those who had lived among them so long, 
 shedding the influence of pure and holy lives around 
 them, — on those, in whom their bitterest political 
 enemies could never raise an angry or revengeful 
 passion. Men gazed: and many, whose utterance 
 was choked by grief, breathed from the innermost 
 core of their heart, an earnest and solemn prayer for 
 the temporal and eternal welfare of the departing 
 fa mily . — Courier. 
 
 (From the Patriot.) 
 
 Bir John Colborne, Lady Colborno and family, left 
 this morning at nme o'clock. They take with them 
 the good wishes of all true British subjects. Sir John 
 has the happy consciousness of having faithfully dis- 
 charged his duty to his Sovereign, and of having wit- 
 nessed the progressive improvement of the splendid 
 region he has governed during the whole seven years 
 of his mild and beneficent rule. High and low, rich 
 and poor accompanied him several miles on his way, 
 iu a numerous and most respcctabie train of carriages, 
 
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 feleighs, horsemen, and pedestrians, 
 his departure, was literally empty. 
 
 The City, after 
 
 (From the Christian Guardian.) 
 Whatever conflicting opinions may be entertained 
 by contending parties, as to the political sentiments 
 and course of Sir John Colborne, during his adminis- 
 tration, on which it is foreign to our duty to offer any 
 remarks, all who have been favoured with access to 
 him will pay a just tribute of praise to the gentlemanly 
 urbanity of his manners, and the affable manner in 
 which he invariably treated his inferiors in rank, with 
 whom, in the discharge of his ofl[icial duties, he, from 
 time to time, held intercourse. The praiseworthy 
 example of respect for the Sabbath and ordinances of 
 God, which has been uniformly manifested by His 
 Excellency and his amiable family, has not been with- 
 out effect, and will be long borne in mind ; adding a 
 stronger lustre to his character than it would have 
 been in his power to attain by any other means had 
 this been neglected. The unwearied assiduity v ith 
 which her Ladyship has applied herself, during her 
 residence here, to charitable and benevolent purposes, 
 and especially to the promotion of the comfort of the 
 indigent and afflicted, is above all praise. By unnum- 
 bered acts of kindness, and by large pecuniary con- 
 tributions, she has brought down upon herself and 
 family the blessing of many who were ready to perish, 
 'and her memory is embalmed in the hearts of num- 
 bers of the suffering poor, wlio through her noble ge- 
 nerosity, have been caused to sing for joy. Well 
 
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 3 City, after 
 
 entertained 
 
 sentiments 
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 to offer any 
 th access to 
 gentlemanly 
 
 manner in 
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 ies, he, from 
 iraiseworthy 
 rdinances of 
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 t been with- 
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 wonld have 
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 iisiduity v'ith 
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 ;nt purposes, 
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 cuniary con- 
 
 herself and 
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 would it be for all classes of society, were all who 
 occupy places of power and influence to exert them- 
 selves in promoting morality and religion, and in lead- 
 ing the way to the performance of those acts of phi- 
 lanthropy and piety which are too often overlooked or 
 neglected in the bustle of business, and the glare of 
 fashion. We heartily pray that the blessings of 
 Divine Providence and grace may ever accompany 
 His Excellency and family, and that they may at length 
 rest from the turmoils of political contention and 
 earthly cares, in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. 
 
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 (From the Albion of Upper Canada.) 
 
 PROGRAMME 
 
 Of the Procession to accompany Sir John Colborne 
 from the City of Toronto, upon his departure, 
 on Tuesday morning, the 26th instant, at nine 
 o'clock. 
 
 High Sheriff of the Home District. 
 
 His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common 
 Council of the City of Toronto. 
 
 Justices of the Peace- )fficers of the Government. 
 
 Members of the Legislative Council — Members of 
 the House of Assembly. 
 
 Sir John Colborne and Family. 
 
 The Clergy, Members of the Bar, and Medical 
 Profession. 
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 Inhabitants iri carriages. 
 
 InhaDitdrits on foot. 
 
 Those persons who are to take thfeir placed iti the 
 procession preceding Sir Johii Colbornfe, Will fall iritd 
 the line east of Ihe Government HbuSe,6n Ring-street, 
 and those who are to foliow 8\t John Colbbrne will 
 form into a line w(3st of the Government H9uae. 
 
 The procession to be in readiness precisely at niiid 
 o'dock in the morning. 
 
 jSy nine o'clock iri the morning a large body of iei- 
 pectable individuals had as^erhbled, and long before 
 ten the whole of King-street was a busy scene: the 
 sleighs from Taylor's livery stables, with six beautiful 
 grey horses, intended to convey the family, whilst 
 Sir John himself travelled with Lady ColBorne in his 
 own sleigh and pair of horses. 
 
 He had no sooner entered the carriage than three 
 hearty cheere were given by the assembled multitude, 
 which was re-echoed by the whole length of the line 
 of sleighs, which amounted to nearly two hundred in 
 number, of all kinds and descriptions, from the most 
 splendid to those of the n. jst humble description ; in- 
 deed, a sleigh was noi to be got for any price, so 
 determined were the entire population to do honour 
 to Sir John Colborne. 'the Corporatibh, with the 
 irfaybr (Mr. Sullivan) at their head, iH hi^ r6be6, in 
 carriages drawn by four horses ; Mehibers of the 
 House occupied the more humble vehicles of lumbfei' 
 sleighs, fitted up with rough boafdfe, Which created a 
 good share of iirhusemeht ; but hdthinj^ cdilid daunt 
 the ardour which had taken possession of the Mndk 
 of all classes tosh* vv thoir regard for a good man and 
 
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 his family, who had also been one of the best, if not 
 the very best friend Upper Canada ever knew. 
 
 The procession moved on at a trotting pace, accom- 
 panied by equestrians and pedestrians, the latter of 
 whom kept up with it till Sir John reached the Don 
 Bridge, when many of them returned. The horsemen 
 and sleighs, however, accompanied him five miles out 
 of town, when his carriage stopped a few minutes, 
 and the whole cavalcade passed him, forming a line 
 on each side of the road, and leaving an opening, 
 through which Sir John passed. It was then that the 
 moment of interest had arrived — it was then that the 
 farewell was to take place : he passed slowly on, 
 taking leave of all, of many by name, when not a sound 
 was heard except " Good bye. Sir," and the response, 
 " God bless you !" — whilst every hat was doffed, and 
 every heart was full. It was a scene to be felt, but 
 not described.