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ORDERED, That Mr. Fitch, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Mathison, Mr. 

 Stewart, and Mr. Hodges, be a committee for that purpose. 



Saturday, April 30. 



The Lieutenant-Governor's answer to the message from the house, with 

 the resolution of the zzd instant. 



Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly. 



The present you have made me, by your unanimous resolution of the 

 sad instant, is inestimable. 



A soldier's honour, with emblem and emphasis, is placed in his sword j 

 and I shall transmit your precious gift to my posterity, as an everlasting 

 raark of the reverence, the attachment, and the gratitude, I bear to the 

 island of Jamaica. BALCARRES. 



The following address was this day presented to his Honour the Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor : 



WE, his majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the assembly of Jamai- 

 ca, beg leave to offer to your Honour, our most sincere and cordial con- 

 gratulations on the happy and complete termination of the rebellion of the 

 Trelawney town Maroons. 



This great and important event must be productive of substantial be- 

 nefits and salutary consequences to the country, in every point of view 

 in which it can be contemplated : tranquillity and the enjoyment of our 

 civil rights, are restored ; public credit, so essential to the support of go- 

 vernment, and to the prosperity, if not to the very existence of the coun- 

 try, is re-established, and our internal security greatly increased and 

 confirmed. 



From all these inestimable advantages, we look forward with confi- 

 dence to the augmentation of the value of property, which is likely to 

 take place ; and which, in time, we trust will compensate all the losses 

 and expenditure of treasure unavoidably incurred in the prosecution of 

 the war. 



It is with peculiar satisfaction and gratitude we acknowledge the lively 

 impression made on us by the energy displayed by your lordship in the 

 difficult operations of war : which affords the most convincing proof, that 

 the zeal, ardour, and activity manifested in your military conduct, have 

 only been equalled by the sound policy, and decisive measures, which 

 marked the wisdom of your councils. 



