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His HONOR THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH. 
At the opening of the present Session of the Legislature—The 
answer of both Houses thereto—the Address of the House of Assembly 
te his Honor the President, congratulating him upon his accession to 
the Government, &c. with his Answer—the Address of the Inhabitants 
of York to his Excellency Sir George Prevost, Bart. with his Answer. 
York, 8th March, 1813. 
On Thursday the 25th February, His Honor Roger Hale Sheaffe, 
Esq. President, administering the Government of Upper Canada, and 
Major General Commanding his Majesty’s Forces therein, accompanied 
by a numerous suite, proceeded to the Government Buildings and openea 
the present Session of the Legislature, when he was pleased to deliver 
the following Speech to both Houses :— 
Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, And 
Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, 
It affords me the highest satisfaction that the first time I am called 
upon to address you in this place, I have to offer you my cordial con- 
gratulations on the uniform success which has crowned his Majesty’s 
Arms in this Province. ‘The enemy has been foiled in repeated at- 
tempts to invade it— Three of his Armies have been surrendered, or 
completely defeated, and Two important Fortresses have been wrested 
from him. 
In this Glorious Campaign, the Valour and Discipline of his 
Majesty’s regular Forces, have been nobly supported by the Zeal and 
Bravery of our Loyal Militia. 
Succeeding in the administration of the Government of this Pro- 
vince upon the lamented death of Major-General Brock, who so nobly 
fell in its defence, it is grateful to me to announce ‘to you the high 
sense of the Services of that able and Gallant Officer, manifested by 
his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, who has been pleased in his 
Majesty’s name, to associate him to the most Honorable Military Order 
of the Bath. 
I have also the gratification of communicating to you, that his 
Royal Highness has been graciously pleased to signify, “ That the liberal 
appropriations which have been made by the Legislatures of both of 
the Canadas, to meet the expenses of the occasion, and the determined 
spirit of resistance manifested by the loyal inhabitants, leave little 
apprehension on the result of any trial in which they may be called to 
prove their courage and perseverance.” 
Sec. IL, 1907. 12. 
