[cOYNE] THE TALBOT PAPERS 179 
Appress of the Legislative Council in Answer to his Honor the 
President’s SPEECH. 
To His Honor Roger Hale Sheaffe, Esquire, President Administering 
the Government of Upper Canada, and Major General Com- 
manding His Majesty’s Forces within the same. 
May it please your Honor, 
We His Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects, the Legislative 
Council of the Province of Upper Canada, in Provincial Parliament 
assembled, offer to you our thanks for your Speech at the opening of 
this Session of the Legislature. 
We participate with your Honor in the satisfaction which every 
loyal subject must feel, from the uniform success, which has crowned 
his Majesty’s Arms in tnis Province. The armies of the enemy that 
have been defeated, and the Fortresses which have been taken, are 
glorious proofs of the valour and discipline of his Majesty’s Regular 
Forces, nobly supported by the bravery of our loyal Militia. 
It is with the deepest regret that with your Honor, we lament the 
Ceath of your illustrious Predecessor, Major General Brock, who glori- 
cusly fell, in the defence of this Province, and whose achievements 
there, have left impressions never to be effaced. We rejoice that the 
services of that able and gallant officer, have been highly appreciated 
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. 
It affords us additional satisfaction, that his Royal Highness has 
been graciously pleased to signify, that the liberal appropriations which 
have been made by the Legislatures of both the Canadas, and the deter- 
mined spirit of resistance manifested by the loyal inhabitants, leave 
little apprehension of the result of any trial, when they may be called 
upon to prove their courage and perseverance. We hope and trust 
that the sentiments expressed by his Royal Highness respecting us, will 
be fully verified by our conduct. 
Our warmest acknowledgements are due to his Excellency the 
Commander of the Forces, for having ordered clothing for a consider- 
able proportion of our embodied Militia, and we are confident that this 
mark of his humanity and kindness, will still further excite that deter- 
mined spirit of resistance, which that body of men have hitherto so 
nobly manifested. 
Highly sensible of the meritorious services of our Militia, labouring 
under privations which they unavoidably have suffered in an ardous 
