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to entertain a doubt; and that continued and ultimate success may 
crown them under the peculiar guidance of Divine Providence, is our 
most sincere and ardent hope. Since thus we shall be enabled to 
transmit to our Posterity in their purity, those invaluable rights, priv- 
ileges and immunities which our ancestors bled to establish, and so 
cherished by their descendants, who know as well how to appreciate as 
to enjoy rational and solid Freedom. 
(Signed) 
ALLAN MacLean, Speaker. 
Commons House of Assembly, 3d March, 1813. 
To which his Honor was pleased to make the following Keply: 
Gentlemen, 
I receive with the most lively sensibility your congratulations on 
my having succeeded to the Civil and Military administration of the 
Government of this Province. JI condole with you on the event which 
you so justly deplore, having served too long at the side of my able 
ond gallant predecessor, not to have learnt how to estimate his high 
worth, and to be sensible of the irreparable loss which the Province 
sustained in being deprived of his services at so important a juncture. 
Accept, Gentlemen, my warmest thanks for the expression of your 
favourable sentiments towards me, and for the confidence you repose in 
me—by the aid of a kind Providence the designs of the Enemy have 
hitherto been baffled, and I trust that it will still continue to grant 
its support to us, and to smile on the efforts of a brave and loyal 
People, who are engaged in the noble task of resisting unjust aggres- 
sion and of struggling to protect their families and their farms, and 
to preserve for themselves and for their posterity, not only their pro- 
perty, but ail tnose precious and inestimable privileges which are en- 
joyed in this Province as a member of the British Empire; May their 
exertions in so glorious a cause be crowned with success, and may the 
blessings of Civil Liberty, Social Order and Happiness flow through 
successive ages to your descendants pure and uninterrupted. 
5th March, 1813. 
To Lieutenant General Sir GEORGE Prevost, Bart. commander of the 
Forces, &e, &e. &c. 
May it please your Excellency, 
We the Magistrates and other Inhabitants of the Town of York. 
are happy in having an opportunity of paying that respect which we 
