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to offer our humble expressions of sincere attachment to your Royal 

 Person and Government. 



Actuated by the most honorable feelings, a true love of country and 

 of that excellent constitution under which we live and prosper; we come 

 forward with heartfelt satisfaction to Join our loyal fellow subjects 

 throughout this flourishing and highly favored Colony, in those senti- 

 ments of unmingled affection, unabated zeal and devoted attachment to 

 our King and Country, which have been so generally expressed in the 

 numerous Addresses to Your Royal Throne. 



Deeply impressed with a lively sense of the manifold blessings we 

 enjoy under the protection of Your Majesty's Government established in 

 this Province; we beg to assure Your Majesty, that the inhabitants of 

 the Talbot Settlement (with the exception of a few only) in no wise 

 participate in those feelings of discontent so recently manifested by a 

 few disaffected individuals, who, making religion subservient to their 

 political designs, have, by the most insidious arts and flagrant misstate- 

 ments, endeavoured to eradicate every true British feeling from the 

 hearts of Your Majesty's loyal subjects. But, most Gracious Sovereign, 

 we are too sensible of the advantages we derive from our connection with 

 the British Empire, to permit the seeds of disaffection so abundantly 

 scattered, to take root in our hearts. 



We are the more anxious at this time to express our sentiments and 

 testify our zeal in support of Your Majesty's Government, as these polit- 

 ical delinquents, while professing equal attachment to Your Royal 

 Person and Government, are unwearied in their exertions to implant 

 into the minds of their deluded followers sentiments totally at variance 

 with the principles of the British Constitution so happily established 

 in this Province. 



Although much pains has been taken, and every effort used by these 

 designing men, to disseminate disaffection and discontent to the existing 

 Government of this Province, under colour of Grievances, it affords us 

 great pleasure to observe, that as soon as the tendency of the various Peti- 

 tions to Your Majesty, craving unconstitutional concessions, became ap- 

 parent; all Your Majesty's intelligent and well disposed subjects of this 

 Colony, emulous to manifest their loyalty, sprang forward to the stan- 

 dard of their King and Country, resolutely determined to oppose every 

 attempt of a disloyal faction to bring the Government of this Province 

 into contempt. 



Upper Canada yet in its infancy stands much in need of the foster- 

 ing care of the Mother Country, which has ever been so beneficially 



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