tion of members to their thinned ranks, and valuable ad- 

 dition to their property. 



Five or six immense pewter dishes, of divers forms for 

 the display of a barbacue or a large rock fish at the festive 

 board, which were brought to this country by the propri- 

 etary, stamped with the family coat of arms, and present- 

 ed to the society of Fort St. David's, were amongst the 

 treasures added to the common stock. 



The union prospered beyond the most sanguine expect- 

 ations. The materials of both associations were of the 

 most indestructible kinds. A spirit of Independence had 

 ever pervaded every mind, and subjugation or oppression 

 in any form, was odious and revolting to these kindred 

 spirits, as the progress and events of the war, bear testi- 

 mony. To the honor and enterprize of many, very conspi- 

 cuously engaged in aft'airs connected with its civil and 

 military progress. 



What better evidence can be adduced, of the patriotic 

 spirit which animated these our worthy progenitors, than 

 their early manifestation of indignation at, and manly re- 

 sistance to the slightest invasion of their rights, in this 

 peaceful asylum of Liberty. 



The Parliament of the mother country had passed di- 

 vers obnoxious and oppressive laws, too well known in 

 our history to be recapitulated here. The provincial 

 Governors were constantly at variance with the provincial 

 legislative assemblies, and exercised high assumed pow- 

 ers and prerogatives, in derogation of the chartered rights 



