22 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 
Koninck,—You have doubtless expected to hear from me before 
this, but I have been sorely hindered in writing. I have befor 
told you of my general weakness in health since the first days of E 
August last ; but I did not anticipate such a culmination as I ha ° 
since experienced, and from which I am only now slowly onal 
ing. I went with the Chief Engineer of Railways in begun s 
August to the Liverpool Range and Plains, and visited some 0 
my old camps in 1851-2, returning the better for the journey to 
and fro. This amendment was followed by paralysis of my Ie 
side and limbs, and this is the second letter I have attemp 
since the date of the attack, which was the 6th of March. I wa 
seated in my arm-chair in this my study, when, trying to rise e 
get down a book, I found myself a prisoner, bound hand and foot, 
and after two hours struggling to lift myself I gave it up, and 
began to call for help with cries of fire, murder, thieves, &e., which | 
I soon discovered was useless, as I found my speech any thing but E 
intelligible. Knocking on the floor with my right foot brought 
my son from the garden, and I wassoonattended by my usual medic, 
Dr. Ward, and by a young friend of his, Dr. Kyngdon, who with 
my son carried me upstairs to bed, where, with some exceptions, 
_ Thave chiefly rested. Dr. Kyngdon said to me, ‘Put out you 
tongue,’ and this done, he observed, ‘Your tongue is half p 
lyzed.’ This was intimation to me.of my condition. Iam 
however, so far recovered as to be able to walk upstairs step 7 
step, holding the banister ; but I can only come down side 
crab-like, with both feet on a step, the left sliding over the 
above ; and I have once, by aid of two assistants, managed to 
Oi cinta hs chs Wael nasa tomy wife * * 
_ that he did not think that I should recover, and now he has 
pressed to me his astonishment that I am so far towards h 
I must apologize to you for this scrawl, but I did not like to 
till T could write better * * * I had just completed the M6 
_ ofa fourth edition of my « Remarks’ when the stroke came, 
the help of my son I have got it through the press, but the « 
eae wining ote office * * * Thadasom 
similar attack in 1856, which mci a tome 
