object. If 1 have been at all successful, the 

 gracious benevolence of your Royal Highness 

 will cause me to lament the limited capacity 

 displayed in performing the task imposed upon 

 myself. By birth a Canadian, I have at a 

 distance contemplated with admiration and 

 heart-felt reverence the unequalled blessings 

 of our constitution, which holds its protecting 

 aegis over the most remote as powerfully as 

 over its domestic subjects, and has so bounti- 

 fully extended its inimitable purity and justice 

 to my fellow countrymen in particular ; but 

 this reverence is exalted to the highest degree 

 now that I experience how it endues an in- 

 dividual like myself, from another hemi- 

 sphere, with the privilege freely to approach 

 his Sovereign, and lay the result of a well in- 

 tentioned labour on the steps of the Throne. 

 Scarcely with diminished admiration do I ex- 

 press my acknowledgments for the courtesy 

 that your Royal Highness has so condescend- 

 ingly shewn, by permitting my performance 

 to make its appearance under your auspices ; 



