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ourselves, humbly desire to express our most 
devoted loyalty and dutiful attachment to your 
Majesty ; and to offer our hearty thanks for the 
benevolent provision which your Majesty has 
been pleased to make in behalf of your good 
and most loving subjects, the late Community 
of Pitcairn Island, now transferred by the kind- 
ness of your Majesty, and, with singular success, 
by your Majesty's Government, to their new 
abode on Norfolk Island. 
" Leaving with feelings of regret their former 
habitation in the Southern Pacific, which was 
no longer capable of sustaining their increasing 
numbers, one hundred and ninety-four persons 
have been safely removed, and located on Nor- 
folk Island, — a home the most suitable for them 
in your Majesty's dominions, luxuriant in its 
natural productions, and sufficiently remote from 
the commerce of the world. There the simplicity 
of their manners may, under God's blessing, 
long continue. 
" Furnished, by your Majesty's fostering care, 
with the present necessaries of life, with imple- 
ments of agriculture, with horses, oxen, and 
sheep, and seeds to sow in their due season, the 
new inhabitants of Norfolk Island have already 
shown a surprising aptitude for the performance 
of the several duties arising from their altered 
position. 
" They have expressed their heart-felt grati- 
tude for the advantages conferred upon them by 
your Majesty. And we, in unison with them, 
do gratefully acknowledge your Royal benefi- 
cence ; and look to the influence of their unaf- 
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