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THE EARL OF DURHAM,

inhabitants of the Borough of Plymouth agreed on
`Durham nit, to present the following address to Lord
To •
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF DURHAM,
" MAY
G.C.8., &C. &C.
IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP :
de" We, the inhabitants of the Borough of Plymouth,
ePIY deploring the unhappy circumstances which have
your Lordship to resign the important trust
,w,ni_nh had been forced upon your acceptance, cannot, never-
theless, refrain from congratulating- your Lordship upon your
safe return to the shores of Britain.
" Without offering any opinion upon matters which will
he more properly reserved for Legislative discussion, or pre-
suming in the most distant manner to question the motives
froth led to your Lordship's resignation, we cannot refrain
4°in expressing our fervent hope that the individual who
may be selected for the arduous post of your Lordship's
successor, may tread in your Lordship's magnanimous and
Merciful steps, and earn, like your Lordship, the well-
merited approbation of all classes and all parties in the un-
happy country from which your Lordship has just returned.
%le" Wishing your Lordship a lengthened enjoyment of the
ading laurels which you have so justly acquired by the
gramess, impartiality, and clemency which marked your
Lordship's administration of the Government of Canada,
" We beg leave to remain, with profound respect,
" Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servants,
(Signed on behalf of the meeting)
GEO. W. SOLTAN, MAYOR, CHAIRMAN.
Hi L.

The inhabi

--is 4ordship having appointed the hour of 4 p.m. on
iiiits.urday for receiving the Plymouth Address, Captain
Ill'Ps and Dr. Hamilton, who had been deputed to pre-
nt it, waited on his Lordship at the Government House,
°n
n;Mount Wise, for that purpose, and were most gra-
"ously received.
Captain PHILLIPS opened the business in a neat and
emphatic speech, and was followed by
a Dr. HAMILTON who said, before I proceed to the Ad-
i'ress with which we have been intrusted, allow me to as-
stire your Lordship that, in complying with the wishes of
rir fellow-townsmen, who have deputed to us the pleas-
ng office of conveying to your Lordship their heartfelt
;ongratulations on your safe return to your native land, we
eel a more than common pride and satisfaction at having
been, selected for the discharge of so honourable and so gra-
'
„"Ying a commission. Deeply, however, as we mourn, in
"lumen with a large majority of our fellow-countrymen,
the disgraceful intrigues by which you have been interrupted
in Your merciful and magnanimous career—and sensible as
we are of the great and immeasurable loss sustained by our
~
ow-subjects in Canada by your Lordship's departure
from that distracted land, we cannot but hail with joy your
auspicious return to this country at the present momentous
"zsig, when, to the numerous other grounds of national
discontent arising from the factious resistance opposed to
aledr4 measure of public improvement, are likely to be
sit nmtdetorinigours of a winter of more than ordinary seve-
r thoohoibeutysnuifferings and privations to almost every class
no less than resulting from the cruel and oppressive,
laws! u u
unwise and impolitic, operation of the Corn-
• nder such circumstances we hail your Lordship's
return with feelings of unmixed gratification, and turn our
eyes to you as the Palinurus, whose skilful pilotage pro-
Zses to conduct the vessel of the State unharmed amidst
the dangers and the tempests which beset her. This, my
h.., d? is not the language of flattery or of exaggeration,
„nthe simple expression of feelings in which we partici-
pate with millions of our fellow-countrymen, and which
You_d will
ea_ or s ip find embodied with, perhaps, more jus
beas 10 the Address of which we have the honour to be thet-
soarers, and which, with your Lordship's permission, I shall
read. He then read the Address, to which his Lord-
Was pleated to make the following reply :
Gentlernen,—l thank you most sincerely for this flat-
ind"-LI testimony of your regard and confidence. It is
vi.eed gratifying to me to find the same feeling of sympathy
i leh cheered me on leaving the shores of North-America,
t,re
et me on my arrival in my native land.
11104 t .If I have received, as I have, more numerous testi-
Arol?s of regard from all classes in the North American
Niervinces, than ever before were presented to any of their
so 8' it has been owing to my determination to recognize
to Party distinctions—to act with justice and impartiality
to,wards all_ and to lay the foundations of those wise and
vre ameliorations in the institutions of the colonies which
"eso imperatively required.
to,. have the happiness to know that in effacing the re-
? have ni a disastrous rebellion, and administering justice--
or nee j
not found it necessary to shed one drop of blood,
• had the property of a single individual.
h conciliated the esteem of a great and powerful
afros
da 'in which were to be found al: the elements of
ilteger or security to our North American possessions—l
kig seen commerce and enterprize reviving—public con-
vence restored—and the field at length laid open for me,
111),4ere I could raise a Constitutional edifice, worthy of the
fo:tish name, and resting on such broad and comprehensive
olndations, as would ensure the good government of the
.41,„,,"''Ilics and the perpetuation of their connection with the
'44 Crown.
11:1 this career of, I humbly but fearlessly venture to
h,ll, complete success, I have been suddenly arrested.
hil•;"e Persona:Hy, no doubt, such a disappointment is great,
tir%,lll, ust be to any man who is deprived of the means of
Doti "Y and immediately advancing the interests, and pro-
14e():it the happiness of his fellow-creatures—but to the
ing
41e of British North America, the crisis is most alarm-
s" dangerous, and throws into the shade all the per-
k': ' c°nsiderations which can attach to the treatment that I
fatuti received. Every feeling, therefore of my heart, every
l'eretf). of my mind, is engaged in the task of providing
144 the security and the advancement of those impor-
„ inationid interests.
hswe hope I shall be supported by the
the (1 Parliament
involved in
401 England, whose interests are alike
titinn of the great question, as to whether these vast
tith Zlcist valuable Colonies are to be preserved to the Bri-,
they 4113ipe, or to be abandoned, and with them the supre-
ICI British commerce."
44,11q111jePutation, in making known his Lordship's answer,
ttielarotineommunicating to you the powerful and explicit.
of nof the Noble Lord's sentiments, contained in
tt °Per, •
i our °ning lines, we desire only to add, that the nature
ree_
t
s lotion as conveying the expressions of your feel-
alo., important events re.erre to
44
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tile
r d in the Address,
, ▪ 111". gratifying, and distinguished by that frankness
km sir:, courtesy which are at once the characteristics of
"tened Statesman and a British Nobleman.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 3.

I.p
CREoI, A MIDSHIPMAN AND THREE OF THE
410/.4 OF H.M.S. RATTLESNAKE, IN PL Y-
jt • °AT
4 ft 41 HARBOUR, BY THE UPSETTING OF
i.
I)744,augain our painful, duty. to record another of those
;ehl a accidents by which so many lives have lately
I‘);l_l4,Bt,,_ethis port. On Sunday afternoon, about tip..
t`kltoti",,a of the boats Df. H.M.S. Rattlesnake, ( a y
Oath 'corn the East Indies,
.and now lying in Plymouth
ship J' Put off from the landing place
at Davenport, to
welal'ittlt the ship,having a crew of four men under
_thee
of • b• (Mr. T. W. Surtas.) Th. littiLio, h4bemids.,ipmbann
yboisterous throughout the day, and
t 144111 the afternoonenver- there was a succession of violentdl
oth of tbuond ran
4lais aee
run ied b the most vivid lightning an oude
Theyboat had proceeded to the entranc
‘41:14°44e, when she encountered one of these squalls,
tlllZiklou;eal3si•zed, plunging the whole party into the tem-
-1 0-- 8"; no' aid was at hand, and before boats from
tfreehArre could rem h the ltal spot, the midshipman and
ON , the crew were overpowered, and sunk to rise no
n
4ttiy:ttoheLf_ourth seamanwe was picked up and conveyed
1, hie he "e shore.
)1,11'4 iatt-rendin event, by which the country has lost
;d7l) •d°:.(er, cut art-rending
without a moment's warning, in the
1441)11 4 Youth, and three British seamen, has warning,
t -eIY Bensation in thisneighbourhood, where so manyr have
tt!l4llyP"shed b
44 - arj, y a similar calamity, and the question na-
kic'a e%e; es, whether in so large and impurta.nyt aport,
which
il,i'ltAtle 'exit provision ought not to be made, b
°WI. e Could be promptly rendered in cases.. of
the o° and and accident. We hoar of no life-boat,
lio ages PParatus having been used in any one of
tk,141% Which have lately occurred in this har-
'ik- Within S.
se fearful a sacrifice of human life (in every
'44 gunshot from the shore) ought to rouse the most
k4ti attentio
4tlke :11 silo , iii) to the subject, and the most strenuous
t tt. bleb 111_1d be made to provide every means of assist-
t"'''. toga Po- 4urnanity and skill can suggest, for the rescue
'ZAN, uo are exposed to such appalling dangers in their
' 828" vice.
)^"l4 earnen have been landed to-day from the. ship
%..14tt• Nal; . The were struck by lightning, off the Lizard,
144 cahi' and One of the men, who was standing on some
411 Ink
.oe' and clasping an iron bar, is dreadfullyf injured,
.4tilder !arlY the whole of one side scorched
Thero the
titql, ha 12 the foot—his recovery is doubtful.other
41:illY Otruck in the eyes, and for many hours appeared-
,qo'l.l' it 61411, but has partially' recovered sight to day,
4,t1ti.(1 'l,°Ped may in some degree be permanently re-
Nekve been
Poor fellows are in a truly pitiable
lciornd_i3ti.o....n,.
re-
the 441 y, :en Placed under the skilful care of 1 • I r
41t11!len ,211 eminent surgeon in this town. The names of
' ItijttretC--Alfred Brown, eyes struck ; Henry Cooper,