The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-24 00:00:00

THE COLONIES.

CANADA.
Montreal Papers have been received tip th 4
19th DeceMber:' We lately published the Speech
of the Governor in Chief on. opening the Legis-
lative Council, in which his Excellency required
a suitable provis;ob for the Civil. List to be made
dtiring the life of the KING. The following is
the Address of that Assembly in reply, comply-
ing with the above demand : •
PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT OF UPPER CANADA:
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Fninat, DEC. 11;1821.
This day at one o'clock, the Legislative Council went up .to
the Castle of St. Lewis, and presented the following' Address
to his Excellency i
GEORGE, EARL OF DALHOUSIE,
..
Knight Grand Cross of the most Honourable Military Order of
the Bath, 'Captain General and Governor in Chief in aa
• over the Provinces of Lower Canada, and Upper Canada,
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and their several Depen-
dencies, Vice-Admiral of the same, General and Commander
of all his Majesty's Forces in the Said Provinces Of 'Lower
Canada and Upper Canada, Nora Scotia and new Bruns,
wick, and their several .Dependencies, and in the Islands
of NeWfoundland, Prince Edward and Cape Bret.,n, per-
. niuda, &c.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,
We, his Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Legislative
Council of Lower Canada in Provincial. Parliament assembled,
beg leave to return your: Excellency our humble thanks for
your speech from the throne, and to assure you that those sen-
timents which your Excellency felt it your duty to express to
us on closing the last Sessicin of the Legislature, have received
out most serious attention.

In again bringing . under cur Consideration the state of the
Protince, and, es u part of that subject, in financial affairs,
aboVe all ethers the most important, With a view to malting a
suitable provision for the support of the Civil Goveratnent,
your Excellency affords us an additional proof of your en-
lightened attention to the best interests of the Crown, and to thc
permanent welfare of this part of his Majesty's dominions.
Distinguished as the Canadas have been above all other pro-
, vincos of the British Empire, by a Constitution perfectly ana-
' logoits to that of the Parent State, we cannot but feel it to be
our paramount duty (as far as in us lies) to adopt what has
been established in the British Parliament as a Constitutional
principle, GlThe granting the Civil List during the W.': of the
King."
We receive, therefore, as a fresh instance of his Majesty's
paternal care, , the recommendation on the part of his Majesty,
that this principle should be adopted and observed in future as
the practice in this province, being at the same time deeply
sensible of the wisdom which led to this practice in the Parent
State, and that it has most essentially contributed to the so-
lidity of that constitutional fabric, which is the admiration Of
the world.

•To which his Excellency the Governor in Chief
was pleased to make tine following answer
Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,
I return you my cordial thanks for this Address. It is gra-
tifying to me, in the highest degree to know that the sentiments
of the Legislative Council concur with those which his Ma-
jesty has commanded me to express in regard to m•Nisures
essentially necessary to the well-being and prosperity of this
province.