The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-07 00:00:00

TII E COLONIES.

(From The Qrfebec Gazette, C, 1818.)

o Monday the 3d instant his Excellency Sir
Jo 1 COAPF, SHERBRooKR, late'Governor-in-Chief
of this Province, received the following Address
front the Citizens of Montreal :

" TO HIS EXCPI.I,II.NCY
SIR .TOUN C0.113E ATTERBROOKE,

Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order
the Bath, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in
ant over the Provinces of Lower-Canada, Upper Canada,
va la. New Brunswick, and their several dependen-
vi,s. Vice-Admiral of the same, Lieutenant-General and
Commandvr'Of all his ;Majesty's Forces in the said Provinces
of Lower Canada and tapper Canada, Nova Scotia and New
Wimswick, and >k,heir several dependencies, and in the
Islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward, Cape Breton, and
Eeroinda, &c. &c. &c.
May it please your Excellency,.

" We, the Citizens of Montreal, beg leave to
approach your Excellency, for the purpose of ex-
pressing those feelings of regret which yqur ap-
proaching departure has so universally excited.
" Two years have hardly elapsed since we
hailed, with the most flittering anticipations,
your arrival amongst us; our hopes were propor-
tionate to the unfeigned regret expressed by all
classes in one of our Sister Colonies, at the pe-
riod of your departure for Quebec. The heart-
felt gratitude of Nova-Scotia became for Canada
a ph,dge of what the inhabitants of this Province
had to expect from the conduct and character of
their new Governor.

" Nor were we long without perceiving that
our expectations, however sanguine, must fall far
short of the benefits which we were to experience
under your Administration.
" Superior to all local prejudices, your first care
vt..s to goud against the impressions of party. Indi-
vidual. opinions, often guided by partial, often by
vindictive and interested motives, were not allow-
ed to interfere with your views 'for the general
good. Affable and condescending, yet carefully
avoding all hasty prepossessions, you soon con-
:vinced us that yon were determined to judge for
yourself upon (he unerring principle of experience,
and that justice and impartiality formed the basis
of yo►ir Administfation.

Hence the easy access to your Excellency,
which has been afforded on every occasion requir-
ing the exercise of your functions. Hence your
ready compliance with every just request, and
your anxiety to discharge the important duties of
your situation, an anxiety which bas only been
equalled by the correctness and equity of your
decisions, and by your respect for constitutional
rights. _ .

"fo d;fitsse harmony anti happiness amongst
the int) b rants of this Province, to inspire them
with the most unlimited confidence in the honour,
the integrity, and talents of his Majesty's Repre-
sentative, have not been the only effects of your
Administration ; von have studied our interests
in every point of view, with unceasing solicitude.
Among the many objects which have attracted
your attention, we have witnessed your efforts to
.develope the natural resources of the country.
Agriculture has received new vigour from your
patronage, and the physical advantages of the
province ate at length in a state of improvement
from your attention to its internal communi-
cations.

iglu independently of these considerations,
your humanity will ever entitle you to our grate-
ful remembrance. Canadians will never forget
the paternal solicitude with which you rescued
from misery and famine the numerous inhabitants
of a large District, who by unforeseen accidents
had been deprived of the very means of existence.
Following the natural impulse of your own feel-
ings, you provided for wants which were beyond
the reach of individual assistance. The Legisla-
ture seconded your benevolent views. The peo-
ple will repay your humanity with everlasting
gratitude.
" In a word, we haVe discovered in every act.:
of your Administration those principles which
alone can produce the peace and happiness of this
Province. We shall ever look back to the short
period during which we have possessed you for a
pattern of that conduct which we may expect
from the best uf Governors, and for an example
of those feelings which such a Governor may ex-
peot from a grateful people.
" It is therefore with the utmost regret that
we find yon are about to take your departure, and
with the greatest sincerity that we offer you ohr
best, our most ardent wishes for your welfare.
" Montreal, 22d July, 1818."

To which his Excellency was pleased to make
the following Answer :
" GENTLEMEN,--1 beg you to accept my
warmest thanks for the very flattering expressions
of approbation contained in. our Address on my
resignation of the Government of this Province.
" As my desire and endeavours have been
steadily and invariably directed to the happiness
of the People I have governed, it is a matter of
pride and satisfaction to me to find not only that
My motives have been appreciated,• but that there
is sonic ground to hope that my exertions have not
been quite without success ; much of that success,
I inust however, in justice, attribute to the People
themselves, and to their Representatives, whose
liberality furnished the-means which I have only
applied, and whose wisdom devised those mea-
sures of public advantage which I have only
executed. _ _

" The Province of Lower Canada may, among
its future Rulers, find many niOre able than my-
self, for the charge of its Government, but none
more anxious than I have been to execute the
tt ust with equal and impartial justice ; none more
earnestly desirous of promoting the welfare of its
iiihabitants, and in leaving them, it is my parting
wish, that they may continue as happy as it has
been my endeavour to make them.
To von, Gentlemen, I have in a more parti-
cular wanner to offer my acknowledgments for
yonr emul wishes for my welfare, and to return
you mine for the enjoyment of all happiness and
prosperity.''
•

We received yesterday t-be Order of his Royal
Ilidmess the PIIINCF. RI,GENT in Council, of the
27th May, establishing the Ports of Halifax and
Si..Jobni-New Brunswick, as Free Ports, under