Star.
London, England, 1818-09-02 00:00:00

UPPER CANADA.

ADDRESS OF THE COMMONS HOUSE OF UPPER
CANADA TO.THE PRINCE REGENT.
" Mar IT Ptaase roue ROYAL lIICHiOLIS,
" We; bit Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons
of Upper Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, most
humbly beg your Royal Highness to receive the homage of our
sincere and affectionate attachment to his Majesty's sacred Per-
son and Government, and of our reverence for ,he inestimable
Constitution and Lows ander which we have the happiness to
live. The continuance of the lamented indisposition of our be-
loved Sovereign, is to us a source of undissembled sorrow and
regret; 'and we pray your Royal Highness to believe, that we
participate in the concern whicirmust be felt by all his Majesty's
faithful subjects, is the continuance of a calamity so deeply at.
.fe the dorneistic felicity of his Royal Family.
. however, oar feelings ass as strwogly ricked by
this visitation of PAOYIDYNCIC, we are cheered, and In some do.
gree consoled, by the glorious and spleuctid successes which have
crowned the efforts of his Majesty s arms; and those of his Al.
lies, during the last campaign---successitinnparalleled in the an.
nals of history, and leading to consequences so favourable to the
future tranquillity and happiness of the world. On events so
important, and which are in a great measure to be ascribed to
the wisdom of the Councils, and to the energy of the measures
of your Royal highness, we humbly pray your Royal Highness
to receive our most cordial congratulations
" In paying, as we do, the willing tribute of applause to the
matchless intrepidity and bravery of his Majesty's regular forces
in every part of the globe, we hope we shall not offend by
submitting to your Royal notice, the more humble, though we
believe not lets zealous services of his faithful subjects, the Mi-
litia of Upper Canada—services, may it please your Royal High-
' new, hisberto we have reason to think, very imperfectly known
to you, and which have been rendered under circumstances of
the most severe privation and distress.
" When it is considered, may it please your Royal Highness,
that the whole male pOpulation of Upper Canada, able to bear
arms, does not exceed 10,000 men, and that it is scattered over
a frontier of at least eight hundred miles in extent; when it is
considered that nearly one-half of these were embodied for
.the
whole of the first, and a very considerable proportion for the
greatest part of the last campaign ; and that they composed the
principal part of the force which successively captured the For-
tresses of Michilimackinac and Detroit, with the army uf Ge-
neral Hatt., which carried by assault the Batteries of Ogdens-
burgh ; which fought and gained the battles of Queenston, River
Raisin, and Fort fileigs, and which repulsed the enemy under
General SMYTH near Fort Erie; when it is known that in the
disastrous affair near Fort George, on the Intl: of May last they
were warmly engaged with the enemy, and actually suffered as
severely as his Majesty's regular forces; when it is known that'
the greatest part of the transportation and provisioning of the
forces in Upper Canada fell upon them, and, that in such parts
as have been visited by the enemy their properties have been plwo-
dered and destroyed, and themselves carried as prisoners away ;
when it is known that the whole efforts of the enemy, during the
two last campaigns, have been directed towards the subjugation,
of Upper Canada, and that it is yet unsubdued, we think, may
it please your Royal Highness, it will be admitted that the
tia of this Province have faithfully performed their duty ; that
their services have very largely contributed to the security of this
portion of his Majesty's dominions; and that it was the duty of
the Representative of oar Sovereign to have laid before your
Royal Highness a faithful account of our services and our suf-

ferings.
" It cannot have been represented to your Royal Highness,
nevertheless such is the fact, that many of our Militiamen have
fallen by the sword of the enemy, many have been disabled, and
a very large proportion of them have died from diseases con-
tracted while in the field, and from being destitute of every
comfort.
" Our population has decreased, our properties have been de-
stroyed, and hundreds are reduced to beggary and want without
even the consolation of knowing that their exertions, their fide- '
lity, and their sufferings,have been represented to their Govern-
ment and their Country, for the maintenance of of whose rights
they have made such sacrifices, and such exertions, and to whose
favourable notice they looked forward as their greatest reward.
" In thus humbly representing to your Royal Highness the
situation of our Constituents, we have performed a duty imperi-
ously required of us; we have detailed to your Royal Highness
facts important to be known, and which will, we are assured, se-
cure to us a continuance of the powerful support of our Mother
Country, to enable us successfully to repel the efforts of the ene-
my for our subjugation, and to bring the war in which we are
engaged to a brilliant and successful close. (Signed)
" ALLAN 31'U:A N, Speaker.
" Commons house of Assembly, 14th March, 1214."
Address of the Legislative Council and House of
Assembly, of Upper Canada, to the PRINCE REGENT :
MAY IT PLEARY. YOUR HOUR'. HIGHNESS,
" We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Le-
gislative Council and House of Assembly of the Province of
Lipper Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, beg leave
, most humbly to offer to your Royal Highness our sincere con-
' gratulations on the restoration of Peace to all his Majesty's
mil:ions.

•• Exi.used is we have been ..lau,n4; the wbfac ui :be LIU con

!test to an dr horrors of war-our fields ravaged, and our
ling* destroyed, we hail the return of Peace with the most tor.
•, . .
" It is not for us to dwell upon, the loyalty and attachment to
Itheir Is-loved Sov,rolgn, . the inhabitants of this Pro-
niter, 'Which wither dangers nor privations could extinguish or
• abate;- their sisr\lces have Alteioly received the most precious of •
ail rewards, your.Royai Iligh es tow : gracious apprub4tion.
" Happy would we be could we .cure your Royl iiidmess
chht tie prospect of the tesmration of this once flourishing Co.lony to its former state of prosperity, is nor tk which we ca
hek forward as likely to be soon redized,but such has lnen the
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effect of the late War, that Upper Canada has had to
[spgarlst nkarly the whoi, pressure of th, enemy's reiterated at-
*as. and many have thereby beeu r.daced to greet distress.
• im behalf of the sufferers, we appeal to the known beneve-
*ince of year Royal Highness, and to yho characteristic genero-
sity of the British KitiJll; and we indulge the hope, that the
:211111P rnerours d.itermlnatinn, which scot such powerful means
fur nor dcfeice against invasion, will be equally eterted for their

That your Royal Highness may long enjoy th n..pic......t5s of
knossissg that tipa pacification of the World, and toz
prosperity of the lintish Empire, are, under Dismay. i'IIOVIDOK6,
to be ascribed to the wise councils and energe.i: mrasures cf
fear Royal Highness, second...l by the bravery and loyalty of
al ranks of his klajesty's subjects, is the ferveit Prayer of his
Majesty's faithful subjects the Legislative Council and Hour,. of
Norm's)), of Upper Canada.
(Signed) " THOi. SCOTT, Speaker, LC.
(Signed) " ALLAN IPLLAN, Speaker, It. of A. .
" York, 13th March, 1815."