Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-04-25
HALIFAX, April Z.
PRoY1HclA1 LEc1sLAYURE.

/ PRoY1Ncl4l Lsc1sLA9URE. 4. ..as
On Monday last, his excellency the
Lieutenant Governor, commanded the at
tendance of the House of Assembly IN
the council chamber: when the speaker,
previous to the delivery of the bills Tor
appropriating the supplies for the current
year for his excellency assent, presented
the following address -
To his exce!lency's Lieutenant General
Sir John Coape .Sherbrooee, knight OF
the Grand Cross Of the Most Honorable
Military Order of the Bath, Lieute-
nant Governor & Commander, in Chief
in and over his Maiesty's Province
of Nova-scotia and its Dependencies.
SC. SC.
The Humble Address of the House OF
Representatives. in Gen. Assembly
Nay 1t please your Ercelency,
The Representatives of his majesty's
tdutiful and loyal people of Nova Scotia,
feel it incumbent upon them, atthe close
Iof the present session of the general as
sembly, to congratulate your excellency
upon the return of general peace |;
which, through the blessing of Divine
Providence, is at length restored to his
majesty's dyminions.
| We are happy in this province, to have
escaped, inviolate, from wars that have
Iravaged many, and threatened all coun-
tries; and, at the close of hostilities, to
find ourselves secure and prosperous, in
the protection of the parent state, and ad-
vanced in population and strength.
During the whole of the late war with
America, we have felt security & con-
idence, arising from the evident proprie-
ty and efficacy of your excellency's msa-
sures; and we have had the satisfaction
to find those measures carried into effect,
with the smallest possible inconvenience
to the militia, and trifling expenditure
of the public money.
That such benefits may not pass with
out some memorial of our estimation OF
them, we have voted one thousand pounds,
to be expended in the purchase of plate !;
which we beg your excellency to accept,
as a lasting proof of the grateful sense
this province entertains of the wisdom OF
those measures, by which your excellen-
cy at the same tine provided for the Sc
curity Of the country, and consulted the
ease of its inhabitants.
TO which His Excel!ency was pleased to
make the following reply:
.Wr. Sneaker. and Gentlemen
Of the House Of assembly
It is very gratifying to my feelings, to
learn that the sans which were, from
time to time, placed at my disposal by
the provincial legislature, during the late
war with the United States Of America.
have in your opinion been managed by me
with care and economy.
From you. gentlemen, who have had
an opportunity of obtaining the most cor
rect information upon this subject, such
an honorable testimony would in itself
have been an ample recompense for any
pains l may have taken in the execution
of this part of my duty. But to these ex-
pressions of appreciation, you have most
literally added such proof of your good
opinion, as claims my sincere and most
grateful Acknowledgements. Previous,
however, to my acceptance of your valu
able present, conceive it to be my duty
to submit your offered Kindness to the
Prince Regent; & should his royal high
ness not object to my receiving it, l shall
with pride and pleasure accept this dis
tinguished mark of your esteem.
After which his excellency was pleased
to make the following speech:
Mr.. President, and Gentlemen
Of HIS Mgesty's Council;
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen
ofthe House Of Assembly;
Since had the honor Of addressing
you at the opening of this session, trea-
ty of peace, and amity has been conclud-
ed between Great Britain and the United
States OF America, the ratification of which
has afforded repose from the miseries OF
war to the whole christian world.
This happy event will | doubt not, call
into action the diligence and enterprise
of the industrious inhabitants of Nova
Scotia; and as there is every reason to
believe, that his maesty's government
will extend its fostering care to the com
mercial interests of the rising colony, |
anticipate, with the most sangulne expec-
tations, the prosperity to which the pro-
vince is likely to attain from the COM
mendable exertions Of her industrious and
loyal inhabitants.
/ thank you very cordially for the hbe,