Reply.
"Gentlemen,
"Feeling a sincere regard for every class of people within this happy colony, I need not say that your kind address cannot but add to my gratification.
"I have made it my study to become acquainted with every part of the Province, with its views, its resources, and its advantages; but of your county I have had the satisfaction to obtain a more particular knowledge.
"The high state of its cultivation, and the agricultural benefits attending it, should make you proud of the land on which you live.
"Permit me, in return for your cordial address, to express my sincere wishes that your prosperity may continue, and that you may long live a free and happy people, under the best of governments.
"George Prevost."
"Government House,
16th Aug. 1811."
No. XXI.[105]
Address from the House of Assembly of Upper Canada to Sir George Prevost, March 1813, p. 75.