(Signed by 1510 persons.)
His Excellency was pleased to make the following answer:
To the Inhabitants of the City of Montreal, and the neighbouring Parishes.
"Gentlemen,
"The alacrity with which you have hastened to prevent the distance of your residence from being an obstacle to the expression of your kind wishes on my sudden and unexpected departure, gives to them all the additional value of eager sincerity.
"Your good will is to me a most acceptable offering: and as I am now content if your good opinion of my services during my Administration is proportioned to my desire to promote your welfare, so shall I ever be ambitious that your estimate of my exertions may be found as correct as the favourable judgment which I early formed of His Majesty's subjects in Canada, which experience has now fully justified."
Letter from M. de Salaberry to Sir George Prevost.