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2 the many important Colonial Expeditions that have failed from hence, it cannot but be a fource of increaed gratification now to find that the latet, and certainly by no means the leat important of them all, is now to depart from our hores.

It was jut a century ince that the Canadas, after a long and bloody truggle, became an integral part of the Queen's dominions; and it was about fifty years ago that this fine Country came under the particular obervation of your Royal Highnes's illutrious Grandfather. As the reult of this obervation, the Duke of Kent, in 1814, afforded the high anction of his approbation to thoe preliminary meaures which have ince reulted in a perfect union of the Canadian provinces, and the etablihment of reponible government in the colony.

The viit of your Royal Highnes, and the renewed aurance it conveys of the enduring interet felt by Her Mot Gracious Majety in all that concerns Her mighty Empire, mut, under the circumtances to which we have ventured to allude, be productive of unalloyed pleaure to every ubject of the Crown on either ide of the Atlantic; but when it is remembered that Her Majety has graciouly deputed your Royal Highnes to inaugurate a work, not les remarkable for its great engineering merits, than as a proof of advancing properity, traceable to the wie meaures which have, from time to time, been anctioned by Her Majefty for the improvement of our Colonial Intitutions, we feel aured of the epecial atifaction that mut reult from the expedition of your Royal Highnes.

We earnetly pray that your Royal Highnes may be favoured with a peedy and afe voyage, and that you may return to your native land in perfect health, as we are aured you will with all the pleaure that mut reult from the good work which, in the name of Her Majety, your Royal Highnes has undertaken.