Address of the Borough and Town of Arundel

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Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Inhabitants of the Borough and Town of Arundel, in the County of Sussex, presented to His Majesty by George Lewis Newnham, Esq˙, one of their Representatives in Parliament.

We, your Majesty' s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Inhabitants of the Borough and Town of Arundel, impressed with the liveliest sense of the blessings we have enjoyed during your mild and equitable reign, and struck with horrour at the unnatural and daring rebellion into which your Majesty' s infatuated American Colonies have suffered themselves to be deluded, respectfully beg leave to approach the throne, with the warmest assurances of our fidelity and allegiance.

At a time when your Majesty' s sovereign rights, the authority of Parliament, and the natural ties which ought to bind your Majesty' s extensive Dominions in a band of union, are traitorously set at naught, it becomes the duty of all good subjects to vie with each other in supporting the dignity of the throne and the Legislature of Great Britain, with their lives and fortunes.

We therefore, with all humility, assure your Majesty, that though many corporate Towns may surpass this Borough in point of opulence, none can surpass it in steady and determined attachment to your royal person, in zeal for the Constitution, or in wishes that the Crown of these realms may be transmitted, undiminished in lustre or in power, to the latest descendants of a King who has paid so just and equal an attention to the laws of the land, to the prerogatives of the Crown, and to the liberties and happiness of his people.

Given under the common seal of Arundel, and signed by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Inhabitants, this 17th day of October, 1775.