Address of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the County of Roxburgh to the King

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Address of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the County of Roxburgh, presented to His Majesty by the Right Honourable Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bart˙, their Representative in Parliament.

Unto the King' s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the County of ROXBURGH.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty' s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the County of Roxburgh, beg leave to approach your Majesty with hearts full of gratitude for the many blessings we enjoy under your mild and auspicious Government, and to testify to your Majesty our abhorrence of the unnatural and unprovoked rebellion which now rages in your North-American Colonies.

At the same time that we sincerely lament the misery and distraction into which your deluded subjects of America have thrown their unhappy country, by an ungrateful departure from their duty and allegiance, we can assure your Majesty that we have the most entire confidence in the justice, wisdom, and vigour of your measures, for restoring peace and good government to every part of your extensive dominions; and that we are ready, with our lives and fortunes, to support your Majesty' s authority, and that of the Parliament of Great Britain, against every attempt to overthrow our present happy Constitution.

Signed by our appointment:

JAMES DOUGLASS, Praeses.