Address of the Gentlemen, Etc., of Halifax, in the County of York

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Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, Manufacturers, and other Inhabitants of the Town and neighbourhood of Halifax, in the County of York, transmitted to the Earl of Dartmouth, one of His Majesty' s principal Secretaries of State, and presented to His Majesty.

The humble Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, Manufacturers, and other Inhabitants of the Town and neighbourhood of HALIFAX, in the County of YORK.

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Most Gracious Sovereign:

Permit us to express our grateful sense of the blessings we enjoy under your Majesty' s auspicious reign, and our detestation of the conduct of your Majesty' s Colonists in America, now in open rebellion against your crown and the well-founded laws of this realm.

The mild and prudent measures pursued by your Majesty to awake them from their infatuation to a due sense of their allegiance, would, we hoped, have had the desired effect; but we fear they have been too much countenanced by some of our own countrymen, whose seditious practices we totally disavow; assuring your Majesty, that we will at all times exert ourselves, to the utmost of our power, in support of your Majesty and the measures which the wisdom of your Parliament may think expedient for establishing the legislative rights of the Mother Country over all her Colonies.

We think it our duty to inform your Majesty, that the trade of this Town and neighbourhood (notwithstanding the assertions of ill designing men to the contrary) is in a more flourishing state than for many years past, and that the people are fully employed in every branch of the manufactures.

May the Almighty grant success to your Majesty' s endeavours for effecting a speedy restoration of peace and tranquillity, and may your reign be very long and glorious, over a free and united people.