No accession the Assembly ever can receive, will diminish the bril
liancy which distinguished it while you were one of its brightest ornaments.
Statesman like in your views, highly honorable and consistent in your
public conduct as the friend of constitutional liberty, dignified in your
address, and singularly powerful and eloquent at the Bar and in the Par-
liament, you have attained the rare and enviable elevation of having
thrown a greater lustre over this unhappy Province than it now can throw
over you.

In offering this inadequate tribute to your public services for twelve
Sessions in successive Parliaments, in two of which you occupied the
Speaker's chair to the credit of yourself, the advantage of the House, and
the honor of the country,-I would not omit the still higher station you
occupy as a private individual, displaying throughout an eventful life in
your religious character, the piety and philanthropy of an exalted christian.
I have the honor to be,