ncies, &c. &c. &c._

"We, the inhabitants, settlers, and freeholders of his Majesty's
settlement established at the Derwent, Van Diemen's Land, impressed with
the most fervent zeal for his Majesty's government, and the most
profound respect, esteem, and veneration for your Excellency, most
dutifully congratulate you on your arrival at Hobart Town.

"When men, whose characteristic is industry, consider themselves
governed by an Officer in whom his Majesty has reposed merited
confidence, who in order to promote agriculture, encourage morality,
efface dissension, and patronise the industrious and deserving part of
our community, leaves his seat of government, and exposes himself and
his worthy Consort, under many privations, in a small vessel, to the
dangers of a coasting voyage on these seas, a natural emulation must
necessarily arise in the breasts of the inhabitants to merit, by an
inviolable attachment to the laws, and an adherence to the regulations
of the colony, the patronage, favour, and protection of such an
unequalled Governor.

"We humbly presume to hope that the favorable impressions which our
industrious exertions have made on your Excellency's mind on your seeing
Hobart Town and its vicinity, will become much increased on your return
from that tour through the different settlements which your Excellency's
intuitive mind may induce you to make.

"Independent of the high consideration in which we hold your Excellency
as the Representative of our Most Gracious Sovereign, we presume to
solicit your acceptance of our most unqualified respect for your
Excellency's person, and with duty, in the name and on the behalf of the
inhabitants in general, subscribe ourselves your Excellency's most
devoted servants,

"R. W. LOANE, J. INGLE,
"T. W. BIRCH, A. WHITEHEAD."

"_Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, November 26_, 1811.

"GENTLEMEN,--The address which I have this day the satisfaction to
receive from you has been gratifying to me, and I beg you to believe
that the inconveniences I have experienced in my voyage to Van Diemen's
Land, have been amply compensated in the pleasure I feel on seeing one
of the finest countries in the world in a state of rapid improvement by
the exertions of his Majesty's loyal subjects settled here, in whose
welfare I shall at all times feel a warm interest; and sincerely hope
that the industry so happily begun will be persevered in with success.

"I return you many thanks for the sent