The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

484 COMMONS JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 4, 1760–AUGUST 6, 1760And accordingly the following One was drawn, Vizt.May it please Your Excellency and Honours,We desire that Your Excellency and Honours will be pleas’d to issue anew Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present General Assemblyfor the Parish of St. Peter, in the room of the Honorable Egerton LeighEsqr., now one of the Members of His Majesty’s Council; and the said Writbe made returnable immediately.Mr. Middleton reported to the House that The Governor having beenwaited upon (pursuant to their Order) humbly to know His Excellency’spleasure when he would be attended by the House, had been pleas’d to appointthis Afternoon, Five of the Clock, at his own House.And then the House adjourned till half an hour after Four.P.M.Ordered, That Mr. Rattray and Mr. Roper do wait upon The Governor andCouncil with the Message for a new Writ of Election for St. Peter’s Parish.Then it being five of the Clock, Mr. Speaker with the House went upto attend The Governor at His own House.And being returned, Mr. Speaker reported that the House had attendedThe Governor at His own House where he, Mr. Speaker, had presented theirAddress to His Excellency to which His Excellency was pleas’d to make thefollowing Answer.Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,I thank you heartily for this Address and receive with much satisfactionyour kind Expressions of the Sense you are pleased to have of my Endeavoursto do my duty in the Station, in which The Kings Goodness has placed mehere: And now that His Majesty’s gracious Favour has called me to another,there is no part of my past Life which I cou’d reflect upon with so much pleasureas upon those moments (If indeed there be any such) in which I mayhope to have render’d any useful Service to this Province: May the Cloudwhich threatens it soon be dispersed, may you contribute largely to it’s felicityby the pursuit of every wise & prudent measure in your Public Station,and in your private Capacity experience every good thing and every domesticComfort.And then the House adjourned till to-morrow Morning, Ten of the Clock.Saturday the 15th Day of March 1760.Mr. Speaker adjourned the meeting of the House till Monday MorningTen of the Clock.