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May it please Your Royal Highness, We the Representatives of the Parishes in the County of Middlesex, ever anxious to gratify the Wishes of our Constituents, beg leave to offer our congratulations to Your Royal Highness. Your presence in Jamaica at this crisis is highly acceptable to his Majesty's faithful subjects. Threatened as we have been, by the machinations of powerful and ambitious Enemies, we behold in Your Person, the future Champion for the liberties of mankind. Sir, this has ever been, the distinguishing characteristic of Your illistrious House. The dependences of Britain acknowledge the fact with gratitude; and the haughty House of Bourbon, shall view it with despair. But let us not distress the feelings of Your Royal Highness by a detail of inadequate panegyric. The gallant Admiral under whom
