s to answer the
fervent prayers of his people, bless abundantly your majesty.
May He grant you much bodily health, and, for the sake of your
happy subjects, may He prolong your valuable life! It is not
alone the four individuals, who now stand before your majesty,
who will retain to the end of their lives a sense of this kind
and touching reception--the whole of the nations, whose
representatives we are, will ever love and be devoted to you,
their good and great father.

His majesty felt deeply every word of the speech, when interpreted by
the chief of the warriors. The king answered, that he derived high
satisfaction from the sentiments they had expressed, and assured them
that he should always be much interested in the happiness of his North
American subjects, and would avail himself of every opportunity to
promote their welfare, and to prove that he was indeed their father.
After acknowledging in gracious terms the pleasure which the speech of
the grand chief had afforded him, he mentioned, in an easy and affable
manner, that he had once before in his life seen some individuals of the
Indian nations, but that was fifty-five or fifty-six years ago. He
inquired of their passage to this country, the name of the ship and of
the master, and was persevering in his questions as to the treatment
they had experienced at his hands, whether they had been made
comfortable in all respects, and if he had been polite and attentive.

While the grand chief was delivering his speech in the Huron language,
it seemed as if it would never end, and, observing the king look a
little surprised, I informed the Marquess Conyngham, in a loud whisper,
that this was the mode in which they expressed their sense of any honor
conferred, and that the chief of the warriors would interpret the speech
in the French language. The king asked me to repeat what I had been
saying, and George and Irving conversed for some time. His majesty, on
another occasion, asked me under what circumstances the Indians had been
introduced to me. I answered that they were recommended to my notice,
because they had been invested with the medallions of his late majesty
by my brother.

His majesty hoped the Indians had seen every thing remarkable in
Windsor, and told us we were welcome to see the interior of the lodge
and pleasure grounds, that Sir Andrew Barnard would accompany us
everywhere, to his stables, menagerie, aviaries, &c., and a