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regret that he is unable to be present; and he desires us, in his name, to make this public manifestation of loyalty and attachment to our Most Gracious Queen, and of hearty Welcome to Your Royal Highness.
It is our constant prayer that the Most High God, whose servants we are, may be pleased long to bless and keep the Person, and to prosper the Reign, of our beloved Sovereign, and that He may ever bestow His choicest gifts upon all the Members of Her Royal Family.
Subscribed at Victoria, Hongkong, this 11th Day of November, in the Year of Our Lord, 1869.
Reply of His Royal Highness.
GENTLEMEN, I thank you from my heart for the Address you have presented to me. It is most agreeable to my feelings to receive such proofs of welcome to myself, and of loyalty to the Queen, from Members of a Church to which it is my happiness to belong.
I trust that Your efforts, in common with those of the other Churches of the Colony, may long prosper, and that under your care a population may be reared fearing God and honouring the Queen.
I beg you to accept my thanks for imploring the blessings of Heaven on behalf of my Family and myself.
To the Archdeacon, Clergy, and Ministers of Religion in Hongkong.
(Signed,) ALFRED.
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Address from the Master Mariners in Hongkong.
An Address from Masters of Vessels in the Port of Hongkong to His Royal Highness the DUKE OF EDINBURGH, in his capacity of Master of the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford-le-Stroud, &c.
May it please Your Royal Highness.
Representing the different nationalities now present in the British Colony of Hongkong, we approach Your Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to present this our Address.
The Presence of Your Royal Highness as Master of the Corporation of the Trinity House permits us to approach you, also, Captain of Her Majesty's Ship Galatea, on the common footing of seamen, and as such we are desirous of recording our recognition of those great benefits which your august Father, THE GOOD PRINCE ALBERT, conferred on that Institution, of which you are now the Honoured Master.
We would embrace this opportunity most heartily to express our admiration and reverence for that loveliness of character which has made Your Gracious Mother, Victoria, the Queen of England and Empress of India, the world-wide type of Mother, Wife, and Queen.
To Your Royal Highness we, as seamen, would commend that great National Institution, of which you are now the Master. Under all banners and in all latitudes, it is ours to recognise, and yours to improve, that great system by which darkness is made safe to the conscientious mariner and anxious trader.
As seamen, and men with whom Your Royal Highness has been, and will hereafter be brought in contact, we beg to take our leave of the August Master of the Trinity Corporation of Deptford-le-Stroud, earnestly praying that Your Royal Highness may, under the guidance of the Over-ruling Pilot, ever stem the currents, and weather the gales, of life's tempestuous voyage, and that when at last anchored in the Haven of Rest, all future seamen may hail your memory as that of ALFRED THE GOOD.
(Signed by Fifty-eight Masters of Vessels in Hongkong.)
Reply of His Royal Highness.
GENTLEMEN, I thank you sincerely for the Address you have presented to me, which is all the more valuable from its being a testimony by other Nationalities, as well as British, to the great value and marked utility of the ancient Institution of which I esteem it a high honour to be the Master.
Accept my assurances that the interests of the profession to which we belong shall ever occupy my most careful attention, and every endeavour towards rendering more effectual and beneficial those objects which the Trinity House was founded to carry out shall meet with my most hearty support; and it will always be my aim to follow the example of my beloved Father, to which you have so gracefully alluded in your Address.
ALFRED.
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regret that he is unable to be present; and he desires us, in his name, to make this public manifestation of loyalty and attachment to our Most Gracious Queen, and of hearty Welcome to Your Royal Highness.
It is our constant prayer that the Most High God, whose servants we are, may be pleased long to bless and keep the Person, and to prosper the Reign, of our beloved Sovereign, and that He may ever bestow His choicest gifts upon all the Members of Her Royal Family.
Subscribed at Victoria, Hongkong, this 11th Day of November, in the Year of Our Lord, 1869.
Reply of His Royal Highness.
GENTLEMEN, I thank you from my heart for the Address
you have presented to me. It is most agreeable to my feelings to receive such proofs of welcome to myself, and of loyalty to the Queen, from Members of a Church to which it is my happiness to belong.
I trust that Your efforts, in common with those of the other Churches of the Colony, may long prosper, and that under your care a
population may he reared fearing God and honouring the Queen.
I beg you to accept my thanks for imploring the blessings of Heaven
on behalf of my Family and myself.
To the Archdeacon, Clergy,
(Signed,)
and Ministers of Religion
in Hongkong.
(H)
ALFRED.
Address from the Master Mariners in Hongkong.
An Address from Masters of Vessels in the Port of Hongkong to His Royal Highness the DUKE OF EDINBURGH, in his capacity of Master of the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford-le-Stroud,
&c.
May it please Your Royal Highness.
Representing the different nationalities now present in the British Colony of Hongkong, we approach Your Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to present this our Address.
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The Presence of Your Royal Highness as Master of the Corporation of the Trinity House permits us to approach you, also, Captain of Her Majesty's Ship Galatea, on the common footing of seamen, and as such we are desirous of recording our recognition of those great benefits which your august Father, THE GOOD PRINCE ALBERT, conferred on that Institution, of which you are now the Honoured Master.
We would embrace this opportunity most heartily to express our admiration and reverence for that loveliness of character which has made Your Gracious Mother, Victoria, the Queen of England and Empress of India, the world-wide type of Mother, Wife, and Queen.
To Your Royal Highness we, as seamen, would commend that great National Institution, of which you are now the Master. Under all ban- ners and in all latitudes, it is ours to recognise, and yours to improve, that great system by which darkness is made safe to the conscientious mariner and anxious trader.
As seamen, and men with whom Your Royal Highness has been, and will hereafter he brought in contact, we beg to take our leave of the August Master of the Trinity Corporation of Deptford-le-Stroud, earn- estly praying that Your Royal Highness may, under the guidance of the Over-ruling Pilot, ever stem the currents, and weather the gales, of life's tempestuous voyage, and that when at last anchored in the Haven of Rest, all future seamen may hail your memory as that of ALFRED THE Good.
(Signed by Fifty-eight Masters of Vessels in Hongkong.)
Reply of His Royal Highness.
GENTLEMEN, I thank you sincerely for the Address you have presented to ine, which is all the more valuable from its being a tes- timony by other Nationalities, as well as British, to the great value and marked utility of the ancient Institution of which I esteem it a high honour to be the Master.
Accept my assurances that the interests of the profession to which we belong shall ever occupy my most careful attention, and every endea- your towards rendering more effectual and beneficial those objects which the Trinity House was founded to carry out shall meet with my most hearty support; and it will always be my aim to follow the example of my beloved Father, to which you have so gracefully alluded in your Address.
ALFRED.
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