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4.

In reply to an address by the Mayor of Quebec

In the name of my wife and myself I thank you sincerely for
your warm and gracious words of welcome to your beautiful city. I
have listened with pleasure to your tribute of loyalty to the King,
whom I have the honour to represent. Here, at Quebec, is the gate of
Canada, the portal by which the Old World made one of its most dramatic
entries into the New. For beauty of natural situation, for dignity of
design, for historic interest, I know of no capital which excels yours
- not even my own city of Edinburgh, and I assure you from a Scotsman
that is no small tribute.

I am delighted to think , Mr . Mayor, that it will be my good
fortune to live here in the Citadel for some part of each year, and
to enjoy at leisure the beauties of your city and the friendship of
your people.