Stirling peerage

18 INTRODUCTrON.
will afford to you a development of powers, which, if co-ope-
rated with by your representative assemblies, may open a
door for a great relief to you, and may render myself the
justice which I am entitled to require and have allowed me.
" Stirling and Dovan.
" Proprietor and Hereditary Lieutenant of all
Nova Scotia, and Lord of the Dominion
of Canada."
" 63 Parliament Street, London,
28th October, 1331."
These advertisements and addresses were circulated
widely throughout Great Britain and America, and
systematically followed up in the public prints by
explanatory prolusions as to his Lordship's titles and
rights.
On g2d October, 1831, Mr Humphrys sent in a
" claim and protest to his majesty's ministers," in these
terms : —
"To the RIGHT HONble the EARL GREY, First
Lord Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury,
&c. &c. &c. or to whom else it may concern.
" Whereas I, Alexander, Earl of Stirling and Dovan,
Hereditary Lieutenant, and Proprietor of the Province of
Nova Scotia, and the Lordships of Canada, with the perti-
nents thereunto belonging in North America, on the '2d day
of July last, was legally found nearest and lawful heir in
special to my great-great-great-grandfather. Sir William
Alexander, Knight, first Earl of Stirling, &c. and first
Hereditary Lieutenant and Lord Proprietor of the territories'
aforesaid ; which verdict of heirship was duly retoured to the
Chancery in Scotland, and in virtue thereof, by a precept
from his Majesty, directed forth of his Chancery in Scotland
to the Sheriff of the County of Edinburgh, I was infeft in
the said territories, their parts and pertinents, the Office of