Brief memoirs are inserted, at the conclusion of the Appendix, of one of Sir Isaac Brock's brothers, the bailiff or chief magistrate of Guernsey, and of two of their nephews, Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper, of the Chilian service. The premature fate of these two promising young officers is, to those who knew them best, still a source of unceasing regret and of embittering remembrance. The notices of the celebrated Tecumseh interspersed throughout the volume, and the connected sketch of him near its close, can scarcely fail to interest the reader; that sketch is drawn from various and apparently authentic sources, and the Editor believes that it is more copious than any which has yet appeared of this distinguished Indian chief. A perusal will perhaps awaken sympathy in behalf of a much-injured people; it may also tend to remove the films of national prejudice, and prove that virtue and courage are not confined to any particular station or country, but that they may exist as well in the wilds of the forest, as in the cultivated regions of civilization. GUERNSEY, January 15, 1845. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: See pages 275-280, 298, 304, 305, 315-317.] CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Parentage and birth--Boyhood--Enters the King's Regiment--Trait of determination of character--Becomes Lieutenant-Colonel of the 49th--Campaign in Holland, in 1799--Russian troops in Guernsey--Battle of Copenhagen, in 1801--Notice of John Savery Brock, Esq. CHAPTER II. Proceeds to Canada with the 49th--Suppresses a mutiny at Fort George--Returns to Europe, and recommends the formation of a Veteran Battalion for Upper Canada--Re-embarks for Canada, and succeeds Colonel Bowes in command of the troops there--Letters to Lieut.-Colonel Gordon, Right Hon. W. Windham, the Adjutant-General, Mr. President Dunn, and to Lord Castlereagh--Arrival of Sir James Craig CHAPTER III. Is made a Brigadier--Letters to his family--Proceeds to Upper Canada--Letters from Colonels Baynes and Thornton--Lieut.-Colonel Murray--Baroness de Rottenburg CHAPTER IV. Letters to and from Lieut.-Governor Gore--from Colonels Kempt and Baynes--to Sir James Craig and Major Taylor--from Colonel Vesey--P. Carey Tupper, Esq. CHAPTER V. Is made a Major-General--Sir James Craig returns to England; his character and administration--Letters from Major-General Vesey and Colonel Baynes--Duke of Manchester--Arrival of Sir George Prevost--Letters from Lieut.-General Drummond and Lieut.-Colonel Torrens--to and from Sir George Prevost CHAPTER VI. Origin of the American war--Letters to and from Sir G. Prevost and Colonel Baynes--Meeting of the Legislature--Letter to Colonel Baynes relative to Detroit and Michilimakinack, &c.--Letters to Lieut.-Colonel Nichol--from Sir James Saumarez, Major-General Le Couteur, and Sir John Dumaresq CHAPTER VII.