The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.: Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic TupperBrock, Isaac, Sir
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The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.: Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper
[Footnote 141: On the same day, ten years previously, Sir Isaac Brock's
nephew, Colonel Tupper, was slain in Chile.]
[Footnote 142: Exclusive of the chief justice and Mr. Justice Macaulay,
the speakers were, His Excellency Sir George Arthur; Sir Allan MacNab;
Mr. Thorburn, M.P.P.; Colonel the Hon. W. Morris; Colonel R.D. Fraser;
Colonel Clark; Mr. W.H. Merritt, M.P.P.; Lieut.-Colonel J. Baskin;
Lieut.-Colonel Sherwood; Colonel Stanton; Colonel Kerby; Colonel the
Hon. W.H. Draper; Colonel Angus M'Donell; the Hon. Mr. Sullivan;
Lieut.-Colonel Cartwright; Colonel Bostwick; Colonel M'Dougal; the Hon.
Mr. Justice Hagannan; Colonel Rutton; Lieut.-Colonel Kearnes;
Lieut.-Colonel Kirkpatrick; H.J. Boulton, Esq.; and Lieut.-Colonel
Edward Thomson.]
[Footnote 143: A public meeting of the inhabitants of Montreal was also
held in that city, for the same purpose as that on Queenstown Heights.]
[Footnote 144: We suppose that the chief justice was the lieutenant of
militia, who acted as one of Lieut.-Colonel M'Donell's pall bearers. See
page 332.]
[Footnote 145: The extracts given in inverted commas are from
"Buckingham's Canada," that gentleman being at Toronto at the time, but
unable from illness to attend the "gathering."]
[Footnote 146: In 1841, the Six Nations of Indians had contributed the
(for their diminished numbers and limited means) large sum of £167.]
[Footnote 147: See Appendix A, Section 1, No. 11.]
[Footnote 148: Bernard's Narrative of the combined Naval and Military
Operations in China. London, 1844.]
[Footnote 149: Captain M----, the son of a baronet, fell as a major and
aide-de-camp to Lord Lake, at the siege of Bhurtpore, in 1805.]
[Footnote 150: For a brief memoir of him, see Appendix B.]
[Footnote 151: One of his pamphlets went through four editions.]
[Footnote 152: For a short memoir, see Appendix C.]
[Footnote 153: For a memoir, see Appendix D.]
[Footnote 154: The only son of the Rev. Richard Potenger. (See page
269.) With this fine young man expired the last hope of his family, and
the continuation of his line.]
[Footnote 155: It is also creditable to the military character of the
little island of Guernsey, that of the five British generals killed in
action in 1812, two, whose names follow in the obituary of the _Annual
Army List_ for 1813, were Major-General Le Marchant, 6th Dragoon Guards,
at the battle of Salamanca, and Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.,
49th Foot, in America,--_Duncan's History of Guernsey_.]
APPENDIX A.
SECTION I.--BRITISH AUTHORS.
No. 1. Page 15.
_Lieut.-General Lord Aylmer, Governor-General of British North America,
to J. Savery Brock, Esq_.
SOREL, Lower Canada, August 23, 1834.
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