[Footnote 5:  Major-General Le Marchant and his eldest son, a captain in the Foot Guards, who both fell in Spain during the late war, and Captain Philip Saumarez, who was Lord Anson’s first lieutenant in the Centurion, and was slain in 1747, while commanding the Nottingham, of 64 guns, were members of those families.]

[Footnote 6:  Brock street, at Bath, was named after him by the projector, in testimony of friendship.]

[Footnote 7:  New Annual Register for 1799, page 395.]

[Footnote 8:  See the returns in the New Annual Register, for 1799, Principal Occurrences, page 143.  Singularly enough, the loss of the non-commissioned officers and privates in each corps is not given, but the casualties among the officers of the 49th exceeded those of any other regiment engaged on this day, with the exception of the 25th and 92d.]

[Footnote 9:  Afterwards Sir John Moore, who fell at Corunna.]

[Footnote 10:  Lieut.-Colonel Smith, commanding the 20th, a native of Guernsey, afterwards Colonel Sir George Smith, aide-de-camp to the king.  He died at Cadiz, in 1809, and was a distinguished officer.]

[Footnote 11:  The present General Lord Aylmer, G.C.B., formerly governor-general of British North America.  He was then a captain in the 49th.  See Appendix A, Sec. 1, No. 1.]

[Footnote 12:  In this engagement, the gallant Lieut.-Colonel Bainbrigge, of the 20th, was killed.  He married Miss Dobree, of Beauregard, Guernsey.]

[Footnote 13:  Duncan’s History of Guernsey.]

[Footnote 14:  The late Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Fremantle, G.C.B.]

[Footnote 15:  It is worthy of remark, that Lieut.-Colonel Brock’s almost immediate superiors, during his active service in Europe, fell like himself in action, as knights of the bath, viz.  Sir Ralph Abereromby, Lord Nelson, and Sir John Moore.]

[Footnote 16:  Afterwards Sir W. Stewart, G.C.B., who commanded a division in the Peninsular war.]

[Footnote 17:  While the above was in type, the Duke of Rutland visited Guernsey in his yacht, and wrote the following note at Detroit, the residence of the once outcast middy, on whom, while we write this, the hand of death is but too apparent:  “The Duke of Rutland called to pay his respects to Mr. Savery Brock, and sincerely regrets to find that he is so unwell.  Saturday, July 13, 1844.”]

CHAPTER II.

The 49th, on its return from Copenhagen to England, was collected at Colchester, and in the spring following, (1802,) the regiment sailed for Canada, which country was destined to bestow on it many additional laurels, as well as to be the scene of the fame and death of its commanding officer.  In less than eighteen months after the arrival of the 49th in Canada, and while it was quartered in the upper province, a serious conspiracy was on the point of breaking out in that part of the regiment which was in garrison at Fort