a shirt with the initials of General Brock’s name, which she said she had cut off when the body was brought in to be buried at Fort George, and preserved it as a relic of her dear master.  This little, trifling, affectionate remembrance of the old creature, shews her real attachment.  Colonel Glegg gave her a new snuff box, filled with snuff from Paris, and told her to come again to see him.  Perhaps the Tuppers will be pleased to hear this little anecdote.

[Mrs. Eliot, whose maiden name was Jane M’Crea, is the daughter of an American loyalist and a gallant field officer, now deceased, and the niece and namesake of the unfortunate Jane M’Crea, whose tragical fate in the American revolutionary war excited so much commiseration, and gave rise to a correspondence between the American general.  Gates, and General Burgoyne.  The former wrote:  “Miss M’Crea, a young lady, lovely to the sight, of virtuous character and amiable disposition, engaged to an officer of your army, was, with other women and children, taken out of a house near Fort Edward, carried into the woods, and there scalped and mangled in a most shocking manner....  The miserable fate of Miss M’Crea was particularly aggravated by being dressed to receive her promised husband, but met her murderer employed by you.”  The latter, in his reply, stated, that “two chiefs, who had brought her off for the purpose of security, not of violence to her person, disputed which should be her guard, and in a fit of savage passion in one, from whose hands she was snatched, the unhappy woman became the victim.”]

We have in a preceding chapter described the monument, on Queenstown Heights, to the memory of Sir Isaac Brock, a monument which “the popularity of the general had caused to be regarded with more affectionate veneration than any other structure in the province.”  On Good Friday, the 17th of April, 1840,[141] a miscreant of the name of Lett introduced a quantity of gunpowder into this monument with the fiendish purpose of destroying it; and the explosion, effected by a train, caused so much damage as to render the column altogether irreparable.  Lett, who was by birth an Irishman and by settlement a Canadian, had been compelled to fly into the United States for his share in the recent rebellion; and “well knowing the feeling of attachment to the name and memory of General Brock, as pervading all classes of Canadians, he sought to gratify his own malicious and vindictive spirit, and at the same time to wound and insult the people of Upper Canada” by this demon’s deed.  The universal indignation of that people was aroused, and a public meeting was appointed to be held on Queenstown Heights, on the 30th of July following, for the purpose of adopting resolutions for the erection of another monument, the gallant Sir Allan Mac Nab especially making the most stirring exertions to promote this great object.  The gathering, as it was called, was observed in Toronto (late York) as a solemn holiday; the public offices