“A military monument,
on which are placed the sword and helmet
of the deceased; a votive
record, supposed to have been
raised by his companions to
their honored commander.
“His corpse reclines
in the arms of a British soldier, whilst
an Indian pays the tribute
of regret his bravery and humanity
elicited.
ERECTED AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE
TO THE MEMORY OF
MAJOR-GENERAL
SIR ISAAC BROCK,
WHO GLORIOUSLY FELL
ON THE 13th OF OCTOBER,
M.DCCC.XII.
IN RESISTING AN ATTACK
ON
QUEENSTOWN,
IN UPPER CANADA.”
No. 8. Page 343.
“This chief of the branch of the once great tribe of the Hurons visited England some time ago. I afterwards saw him in Quebec, and had a good deal of conversation with him. When asked what had struck him most of all that he had seen in England, he replied, without hesitation, that it was the monument erected in St. Paul’s to the memory of General Brock. It seemed to have impressed him with a high idea of the considerate beneficence of his great father, the king of England, that he not only had remembered the exploits and death of his white child, who had fallen beyond the big salt lake, but that he had even deigned to record, on the marble sepulchre, the sorrows of the poor Indian weeping over his chief untimely slain.”—Hon. F.F. De Roos’ Travels in North America, in 1826.
No. 9. Page 343.
To His Royal Highness the
Prince Regent of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland,
The humble address of the
Commons of Upper Canada, in
Parliament assembled,
May it please your Royal Highness,
We, his majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of Upper Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer to your Royal Highness the homage of our unfeigned attachment to his Majesty’s sacred person and government, and of our filial reverence for the great and magnanimous nation of which we have the honor to form a part.
While we pray your Royal Highness to accept of our most cordial congratulations on the splendid achievements of his Majesty’s forces, and of those of his allies in various parts of the globe, and in particular on the extraordinary successes which, under Divine Providence, have attended his Majesty’s arms in this portion of his dominions; we should do injustice to the memory of our late truly illustrious president, Major-General Brock, under whose auspices the latter were during his lifetime principally achieved, did we omit to accompany them with feelings of the most poignant sorrow for his fall.
He had endeared himself to us by his able, virtuous, and disinterested administration of the civil government, and by the zeal, military talent, and bravery, which characterized and marked