man, he enjoyed the best opportunities for acquaintance with the circumstances of the war; and as these letters, which excited great attention in the Canadas, appeared in successive papers while Montreal was filled with almost all the officers of rank who had served in the country, it may reasonably be presumed that his errors, had he committed any, would not have escaped without censure.  Yet no reply was ever attempted to his statements, no doubt ever expressed in the provinces, of the correctness of his assertions.”—­Quarterly Review, July, 1822.]

[Footnote 157:  Wampum is the current money among the Indians.  It is of two sorts, white and purple:  the white is worked out of the insides of the great Congues into the form of a bead, and perforated so as to be strung on leather; the purple is worked out of the inside of the muscle shell.  They are wove as broad as one’s hand, and about two feet long; these they call belts, and give and receive them at their treaties, as the seals of friendship.  For lesser motives, a single string is given; every bead is of a known value; and a belt of a less number is made to equal one of a greater, by so many as is wanted being fastened to the belt by a string.—­Buchanan’s North American Indians.]

[Footnote 158:  It is impossible here to forget (however different were the circumstances and character of the two warriors) that fine passage by the splendid historian of Rome, wherein he immortalizes the death and funeral of the ferocious Attila, in language at once musical and sublime, and which is probably without an equal in the whole range of English literature:  “His body was solemnly exposed in the midst of the plain, under a silken pavilion; and the chosen squadrons of the Huns, wheeling round in measured evolutions, chaunted a funeral song to the memory of a hero, glorious in his life, invincible in his death, the father of his people, the scourge of his enemies, and the terror of the world.”]

[Footnote 159:  The monument itself is not yet finished; we shall therefore defer our description of the edifice until it is completed.]

[Footnote 160:  It is remarkable that, on inspecting the remains, the body of Colonel M’Donell was found to be almost entirely decomposed,—­whilst that of the general was still firm and nearly entire; some of the flesh and lineaments of his martial countenance being yet visible.]

APPENDIX B.

DANIEL DE LISLE BROCK, ESQ.

BAILIFF OF GUERNSEY.

This able magistrate, the third son of John Brock, Esq., was born in Guernsey on the 10th December, 1762, and closed a long and useful career on Saturday evening, the 24th September, 1842, at the age of 79 years and nearly 10 months.  After receiving such rudiments of education as the island could furnish in those days, he was placed at Alderney, to learn the French language, under M. Vallatt, a Swiss protestant clergyman,