place.  Your old friends of the 49th are well, but scattered in small detachments all over the country.  They are justly great favorites at head quarters.  I mentioned in a former letter my wish that, provided you could make it perfectly convenient, you would call upon Mrs. Manners, the wife of a captain of the 49th.  I am satisfied that you would, after a short acquaintance, approve of her much—­she is all goodness.  By the last accounts they resided at Barnet.

I have no doubt that Maria and Zelia (Potenger, his nieces) continue to conduct themselves in such a manner as to reward you amply for the unbounded kindness you have all along shewn them.  If I am able in the fall to procure handsome skins for muffs worth their acceptance, I shall send some to the dear little girls:  they ought, however, to write to me.  There are few here brought up with the advantages they have received; indeed, the means for education are very limited for both sexes in this colony.  Heaven preserve you.  I shall probably begin my journey upwards in the course of a few days.

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Brigadier Brock accordingly proceeded to the Upper Province, Baron de Rottenburg having replaced him at Quebec, and, with the exception of a few months in 1811, during which he visited Lower Canada, he continued in command of the troops there till his death, Lieut.-Governor Gore at first administering the civil government.

Colonel Baynes, the Adjutant-General, to Brigadier Brock, at Fort George.

    QUEBEC, September 6, 1810.

The Brigadier-General (Baron de Rottenburg) is Sir James’ (Craig) senior in age by a year, but is still strong and active, and looks much younger.  I am well pleased with the little I have seen of him, which by the bye is very little, for I only returned yesterday from Sorel.  Mrs. de Rottenburg[27] has made a complete conquest of all hearts.  She is in reality remarkably handsome, both in face and figure, and her manners uncommonly pleasing, graceful, and affable.  There is, I fancy, a very great disparity of years.  They both speak English very fluently, and with very little foreign accent.  Sir James (Craig) is remarkably well:  we celebrated the anniversary of his sixtieth year yesterday at a very pleasant party at Powell Place.  Our general court martial is over, and will be published in orders to-morrow.  A soldier, who was under sentence of death for desertion from the 101st regiment, and transferred to the 8th, and a Jonathan of the Canadians, who is considered a ringleader, are sentenced to be shot; the others, a dozen in number, are to be transported to serve for life in the African corps.

Brigadier Brock to his Brothers.

    FORT GEORGE, Sept. 13, 1810.