ill-natured remarks inserted in some of the newspapers, produced by an over zeal on the part of his friends.  Sir David (Dundas) will not be much regretted, and it surely is time that at his advanced period of life he should be relieved from the cares of office.

I am rejoiced to find that you live so comfortably with my friend Murray and his nice little wife.  Mrs. Vesey and myself took a great fancy to her the morning she called here, on their way to Portsmouth.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 31:  Peter Carey Tupper, Esq., a native of Guernsey, British consul for Valencia at this time, and afterwards for Catalonia.  He distinguished himself from 1808 to 1814, in encouraging the Spaniards to resist the invasion of Napoleon; and his name occurs repeatedly in the Duke of Wellington’s Dispatches, recently published, as also in the first and fourth volumes of Napoleon’s Peninsular War.  He died in Madrid in 1825, in the prime of life.  His youngest brother was British consul for Caraccas, and afterwards for Riga.]

[Footnote 32:  The present General Sir James Kempt, G.C.B., &c, afterwards governor-general of British America, and subsequently master-general of the ordnance in Earl Grey’s administration.]

[Footnote 33:  Owing to the communication by post between Lower and Upper Canada being so slow at this period, we observe that many of Colonel Baynes’ letters to Brigadier Brock, at Fort George, were transmitted through the United States.  There was only a post once a fortnight between Montreal and Kingston, and in Upper Canada the post office was scarcely established.]

[Footnote 34:  The father of her present Majesty, Queen Victoria.]

CHAPTER V.

On the 4th June, 1811, Brigadier Brock was promoted, and appointed by the prince regent to serve from that day as a major-general on the staff of North America.  On the 19th of the same month, Sir James Craig embarked on board his majesty’s ship Amelia for England, leaving Mr. Dunn in charge of the government of the Lower Province, and Lieut.-General Drummond in command of the forces in the Canadas, consisting of 445 artillery, 3,783 regular troops, and 1,226 Fencibles; in all, 5,454 men.  He seemed disgusted with the cares of a government, in which he had experienced only crosses and mortification, as his administration was decidedly unpopular among the great mass of the French Canadians.  His health had long been wasting away with a dropsy and other infirmities, and he doubted whether he should live to reach England, where he however survived several months, and met with a most gracious reception from his immediate superiors.  Sir James Craig had been from his youth in the service of his country,[35] and he owed to merit alone his rank and consideration in the army.  He was corpulent in person, and rather below the middle stature; his