placed.
I have the most delightful garden imaginable, with abundance
of melons and other good things, all which I must now desert.

What am I to tell you from this out-of-the-way 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.

* * * * *

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 (Crai