comforts to obtain it, but I fear the rank I
have just attained will interfere with my prospects. I have
often regretted, during my residence in this country, that we
have been so much separated, which has deprived me of the
opportunity of cultivating your friendship, which I shall ever
feel anxious to possess; and be assured it will always afford
me the most sincere satisfaction to renew an acquaintance with
one for whom I have so great a regard. Captain Glegg's
appointment will be in general orders to-day. Captain and Mrs.
Fulton arrived this morning: I have not seen him yet. I
understand Sir George Prevost was to embark three days after
the Hunter sailed. I shall probably embark in the Melamphus,
for Halifax, and from thence in the packet for England: should
you have any commands, I shall be happy to charge myself with
them. Mrs. Drummond unites with me in sincere wishes for your
health and happiness.

_Colonel Baynes to Major-General Brock_.

QUEBEC, October 7, 1811.

I have a letter from Thornton of the 2d of August; the party
arrived at Deal on the 27th of July. Sir James (Craig) bore
the passage remarkably well, and he has received the most
flattering and satisfactory assurances that his conduct, civil
and military, has met with the most unqualified approbation.
Kempt has experienced a very honorable reception: the duke
told him he would give him a _carte blanche_ as to his future
destination; he has requested to have a brigade under Lord
Wellington, and was preparing to go to the Peninsula. Thornton
does not allude to the probability of its effecting his
present post, as he says Kempt writes to you at length, and
will tell you of himself. Ellice[38] has found great
difficulty in effecting an exchange. Dalrymple, Sir Hew's
eldest son, had no objection till he found that the duke set
his face against the continued exchange of that post, and that
he would not permit it to be made a mere stepping stone for
the brevet rank. He in consequence declined it, and Ellice is
on the hunt for a lazy married major of dragoons, who has no
objection to obtain it as a fixture. Thornton has been
appointed to a regiment, but he neglects to mention the
number, although he enters into a long explanation respecting
it, viz. that it is of two battalions, the second in Portugal