ll have the pleasure to deliver you this letter,
if the 104th regiment be in your neighbourhood. He is only
seventeen years old; very young to be sent loose on the wide
world. Allow me to recommend him to your kindness and friendly
protection; and should he be quartered at some distance from
you, permit me to request you will be so good as to introduce
him to some steady officer, or to such of your friends as
might be in his neighbourhood. I shall hope to have him soon
as my aide-de-camp.

_Sir John Dumaresq, Kt., Lieut.-Bailiff of Jersey, to Major-General
Brock_.

JERSEY, April 20, 1812.

I hope you will pardon the liberty I take of giving a letter
of introduction to you to my grandson, Lieut. John Le Couteur,
of the 104th, son of Major-General Le Couteur, who is on his
departure for Quebec with recruits. His father, who is now in
Portugal, had some hopes his son might have been allowed to be
on his staff; but it seems that could not take place until he
has served a certain time in the regiment. He is a young man
(not yet eighteen) of an excellent disposition, educated at
Marlow, where he has given the most pleasing testimonies of
early professional abilities and attention to his duty. I
shall esteem, it a great favor, as well as his father, for any
mark of attention or notice which you may have it in your
power to shew him whilst under your command.

_Major-General Brock to Sir George Prevost_.

YORK, April 22, 1812.

I had the honor yesterday to receive your excellency's letter,
dated the 21st ultimo, and I entreat you to believe that no
act within my control shall afford the government of the
United States a legitimate pretext to add to a clamour which
has been so artfully raised against England.

We have received the account of the renewal of the embargo,
and that the most rigorous measures have already been adopted
to prevent the least infringement of it upon the Niagara
river. Armed men, in coloured clothes, are continually
patroling along the shore. These troops are stated to have
recently arrived, but I have not been able to ascertain
whether they belong to the new levy or to the militia. They
are reported to amount to about 300. Colonel Proctor has
doubtless written fully on the subject, but unfortunately the
letters, by some negligence, were lef