ituted a legal tender.
Without this step we were completely at a stand, for we could
not obtain money to pay the last month's subsistence to the
troops: great benefit is expected to accrue from the operation
of the bill. The clergy have engaged to promote the
circulation of the notes, all of which above twenty-five
dollars bear interest, and all under are payable on demand.

Adieu, my dear generals--may every success and good fortune
attend you in the arduous task before you: we cannot command
success, but I am sure you will not fail to merit it.

_Lieut.-Colonel Bruyeres, Royal Engineers, to Major-General Brock._

QUEBEC, August 1, 1812.

I take the favorable advantage of this being delivered to you
by General Sheaffe, to assure you of the sincere interest I
feel in the very arduous and important position you are now
placed in to protect and defend a chain of posts, and a
country that has been so long neglected. This difficult task
placed in any other hands, I should consider very
discouraging; but I acknowledge that I look with a certain
degree of confidence to your abilities and perseverance in
surmounting every difficulty that must unavoidably occur in a
service of this nature. I most fervently and earnestly hope
that every possible success may attend all your proceedings. I
trust that you will always meet with zeal and activity in the
officers of my department, to perform every part of the duty
allotted to their charge. It is very difficult at this
distance to suggest any ideas that might be useful, as every
operation in which you are engaged must depend so entirely
upon local circumstances, and the conduct which the enemy may
pursue towards attaining the object he has in view. I am glad
to find that the new arrival of the Royals, expected at Quebec
to-morrow, will give you the reinforcement of the 49th
regiment, which, with the detachments of the Newfoundland and
Veterans, and gun-boat No. 7, will add something to your
present strength.

_Sir George Prevost to Major-General Brock._

QUEBEC, August 2, 1812.

Last evening an officer of the 98th regiment arrived here
express from Halifax, the bearer of dispatches to me, dated on
the 22d ultimo, from Mr. Foster, who was then in Nova Scotia.

I lose no time in making you acquainted with the substance of