. He knew her directly, and seemed quite affected when
telling me that she had brought her credentials with her in
case he had not recognized her, as many years had elapsed
since they met; and she opened a pocket book carefully, which
she had in her hand, and took a piece of a shirt with the
initials of General Brock's name, which she said she had cut
off when the body was brought in to be buried at Fort George,
and preserved it as a relic of her dear master. This little,
trifling, affectionate remembrance of the old creature, shews
her real attachment. Colonel Glegg gave her a new snuff box,
filled with snuff from Paris, and told her to come again to
see him. Perhaps the Tuppers will be pleased to hear this
little anecdote.

[Mrs. Eliot, whose maiden name was Jane M'Crea, is the daughter of an
American loyalist and a gallant field officer, now deceased, and the
niece and namesake of the unfortunate Jane M'Crea, whose tragical fate
in the American revolutionary war excited so much commiseration, and
gave rise to a correspondence between the American general. Gates, and
General Burgoyne. The former wrote: "Miss M'Crea, a young lady, lovely
to the sight, of virtuous character and amiable disposition, engaged to
an officer of your army, was, with other women and children, taken out
of a house near Fort Edward, carried into the woods, and there scalped
and mangled in a most shocking manner.... The miserable fate of Miss
M'Crea was particularly aggravated by being dressed to receive her
promised husband, but met her murderer employed by you." The latter, in
his reply, stated, that "two chiefs, who had brought her off for the
purpose of security, not of violence to her person, disputed which
should be her guard, and in a fit of savage passion in one, from whose
hands she was snatched, the unhappy woman became the victim."]

We have in a preceding chapter described the monument, on Queenstown
Heights, to the memory of Sir Isaac Brock, a monument which "the
popularity of the general had caused to be regarded with more
affectionate veneration than any other structure in the province." On
Good Friday, the 17th of April, 1840,[141] a miscreant of the name of
Lett introduced a quantity of gunpowder into this monument with the
fiendish purpose of destroying it; and the explosion, effected by a
train, caused so much damage as to render the column altogether
irreparable. Lett, who was