ith
various military stores of which he stood in need: this leaves
in my possession only seven thousand muskets for the use of
the militia of this province, and to supply, as far as they
will go, every other emergency.

_Sir James Craig to Colonel Brock_.

H.M.S. Horatio, Oct. 16, 1807.

His majesty having been pleased to appoint me to the chief
government of the British provinces in America, as well as to
the command of his forces in these parts, I do myself the
pleasure to announce to you my arrival in the river, to take
these charges upon me.

Lieut.-Colonel Baynes, the adjutant-general, and Major
Thornton, my secretary and first aide-decamp, will deliver you
this, and will inform you of the very miserable state of my
health, which obliges me to write to Mr. Dunn, to entreat that
he will permit my landing to be as private as possible. Of you
I must make the same request. A salute may be proper, but I
beg nothing more may be done: my object must be to get to the
chateau as speedily and with as little fatigue as possible.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 18: Owing to the difficulty, after the lapse of above forty
years, of obtaining the particulars of this event from any officer
present, the preceding account may be slightly inaccurate
notwithstanding our diligent inquiries, but we doubt not that it is
substantially correct.]

[Footnote 19: The 10th Royal Veteran Battalion arrived in Canada the
year following.]

[Footnote 20: Afterwards Major-General Barnard Foord Bowes, slain on the
27th June, 1812, while leading the troops to the assault of the forts of
Salamanca. Monuments in St. Paul's, to the memory of Major-General Bowes
and of Sir Isaac Brock, were voted in the House of Commons on the same
day, 20th July, 1813.]

[Footnote 21: On the passage of the 100th to Quebec, in 1805, one of the
transports was wrecked on the 21st October, on the coast of
Newfoundland; and Major Bertram, three captains, six lieutenants, the
assistant-surgeon, and about 260 men of the regiment, miserably
perished.]

CHAPTER III.

_Brigadier Brock to his Brothers_.

MONTREAL, July 20, 1808.

I have written to all of you since the navigation opened, and
the only letters I have received from any of the family for
several months came from Irving, who, to do him justice, is
infinitely the most attentive and regular correspondent among