the
field, it must have been very painful. I did not think Sir
James (Craig) would have detained you so long against your
will. Had you returned to Europe, there is little doubt but
that you would immediately have been employed in Portugal,
and, as that service has turned out so very creditable, I
regret very much that you had not deserted from Canada. I take
it for granted that you will not stay there long, and should
the fortune of war bring us again upon duty in the same
country, I need not say how I shall hail the event with joy.
If you come to England, I would wish you to call upon the Duke
of Kent,[34] who has a high respect for you, and will be happy
to see you.

It seems determined that the Duke of York shall return to the
command of the army; it would have taken place ere now, but
for some ill-natured remarks inserted in some of the
newspapers, produced by an over zeal on the part of his
friends. Sir David (Dundas) will not be much regretted, and it
surely is time that at his advanced period of life he should
be relieved from the cares of office.

I am rejoiced to find that you live so comfortably with my
friend Murray and his nice little wife. Mrs. Vesey and myself
took a great fancy to her the morning she called here, on
their way to Portsmouth.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 31: Peter Carey Tupper, Esq., a native of Guernsey, British
consul for Valencia at this time, and afterwards for Catalonia. He
distinguished himself from 1808 to 1814, in encouraging the Spaniards to
resist the invasion of Napoleon; and his name occurs repeatedly in the
Duke of Wellington's Dispatches, recently published, as also in the
first and fourth volumes of Napoleon's Peninsular War. He died in Madrid
in 1825, in the prime of life. His youngest brother was British consul
for Caraccas, and afterwards for Riga.]

[Footnote 32: The present General Sir James Kempt, G.C.B., &c,
afterwards governor-general of British America, and subsequently
master-general of the ordnance in Earl Grey's administration.]

[Footnote 33: Owing to the communication by post between Lower and Upper
Canada being so slow at this period, we observe that many of Colonel
Baynes' letters to Brigadier Brock, at Fort George, were transmitted
through the United States. There was only a post once a fortnight
between Montreal and Kingston, and in Upper Canada the post office wa