is very sensible of cold. Mrs. Cator and
Mrs. Baynes beg to be most kindly remembered to you. General
Bowes accompanied Kempt to Portugal in the end of December.

_Colonel Baynes to Major-General Brock._

QUEBEC, April 2, 1812.

Many thanks for the very kind and friendly note which
accompanied your letter of the 9th ultimo, and I beg you to
rest assured, that I am very sensible of your friendly
disposition towards me, and feel particularly grateful and
flattered by the kind manner in which you have the goodness to
express it.

The American papers, under the head of English news, as late
as the 20th January, give a circumstantial account of the
death of Sir James Craig, on Sunday, the 12th, at his house in
Charlotte Street. There are too many circumstances
corroborating an event which was so greatly to be apprehended,
to leave a shadow of doubt of the severe loss that all, who
were favored with his friendship, have sustained. To me, from
my earliest youth, he has been the best and kindest friend, a
steady and powerful patron; for few sons ever experienced more
truly paternal care and affectionate regard from the best of
fathers, than I have received at the hands of that best of
men. The grief that I cannot suppress is a selfish tribute to
my own irreparable loss: his release from a state of cruel,
lingering suffering, which, as I had so long witnessed, he
bore with a degree of fortitude and patient resignation
unparalleled, could have been no cause of regret to him, and
therefore ought not to be so to those who most sincerely loved
him; but I have so long been accustomed to cherish the
grateful and affectionate sentiments of a highly favored son
to the best of parents, that however I might have been
prepared for this inevitable shock, I still feel that there
are affections so rooted in our hearts, that this world's
changes can never efface the impression. His memory will long
be remembered with admiration by all who knew his merit. As a
soldier he had few equals, and no knight had a fairer claim to
the proud title of _sans peur et sans reproche_; while the
widow, the orphan, and every distressed object that claimed
his aid, will testify the generous heart that once animated
that good and honorable man.

The ladies of this house always beg to be remembered to