ds his fall. The father, to
his children, will make known the mournful story. The veteran, who
fought by his side in the heat and burthen of the day of our
deliverance, will venerate his name."[99]

And the sentiments of the British government, on the melancholy
occasion, were thus expressed in a dispatch from Earl Bathurst, the
secretary of state for the colonies, to Sir George Prevost, dated
December 8, 1812: "His royal highness the prince regent is fully aware
of the severe loss which his majesty's service has experienced in the
death of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. This would have been sufficient
to have clouded a victory of much greater importance. His majesty has
lost in him not only an able and meritorious officer, but one who, in
the exercise of his functions of provisional lieutenant-governor of the
province, displayed qualities admirably adapted to awe the disloyal, to
reconcile the wavering, and to animate the great mass of the inhabitants
against successive attempts of the enemy to invade the province, in the
last of which he unhappily fell, too prodigal of that life of which his
eminent services had taught us to understand the value."

The Montreal Herald of April 29, 1815, blames Sir George Prevost for
having suppressed, in his general order, much of the preceding letter
from Lord Bathurst, and remarks: "We repeat that the said letter was not
published to the army or to the public, a part of which the latter ought
to have known, because the sentiments expressed by the prince are those
of the loyal people of Upper Canada, who would be glad to have seen them
soon after the official letter arrived in Canada." The following was
substituted for this letter in a general order of the late
commander-in-chief, dated the 10th March, 1813, said to have been
published to the army at the time of its date:

'His royal highness is fully aware of the severe loss which
his majesty's service has experienced in the death of
Major-General Sir Isaac Brock.'

"But we have been told that even the said general order was not known to
some regiments of the right division, until it appeared in the Quebec
Gazette of the 20th instant." And "considering the character of the
distinguished chief who fell on the British side at the Queenstown
battle,"[100] we certainly do not think that Lord Bathurst intended his
dispatch, relative to that officer's death, should have been thus
mutilated or suppressed in the Canadas.