ld be inscribed on the Banners of the
Supporters, granted to be borne by his Family and Descendants.
In testimony of his Private Worth, his Piety, Integrity and
Benevolence, and all those tender, domestic virtues, which
endeared him to his Family, his Children, his Friends, and his
Dependants, as well as to prove her unfeigned Love, Gratitude,
and Respect, Catherine Anne Prevost, his afflicted Widow,
caused this Monument to be Erected. Anno Domini 1819."
]

[Footnote 134: Including the editor, ten; viz. two died young, of
scarlet fever, and were buried in the same coffin; two drowned at
different times; two slain; two died at sea, while passengers on board
his majesty's packets from Rio de Janeiro to Falmouth, on the same day
of the same month (15th August) in different years, 1833 and 1837! and
only two still survive.]

[Footnote 135: See pages 222, 223, 227, 238, 307, 339, 360, 364 and
366.]

CHAPTER XVI.

Thomas Porter, a faithful servant of Sir Isaac Brock, was sent to
England with his effects, and at the request of the family, was
discharged from the 49th regiment, in which he was borne as a soldier,
and in which he had an only brother, their father having been killed,
while also in the regiment, on board the Monarch, at Copenhagen. The
Commander-in-chief readily sanctioned the discharge of Porter, "as a
small tribute to the memory of a most gallant and valuable officer."

_His Royal Highness the Duke of York to W. Brock, Esq._

HORSE GUARDS, December, 1815.

The prince regent having been graciously pleased to command,
in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, that the
officers present at the capture of Detroit should be permitted
to bear a medal commemorative of that brilliant victory, I
have to transmit to you the medal[136] which would have been
conferred upon the late Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, and
which the prince regent has been pleased to direct should be
deposited with his family, as a token of the respect which his
royal highness entertains for the memory of that officer.

I am, Sir, yours, FREDERICK,
Commander-in-Chief.

In the year 1817, Mr. Savery Brock visited the United States and Canada,
and, while in the latter country, received the grants of the 12,000
acres of land voted by the legislature of the Upper Province to the four
brothers of Sir Isaac Brock, The letters written by him during his