r worthy
of the occasion which the company had assembled to
commemorate.

After the cloth was removed, a series of appropriate toasts
were given from the chair. When "the memory of the late
Major-General Sir Isaac Brock" was pledged and drunk, Mr. B.
availed himself of the universal silence it created to address
the company. In a short speech, he expressed his
acknowledgments for the very flattering and distinguished
manner they were pleased, through him, to testify their
veneration for the memory of his deceased brother, whose
public and private qualities, he was proud to observe, were so
highly appreciated by the inhabitants of Montreal, in whose
society he had for a period been domesticated, and of whose
kindness and hospitality he always retained a grateful
remembrance.

At the commencement of the American war, Mr. B. observed, an
arduous command devolved upon his brother; he had to protect
an extensive frontier with very limited means, and those
means, feeble as they were, shackled by the trammels of
superior authority; the advance of an hostile army, however,
upon our provincial territory, developed the resources of his
military genius, and afforded him a glorious opportunity of
proving to his country what he _might_ have achieved under
different circumstances. Mr. Brock apologized to the company
for detaining them a few minutes longer, in reading some
extracts of letters he had received from the late general, at
different times, previous to the battle of Queenstown. These
extracts corroborated what Mr. B. had previously stated; and
it is remarkable that in one of them, with a spirit almost
prophetic, the hero foretold the issue of that eventful day,
when the hand of victory was destined to mingle the cypress
and the laurel over his grave. Mr. Brock's feelings were a
good deal affected in addressing so numerous an assemblage of
his late brother's personal friends; and we may venture to
add, that never were feelings of the same description more
sacredly participated than those of Mr. B. on this occasion.
Mr. B. concluded his speech by drinking the health of the
company, and "success and prosperity to the city of Montreal."

At eleven o'clock the president retired, and was succeeded in
the chair by the Hon. W. M'Gillivray, who immediately proposed