h the whole mass was animated may readily be
conceived; while the grand and picturesque combination of natural
objects of scenery, beheld from the heights on which they were met, and
the brightness of the day, added greatly to the effect of the whole."
The gathering[143] was attended by about 8,000 persons, and the
animation of the scene was increased by a detachment of royal artillery,
who fired a salute; by a detachment of the 1st dragoon guards, with
their bright helmets glittering in the sun; and by the 93d regiment,
(Highlanders,) in full costume.

There were altogether eleven resolutions, of which the fifth was the
following:

Resolved,--That we recall to mind, with admiration and
gratitude, the perilous times in which Sir Isaac Brock led
the small regular force, the loyal and gallant militia, and
the brave and faithful Indian warriors, to oppose the
invaders--when his fortitude inspired courage, and his
sagacious policy gave confidence, in despite of a hostile
force, apparently overwhelming.

We cannot refrain from transferring to these pages parts of the long and
eloquent speech of the chief justice, Robinson, who, on advancing to the
front of the hustings to move the sixth resolution, was received with
the most enthusiastic cheers.

If it were intended by those who committed this shameful
outrage, that the injury should be irreparable, the scene
which is now before us, on these interesting heights, shews
that they little understood the feelings of veneration for the
memory of BROCK which still dwell in the hearts of the people
of Upper Canada. No man ever established a better claim to the
affections of a country; and, in recalling the recollections
of eight and twenty years, there is no difficulty in
accounting for the feeling which has brought us together on
this occasion. Among the many who are assembled here from all
parts of this province, I know there are some who saw, as I
did, with grief, the body of the lamented general borne from
the field on which he fell--and many who witnessed, with me,
the melancholy scene of his interment in one of the bastions
of Fort George.[144] They can never, I am sure, forget the
countenances of the soldiers of that gallant regiment which he
had long commanded, when they saw deposited in the earth the
lamented officer who had for so many years been their pride;
they