unds I hold that the
Christian soldier is an instrument of good to the nation at
large, and I bid you God speed in the name of the Lord, and,
as a Christian bishop, I would bid you remember Him who is the
God of battles, Him by whom nations are led to victory and
preserved in peace. Be men of resolution and men of energy,
pacific in your profession and disinterested in your
patriotism, observant of your duty to your queen, your
country, and your God.

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Of Sir Isaac Brock's brothers, the eldest, John, a brevet
lieutenant-colonel in the 81st regiment, was killed in a duel, in July,
1801, at the Cape of Good Hope, by Captain M----,[149] in consequence of
his having, as steward of a public ball, very properly resisted the
introduction, by his antagonist, of a female of disreputable character.
The second brother, Ferdinand, a lieutenant of the 60th regiment, was
slain in the defence of Baton Rouge, on the Mississippi, 21st September,
1779, at the early age of nineteen. The third brother, Daniel De Lisle,
a man of distinguished ability, was bailiff and president of the States
of Guernsey. No chief magistrate of the island was ever so beloved,
honored, and regretted, as Mr. Brock; and so universal was the feeling
of admiration for his talents and services, that the Royal Court decreed
him a public funeral at the public expense--a tribute of respect never
previously paid by that body to any individual.[150] The ninth brother,
Savery, who died on the 7th August, 1844, has been already noticed, and
the tenth, Irving, who died in 1838, at Bath, was "the accomplished
translator of Bernier's Travels in India," and a very powerful writer in
support of the government in 1810, at a very eventful and critical
period.[151] Singularly enough, of the eight brothers of this Family of
the Brocks who reached maturity, no male descendant of their name is now
in existence. Of their two sisters, who grew to womanhood, the elder,
Elizabeth, now the only survivor of the family, married John E. Tupper,
Esq., of Guernsey; and the younger, Mary, was the wife of Thomas
Potenger, Esq., of Compton, in Berkshire, first cousin to the Countess
of Bridgewater.

Of the five nephews and one great nephew of Sir Isaac Brock, who have
hitherto embraced the profession of arms, not one survives, four of the
former and the latter having sadly and prematurely perished, viz: first,
Midshipman Cha