d helmet
of the deceased; a votive record, supposed to have been
raised by his companions to their honored commander.
"His corpse reclines in the arms of a British soldier, whilst
an Indian pays the tribute of regret his bravery and humanity
elicited.
ERECTED AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE
TO THE MEMORY OF
MAJOR-GENERAL
SIR ISAAC BROCK,
WHO GLORIOUSLY FELL
ON THE 13th OF OCTOBER,
M.DCCC.XII.
IN RESISTING AN ATTACK
ON
QUEENSTOWN,
IN UPPER CANADA."
No. 8. Page 343.
"This chief of the branch of the once great tribe of the Hurons visited
England some time ago. I afterwards saw him in Quebec, and had a good
deal of conversation with him. When asked what had struck him most of
all that he had seen in England, he replied, without hesitation, that it
was the monument erected in St. Paul's to the memory of General Brock.
It seemed to have impressed him with a high idea of the considerate
beneficence of his great father, the king of England, that he not only
had remembered the exploits and death of his white child, who had fallen
beyond the big salt lake, but that he had even deigned to record, on the
marble sepulchre, the sorrows of the poor Indian weeping over his chief
untimely slain."--_Hon. F.F. De Roos' Travels in North America, in_
1826.
No. 9. Page 343.
To His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland,
The humble address of the Commons of Upper Canada, in
Parliament assembled,
May it please your Royal Highness,
We, his majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons
of Upper Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, beg leave
to offer to your Royal Highness the homage of our unfeigned
attachment to his Majesty's sacred person and government, and
of our filial reverence for the great and magnanimous nation
of which we have the honor to form a part.
While we pray your Royal Highness to accept of our most
cordial congratulations on the splendid achievements of his
Majesty's forces, and of those of his allies in various parts
of the globe, and in particular on the extraordinary successes
which, under Divine Providence, have attended his Majesty's
arms in this portion of his dominions; we should do injustice
to the memory of our late truly illustrious president,
Major-General Brock, under whose auspices the latter
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