were
during his lifetime principally achieved, did we omit to
accompany them with feelings of the most poignant sorrow for
his fall.

He had endeared himself to us by his able, virtuous, and
disinterested administration of the civil government, and by
the zeal, military talent, and bravery, which characterized
and marked his conduct in the field.

To his energy, his promptitude, and his decision, do we feel
ourselves in a great degree indebted, for having at this
moment the happiness of enjoying the privileges of his
Majesty's subjects. His disinterested and manly conduct
aroused the spirit of the country, and called it forth for
self-defence against a most insidious foe.

In appreciating, as we do, his talents and eminent services,
most deeply do we lament our inability to bestow on them any
other reward than our praise. Without revenue for even the
ordinary purposes of the government, we have no funds from
whence to reward merit, however exalted and deserving.

We derive, however, much pleasure from beholding that the
services of our ever-to-be-lamented president and general have
been appreciated by your Royal Highness; and while we
feelingly regret that he did not survive to enjoy the high
honors conferred upon him by your Royal Highness in his
Majesty's name, we, with all humility, would beg to suggest
that a grant to his family of a portion of his Majesty's most
valuable waste lands in this province would be most gratifying
to us. It would, we doubt not, be acceptable to them, and it
would be the means of perpetuating the connection that had
taken place between us, as well as the name of Brock, in a
country in defence of which the general so nobly fell!!! and
which his exertions had so eminently contributed to save.

That your Royal Highness may long be preserved to fill the
exalted station to which you have been called for the
advancement of the happiness, honor and glory, of the British
nation, is the fervent prayer of his Majesty's faithful
subjects, the Commons of Upper Canada.

(Signed) A. M'LEAN, Speaker.

Passed the Commons House of Assembly, the Sixth Day of March, One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirteen.

No. 10. Page 344.

_Anniversary of the Battle of Queenstown, and the re-interment of the
late much-lamented Major-General Sir Isaac Brock_.