"There is something so grand and imposing in the spectacle of
a nation's homage to departed worth, which calls for the
exercise of so many interesting feelings, and which awakens
so many sublime contemplations, that we naturally seek to
perpetuate the memory of an event so pregnant with
instruction, and so honorable to our species. It is a subject
that in other and in older countries has frequently exercised
the pens, and has called forth all the descriptive powers of
the ablest writers.[158] But here it is new; and for the first
time, since we became a separate province, have we seen a
great public funeral procession of all ranks of people, to the
amount of several thousands, bearing the remains of two
lamented heroes to their last dwelling on earth, in the vaults
of a grand national monument, overtopping the loftiest heights
of the most magnificent section of one of the most magnificent
countries in the world.

"The 13th of October, being the anniversary of the battle of
Queenstown, and of the death of Brock, was judiciously chosen
as the most proper day for the removal of the remains of the
general, together with those of his gallant aide-de-camp,
Lieutenant-Colonel M'Donell, to the vaults prepared for their
reception on Queenstown heights.[159]

"The weather was remarkably fine, and before ten o'clock a
very large concourse of people, from all parts of the country,
had assembled on the plains of Niagara, in front of Fort
George, in a bastion of which the bodies had been deposited
for twelve years.[160]

"One hearse, covered with black cloth, and drawn by four
black horses, each with a leader, contained both the bodies.
Soon after ten, a lane was formed by the 1st and 4th regiments
of Lincoln militia, with their right on the gate of Fort
George, and their left extending along the road towards
Queenstown, the ranks being about forty paces distant from
each other: within this line was formed, a guard of honor of
the 76th regiment, in parade order, having its left on the
fort. As the hearse moved slowly from the fort, to the sound
of solemn music, a detachment of royal artillery began to fire
the salute of nineteen guns, and the guard of honor presented
arms.

"On moving forwards in ordinary time, the guard of honor broke
into a column of eight divis