FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 136:  The medal is a very large and beautifully executed gold one, made to suspend from the neck.  On the obverse is, “Detroit;” on the reverse, the figure of Britannia; and round the rim, “Major-General Sir Isaac Brock.”  The medal was given only to the principal officers.]

[Footnote 137:  This is doubtless the officer whose name is spelt M’Kec, at page 252; see also page 294.]

[Footnote 138:  The present Mrs. De Beauvoir De Lisle.]

[Footnote 139:  The present Lieut.-General Sir Andrew Barnard, G.C.B.]

[Footnote 140:  Her husband, who distinguished himself in Upper Canada during the war, was then serving on the staff in Lower Canada.]

[Footnote 141:  On the same day, ten years previously, Sir Isaac Brock’s nephew, Colonel Tupper, was slain in Chile.]

[Footnote 142:  Exclusive of the chief justice and Mr. Justice Macaulay, the speakers were, His Excellency Sir George Arthur; Sir Allan MacNab; Mr. Thorburn, M.P.P.; Colonel the Hon. W. Morris; Colonel R.D.  Fraser; Colonel Clark; Mr. W.H.  Merritt, M.P.P.; Lieut.-Colonel J. Baskin; Lieut.-Colonel Sherwood; Colonel Stanton; Colonel Kerby; Colonel the Hon. W.H.  Draper; Colonel Angus M’Donell; the Hon. Mr. Sullivan; Lieut.-Colonel Cartwright; Colonel Bostwick; Colonel M’Dougal; the Hon. Mr. Justice Hagannan; Colonel Rutton; Lieut.-Colonel Kearnes; Lieut.-Colonel Kirkpatrick; H.J.  Boulton, Esq.; and Lieut.-Colonel Edward Thomson.]

[Footnote 143:  A public meeting of the inhabitants of Montreal was also held in that city, for the same purpose as that on Queenstown Heights.]

[Footnote 144:  We suppose that the chief justice was the lieutenant of militia, who acted as one of Lieut.-Colonel M’Donell’s pall bearers.  See page 332.]

[Footnote 145:  The extracts given in inverted commas are from “Buckingham’s Canada,” that gentleman being at Toronto at the time, but unable from illness to attend the “gathering.”]

[Footnote 146:  In 1841, the Six Nations of Indians had contributed the (for their diminished numbers and limited means) large sum of L167.]

[Footnote 147:  See Appendix A, Section 1, No. 11.]

[Footnote 148:  Bernard’s Narrative of the combined Naval and Military Operations in China.  London, 1844.]

[Footnote 149:  Captain M——­, the son of a baronet, fell as a major and aide-de-camp to Lord Lake, at the siege of Bhurtpore, in 1805.]

[Footnote 150:  For a brief memoir of him, see Appendix B.]

[Footnote 151:  One of his pamphlets went through four editions.]

[Footnote 152:  For a short memoir, see Appendix C.]

[Footnote 153:  For a memoir, see Appendix D.]

[Footnote 154:  The only son of the Rev. Richard Potenger. (See page 269.) With this fine young man expired the last hope of his family, and the continuation of his line.]