The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock eBook

Ferdinand Brock Tupper
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock.

The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock eBook

Ferdinand Brock Tupper
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock.

    2.  The first division of the escort.

    3.  General Hull in a carriage, accompanied by Captain Gray. 
    Captain Hull and Major Shekleton followed in the second, and
    some wounded officers occupied four others.

    4.  The American officers.

    5.  The non-commissioned officers and soldiers.

    6.  The second division of the escort.

It unfortunately proved rather late in the evening for the vast concourse of spectators assembled to experience that gratification they so anxiously looked for.  This inconvenience was, however, in a great measure remedied by the illuminations of the streets through which the line of march passed.  When they arrived at the general’s house, the general was conducted in, and presented to his excellency Sir George Prevost, and was received with the greatest politeness, and invited to take up his residence there during his stay at Montreal.  The other officers were accommodated at Holmes’ hotel, and the soldiers lodged in the Quebec barracks.  The general appears to be about sixty years of age, and is a good looking man, and we are informed by those who have had frequent opportunities of conversing with him, that he is a man of general information.  He is communicative, and seems to bear his misfortunes with a degree of philosophical resignation that but few men in similar circumstances are gifted with.  On Thursday last General Hull, with eight American officers, left this city for the United States, on their parole.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 79:  We can discover none from Colonel Baynes on the subject.]

[Footnote 80:  This dispatch was published in a Gazette Extraordinary, in London, on the 6th of October.  See page 240.]

[Footnote 81:  Captain Glegg was made a brevet-major for the capture of Detroit.  Sir George Prevost’s aide-de-camp, Captain Coore, was also made a brevet-major for taking the dispatches to England.]

[Footnote 82:  Created a baronet on the 30th November, 1818.]

[Footnote 83:  This letter is apparently written with the left hand, as if the writer had lost his right.]

[Footnote 84:  Henry Frederick Brock, Esq., jurat of the Royal Court of Guernsey; and Lieutenant Henry Brock, R.N.  In his letter, (see page 194,) Sir Thomas Saumarez, speaking of the latter, says:  “He was a most promising young officer, and, had the poor fellow lived, my brother James would probably have made him a commander this summer.”]

[Footnote 85:  His nephew, John E. Tupper, Esq., aged twenty, perished at sea in January, 1812, in the Mediterranean, the vessel in which he was a passenger from Catalonia to Gibraltar having never been heard of after sailing.  He was educated at Harrow at the same time as Lord Byron, Sir Robert Peel, &c.]

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