patriotic self-devotion, his chivalrous gallantry, and his triumphant achievements. (Here one of the auditors added, “and that he was an honest man”—­an attribute most warmly responded to on every side, for an honest man is the noblest work of God.) Still it might be asked, What peculiar personal qualities predominated and gave him the talismanic influence and ascendancy over his fellow men, which he acquired and wielded for his country’s good?  I answer, Are there any seamen among you? (Yes, yes, answered from the crowd)—­then I say it was the Nelsonian spirit that animated his breast; it was the mind intuitively to conceive, and the soul promptly to dare, incredible things to feeble hearts—­with a skill and bearing which infused this chivalrous and enterprising spirit into all his followers, and impelled them energetically to realize whatever he boldly led the way to accomplish.  It displayed itself too, not only in the ranks of the disciplined soldiers, but in those also of the untrained militia of Upper Canada, as was amply proved on this memorable ground.  Such were the shining and conspicuous qualities of the man that have rendered very dear his memory and his fame.  Gentlemen, the resolution which I hold in my hand is expressive of the indignation felt throughout the province at the lawless act, the effects of which are visible before us.

After the resolutions had been carried by acclamation, and the public proceedings had terminated, 600 persons sat down to dinner in a temporary pavilion erected on the spot where the hero fell, “Chief Justice Robinson presiding; and at this, as at the morning meeting, great eloquence was displayed in the speeches, great loyalty evinced in the feelings, and great enthusiasm prevailed.”  After the queen’s health had been drunk, the chief justice rose and said: 

I have now to propose the memory of the late gallant Sir Isaac Brock, of Colonel M’Donell, and those who fell with them on Queenstown Heights.  That portion of you, gentlemen, who were inhabitants of Upper Canada while General Brock served in its defence, are at no loss to account for the enthusiastic affection with which his memory is cherished among us.  It was not merely on account of his intrepid courage and heroic firmness, neither was it solely because of his brilliant success while he lived, nor because he so nobly laid down his life in our defence; it was, I think, that he united in his person, in a very remarkable degree, some qualities which are peculiarly calculated to attract the confidence and affection of mankind,—­there was, in all he said and did, that honesty of character which was so justly ascribed to him by a gentleman who proposed one of the resolutions,—­there was an inflexible integrity, uncommon energy and decision, which always inspire confidence and respect,—­a remarkable union in his whole demeanour of benevolence and firmness,—­a peculiarly commanding and soldierlike appearance,—­a generous, frank, and manly bearing,—­and,