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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Parentage and birth—Boyhood—Enters the King's Regiment—Trait of determination of character—Becomes Lieutenant-Colonel of the 49th—Campaign in Holland, in 1799—A young Irish Sergeant—Russian troops in Guernsey—Battle of Copenhagen, in 1801—Notice of John Savery Brock, Esq....1
CHAPTER II.
Proceeds to Canada with the 49th—Desertersm³Suppresses a mutiny at Fort George—Military Execution—Returns to Europe, and recommends the formation of a Veteran Battalion for Upper Canada—Re-embarks for Canada....24
CHAPTER III.
Succeeds Colonel Bowes in command of the troops in Canada—Stringent Instructions to the Deputy Commissary-General—Marine Department—Bishop M'Donell—Jesuits' Barracks—French Secret Envoy to the Canadians—Relief to a Widow and her Children—General Orders—Letters to Lieut.-Colonel Gordon, Right Hon. W. Windham, Colonel Glasgow, Mr. President Dunn, Lieut.-Governor Gore, the Adjutant-General, Major Mackenzie, and Lord Castlereagh—Arrival of Sir James Craig...38
CHAPTER IV.
Stationed at Montreal—North-West Company—Disaffection of French Canadians, and Causes of their Discontent—P. Carey Tupper, Esq.—General Sir James Kempt—Society in Guernsey—Post Office in Canada—Baroness de Rottenburg—Lieut.-Colonel Murray—Letters from Lieut.-Colonel Thornton, Colonel Baynes, Lieut.-Governor Gore, Colonel Kempt, and Colonel Vesey—Letters to his Brothers, to Mrs. W. Brock, to his brother Irving, Lieut.-Governor Gore, Sir James Craig, and Major Taylor—Duke of Kent—Queen Victoria...68
CHAPTER V.
{{hi|Is made a Major-General—Sir James Craig returns to England, his character and administration—Sir Gordon Drummond—Duke of Manchester—Arrival of Sir George Prevost, services, military repu-
