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survived/ The Duke of JSTortliumberlaiid spoken of, as mtending 

 to forego tlie compensation about to be provided for tbe disbanded 

 portion of tbe Body Guard, was tbe friend of our Mohawk Chief, 

 Joseph Brant, whose acquaintance the Duke formed while serving as 

 Lord Percy* in the Eevolutionary War. An interesting letter from 

 the Duke to Brant, in which the latter is addressed as " My dear 

 Joseph," may be read in Stone's Life of the Chief, ii., 237. The 

 letter is signed, " Your affectionate friend and brother, Northumber- 

 land, TJio-righ-we-ge-ri " (Mohawk for " The Evergreen Thicket"). 



I likewise give a specimen of a kind of communication with which, 

 no doubt, Sir George Yonge was familiar in his capacity as Secretary 

 at "War. It will be of some special interest to us, as it comes from 

 the hand of Lord Dorchester, at the time Governor-General of Canada, 

 and it is dated at Quebec in 1790. It relates to an application which, 

 it appears, Lord Dorchester had made for a commission for his son in 

 the Guards, which "application, it was thought, had been too long 

 overlooked, while in the meantime the young man was rapidly .orow- 

 ing, and exceeding the prescribed age for entering the army. Con- 

 sequently Lord Dorchester asks for a cornetcy, temporarily, in some 

 other regiment. Thus the letter reads (I transcribe from the auto- 

 graph original): " Sir,— As I ai^prehend that many importunities 

 have retarded the success of my application, about four years since, 

 for an Ensigncy in the Guards for my eldest son, Guy; and fearing 

 lest the same reasons may still continue, while he is advancing con- 

 siderably beyond the age judged necessary for entering into the mili- 

 tary profession, I am to request you will take a proper opportunity 

 of laying my petition before the King, that He would be graciously 

 pleased (till such time as it may suit His Majesty's convenience and 

 good pleasure to honour him with a commission in His Guards) to 

 give him a Cornetcy in any of His Regiments in Great Britain. I 

 am. Sir, with regard, your most obedient and most humble servant, 

 Dorchester. Sir George Yonge, &c., &c., &c." 



It may be that the intended reduction in the Household Troops, to 

 which Sir George's speech referred in 1787, had something to do with 

 the apparent neglect of Lord Dorchester's petition. The letter just 

 given is, as I have said, dated in 1790, and the delay had been con- 

 tinuing for nearly four years. Guy, in fact, never obtained even the 



• Portraits of Earl Percy may be seen in Andrews' History of the War, i., 2S9 ; and Lossia" 's 

 Fieldbook, ii. 613. ° 



