84 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



however, does not relate to Canada ; but it may be "worth while to 

 give it, furnishing as it does an example of routine at the Horse 

 Guards in 1789. Moreover, it is addressed to the identical Sir George 

 Yonge from whom our Yonge Street has its name. The paper is 

 labelled at the back, "Lord Amherst, recommending succession to 

 Lieut. Pyott in the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards, and to Lieut. 

 Young in the 60th Regiment of Foot." It is wholly in Amherst's 

 own admirable bold handwriting. Thus it reads : " St. James' 

 Square, 3rd April, 1789. Sir, I have the honour to enclose to you 

 a succession to Lieut. Pyott, in the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards, 

 which His Majesty has been pleased to appi-ove, and to direct that 

 Commissions may be prepared for His Majesty's signing. I reported 

 to the Kins the situation of Lieut. John Youno-, of the 60th Foot, 

 that I had transmitted his memorial to you ; and that from his 

 services, losses and paralytick state of health, he begged to be per- 

 mitted to sell his Commission ; and as Lieut. Pyott was desirous of 

 remaining in the Army, I hope, he might be allowed to purchase of 

 Lieut. Young. I therefore beg the favour of you to lay the same 

 before His Majesty, and to desire the Commission may be dated on 

 the 2nd of April, by which Lieut. Pyott will retain his rank in the 

 Army. I enclose Lieuts. Pyott and Young's certificates. I have 

 the honour to be, &c., Amherst." We have then also, wholly in 

 Amherst's hand, a memorandum of the move-up conseqiient on Lieut. 

 Pyott's change : " Most humbly proposed to your Majesty in the 

 Second Regiment of Life Guards : By Purchase, to be Lieutenant 

 vice Edward Pyott, who resigns, the eldest Cornet who can pur- 

 chase — John Hughes. To' be Cornet vice John Hughes, promoted 

 Sub-lieutenant in the late first Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards — 

 Arthur Cuthbert." All this is signed "Amherst, Colonel," and 

 dated 2nd Apiil, 1789, with the addition, "Approved by the King : 

 the Commission, dated this day. Amherst." 



The supporters of Lord Amherst's shield of arms are two Indians, 

 described in Burke's Peerage as "Canadian Indians;" but, strange to 

 say, they are represented as fettered, as in chains. The heraldic 

 emblazonment of these figui'es is this : ' ' Two Canadian war Indians, 

 of a copper colour, rings in their ears and noses, and bracelets on 

 their wrists and arms, argent ; cross-belts over their shoulders, bufi" ; 

 to one, a powder-horn pendent ; to the other, a scalping-knife ; their 

 waists covered with a short apron, gules ; gaiters, blue ; seamed, or ; 



