104 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



be, with high respect and consideration, your Lordship's most obe- 

 dient and very humble sei'vant, Isaac Brock, M.G-." This letter 

 is wholly in the handwriting of G-en. Brock. As a pendant, I add 

 ■an extract from a letter by Major G-l egg, who "?ras with the general 

 as one of his aides-de-camp at the moment of his death at the base 

 of Queenston Heights. It was written some years later at Quebec 

 to a friend who had congratulated him on a happy windfall in 

 England, which he was about to take possession of. "I thank you," 

 he says, " very sincerely for your congratulations on my late very 

 unexpected good fortune ; it is quite true that a distant connexion 

 has left me a very pretty estate in my own county (Cheshire), and 

 in the immediate neighbourhood of all my relations, about seven 

 miles west of Liverpool, and thirteen from Chester, whei'e I shall be 

 truly happy to give you a good day's shooting and a most hearty 

 welcome under my roof. It is my intention to proceed to England, 

 soon after the opening of the navigation, proceeding through your 

 Province to ISTew York." 



During the Three Years' War, in the course of which Gen. Brock 

 was killed, the church at Niagara was burnt, along with the whole 

 town. Being of stone, however, the walls of the building remained. 

 Some sentences of a letter, now before me, from Mr. Addison, the 

 English clergyman there at the time, to Bishop Moiuitain of Quebec, 

 will afford an idea of the situation in which the inhabitants found 

 themselves. It is dated at Niagara, 30th Dec, 1815. "I took the 

 liberty," he says, " of recommending the state of our church to your 

 Lordship's protection by Lieut.-Col. Robertson, of the Canadian 

 Fencibles. I now think It my duty to acquaint your Lordship that 

 we have begun to perform the Service in it, and have got, by means 

 of a subscription, three windows and some benches put into it. We 

 are still in a very comfortless situation, and if Government will not 

 assist us, I fear we shall continue so for some time." The three 

 windows here spoken of were not some of "the storied windows 

 richly dight " with which we deck our churches now, but doubtless 

 the most matter-of-fact affairs, simply to answer the primary purpose 

 of windows, viz., the admission of light : the three opposite apertures 

 were probably roughly boarded up. Mr. Addison then expresses 

 some desire to be transferred from Niagara to the London District. 

 " I have been strongly solicited," he says, " by some of my old hearers 

 ■who have removed to that district, to live amongst them, and should 



