that little or no intercourse exists between the two races.
More troops will be required in this country, were it only to
keep down this growing turbulent spirit. The governor will, it
is foreseen, have a difficult card to play next month with the
assembly, which is really getting too daring and arrogant.
Every victory which Napoleon has gained for the last nine
years, has made the disposition here to resist more manifest.


_Brigadier Brock to his sister-in-law, Mrs. W. Brock_.

QUEBEC, June 8, 1810.

It was my decided intention to ask for leave to go to England
this fall, but I have now relinquished the thought. Several
untoward circumstances combine to oppose my wishes. The spirit
of insubordination lately manifested by the French Canadian
population of this colony, naturally called for precautionary
measures, and our worthy chief is induced, in consequence, to
retain in this country those on whom he can best confide. I am
highly flattered in being reckoned among the number, whatever
inward disappointment I may feel. Some unpleasant events have
likewise happened in the upper country, which have occasioned
my receiving intimation to proceed thither, whether as a
permanent station, or merely as a temporary visit, Sir James
Craig has not determined. Should, however, a senior brigadier
to myself come out in the course of the summer, I shall
certainly be fixed in the upper province, and there is every
probability of such an addition very soon. Since all my
efforts to get more actively employed have failed; since fate