decrees that the best portion of my life is to be wasted in
inaction in the Canadas, I am rather pleased with the prospect
of removing upwards.

There is a lady living at Barnet for whom I feel much
interested. If you should by chance drive that way, and do not
object to form a new acquaintance, I wish you to call upon
her. She is the wife of Captain Manners, of the 49th, and the
daughter of the celebrated Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia. She has
a most amiable disposition and genteel manners. Her sister,
Mrs. Ross Cuthbert, a charming little creature, makes her
husband--my most intimate friend, and with whom I pass a
great part of my leisure hours--a most happy man.

I received the other day a long and exceedingly well written
letter from Henrietta Tupper--she is really a charming
girl. What Maria[25] (Potenger) do you begin to slacken in
your attention to your poor devoted uncle?


_Brigadier Brock to his brother Irving_.

QUEBEC, July 9, 1810.

I have a thousand thanks to offer you for the very great
attention you have shewn in executing my commissions: the
different articles arrived in the very best order, with the
exception of the cocked hat, which has not been received--a
most distressing circumstance, as, from the enormity of my
head[26], I find the utmost difficulty in getting a substitute