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 in this country.
I proposed writing to you early to-morrow, but Sir James having this instant intimated his intention of sending me upwards immediately, I avail myself of an hour's leisure to do that hastily which I would gladly have done quietly, and, consequently, more fully.

If I am to remain in this country, I care little where I am placed; but going up, as I do now, without knowing whether I am to stay or return, is particularly awkward, and interferes materially in all my future arrangements: perhaps I shall be able to get the point settled before I commence my journey.
Every thing here remains in a state of perfect quietness.

It is but too evident that the Canadians generally are becoming daily more anxious to get rid of the English.