THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ISAAC BROCK, K. B. "What booteth it to have been rich alive? But sleeps in dust, dead and inglorious?" SPENCER'S "Ruins of Time." EDITED BY HIS NEPHEW, FERDINAND BROCK TUPPER, Esq. SECOND EDITION, CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & Co. GUERNSEY: H. REDSTONE. 1847. INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE first edition of this Memoir was compiled in a very few weeks, amid other avocations, and while attending the sick bed of my father, who died shortly before its completion; and owing to this want of preparation, as well as to the difficulty of obtaining materials after the lapse of so many years, and at so great a distance from the scene of Sir Isaac Brock's principal labours, I candidly confess that it did not satisfy my own mind. But its publication having happily drawn forth much valuable matter, which in a few years would otherwise have been lost, it will be seen, from a very cursory perusal of this volume, that it is a great improvement on its predecessor, as several errors, topographical and others, arising from the cause just mentioned, have been correctedmany additional letters from Sir Isaac Brock are introduced, while a few others to him of little interest are omitted-and some new and graphic anecdotes and incidents are interwoven in the course of the narrative.* Part of the new matter may, however, appear to the general reader as uninteresting and superfluous; but, conceiving that every detail, relating to the progress of a colony from its infant state, possesses a local and statistical value, I have thought such data worthy of being preserved. To Colonel *The additional matter in this volume amounts to about one-third of the first edition. |