We were present, at his request, at the operation, which appeared to me painfully tedious--but not an expression, or even a look of impatience, escaped Sir James, whose manner absolutely inspired spirits and fortitude to those around.

At the close he stood up for several minutes to let the water drain from the higher parts of the body, and thirty-six pints, weighing nearly as many pounds, were altogether drawn off.
Sir James lately received accounts of the 14th of November, that his brother, General Peter Craig, was then so reduced and weak from a long and severe illness, that no hopes were entertained of him.

You will conceive what a severe shock this has been, the more so as Sir James never harboured a doubt that his elder brother, from his apparently stronger constitution, would have long survived him.

Their mutual ties of relationship were in a manner concentrated in each other, for Sir James will have none left but of a very distant degree.
I am happy to find by a long letter from Mrs.Murray to Colonel Kempt, that you have found the means of enlivening the solitary scene that has so long prevailed at Fort George.

I assure you that we miss you much here, and that the fascinating Mrs.de Rottenburg, with all her charms, has not effaced the very universal regret which your loss occasions in Quebec.
_Brigadier Brock to his brother Irving_.
NIAGARA, February 19, 1811.
Nothing can be more considerate, nothing more friendly, than your constancy in writing to me.