And as Major-General Sheaffe is on the spot, and has strong claims to employment on the staff, his royal highness will have no objection to furnish Sir George Prevost with an authority to employ that officer in your room, provided he has not yet left Canada.
I trust this arrangement may be acceptable to you.

An official communication to the effect of this note will be made to Sir George Prevost.
_Colonel Baynes to Major-General Brock_.
QUEBEC, November 21, 1811.
We fortunately received yesterday the last batch of recruits for the 41st regiment, as from the present state of the weather and appearance of the river, I fear their situation would have been very desperate.

They have, poor devils, been sixteen weeks and four days on their passage, and have suffered much from dysentery.

Four men have died, and several are sick; but as the former detachment recovered fast when landed and taken care of, I doubt not that these will also: they amount to three hundred, and are in general very fine young men.

What a noble battalion they will make when brought together; and the officers say that about 200 more were left at the depot, for want of room in the transport.
What do you think of the president's speech?
In any government more consistent, it would mean war.