Mrs.Drummond unites with me in sincere wishes for your health and happiness.
_Colonel Baynes to Major-General Brock_.
QUEBEC, October 7, 1811.
I have a letter from Thornton of the 2d of August; the party arrived at Deal on the 27th of July.

Sir James (Craig) bore the passage remarkably well, and he has received the most flattering and satisfactory assurances that his conduct, civil and military, has met with the most unqualified approbation.
Kempt has experienced a very honorable reception: the duke told him he would give him a _carte blanche_ as to his future destination; he has requested to have a brigade under Lord Wellington, and was preparing to go to the Peninsula.

Thornton does not allude to the probability of its effecting his present post, as he says Kempt writes to you at length, and will tell you of himself.

Ellice[38] has found great difficulty in effecting an exchange.

Dalrymple, Sir Hew's eldest son, had no objection till he found that the duke set his face against the continued exchange of that post, and that he would not permit it to be made a mere stepping stone for the brevet rank.