eminent a degree. King Philip Pontiac, the Ottawa chief, who in 1763, captured Michilimackinac, and invested Detroit; the Prophet and Tecumseh may be regarded as the most remarkable of the savage warriors of America. His life was written by Dr. Daniel Drake, 1841.

GENERAL SIR ROGER H. SHEAFFE, BART.

From what we can learn of this celebrated man, we understand he was born in Boston, United States, on the 15th July, 1763, and was the third son of William Sheaffe, Esquire, deputy-collector of her Majesty's customs at that port, by Susannah, eldest daughter of Thomas Child, Esquire, of Boston. His father having died, Earl Percy, who had his quarters at his mother's house, evinced an interest in the lad's welfare, took him away with him, and gave him a military education, also purchased a commission for him in the army, and ever afterwards, while he lived, was his friend and patron. This we take from the Honorable Lorenzo Sabines' History of the American Loyalists; the following we obtain from Cannon's Historical Records of the British Army.

Sir Roger Sheaffe commenced his military career as an ensign, in the fifth Fusileers, his commission being dated 1st May, 1778, in which regiment he rose to the rank of lieutenant, on the 27th December, 1780. Lieutenant Sheaffe served in Ireland from January, 1781, to May, 1787, and in Canada from July following to September, 1797. In 1794, he was employed under the orders of Lord Dorchester, and with instructions from Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe, on a public mission to protest against certain settlements made by the Americans, on the south shore of Lake Ontario. On the 5th May, 1795, he was promcted to the rank of captain in the fifth Fusileers, and on the 13th December, 1797, was promoted major in the eighty-first regiment, and was advanced to the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the forty-ninth regiment, on the 22nd March, 1798.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sheaffe served in Holland, from August to November, 1799; in the Baltic from March to July, 1801; and in Canada from September, 1802, to October, 1811. On the 25th April, 1808, he received the brevet rank of colonel, and on the 4th June, 1811, was advanced to the rank of major-general. He again served in Canada, from the 29th July, 1812, to November,

1813. The Americans having invaded Upper Canada, at Queenston, on the 13th October, 1812, and General Brock, commanding in the province, having fallen in a gallant effort, with an independent force, to oppose them, Major-General Sheaffe, on whom the command devolved, assembled some regular troops and militia, with a few Indians, and the same day attacked them in a woody height, which they occupied above the town, and completely defeated them, though far exceeding his own followers in number, their commander delivering his sword, and surrendering his surviving troops on the field of battle.

In acknowledgment of this important service, Major-General Sheaffe was created a baronet by patent, dated 16th January, 1813. When the Americans attacked York (now Toronto) in April, 1813, he concocted such measures for the defence of the town as he thought expedient; but did not stay to assist the local militia, he and his staff evacuating York, a short time prior to the attack of the Americans; for this he has been much condemned, but no doubt certain more weighty matters demanded his attention in another part of the province, more particularly as he was then administrator of the government, having been so constituted on Brock's death.

He continued to command in Canada West, and to administer its government, until June, 1813, when he was succeeded by General De Rottenburg. On quitting the government, he received from the resident members of the Executive Council, an address expressing their sense of "that display of candor, justice, and impartiality, which had marked his administration, and the urbanity and confidence of his official intercourse." They further acknowledge their conviction, that they owed the salvation of the whole province to his military talents on the memorable day when he succeeded to the command. He was appointed to the staff of Great Britain, on the 25th March, 1814; but the appointment was recalled and deferred, in consequence of the change of affairs in Europe.

Sir Roger was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, on the 19th July, 1821, and on the 21st December, 1829, was appointed colonel of the thirty-sixth regiment. He was advanced to the rank of general, on the 28th June, 1828. His death occurred at Edinburgh, on the 17th July, 1851.

He married in 1810, Margaret, daughter of John Coffin, Esquire, of Quebec, and cousin of the late Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Bart., of whom W. F. Coffin, Esquire, of Ottawa city, C. W., is a descendant, and had issue two sons and four daughters, but they all died before him, unmarried. Lady Sheaffe survived the gallant general but a few years.

BARON DE ROTTENBURG, K.C.H.

THIS distinguished officer was appointed major in Hompesch's Hussars in 1795, and lieutenant-colonel in the following year; and was promoted to a lieutenant-coloneley in the 60th Foot at the close of 1797. He served in Ireland during the rebellion in 1798. In the same year he formed the 5th battalion of the 60th Regiment into a rifle corps, and prepared the rules and regulations for the exercise of riflemen and light infantry, and their conduct in the fleld; which, having been approved by his royal highness the commander-in-chief, were published by authority, and made general for the army.

Baron De Rottenburg was at the taking of Surinam in 1799. In 1805 he received the rank of colonel. In 1808. he was appointed brigadier-general, and commanded for a time the exercise of four battalions of light infantry, at the camp of instruction on the Curragh of Kildare, under Sir David Baird; but was, in the same year, transferred from the Irish to the English staff, and stationed at Ashford in Kent, on similar duty. In 1809 he commanded the light troops in the Walcheren expedition, and afterwards returned to the staff in Kent. In May, 1810, he was transferred to the staff in Canada, and took the command of the garrison at Quebec; in the same year he was promoted to the rank of major-general. In 1812, on the breaking out of the American war, he was appointed to the command of the Montreal district; and in 1813 he took the command of the troops in the upper province, and was sworn in president of Upper Canada. In 1812, he was promoted to the colonelcy of De Rolls regiment. In 1814 and 1815, he commanded the left division of the army in Canada, and returned to England in September of the latter year. He attained the rank of lieutenantgeneral in 1819, and died at Portsmouth, England, on the 24th April, 1832. His son is the present Baron De Rottenburg, a notice of whom appears in this work.

LIEUT.-GENERAL PROCTOR.

HENRY A. PROCTOR, one of the most brave and distinguished British officers in the war of 1812, was the descendant of an ancient family in Wales. He was born in the year 1787; and, selecting

the army as his profession, early joined its ranks, in which he saw much service.

On the breaking out of the last American war with Great Britain, he proceeded to this country in command of the 41st Regiment, and was one of the first officers engaged with the Americans. He was despatched to Amherstburg by General Brock to prevent the landing of Hull, whose forces he repulsed from that place, and defeated at Brownston; an exploit which contributed much to the fall of Detroit and the capitulation of Hull and the American army.

He also opened the campaign of 1813, by achieving a brilliant victory over a superior force, under Winchester, on the river Raisin, for which he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. In the same year he did some damage to the enemy's works at Sandusky, and only retired when their fire was so fierce and terrific as to endanger the safety of the entire expedition.

His after conduct at Moravian town, on the Thames, when, hemmed in by Harrison, with a large and effective army, is well worthy of indulgent consideration; but following the defeat of Barclay, he was wanted as a victim, and fell accordingly. He was tried by court-martial; the court found that he had not retreated with judgment, and had not judiciously disposed of his force, considering the extraordinary difficulties of his situation; but it further found that his personal conduct was neither defective nor reproachable. He was, however, sentenced to be suspended from rank and pay for six months. He commanded again during the war. General Proctor was much admired by the people of Canada, and the sentence passed upon him was viewed by them as altogether arbitrary and unmerited. He was afterwards promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, and died at his seat in Wales, at the latter end of 1859.

LIEUT.-COLONEL PLENDERLEATH.

AN estimable and courageous officer, who took part in the American war of 1812. He had served in Canada for some time previous to that event, during which period he had contracted the friendship and esteem of all. At the engagement at Stoney Creek, under Sir John Harvey, his gallantry was conspicuous. He was also engaged at Queenston with a portion of his (49th) regiment, and displayed much courage on that memorable occasion, and in many other

important undertakings during his stay in Canada. He survived the war many years; but suffered severely from numerous wounds which he had received during the struggle. He died, we believe, at Clifton near Bristol, England.

MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN MURRAY.

THE subject of the present sketch was a native of Jamaica, a younger son of Walter Murray, Esq., of St. James's, in that island. He entered the service in his Majesty's 37th Regiment in 1792. On the breaking out of the war in the following year, the 37th was amongst the first of the British army sent over to Ostend, and very shortly after their landing went into action. In one of the early sorties Ensign Murray was wounded by a ball in the face, which remained in his head for more than a fortnight, and then fell through the roof of his mouth. He obtained his lieutenancy in the same regiment, and was afterwards taken prisoner, with nearly half of his corps, on the banks of the Waal in Holland, in consequence of mistaking from their dress a division of the French cavalry for the British. Being detained a prisoner for a length of time, on his release he was promoted in the same regiment to the rank of captain, accompanying it to Gibraltar and the West Indies. He obtained his majority in the 4th Regiment; and after the peace of 1802, was appointed to the 39th.

When the 100th Regiment was raised previous to 1812, he joined as lieutenant-colonel, and was sent with them to British North America. He then became inspecting field-officer of the Canadian militia, and in that capacity had the command of the army in advance, and intended to check the proceedings of a very superior force of the United States army, whose object was to render the position of the British untenable, by laying waste the whole of the frontier of Upper Canada. Colonel Murray marched with his comparatively small body of troops to meet the enemy, obliging them to abandon the enterprise; and, taking Fort George, drove them out of the province. The subsequent assault and capture of the Fort of Niagara is thus mentioned in "General Orders," dated Quebec, December 29, 1813:

"The fort of Niagara was most gallantly carried by assault at the point of the bayonet, at daybreak, on the morning of the 19th instant, by a detachment consisting of the grenadiers of the Royals,