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o'N'' Cttys O. c. Inn aa DEAR SlR-Cannot something % ba \ our old friend and fellow soldier G G.. nard' He was, as you are awa,a ''a wounded and disabled in the dea& in which you bore so consnicnoaa aa''l the sorlie from Fort Erie. The R.;.i1 under Sir Gordon Drummond, com.. most entirely of Wellinglon,s aP a5g veterans, out-numbered us more ,bp p.a one. Our little army contained " bn, erans: more than half its effective las.1 made up of recruits, volunteers, pnJ '. With such disparity in the charac,e. J. as in the number, of the troops, ,5s though necessary to the honor of ,b. try and the character of the army '" " most hopeless. A repulse, at any , a.i " the enemy's works, would have bpsppe p1. Y us. Brainard was of the party that . by storm strongly-fortifed block.bo" the extreme right of the enemy,s '. ls, that desperate encounter he was sba at the head of his volunteers but m. standing the severity of his wounds |, {, tinued by his example 10 animate h, k until the victory was complete, sn3f. my left without the means of furlbe,,, ing us. The distinguished gallanlr f nard, and men like him, stimuloteitk tk tia and volunteers to deeds of bigb,i unsurpassed by the best troops o s, or country. The soriie from Fort F5 by far the most splendid achieveng, brilliant campaign, whether we cOp53 boldness of the conception the ezceHg the plan, or the ability of the execution event in military history, on the sane has ever surpassed it; and t is theno porfant to Us, in demonstrating ph militia and volunteers are capable ot when properly led.

 l may be mistaken, but t does ap5 me there would be a great moral ais secured to the nation by treating ns Brainard in the most liberal maaae claims no more than has been alq others, both of the army and navy if any distinction be made, it should be in favor of than against men of f of service. am not, as you knoR, habit of interfering with Legislation form but. in this case, could not passive, without, in my opinion, be just, as well to the country as the q

 I'll. $. J The Hon. EZRA DEAN,

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