have done without accident of any kind, and we have all been received with acclamations and warm greetings from thousands of people here ; but I never can forget that while we were in the wilderness you first stretched out the hand of friendship towards us. You prepared the way for us and made every possible arrangement in your power for our comfort, and on our arrival at the River-Ouelle, you received us with the greatest hospitality. To return all this will never be in our power and indeed the best reward a heart like yours can receive is the inward satisfaction of having most materially contributed to our comfort and assistance. I must thereford content myself with assuring that we are all truly grateful to you. You will have heard that the 34th are ordered up. So many troops passing will impose a hard task upon the hospitality of
