Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas: Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review for Octobe

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Excerpt from Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas: Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review for October, 1822

Passed in their service a long life of anxiety and labour. But while, in the moment of irritation, they are thus disposed to impugn the conduct of their military servants, they are no less ready, on more deliberate inquiry, and a fuller understanding of the facts, to grant them a can did and generous acquittal. These observations are peculiarly applicable to the case of the late lieutenant-general Sir George Prevost, who, after having devoted to his country thirty-five.

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