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Dateline: Niagara 1840, April 17th

Niagara Peninsula, Queenston Heights

— This beautiful structure was blown up with powder, by some as yet unknown miscreants on the night of the 17th April 1840, arid very nearly ruined.

The key stone, over the door, is thrown out; the inscription stone has a large crack through the centre. A large fissure extends nearly half way up the building, on the side where the door is placed, then forks, and the forks arc carried up to nearly two thirds of the height.

On the other side there are likewise several fissures. The dome is very much rent, the balcony broken, and the iron railing around, bent and disordered. The door at the top leading from the foot of the dome to the balcony, was open, otherwise the dome must have been blown off.

No discovery has yet been made of the perpetrators of the deed nor does anyone know what their motives were. The action is certainly deserving of severe censure. Disturbing the monuments raised in honor of the dead, we had thought would not have been attempted by any in this age.