ent
to you as soon as possible, together with muskets.

We are on the eve of substituting paper for bullion. I am
aware of the Canadian prejudice against such a circulating
medium, but it must give way to the imperious necessity of the
times.

It is highly proper you should secure the services of the
Indians; but restrain and control them as much as you can.
Whatever appointments you deem indispensably necessary you are
authorized to make, as well as the sacrifice of some money to
gain them over. It is proper we should maintain our ascendancy
over the Indians, and feed with proper food their predeliction
for us.

Colonel Lethbridge, an inspecting field officer, is under
orders for Kingston, and there to wait your commands.

_Colonel Baynes to Major-General Brock_.

MONTREAL, July 8, 1812.

I was highly gratified yesterday in receiving your letters of
the 3d July, for we have felt extremely anxious about you ever
since we have learnt the unexpected declaration of war, which
had been so long threatened that no one believed it would
ever seriously take place; and even now it is the prevailing
opinion that, from the opposition testified by the eastern
states, offensive measures are not likely to be speedily
adopted against this country. Sir George is inclined to let
these sentiments take their course, and as little advantage
would accrue by more active measures on our part, our present
plans are all defensive. General de Rottenburg is arrived, and
the flank companies embodied are on their way: this corps,
with the embodied militia, will form a chain from La Prairie
to St. John's, with a light corps advanced in their front. We
have reports of the 103d regiment being in the river, and, it
is added, recruits for the 100th regiment.

Sir George has had applications from so many quarters for
militia below Kingston, that to insure a general arrangement
and to adopt the best system that circumstances will admit, he
has directed Colonel Lethbridge, the inspecting field officer
here, to proceed through the line of settlements to see the
several colonels and corps of militia so as to fix their
quotas, and afterwards to proceed to Kingston and assume the
command of that post, if necessary: he will be placed under
your orders, but you will perhaps not wish to bring