roceed immediately to York, to attend the meeting of the
legislature, and I hope to return on Wednesday. The charge of
this frontier will in the mean time devolve on Lieut.-Colonel
Myers, who appears worthy of every confidence. The actual
invasion of the province has compelled me to recall that
portion of the militia whom I permitted to return home and
work at harvest. I am prepared to hear of much discontent in
consequence; the disaffected will take advantage of it, and
add fuel to the flame. But it may not be without reason that
I may be accused of having already studied their convenience
and humour, to the injury of the service.

I should have derived much consolation in the midst of my
present difficulties had I been honored, previously to the
meeting of the legislature, with your excellency's
determination in regard to this province. That it cannot be
maintained with its present force is very obvious; and unless
the enemy be driven from Sandwich, it will be impossible to
avert much longer the impending ruin of the country. Numbers
have already joined the invading army; commotions are excited;
and the late occurrences at Sandwich have spread a general
gloom. I have not heard from Lieut.-Colonel St. George, or
from any individual at Amherstburg, since I last had the honor
of addressing your excellency, which makes me apprehensive
that Colonel Proctor has been detained on his journey too long
for the good of the service.

The enemy's cavalry, amounting to about fifty, are led by one
Watson, a surveyor from Montreal of a desperate character.
This fellow has been allowed to parade with about twenty men
of the same description as far as Westminster, vowing as they
went along the most bitter vengeance against the first
characters in the province. Nothing can shew more strongly the
state of apathy which exists in most parts of the country; but
I am perhaps too liberal in attributing the conduct of the
inhabitants to that cause.

Mr. Couche has represented to the head of his department the
total impracticability of carrying on the public service
without a remittance of specie, or a government paper
substitute. He was in expectation of making arrangements with
some individuals that would have enabled him to proceed, but I
much fear that the whole project has fallen t