rovinces would permit, I had, previous to the
receipt of your letter, made arrangements for that purpose.

Major Ormsby, with three companies of the 49th regiment,
protecting a considerable supply of ordnance and ordnance
stores, left La Chine on the 6th instant for Kingston and Fort
George, taking with him L2,500 for the payment of the regular
and militia forces. Major Heathcote, with one company of the
49th regiment, about 110 men of the Newfoundland regiment, and
50 picked Veterans, are to leave La Chine on the 13th instant.
With this detachment, an additional supply of ordnance stores
and camp equipage for 500 men will be forwarded for Upper
Canada; and as soon as a sufficiency of bateaux can again be
collected at La Chine, Colonel Vincent is under orders to
proceed to Kingston with the remainder of the 49th regiment,
and a subaltern of the royal artillery and ten gunners, with
two 3-pounders.

When these reinforcements reach you, they will, I trust,
enable you successfully to resist the internal, as well as
external, enemies opposed to you, and materially aid the able
measures you have adopted for the defence of Upper Canada.

With regard to the queries you have submitted to me on the
subject of martial law, I have to observe, that it has not
fallen within my experience to see martial law proclaimed,
except in those places where it has been declared under the
authority of a provincial legislature, which of course
regulated the mode in which it was to be executed. As the
martial law which you purpose declaring is founded on the
king's commission, and upon the extreme case of invasion
alluded to in it, I am inclined to think that whatever power
is necessary for carrying the measure into effect, must have
been intended to be given you by the commission, and
consequently, that the power of assembling courts martial and
of carrying their sentence into execution, is included in the
authority for declaring martial law. The officers of militia
becoming themselves subject to martial law when it is
declared, I conceive they may sit upon courts martial with
officers of his majesty's regular forces; but upon both these
points I desire not to be understood as speaking
decisively--extreme cases must be met by measures which, on
ordinary occasions, would not perhaps be ju