Niagara, and appeared inclined to erect additional
batteries. I may perhaps think it proper to stop their career.

I enclose several documents lately received from Colonel
Proctor, at Detroit. That officer appears to have conducted
himself with much judgment. I likewise transmit a memorial
which I have received from some merchants in the Niagara
district, but of course I cannot judge of its merits.

I shall be obliged to your excellency to direct the remittance
of the L5,000, for which I sent a requisition some time ago,
on account of the civil expenditure of this province, either
in government paper or specie, as you may deem most
convenient. I doubt not the former meeting a ready currency.

The very flattering manner in which your excellency is pleased
to view my services, and your kindness in having represented
them to his majesty's ministers in such favorable light, are
gratifying to my feelings, and call for my grateful
acknowledgments.

_Major-General Brock to Sir George Prevost._

FORT GEORGE, September 9, 1812.

I have been honored with your excellency's dispatch, dated the
24th ultimo, and have to thank you for ordering a company of
the Glengary regiment to strengthen Colonel Lethbridge at
Prescott, whose force you have been led to believe was
weakened in consequence of my interference, but which, I beg
leave to state, was done without my knowledge, and contrary to
my intention.

The enclosed copies of letters will inform you of the state of
affairs to the westward. It appears evident the enemy
meditates a second attempt on Amherstburg. The greater part of
the troops, which are advancing, marched from Kentucky with an
intention of joining General Hull. How they are to subsist,
even for a short period, in that already exhausted country, is
no easy matter to conceive. This difficulty will probably
decide them on some bold measure, in the hope of shortening
the campaign. If successfully resisted, their fate is
inevitable.

The Indians, it appears by the accompanying documents, were
adverse to retreating without first making a trial of their
strength. Taking, however, every circumstance into
consideration, I am inclined to think that Captain Muir acted
judiciously. Should the Indians continue to afford a willing
co-operation, I entertain not th