e smallest doubt of the result
that awaits this second attempt to turn my right; but your
excellency will easily perceive that doubts and jealousies
have already seized their minds. The officers of the Indian
department will, I trust, be able to remove all such
impressions. Although, from the daily observations of what is
passing on the opposite shore, a single man can ill be spared
from this line, I have notwithstanding determined to send the
two flank companies of the royal Newfoundland regiment to
Amherstburg. Fresh troops are daily arriving, supposed to
belong to the Pennsylvania quota of 2,000 men, known to be
intended for this frontier. After the whole arrive, an attack,
I imagine, cannot be long delayed. The wretched state of their
quotas, and the raggedness of the troops, will not allow them
to brave the rain and cold, which during the last week have
been so severely felt.

Between 200 and 300 Indians have joined and augmented the
force on the other side. Their brethren here feel certain that
they will not act with any spirit against us--so I imagine, if
we continue to shew a bold front; but in the event of a
disaster, the love of plunder will prevail, and they will then
act in a manner to be the most dreaded by the inhabitants of
this country.

I beg leave to recommend to your excellency's indulgent
consideration, Colonel Proctor's application for an increase
of pay as commanding a district, which I request may commence
from the 16th August last.

_Colonel Baynes to Major-General Brock_.

MONTREAL, September 10, 1812.

Sir George writes to you so fully upon the several subjects to
which your letters refer, that I have little left to
communicate to you. Major Heathcote leaves this to-day, with
all the small description of ordnance stores intended for
Amherstburg, but we have detained the 12-pounders and shot; as
you have helped yourself so amply at Detroit, it is imagined
you do not now want them. I enclose a letter from Captain
Roberts, who was, I suppose, induced to address himself direct
to head quarters, by an opportunity of doing so offering
itself at the moment. The North-West gentlemen are very urgent
in recommending a reinforcement in that quarter; but Sir
George has told them that their representation must be
addressed to you, who will