ke immediate steps
for evacuating that post, together with the territory of
Michigan; by this measure you will be enabled to withdraw a
greater number of the troops from Amherstburg, instead of
taking them from Colonel Vincent, whose regular force ought
not on any account to be diminished.

I have already afforded you reinforcements to the full extent
of my ability; you must not, therefore, expect a further
supply of men from hence until I shall receive from England a
considerable increase to the present regular force in this
province: the posture of affairs, particularly on this
frontier, requires every soldier who is in the country.

In my last dispatch from Lord Bathurst, dated the 4th of July,
he tells me, "that his majesty's government trusts I will be
enabled to suspend with perfect safety all extraordinary
preparations for defence which I may have been induced to make
in consequence of the precarious state of the relations
between this country and the United States; and that as every
specific requisition for warlike stores and accoutrements
which had been received from me had been complied with, with
the exception of the clothing of the corps proposed to be
raised from the Glengary emigrants, he had not thought it
necessary to direct the preparation of any further supplies."
This will afford you a strong proof of the infatuation of his
majesty's ministers upon the subject of American affairs, and
shew how entirely I have been left to my own resources in the
event which has taken place.

Judging from what you have already effected in Upper Canada,
I do not doubt but that, with your present means of defence,
you will be able to maintain your position at Fort George, and
that the enemy will be again foiled in any further attempts
they may make to invade the province.

I leave to your discretion to decide on the necessity of
sending a reinforcement to Michilimakinack.

_Major-General Brock to Colonel Proctor_.

FORT GEORGE, September 17, 1812.

I have had before me your several communications to the 11th
instant, addressed to myself and to Major-General Sheaffe. I
approve of your having detached a party to aid in the
reduction of Fort Wayne, not only because its destruction will
render your position more secure, but also from the probable
result o