t they may be
relieved from Fort Niagara, if practicable; and if not, that I
may, without delay, state their condition to the government,
that they may receive from the proper department the earliest
possible supplies.

The women and children, and such other persons as have
accompanied the detachment from Detroit, and ought to be here
received, I will immediately receive at Fort Niagara, or such
other convenient place as you may order them to be landed at.

In a communication which I some time since had the honor of
receiving from Lieut.-Colonel Myers, he assured me that it had
been the constant study of the general officer commanding on
this line to discountenance, by all means in his power, the
warfare of sentinels; yet the frequent recurrence of this
warfare within a few days past, would warrant the presumption
that a different course has been adopted. I wish to be assured
of this fact.

_Major-General Brock to Major-General S.V. Rensselaer._

Head Quarters, Fort George, Sept. 17, 1812.

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
this date. Captain Dyson has obtained my permission to cross
on his parole to the United States; he has, however, requested
to remain till to-morrow, to settle with the men of his
detachment. He shall in the mean time have an interview with
Colonel Van Rensselaer.

Measures will be immediately taken to land the women and
children at Fort Niagara.

It has been with the utmost regret that I have perceived
within these few days a very heavy firing from both sides of
the river. I am, however, given to understand, that on all
occasions it commenced on yours; and from the circumstance of
the flag of truce, which I did myself the honor to send over
yesterday, having been repeatedly fired upon, while in the
act of crossing the river, I am inclined to give full credit
to the correctness of the information. Without, however,
recurring to the past, you may rest assured on my repeating my
most positive orders against the continuance of a practice,
which can only be injurious to individuals, without promoting
the object which both our nations may have in view.

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We cannot find the dispatch from Sir George Prevost of the 7th of
September, to which the next letter is an answer, but it could not