f them,
without being able to see the Indians who did it." Michilimakinack
remained unmolested to the end of the war, when it was restored, by the
treaty of peace, to its former possessors.

It has already been mentioned, that among the prisoners taken at the
battle of Queenstown, 23 were sent to England for trial as British born
subjects and deserters, and that the American government had placed an
equal number of British soldiers into close confinement as hostages. In
consequence, Sir George Prevost, by a general order of the 27th October,
1813, made known that he had received the commands of the prince regent
to put 46 American officers and non-commissioned officers into close
confinement as hostages for the 23 soldiers confined by the American
government. He at the same time apprized that government, that if any of
the British soldiers should suffer death by reason of the guilt and
execution of the traitors taken in arms against their country, he was
instructed to select out of the American hostages double the number of
the British soldiers who might be so unwarrantably put to death, and to
cause them to suffer death immediately. The governor-general also
notified to the American government, that in the event of their carrying
their murderous threat into execution, the commanders of the British
forces, by sea and land, were instructed to prosecute the war with
unmitigated severity against all the territory and inhabitants of the
United States.

On the 10th of December, Sir George Prevost received a communication
from Major-General Wilkinson by a flag of truce, stating that the
American government, adhering unalterably to their previously declared
purpose, had placed 46 British officers into close confinement, there to
remain until the same number of American officers and non-commissioned
officers were released. In consequence, the governor-general ordered all
the American officers, prisoners of war, without exception of rank, to
be placed into close confinement as hostages, until the number of 46 was
completed over and above those already in confinement. In pursuance of
this order, Generals Winder, Chandler, and Winchester, were confined in
a private house at Quebec, with as little inconvenience as their
security would admit.

On the 15th April, 1814, after some negotiation, opened at the
solicitation of the American government, a convention was entered into
at Montreal, by which it was agreed to release the host