thus been taken for the wanton conflagration and
cruel outrages committed upon the defenceless inhabitants of Newark and
neighbourhood, Lieutenant-General Drummond, on the 12th of January,
1814, issued a proclamation, in which he strongly deprecated the savage
mode of warfare to which the enemy, by a departure from the established
usages of war, had compelled him to resort. He traced with faithful
precision and correctness the conduct that had marked the progress of
the war on the part of the enemy, and concluded by lamenting the
necessity imposed upon him of retaliating upon the subjects of America
the miseries inflicted upon the inhabitants of Newark, but at the same
time declared it not to be his intention further to pursue a system so
revolting to his own feelings, and so little congenial to the British
character, unless he should be compelled by the future measures of the
enemy.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 204: Thompson's History of the War of 1812, Chap. xxii., pp.
179-181.

"Terms of capitulation were agreed upon, by which the whole of General
Winchester's command that had survived the fury of the battle were
surrendered prisoners of war, amounting to upwards of 600. In this
sanguinary engagement, the loss of the Americans, in killed and wounded,
was nearly 500; while that of the British was only twenty-four killed
and 161 wounded."--_Ib._, pp. 176, 177.]

[Footnote 205: Christie's History of the War of 1812, Chap. v., pp. 100,
101.]

[Footnote 206: Tuttle, Chap. xxxviii., p. 396.

"The 104th (or New Brunswick Regiment) marched through from Fredericton
to Upper Canada, several hundreds of miles, with extraordinary celerity,
in the month of March, though their route from Fredericton to the River
St. Lawrence lay through an uninhabited wilderness buried in snow, and
never before traversed by troops." (Christie's History of the War of
1812, p. 103.)]

[Footnote 207: Tuttle, Chap. xxxviii., pp. 396, 397.]

[Footnote 208: "The American troops had been preparing for this
expedition the whole winter; and no pains had been spared in their
discipline."]

[Footnote 209: "The people, hitherto unaccustomed to hear of reverses,
were irritated at this success of the enemy, and, as usual upon such
occasions, clamoured against the General [Sheaffe], who a few weeks
afterwards was succeeded in the administration of the civil government
by Major-General De Rottenburgh, and on his return to the Lower Province
assumed the co