woods, the 13th could not, by any possibility, charge. They might have
pursued the enemy individually, and the dodging and twining and
twirling of the combatants would have been something extraordinary. But
the 13th thought better of it and wisely retired, in good order, upon
the mill. At this moment, however, the grenadiers of the Fencibles and
a company of the Voltigeurs, arrived from Burtonville, and were ordered
by Major Handcock to support the retiring 13th, and charge again. The
whole now advanced in columns of sections upon the gun, which the
Americans had spiked during the first charge, and on which the
Americans in the woods were ready to concentrate their fire. The enemy
did not pull a trigger until the 13th, Voltigeurs, and Fencibles were
within twenty-five yards of their centre, when the further advance of
the sortie was checked by the fire of musketry so hotly poured in upon
them on all sides. They were instantly recalled. But the Americans
being by this time wearied, cold, and hungry, and now deficient in
artillery, while they were as unable to carry the mill by storm, as the
British were to charge in the woods, retreated about five in the
afternoon, unmolested, and afterwards fell back upon Champlain and
Plattsburgh. The Americans lost in this attempt to carry a stone tower,
bravely defended, 13 in killed, 123 in wounded, and in missing 30. The
British lost 10 killed, 4 missing, and 2 officers and 44 men wounded.

The Americans, while they were near Cornwall, under Generals Brown and
Boyd, in the autumn previously to re-crossing the river, plundered some
merchants of all their goods, wares, and merchandise, found _en route_
for Upper Canada. But the American government had stipulated for their
restitution with Colonel Morrison, of the 89th, and Captain Mulcaster,
of the Royal Navy. Whether the repeated checks that they had lately
received from the British, in consideration of their unwelcome, but not
looked for, visits, had soured the authorities, south of 45 deg.., or no,
it was now intended to sell the plunder for the benefit of the
government of the United States, as British goods being rare in the
American market, high prices would undoubtedly have been obtained. To
prevent a consummation, not in the least devoutly wished for by the
British merchants, Captain Sherwood, of the Quarter Master General's
Department, suggested the idea of plundering them back again.
Accordingly, Captain Kerr, with a subalt