in assuring your excellency, that such was their forbearance and attention to what was required of them, that the enemy sustained no other loss in men than what was occasioned by the fire of our batteries.

The high sense I entertain of the abilities and judgment of Lieut-Colonel Myers, induced me to appoint him to the important command at Niagara; it was with reluctance I deprived myself of his assistance, but I had no other expedient; his duties, as head of the quartermaster-general’s department, were performed to my satisfaction by Lieut.-Colonel Nichol, quartermaster-general of the militia.

Captain Glegg, my aide-de-camp, will have the honor of delivering this dispatch to your excellency; he is charged with the colours taken at the capture of Fort Detroit, and those of the 4th United States’ regiment.

Captain Glegg is capable of giving your excellency every information respecting the state of this province, and I shall esteem myself highly indebted to your excellency, to afford him that protection to which his merit and length of service give him a powerful claim.[81] I have the honor to be, &c.

    P.S.—­I have the honor to enclose a copy of a proclamation
    which I issued immediately on taking possession of this
    country.

    I should have mentioned in the body of my dispatch, the
    capture of the Adams; she is a fine vessel, and recently
    repaired, but without arms.

Sir George Prevost to Major-General Brock.

    Head Quarters, Montreal, Aug. 30, 1812.

I received on the 25th, whilst at St. John’s, your dispatch, by express from Detroit, of the 16th instant.  I do most sincerely congratulate you upon the complete success which has attended your measures for the preservation of Amherstburg.  The surrender of Detroit, the capture of General Hull’s army with so large a proportion of ordnance, are circumstances of high importance to our country, and which have evinced your talents as an officer in command, and reflect honor upon you, and upon Lieut.-Colonel St. George and Colonel Proctor.

I propose sending an aide-de-camp to England with your short dispatch, together with such details as I am in possession of, respecting Brigadier-General Hull’s previous invasion of Upper Canada and of his foiled attempts to invest Amherstburg; but I shall delay his departure from hence until the 1st of September, in hopes of obtaining from you before that time further particulars of the operations which led to General Hull’s disgrace.

Well aware of the difficulties you have surmounted Tor the preservation of your government entire, I shall endeavour to do justice to your merit in my report to his majesty’s minister upon the success which has crowned your energy and zeal.

A warrant, giving to you more extensive