Major-General Brock, to Sir George Prevost.

    KINGSTON, September 4, 1812.

Upon my arrival here an hour ago, Captain Fulton delivered me your excellency’s dispatch, dated the 31st ultimo, enclosing a letter from General Dearborn, in which the president’s disapproval of the armistice is announced.  I am in consequence induced to return without loss of time to Fort George.  Captain Fulton having expressed a wish to accompany me, I have the more readily consented, as he will be able to give you full information of our actual state.  The enemy was very busy upon Fort Niagara, and appeared inclined to erect additional batteries.  I may perhaps think it proper to stop their career.

I enclose several documents lately received from Colonel Proctor, at Detroit.  That officer appears to have conducted himself with much judgment.  I likewise transmit a memorial which I have received from some merchants in the Niagara district, but of course I cannot judge of its merits.

I shall be obliged to your excellency to direct the remittance of the L5,000, for which I sent a requisition some time ago, on account of the civil expenditure of this province, either in government paper or specie, as you may deem most convenient.  I doubt not the former meeting a ready currency.

The very flattering manner in which your excellency is pleased to view my services, and your kindness in having represented them to his majesty’s ministers in such favorable light, are gratifying to my feelings, and call for my grateful acknowledgments.

Major-General Brock to Sir George Prevost.

    FORT GEORGE, September 9, 1812.

I have been honored with your excellency’s dispatch, dated the 24th ultimo, and have to thank you for ordering a company of the Glengary regiment to strengthen Colonel Lethbridge at Prescott, whose force you have been led to believe was weakened in consequence of my interference, but which, I beg leave to state, was done without my knowledge, and contrary to my intention.

The enclosed copies of letters will inform you of the state of affairs to the westward.  It appears evident the enemy meditates a second attempt on Amherstburg.  The greater part of the troops, which are advancing, marched from Kentucky with an intention of joining General Hull.  How they are to subsist, even for a short period, in that already exhausted country, is no easy matter to conceive.  This difficulty will probably decide them on some bold measure, in the hope of shortening the campaign.  If successfully resisted, their fate is inevitable.

The Indians, it appears by the accompanying documents, were adverse to retreating without first making a trial of their strength.  Taking, however, every circumstance into consideration, I am inclined to think that Captain Muir acted judiciously.