“REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF QUEENSTOWN.”—­(Extracts.)

“Captain Wool discovered the British troops forming at Queenstown, and formed the troops under his command in line.  General Brock was at the head of the British troops, and led them round about to the heights in the rear of the battery.  Captain Wool detached 160 men to meet the British; this detachment was driven back, reinforced, and the whole driven to the brink of the precipice, forming the bank of the Niagara river, above Queenstown.

“At this moment some of the officers put a white handkerchief on a bayonet to hoist as a flag, with intention to surrender.  Captain Wool inquired the object.  It was answered that the party were nearly without ammunition, and that it was useless to sacrifice the lives of brave men.  Captain Wool tore off the flag, ordered the officers to rally the men, and bring them to the charge.  The order was executed, but in some confusion.  The boasted 49th could not stand the American bayonet.  The British troops were routed, and Major-General Brock, in gallantly exerting himself to rally them, was killed.  His aid, Colonel M’Donell, fell mortally wounded at the same time.

    “The British being completely driven from the heights about ten
    o’clock, the line was reformed and flanking parties sent
    out.”—­Niles’ Weekly Register, 1812.

Extracts from Niles’ Weekly Register, Baltimore, 1812.

“Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Detroit to his friend in Pittsburg, dated July 7, 1812.—­’General Hull is making preparations to cross the river this evening or to-morrow, and it is expected that an immediate attack is contemplated on Maiden (Amherstburg).  The army are all in health and good spirits, and wait with anxiety to be put on the other shore:  they are certainly as fine looking men as I ever saw.’

“We have several reports of the capture of Fort Malden.  General Hull has sent expresses to the governors of Ohio and Kentucky for further supplies of troops, supposed for the purpose of maintaining the ground he may take, and to keep the allies in check.  We trust he may religiously adhere to his proclamation, whatever General Brock may say, and give no quarters to the white savages when found fighting by the side of the Indians, for whose extensive murders the British should be made responsible.”

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 156:  “The ‘Letters of Veritas’ were originally printed in a weekly paper published at Montreal, in Lower Canada, and subsequently collected into the little volume before us.  Within a small compass, these unpretending Letters contain a greater body of useful information upon the campaigns in the Canadas than is any where else to be found.  They are, we believe, the production of a gentleman in Montreal, of known respectability.  Though not a military