services voluntarily, they will be accepted readily. The United States offer you peace, liberty and security. Your choice lies between these and war, slavery, and destruction. Choose, then, but choose wisely-and may he who knows the justice of our cause, and who holds in his hands the fate of nations, guide you to a result the most compatible with your rights and interests, your peace and happiness.

By the General,

A. P. HULL.

This proclamation of General Hull was full of confidence in the strength of his arms and in the justice of his cause, assuring himself, from that consideration, of a successful termination to the campaign. It threatens, too, of pursuing a war of extermination, in the event of the employment of the Indians on the part of the British, forgetting, it would appear, that already were the Indians engaged co-operating with the forces of the United States against the British army.

General Hull, having crossed into the British dominions with an army which in point of numbers was capable of setting at defiance the whole of the British regular army then in the Canadas, commenced an advance on Fort Malden or Amherstburg. At the time the American army approached that place, the garrison consisted of a subaltern's detachment of royal artillery commanded by Lieutenant Troughton; a detachment of the forty-first regiment, of three hundred men, commanded by Captain Muir; and between three hundred and four hundred militia, the whole under the command of Lieutenant Colonel St. George, inspecting field officer of militia for that district-a force totally inadequate, by its numerical strength, to cope with that of the Americans, to which they were now opposed; but the most vigorous meas- . ures were employed by Major General Brock, to secure the fort against an assault, in the aid of which the

capture of Fort Michilimackinack was a fortunate circumstance, as it laid open the rear and flanks of the American army to the desultory attacks of the Indians in the neighborhood, a part of whom had assisted in its capture.

As soon as General Hull had established his camp at Sandwich, parties were sent out from his army, to levy contributions of provisions and forage from the inhabitants, who advanced as far as the Moravian Town, committing on their routes the most unheard-of atrocities upon the defenceless inhabitants, carrying with them as prisoners of war such influential persons as they found well affected towards their king and country.

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In the mean time, General Brock had despatched, from the garrison of Fort George, Captain Chambers with fifty men of the 41st Regiment, into the interior of the country, for the purpose of collecting such of the militia and Indians as were then ready to join the army Amherstburg-previously sending Colonel Proctor of the same regiment to assume the command of that garrison. Sixty men also of the 41st Regiment were despatched at the same time to reinforce the besieged garrison, and forty were sent to Long Point, for the purpose of collecting the militia in that vicinity..

General Brock, having made such arrangements, in the government of the province, as were necessary during his absence from York, proceeded from thence to Fort George, and thence to Long Point on Lake Erie, where he was joined by two hundred and sixty of the militia, who had, in a few days and in the very height of their harvest, gallantly volunteered their services to share the dangers of the field in defence of their country, together with the detachment of the 41st Regiment who had been previously sent to that quarter. At the head of these, General Brock proceeded to the relief of Amherstburg, where he arrived on the 13th of August.

General Hull had not long remained in the position which he had taken up, until it was manifest to the British commander, that indecision and distrust reigned every where throughout the American lines; and that the military talents of General Hull were far from being commensurate with the enterprise in which he had engaged, and that his talents had been sadly overrated by his government. In fact, it was evident that General Hull himself had already made this discovery; and of course these circumstances were held as ominous of his speedy overthrow.

CHAPTER XIV.

General Hull compelled to retreat to his own TerritoryGeneral Brock arrives at Amherstburg-Offers Terms to General Hull for the Surrender of Detroit-General Hull refuses the Proposition-The British Forces effect a Landing on the American Side of the River-General Hull proposes a Cessation of Hostilities-Terms of Surrender dictated to General Hull in his own Tent, by General Brock's Aids de Camp-Articles of Capitulation-Munitions of War &c. &c. included in the Conquest-Remarks-General Brock's Proclamation to the Inhabitants of the Michigan Territory-Trial of General Hull by a general Court Martial— Sentence &c.

PREVIOUS to the arrival of Major General Brock, Colonel Proctor had commenced active operations against the enemy by sending detachments across the river in order to cut off all communications between his main body and the reserve This with other judicious arrangements had compelled the enemy to retreat under the shelter of the guns of his own fort. Several skirmishes had occurred, by which losses had been sustained upon both sides, but in all of which the Americans were compelled to retire and acknowledge the superiority of the British arms; two in particular on the 5th and 9th instants, were maintained with much bravery on both sides, and in both of which the loss of the American army was very considerable, while that of the British amounted to three killed and fourteen wounded. Amongst the latter were Captain Muir and Lieutenant Sutherland, of the 41st Regiment, two officers very justly distinguished by their chief.

After the American army had again crossed the river to their own territory, a position opposite Fort

Detroit was taken up by the British, and on the 13th instant batteries were commenced; and although exposed to a well directed fire from a battery of seven twenty-four pounders, yet such was their construction under the able directions of Captain Dixon of the royal engineers, that the works were continued without intermission until completed, without sustaining the least injury from the fire of the enemy.

On the arrival of General Brock at Amherstburg, notwithstanding the formidable numerical strength of the enemy,preparations were immediately commenced to follow him into his own territory; and on Saturday, the 15th instant, the British forces were collected in the neighborhood of Sandwich for that purpose, consisting of thirty of the Royal Artillery with three six pounders and two three pounders, under the command of Lieutenant Troughton, two hundred and fifty of the 41st Regiment, fifty of the Royal Newfoundland fencibles, and four hundred Canadian militia, in all amounting to seven hundred and thirty, to whom six hundred Indians attached themselves, making an aggregate of one thousand three hundred and thirty.

About noon, on the same day, a flag of truce was sent by General Brock to General Hull, with a summons for the surrender of the town and fort of Detroit, stating that he could no longer restrain the fury of the Indians. To this an immed iate and spirited refusal was returned by General Hull, stating that he was prepared to meet any force which might be at the disposal of General Brock, and any consequences which might result from any exertion of it he might think proper to make. About four o'clock, the firing commenced from the British batteries and was immediately returned, which continued without intermission until about eleven o'clock that night. At daylight, next morning, the fire re-commenced upon both sides, at which time the British were discovered landing their

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