The National Register.
London, England, 1814-02-13 00:00:00

Head-Quarters, Montreal, Dec. I'4 1'313.
My Loan—Having had the honour 'o report to your Lordship,
on the 30th of October and the 15th of November last, the affairs
which took plare between his Majesty's forces and the American
armies, led on by Major-Gen. Hampton and Major Gen. Wilkinson,
I have now the satisfaction to inform your Lordship, that the
signal defeats experienced by the enemy on the Chateauguay river
iu Lower Canada, and near Chrystlet's Farm, in Upper Canada, have
relieved both from tit:. pressure of the armies invadi. g them, and
obliged the divisions of Gen. Hampton and Gen. Wilkinson, to
retire to their own territory, and seek for minter-quarters wider
circumstances so highly siisavalitageous as to have produced in
Loth I them discontent, desertion, Mid disease,
The well-timed appearance oft; regulta force in Geu..Wilkinson's
front, which 1 had pushed forward from the Coteau de Lac to sup-
port ;cid give confidence to the Glengarry and Stnimont
very shoi sift after the severe lessen his vanity had received from
the corps Aobservation, operated so powerfully as to induce him
to commence a precipitate retreat from our shore, to St. Regis
and up the Salmon iiver, and to abandon his avowed project of
pawing his winter in Montreal.
It appears that the American army, upon arriving at the French
mills, which are situated on the Salmon River, about six miles from
its month, proceeded to dismantle their river craft and gun-boais,
and to arrange on shore, round their blockhouse, a most cumber-
tome trait' of artillery, for the preservation of which the whole of
Major-Gen. infantry retained in te.nts v!!(1 lints. at
this nio,t inclement season of the year, !zeta the winter rods shall
he sufficiently established to enable i:m to retire his gums to
Mat tsbure.

A rapid succession of severe frost, light snow, and sudden thaw,
to which the American army has been so long and so much exposed,
Ills made it impossible for me to excente ally enterprise against it,
ithout ri•king more than my means could justify. •
A division of 21in-boats with a detachment of troops, which I had
ordered on the first of this mouth to advance into Lake Champlain,
for the putpose or molesting (ion Hampton's illy igion, succeeded in
burning an extensive building late!y .erected near Platsburg, as a
despot magazine- : some liattehux, together with the am:);e„ition,
proiisions, and stoics found in it, were either brought away or
destroyed..

The Severity of the weather obliged Capt. Pring, of the 'Royal
Navy, under %show command I had placert the expedition, to return
to the Isle au Noix on the Mli; in effecting which he was obliged
to cut a channel for his boats thrcugh several wiles of ice. The ine-
my's trooint were in considerable number in the vicinity of Plat vs.
btu g. but no attempt was made to annoy our lot ce employed on this
vecasion.
In Upper Canada a conjoint attack on Burlington Nei:Jac,
planned 1)v M:tjor-General liarristm and Commodore Chauncey, tut
been I rustrated by the lateness of Inc season and severity of the
weather. I tutve the honour to be, tkc. .
(Signed) GEORGE PREVOST.
WA-Quarters, Montreal, ‘2sth of N0v.1813.

Lotto—l
_owe the honour to transmit to your Lord?ship a
copy of a letter from Coramoilore Sir J. L. Yen, together with Capt.
Barclay's official account account of the action nn Lake Erie. refer-
red- to in my (li•patch to your Lordship of t!‘2(l September, and Bth
October last. lam happy to be aide to add. that Capt. Barclay iP
lecoveriug of his wounds, and that there is a prospect of. his
valuable life and so vices being preserved for the benefit of his.
country. I have the honour to lie, &c.
(Sigued)
The Right Hon. Earl Bathurst, Ste. &c.
His Majesty's ship Wolfe, at Kingston, Nov. 15,1815.
Stn—l yesterday received Capt. Barrtay's official statemcnt of
the ill-fated action in Lake Erie, and as your Excellency must wish
to be inf opied of every particular, I have the honour to inclose a
copy ofthe same ; it appears to me that thong!' His Majesty's squa-
dron were very deficient in seamen,weight of metal, and particulaily
long guns, yet the greatest mistatune wits the loss of evely officer,
particularly Capt. Finals, wilose life, had it been spared, would, in •
my opinion, have. saved the f quad on. I have, &e.
J. 1. Ist:oi Commodore.
His Excellency Sii• George Prevost, Bart. &e. &e. &e.
IlisMajestv's late ship Detroit. Put-in-Bay,
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Lake Erie, Sept. iv, 1813.

G. PR nvos.r.

STR—The.higt letter I had the honour of wriiinz to you. dated
the 6111 instant, I informed von, that Indef.; certain intim:dim% was
recciveii Of more scalpel) being. on their way to Antol:thug, I
thonld be obliged to sail with the squadron, deplorably Manned as