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MONDAY; NOVEMBER 4, 1822.

CAMPAIGNS IN THE CANADAS.

Can'iinued from Saturday's SuN.);
The situation of General Procter's little army after this dis-
aster is well depicted by Mr. James
" This was a sad blow upon the right division. As hope
fled, despair found its way into the British camp. The situa-
tion of the men, it must be owned, was deplorable in the ex-
treme. They had long been suffering, not only from a scarcity
of provisions, but a scarcity of money. Few of them had re-
ceived any pay for the last six months : to some, indeed, nine
months' arrears were due. Winter, a Canadian winter; was
fast approaching ; and scarcely any of the soldiers had blankets,
and all were without great-coats. The severe privations which
they had endured in the last, were therefore likely to to be aug-
mented rather than diminished, in the succeeding Winter.' In
addition to all this, the Commander of the Forces appeared
ure'dndful of their arduous exertions."—Vol. I. p. 271.
Under such circumstances was the retreat to commence,
which had become inevitable to prevent the enemy fromlanding
in rear of the troops. The reinforcements, which might as
easily have been sent up when their arrival would have destroy-
ed the enemy, were now afforded only to increase the want of
provisions. But, if the. Maintenance of our positions on the
Detroit was impossible, the attempt to retreat from them was
big with danger. for-it was fen:seen-that' to induce the In-
dians to retire with them, and quit flieti old haunts, would be
attended with much difficulty. The warriors received the pro-
posal with the utmost indignation, and considered the measure
as a desertion of them. The British Commander was thus
placed, with the few troops which composed his force, in a most
critical situation ; for there was every reason to expect that the
numerous Indians would not restrain their irritated feelings to
a mere dissolution of the alliance. But a successful endeavour
was made to convince Tecumth6, who had at first violently op-
posed the measure, of its unavoidable necessity ; and his in
fluence was sufficient to induce a large proportion of his nation
to accompany the British troops in their retrograde movement.
This important object being gained, the requisite prepara-
tions for a retreat Were-immediately completed. The forts of
Amherstburgh and' Detroit were dismantled, depots were formed
on the proposed line of movement up the River Thames, which
falls into Lake St. Clair above the Detroit, and the bridges over
that river were carefully repaired ; the heavy stones, the sick,
women and children, were sent to the rear by the water carriage.
On the 27th September, Gen. Harrison landed below Amherst-
burgh with his army of between 5 and 6,000 men, and, on the
same day, Gen. Procter broke up from his poSition and slowly
retired to an advantageous spot near the mouth of the Thames,
where he had determined to make a temporary stand. But while
the general, on finding that the enemy did not advance, had left
the troops in position, to examine with his principal engineer
the heights near the Moravian village at some distance in the
rear, which he intended to fortify and occupy during the winter,
the Officer next in command withdrew the troops from their
strong. post without orders, even before the appearance of the
Americans ; and thus caused the loss of the boats, containing
the remnant of the stores and artillery with a guard, which could
not ascend higher up the river from the nature of the navigation.
The General, on hastily rejoining his troops, found that this un-
authorized measure had left him no alternative but a battle. The
Indians had, on the continued retreat of the British, forsaken them
in great numbers,and of above a,OOO, no more than 500 warriors
remained with the brave and faithful Tecumth6. The position
chosen to await the attack of the American army was covered on
either flank by the River Thames and an. impassable swamp, and
was calculated to rendertheir immense superiority of numbers in
a great degree unavailing. Here, on the morning of the sth of
October, the regular force (about 500 effectives) were drawn up
in open files in a straggling wood, which, prevented any attack
upon them in regular order ; their left secured by the river, a
gun flanking the road, and their right extending towards the
Indians, who were posted where the wood thickened, so as to
form a retiring angle with them, and to turn the enemy's flank
on their advance. This disposition was shown to Teeemthe,
who expressed his satisfaction at it ; and his last words to the
General were, "-Father, tell your young men to be firm, and
all will be well :" he then repaired to his people and harangued
them before they were formed in their places. The small band
of our regulars, discouraged by their retreat, and by the priva-
tions to which they had been long exposed, gave way on the
firstadvance of the enemy, and no exertion of their commander
could rally them. While they were thus quickly routed, Te-
cumthe and his warriors had almost as rapidly repulsed the
enemy, and the Indians continued to push their advantage, in
ignorance of the disaster of their allies, until their heroic chief
fell.by a rifle-ball, and with him the spirit of his follosyers, who
Were put to flight and pursued with unrelenting slaughter. The
Americans showed their respect for Tecumthe in full as bar-
barous a manner as a hostile tribe of his own nation could have
done under the same Circumstances. The skin was flayed from
his lifeless corpse and made into razor-strops,* one of which
the late Mr. Clay, of Virginia, a Member of the American Le-
gislature, prided himself in possessing.
Such were the fruits of that lamentable deficiency in energy and
foresight which it has been our duty to expose ; such the conse-
quences of the apathy of the Commander-in-Chief towards the
momentous struggle in Western Canada! But we turn with dis-
gust and indignatiOn from this pictUre of imbecility. One effort
of decision, a hundred seamen rapidly conveyed from Ontario to
Erie, fin a fortnight's service only, in either of the summer
months, would have averted this train of failure and disgrace.
Should we be asked. whether the exigency of the service on the
former lake could have spared them, we answer most assuredly
it might. What object,could be commensurate with the preser-
vation of the most fertile portion of our possessions on the Ame-
rican continent, when a fortnight of inactivity on th,s lower lake
would have been followed by the security of Lake Erie and the
preservation of our great Indian alliance ? In less than ten days
after the affair the Moravian town the enemy had received the
submission of above 2,000 of the native warriors, and the support
of their mosepowerful tribes was wrested from us for ever.. The
first care of the Commander-in-Chief was to cast the well-merited
odium of failure from himself and to reflect upon the character
of the officer and of the troops,, of whose misfortunes he only
was the author. The former indignantly threw up his com-
mand, and required an investigation, which was long and obsti-
nately refused bySir George Prevost, until an appeal to higher
and purer authority was followed by a peremtory order to him
to grant it. Then, after the lapse of a twelvemonth, charges
were framed, which, cautiously excluding a long period of ar-
duous services and neglected representations, rested only on the
events of a retreat, for which the Commander-in-Chief should
alone have been responsible. Where the unavoidable circum-
stance that, in retiring, the troops were a day without issue of
provisions, could he gravely embodied into a charge, we need
not wander that censure was inevitable. The attempt made by
Sir George Prevost to affix a stigma upon the personal charac-
ter of a tried and zealous soldier was even less execusable than
his desire of sacrificing the, honour of another to avert the dis-
grace of failure from himself. The charge was, it is true, tri-
umphantly refutdd, and its author roduCeel to abandon it, with
a declaration of regret that it had ever been made ; but how does
this palliate the wantonness of the accusation, and, above all, in
a man; who, if success were the criterior of courage, -might him-
self have been convicted of the want of it upon every occasion of
his military command ?
During the month of September, the enemy had been gra-
dually collecting in large numbers at Sackett's Harbour, where,
under Major-General Wilkinson, a force of nearly ten thou-
sand men now' rendezvoused.. An attack upon Kingston was
supposed to be that —object, add after dispatching reinforce-
ments to that garrison; General de Rottenburgh left his com-
mand on the Niagara to General Vincent, and proceeded down,
the lake. On the 9th of October, General Vincent received in-
telligence of the defeat at the Moravian town, and after de-
stroying
great quantities of provisions and stores, commenced
a precipitate retreat to Burlington, where he was joined by the
remains of General Procter's troops. The unnecessary panic
which thus followed Gen. Harrison's success was not confined
to the Upper Province, for the Commander-in-Chief had no
sooner learnt the fate of the division from the Detroit, than he
dispatched orders from Montreal to General Vincent to eva-
cuate the whole of Upper Canada as low down as Kingston.
and to retire into that place. Nor were these instructions is-
sued only in the freshness of the consternation, which appeared
to have seized Sir George Prevost at the consequences of his
own conduct; they were repeatedly urged in the most peremp-
tory manner.
In these orders to retreat, no • notice was taken either of the
sick, of whom the army had then a large number, nor of the
loyal inhabitants nor Indians 2. neither was the depot of. provi-
sisions and stoles at York deemed worthy of attention, al_
though the garrison of Kingston, which depended principally

• The" choice spirits of Kentucky," as the pseudo-English-
woman calls them, have introduced a material improvement on
this practice : they cut razor-strops from the Indians while
yet alive.--See p. 74 of this volume.

on that depot for supplies, had only seven days' provisions in
store. The season of the year and state of the roads would
have rendered retreat from the head of Lake Ontario impos-
sible without the sacrifice of ordnance, ammunition, stores,
and baggage of every description ; and even then, if half the
regular force could have reached Kingston, the want of sub-
sistence must have entailed the abandoment of that fortress to

the enemy; with the ships, stores, and arsenal. Nor would
the disastrous consequences of obedience;to these orders haVe
ended there ; but we need pursue the consideration of them no
farther. Fortunately the evils impending over the suffering
inhabitants of the Canadas, and the disgrace with which such a
flight from the upper province would harp covered the national
honour, were averted by the firmness of some officers of rank in
Gen, Vincent'sarmy, to whom that Commander communicated
the orders of Sir G. Prevost for an immediate retreat to Kings-
ton. General Procter, who had not yet quitted his command,
strongly urged General Vincent to disobey the injunctions
which he had received for so fatal a measure, and was warmly
seconded by Colonel Murray, inspecting field-officer, who had
already distinguished himself on the Champlain frontier.
These Officers observed to General Vincent that if Sir George
Prevost had the safety of the provinces at heart, he must eventu-
ally be gratified by an act of disobedience which could not fail
to produce the most beneficial consequences ; they gave their
'opinion til,rainst a retreat upon Weir heavy responsibility, and
General Vincet was persuaded to' adopt it. The recovery of
the Niagara frontier was the result.
General Vincent had with great prudence kept the orders in
queStien profoundly secret from his own troops, and both the
receipt of them and the resolution to disobey them 'were equally
unkown in his lines, except to the superior Officers whom he
had consulted. The. intelligence, therefore, which by some
Unaccountable means had been secretly conveyed to the ene-
my, of the iiistructions to retire, was converted into an engine
for their destruction. Confiding in its accuracy, the American
'General on the Niagara, from whence a detachment had al.
ready been made to join General Wilkinson, DOW dispatched
General Harrison with his troops, which had arrived from
Lake Erie, and nearly his whole remaining force, to ackett's
Harbour, declaring that he was not to be duped by the appear-
ance of building barracks of Burlington, as he knew tke orders
which had been given to the British troops to withdraw to
Kingston. The Americans thus became so weak on the Nia-
gara frontier, that Colonel Murray, with an advanced corps,
procured permission from General Vincent to relieve the inha-
bitants at the head of Lake Ontario from the oppression which
the enemy exercised over them : -he drove them before him up
the lake shore to within twelve miles of Fort George, and then,
without awaiting further orders, made a rapid movement upon
that place itself. The enemy were completely unprepared ; and
panic-struck at the bold advance of a force whose retreat to
Kingston had been implicitly relied ntion, they abandoned Fort
George and their strong entrenched camp in its vicinity, and
crossed precipitately to their own shore. Before their flight,
however, they found time for the commission of an act of bar-
barity for which the atrocities of the' French imperial armies
could scarcely furnish a parallel They had possessed the beau-
tiful and once flourishing town of Newark,. near Fort George,
for some months, and had systematically practised upon the
peaceable inhabitants every species of exaction and ill-treatment:
but this was not sufficient, and befor‘e the American troops
crossed the river, they burnt every house but one to the earth.
With a deep snow on the ground, and amidst all the rigours
of a Canadian winter's night, above four' hundred helpless
women and children were driven half naked from their homes,
and their habitations and property consumed to ashes!
A few days after Col. Murray entered Fort George, Lieut.
General (now Sir Gordon) Drummond, who had superseded
Gen. de Rottenburg in the command of Upper Canada, ar-
rived at the'artny, and immediately sanctioned a bold proposal
of Colonel Murray for the surprize of the enemy's fortress of
Niagara. The plan was executed in a masterly style on the
night of the 18th of December, and that important post, with
its garrison of 500 men, 27 pieces of ordnance, and 3,000 stand
of arms, fell into our possession. About the same time, Major
General Riall was detached across the strait with altrong corps
to destroy all the provisions and stores, and to sweep down the
whole American coast from Erie to Ontario. These operations
having been successfully performed, our positions on the Nia-
gara recovered, and the enemy% defences on that river either
destroyed or in our possession, General Drummond, on the last
day of the year, leaving a sufficient garrison in Fort Niagara,
withdrew his troops to the Canadian shore, and placed them in
winter quarters.
(To be continued.)