Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-10-18
UPPER CANADA

OuT crimes h1Oe entered OHfer Canada
and IL is ours
We nave received letters from fort George
OF the third October in the evening. Sack
etts Harbor OF the 9th at noon, and the
right division of the army in motion from
Chataqua Of the 4th October.
The Albany papers have given the sub
stantiai facts, as we have received them
from the same source directly.
The British having abandoned Maiden.
and destroyed every thing at that grand de,
postory OF destruction the Indians, ike ths
other allies of England, are Left to fight till
they are destroyed or submit to those on
whom they haze wantonly made war.
Our government null noy commit greal
eTror, The Indian tribes are nor comnelIed
at once TO retire beyond ihe OuSconsin as a
boundary ia'e--this course or future repen-
lance are the absolute alternatives.
The victory on lake Erie, has in fact
Frustrated the Indian tribes, by destroying
their magazines--several of the perfidIous
tribes cannot survive the winter.
Abe British general Proctor, whose Zero
cious course has been marked bv savage
and brutal slaughter, has now only two cour,
ses, TO pursue, to avoid surrender. He
may attemptt to move with his Europeans to
the foot OF the Portages and gain the Grand
River, with march of from 700 70 500 miles
before him, in an unsettled and unpruIuc-
tive Country, down that river; where ON his
arrival he may hnd the only place at which
he could expect support, Montreal, in pos
session OF our troops; or he may throw, by
small expeditions, his force into Michilimac
kInac, there to act as a forlorn hope anon
our rear; while he may himself attempt with
few OF his staff, his wife and daughter and
son, (who have been at MaIdenJ 70 mass
down the Grand River--which with a few
persons might be accomplished in about 8
weeks,
lie may, however, rake last effort on the
river lie Franche, and there make terms of
capiulation.
ne whole OF the country above NIAGARA
was rescued by the gallant Perry. The ma
nGnvres OF our land forces on the other hand,
have completely ont generated the enemy !;
the movements of the commander in
chief to Fort George, seduced the British
general 20 the mead of the lake Ontario. and
unmasked Kingston, which is by this time in
our possession the division of the army mn
der general Hampton has been conducted
with the whole plan of operations: and IL
was only when our plans were on the very
verge OF execution, that the British general
has found tbat he has superior in the field
opposed TO hm-by the discovery that he
had b en- completely deceived.
The delusOn OF the British general IL in
nothing more conspicuous than IN the zeal
and activity with which troops were in the
hrst instance carried to the head of the Lake
under general Vincent, and the desperation
with which the naval squadron was drawn
from the defence Of kington, in order TO
bring back to that place the troops which
had been sent thithw only two or three
weeks before.
From every cOncurring advice it now ap-
pears, that eur military operations have
been conducted so as to induce the enemy TO
believe that the same error and infatuation
which governed the first opening the war.
siill prevailed; and that it was the plan Of
our war department ow, as in the last year.
TO attempt telling the tree by beginning At
the top branches; when in fact the war mi
uister and the commander ia chief both ap-
pear to have concurred in opinion. thai in
order to ksii the re t e 6esp 20 begin u Me
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