The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-04-29

err preparations tor their embarkat;on, and
particularly by causing the said troops, or
part thereof, after they had embarked or H.
ed from Fort-George, to return to the same,
under fictitious alarm for the safety of that
post.
Specification 2. In not accompanying, as
his duty required him to do. the movement of
the said troops from Fort George to Hender-
sons bay or Sackctt's Harbor, during the
months of September and October, 1915, and
in emitting to hasten their progress, agreeabiy
TO his orders and the plan of the campaign.
Specification s, In losing much time, very
unnecessarily and To the great injury OF the
service, during the month of October, 1913,
at Sackett's Harbor, aud in the movement al
the troops under his Command from that post
TO Grenadier Island, and particularly in caus-
ing the said troops or part thereof, after they
had embarked, or were prepared for embark
alton for Grenadier-Isand with their stores,
artillery, provisions &c. to wit on or about
the 18th day OF October aforesaid, to debark
at the said harbor, their stores, artillery, pro-
visions, &c. on pretence of making new ar
engagements, thereby losing the period most
lit for the said movement as to tine and wea-
ther, causing the actual movement to be
made under circumstances bringing with
them great delay, embarrassment and public
loss, and also greatly tending to prevent sue
cessful prosecution of the expedition, fer which
the said troops were destined.
SPECIFICATION A. In declaring openly & pub
licly, between the 10th of October and the 18th
It November, 1915, and during the expedition
of the sai6 troops down the St. Lawrence, IN
der his command, III substance that the Off
GERS OF the army commanding in boats hav-
ing on board provisions and public stores, had
| no care or charge thereof, and that it made
no part CT their duty TO preserve or keep safe
| the same, and refusing to make it the duty
| OF the oihcers to attend to their safe keeping
although advised of the abuses which ex:steI
| in that respect, thereby causing and counte-
nancing negligence, and intoxicating on the
minds OF the officers Under his command a.
| disregard to the preservation of the public
property, to the great damage of the SER
| vice.
ShecDfcation S. In calling two councils of
war during the month of November 1918, the
| one at or in the vicinity of French Creek, and
the other in the vicinity of the village of Ham
ilson, and submitting thereto the state Of his
provisions, (the preservation of which had
been SO, as aforesaid, disregarded by him) as
| a reason tor disseminating the expedition, to
the great injury ofthe public service.
| Shec5fcation 6. In unnecessarily delaying the
| movement of the troops under his com mand
from Grenadier-Island, and particularly en-
| barking and again disembarking the corps of
artillery attached to his command a, Grena-
Island aforesaid, without reasonable
cause, IN useiess and injurious delays of the
| army under his Command in its descent of the
St Lawrence, and particularly at the places
OF his encamPment, on French Greek, in u.
Canada, In the vicinity of Morrsville: in the
state OF New York, and below and in the vi
| cinity of Ogdensburg, under the pretence. at
the latter place, of detaching colonel (now ma
Jor-generaD Macomb, with the corps elite, TO
seize on the village of Matilda, in Upper Can
ada, without previously ascertaining whether
the said post was occupied by, or whether the
enemy were In force there, and in actually
sending colonel (now major general) Macomb
| with the corps elite, to Garry the said post of
| Matilda, when the same had In fact been e.
| vacuated, OF was not then occupied tv the
enemy. thereby greatly and unnecessarily i'm
pedlng the progress OF his army, when it was
| IN his power to have ascertaincd the true state
| and condition of the said post before he made
the said detachment; also, in similar other
delays at various other places between Press
colt and the vicinity of Cornwall i; thus allow
ing the enemy to discover the object Of his
movement, enabling them to COME up with
his rear, to make more effectual preparation
| to resist and repel his attack on Montreal. the
protested object of his movements, and to
check, harrass and impede his progress, to
the great injury of the service
Specification z. In detaching brigadier (now
major) general brown with large corps of
| the army in front, on or about the 10Th of
November, 1913, after it was known the enc
my was in his rear and disposed to assail it :;
and in not first taking competent measures to
| defeat and destroy the corps of the enemy
thus hargng on and disturbing his rear or
| afterwards tc form junction with the troops
thus detached, as soon as the oL,ect Of the
| detachment was affected, but on the Contrary.
exposing the service to imminent hazard and
to great actual injury, by unnecessarily enga-
| ging the enemy with portion of his army
| only, inferior to that of the hostile CORPS
| which hung on and threatened his rear at the
time of the detachment of general Brown as
| aforesaid.
| Specification g. In failing to adopt such
measures as were proper and practicable, on
or about the 3Oth of March, 1914, to reduce
the British post at La Cole Mil, in the pro-
! vince Of Lower Canada, and to capture the
| garrison thereof, especially in remaining mac
| tive four hours and upwards before the said
post, with an effective and well disciplined
| force under his command, far superior in
! number to the enemy and fully adequate to
the reduction of the said place in omitting
] to demand the surrender thereof, and to car
~ the same by storm and finally withdraw
ing his troops in hasty and dsgre ceful man.
ner under cover of the night from before the
said pos, defended by a small BODY of the E.
nemy, thereby deeply wounding the feelings
OF his subordinate officers, DESTROYING the spi-
rit OF the soldiers, and exposing the army 20