On the 22d of October general Harrison, after garrisoning Detroit, Sandwich, and Amherstburg, and discharging the principal part of his Kentucky and Ohio volunteers, embarked, with his disposable regular force, on board commodore Perry's fleet, to join, agreeably to the orders of his government, the troops on the Niagara frontier. About the same time, the commissioned and non-commissioned officers, and privates, of major-general Proctor's late army, were transported, by water, from Detroit, to the portage on Lake Erie, distant 45 miles; and thence marched to Franklin-town, distant 129 miles. Here they embarked in boats, and proceeded 100 miles down the Scioto to Chillicothe; at which place some of the non-commissioned officers and privates were detained. The remainder of the British prisoners again proceeded by the Scioto, to Cincinnati on the Ohio. Here and at Newport-town, a military depôt, half a mile across the river, was detained a second detachment, comprehending nearly all that were left, of the non-commissioned officers and privates. The small remnant, consisting almost wholly of commissioned officers, proceeded to the ultimate point of destination, Frankfort, in Kentucky; just 612 miles from Detroit, and about the same distance from the nearest Atlantic port.

Here, at Frankfort, Kentucky, were "colonels

Evans, Warburton, and Baubee, and majors Muir and Chambers,"* and other British commissioned officers, thrown into prison.-Into what prison? The Penitentiary, along with 40 convicts, condemned for murder, rape, forgery, coining, burglary, horse-stealing, &c.— Lest the reader should doubt this, he will, in the Appendix, find, furnished by the keeper of the prison, a list of the convicts, their crimes, and sentences.† Comments are unnecessary. Yet, general Sheaffe did not behave thus to the American officers who surrendered at the battle of Queenstown. Many will be surprised that this mode of incarcerating British officers of rank and distinction, taken in honorable war, should be realized-not at Verdun in France, but at Kentucky, in the United States: the land of liberty, where, among other advantages, a man may compound for "shooting his wife" by a four years' imprisonment, but, for "horse-stealing," he runs the chance of remaining in confinement six years longer!—Leaving our poor countrymen to ruminate over their misfortunes, in the midst of company so respectable, we hasten to beguile the reader, with the busy scenes of hostility still carrying on in the neighbourhood of Lake Ontario.

CHAPTER X.

Progress of the expedition from Sackett's HarborIts rendezvous at Grenadier Island-Montreal decided upon as the point of attack-Feint upon Kingston-Cannonade by British vessels upon the encampment at French Creek-General Hampton's advance from Burlington, to form the proposed junction-Battle of ChateaugayDefeat of general Hampton's army-Its retreat · across the lines-Further progress of the expédition-General Wilkinson's proclamation to the Canadians-Attack on Matilda-Council of war at the White House-Landing of the American troops-Skirmish at Hoop-pole Creek -Departure of the British corps of observation from Kingston-Its arrival at Fort-Wellington, and its disembarkation at Point Iroquois-Mutual cannonade between the rival gun-boatsBattle of Chrystler's-Retreat of the Americans

Pursuit by the British-Council of war at Barnharts-Sudden termination of the expedition ·Remarks on the causes of its failure-Loyalty of the Lower Canada militia-General Wilkinson's new projects-His abandonment of his position at the French Mills-Destruction of his boats, and retreat to Plattsburg-Colonel Scott's incursion to Malone.

THE grand, or Wilkinsonian expedition again

claims our attention; and we will endeavour at a faint description (for faint it must be) of the

perils, both of the weather and of the enemy, which it encountered by the way: not omitting the catastrophe that gave a turn to its destination, as sudden as it was unexpected.

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Grenadier Island, distant 18 miles from Sackett's Harbor, had, owing to its contiguity to the St. Lawrence, been chosen for the point of rendezvous. As soon as dore Chauncey could place his squadron, so as to prevent the army from being "enterprised on by the enemy on an island," the division of troops previously stationed at Sackett's Har. bor, as well as that which, part by water and part by land, had arrived there from Hen. derson's Bay and Sandy Creek, pushed off, in high spirits, for Grenadier Island. Again the wind roared, and again the rain pelted ; but the expedition did arrive, in scattered fragments," between the 17th and 24th of October. The army, when fully assembled, consisted of four brigades, or 12 regiments, of infantry, a corps of reserve, a strong rifle regiment, two regiments of dragoons, and three regiments of artillery, to which were attached 38 field-pieces, exclusive of about 20 pieces of battering cannon, mortars, howitzers, &c. From the American official returns we gather, that this force amounted to 8826" non-commissioned officers and privates."

* Sce Plate II.

During the early part of the month, in a correspondence that took place between general Wilkinson and commodore Chauncey, the former states, that sir James Yeo, with his fleet, is in Kingston, and asks the commodore if it would be in his power to co-operate with his squadron in making the attack. The commodore replies,

"This squadron is now, and always has been, ready to co-operate with the army in any enterprise against the enemy, where it could be done with effect." Mr. Secretary Armstrong, who, in order to invigorate the movements of the army, had been at Sackett's Harbor since early in the preceding month, appears to have taken his determination from the above chilling "where it could be done with effect;" for, on the 16th of October, he writes to major-general Hampton thus:-" Advices from the Bay of Cante state, that he (the enemy) is coming down to Kingston, and that his sick and convalescents, to the num ber of 1200, had already arrived there. He will bring with him about 1500 effectives; and, thanks to the storm, and our snail-like movements down the lake, they will be there before we can reach it. The manoeuvre intended is lost, so far as regards Kingston. What we now do against that place, must be done by hard blows at some risk."*

These "hard blows" which 8826 American,

* Wilkinson's Mem. Vol. III. p. 361.