the Glengarry light infantry; also three companies of the 6th, and seven companies of the 82d regiment, had arrived from the British camp. The royal Scots, and 89th, under lieutenant-colonel Gordon, of the former regiment, advanced by the road leading to the block-house, upon the right; and soon drove general Porter and his volunteers, in number 1000,* along with the regulars supporting them, from the block-house, and the battery, No. 3. The recovery of No. 2, and the defence of No. 1 batteries, were entrusted to the three companies of the 6th, under major Taylor, and the seven companies of the82d, under major Proctor; amounting, together, to about 560 rank and file. These detachments, after a free use of the bayonet, drove the 9th, 11th, 21st, and part of the 19th, United States' regiments, numbering, at the very lowest estimate, 1000 rank and file, from the battery No. 2, before they had effected its entire destruction, or that of the two guns in it, and then across the British entrenchments, nearly to the glacis of Fort-Erie; making several prisoners in the pursuit. In the mean while, the Glengarry light infantry, under the immediate command of lieutenant-colonel Battersby, and accompanied by lieutenant-colonel Pearson, had recovered the possession of the new intrenchment, or * Hist, of the War, p. 263.

"unfinished battery No. 4."* By five o'clock the works were all re-occupied, and the line of piquets re-established.†

The British loss was very severe. It amounted to 115 killed, 178 wounded, and 316 missing; total, 609: ‡ a very large proportion, when we reflect, that the reserve, composed of major Lisle's troop of the 19th light dragoons, the seven remaining companies of the 6th, and the two flank companies of the 41st regiments, along with a small body of incorporated militia, was not at all in the action. What a contrast, in reference to the numbers of the respective armies, between the returns of casualties at the foot of major-general De. Watteville's, and sir George Prevost's, official letters! § The Americans acknowledge a loss of 10 officers and 70 men, killed; 24 officers and 190 men, wounded; and 10 officers and 206 men, missing; total, 510:* nor does this return appear to include the militia or volunteers.

We are only favored with the sight of a short extract from general Brown's official report. It is, however, quite enough to satisfy us of the spirit of the whole. "Within 30 minutes after the first gun was fired," says the general, " batteries, Nos. 3 and 2, the enemy's line of entrench

* Sketches of the War, p. 326. App. No. 47.

+ App. No. 46. § Ibid, No. 43.

ments, and his two block-houses, were in our possession. Soon after, battery No. 1, was aban doned by the British. The guns in each were spiked by us, or otherwise destroyed." With this falsehood set abroad, one cannot be sur prised that general Brown's sortie should have been proclaimed throughout the republic a "splendid achievement," as he himself, in a private letter to general Gaines, has the modesty to call it; nor at all the bombast to be found in the different American histories. The reader has had enough of this already; we will, therefore, endeavour to be brief. General Brown we dismiss, with a very short extract from a letter written by the American "general Varnum,” and dated "Buffaloe, September 18." ❝ Our gal

lant little army," says says this general "has again signalized itself, by gaining a splendid victory over a part of the enemy's forces, near Fort-Erie. Two of the enemy's batteries were carried, the guns spiked, trunnions broken off, and their magazines blown up." Mr. Thomson, after he has done stating, that the Americans had captured the two British block-houses, and all four of the batteries, and had succeeded in spiking

the guns, (represented, upon his diagram as 12 in number,) and demolishing the captured works, very naturally tells us, that "the operations ceased, with the accomplishment of all * History of the War, p. 262.

the objects of the sortie."* There is one part of Mr. Thomson's account, however, that we do not rightly understand.. He declares that the impediments,-describing them fully,-which the American regulars, under general Miller, experienced in their approaches to No. 1 battery, "produced some confusion in the column, and made constant appeals to the bayonet necessary." An enemy's "bayonet," in such a case, would, one might suppose, produce still greater confusion in the column." To what else, then, can Mr. Thomson allude, as so "necessary," but the constant appeals to the bayonet," made by one of general Wilkinson's "tried serjeants," +

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"Just in the place where honor's lodg'd"?

And, no sooner had the troops, thus doubly beset, faced about, than a still more forcible appeal" au derriére, acting by sympathy upon their heels, continued its potent stimulus, till the Americans reached the very walls of their impregnable" fortress.

The still unfavorable state of the weather, the increasing sickness of the troops, the loss of three out of six of the battering cannon, and the now very much reduced numbers of general Drummond's army, caused him, at eight o'clock on the evening of the 21st, to

Sketches of the War, p. 327. + Sce p. 82.

+ Ibid. 326.

remove his remaining guns and stores; and retire to the neighbourhood of Black creek, about. a mile and a half distant. Here the men bivouacked for the night, under torrents of rain. On the morning of the 22d, the Americans discovered this movement, but offered no molestation; although general Drummond waited till two o'clock on that day, ere he proceeded further downwards. On the 24th, after destroying the bridge across Frenchman's creek, and placing there a small cavalry piquet, the right division arrived, and encamped, in comparatively comfortable quarters, at Chippeway.

As the naval ascendancy of the Americans upon Lake Ontario dismissed any present fears of an attack upon Sackett's Harbor, general Izard's army would, it was considered, be more profitably employed in strengthening the left division, at the head of the lake. Instead, however, of being carried to the British Twelve-mile creek, where a landing would have effectually cut off general Drummond's much inferior force, or to the neighbourhood of Fort-Niagara, so as to have assaulted and tried to recover that fortress, general Izard suffered himself and his army to be disembarked on the south side of the lake; and then stole, by a back route, to Lewistown; where he arrived about the 8th of October, with, according to American accounts, 2400 infantry, artillery, and dragoons, of the regular army.