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On August 1, a detachment of troops was landed without opposi- 

 tion on Cumberland Head where another large blockhouse was burned 

 and Everard then stood across the lake to reconnoitre the harbour 

 of Burlington with the Broke, Shannon, and one gunboat, apparently 

 with some hope of inducing the American armed vessels to come out 

 and risk an action. He discovered two sloops of about one hundred 

 tons each, armed with eleven guns, and apparently ready for service 

 and another somewhat larger, still being fitted out. Two schooners, 

 each mounting a single long gun, lay under the protection of a battery 

 of ten guns, constructed on the crest of a steep bluff, rising a hundred 

 feet above the level of the lake and commanding the channel leading 

 into the harbour. In addition to these vessels two scows had been 

 armed with heavy guns as floating batteries and several field guns 

 were seen in position. A camp sufficiently large to accommodate 

 five thousand men had been formed near the town and barracks and 

 storehouses were under construction. Everard's vessels were swept 

 within long range and opened fire. This was briskly but ineffectively 

 returned by the battery and some of the boats in the" bay at intervals 

 for half an hour. Everard then made off in the expectation of being 

 pursued and Macdonough actually got under way with five sail 

 but after proceeding four or five miles came to anchor and finally 

 returned before dark to his former station to the unconcealed mortifica- 

 tion of thousands of spectators who had assembled on the heights. 2 



Everard next sent his galleys into Shelburne Bay, ten miles 

 south of Burlington, where they captured a sloop and a schooner. 

 Two bateaux, each manned by twenty-five men and armed with a 

 light gun, went on to Charlotte where two sloops loaded with flour 

 for the American army were taken. During the night these boats 

 advanced twenty miles farther south and heard the sound of drums 

 and musketry on both sides of the lake, indicating that a general 

 alarm was being spread. In fact several thousands of militia were 

 hastily embodied to resist an invasion. 



comes far short of what we expected any one would least ask. We have, however, 

 told him if he should succeed, we would make an addition of a few scores of dollars 

 to his daily salary. We have made him understand that the money in Mr. Ruiter's 

 hands is raised by the sale of property which the prisoner had left in my care and at 

 my disposal. He enjoined us not to mention (write) his name in any of our correspond- 

 ence on this subject but permits its mention in our verbal communications to you 

 only. It must, therefore, be concealed until one of us may have the honour of an 

 interview with you." 



Leon Lalanne to Sheaffe, undated but apparently written at St. Armand on 

 August 28, 1813. 



2 Everard to Prévost, Aug. 3; Letters in the Federal Republican of Baltimore 

 and the Albany Register of August 10, 1813; Macdonough to the Secretary of the 

 Navy, Aug. 3. 



