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one lieutenant, two midshipmen, 

 one clerk ; one boatswain, fifteen 

 naval artificers ; of his majesty's 

 regular troops, one lieutenant, one 

 serjeant-major ; and of the royal 

 artillery, one bombardier, and 

 three gunners, shall be surrendered 

 prisoners of war, and accounted 

 for in the exchange of prisoners 

 between the United States and. 

 Great Britain. 



Extract of a letter from Lieutenant- 

 general Sir George Prevost, dated 

 head-quarters, Kingston, June 1, 

 .1813. 



Although, as your lordship will 

 perceive by the report of colonel 

 I3aynes, which I have the honour 

 herewith to transmit, the expedi- 

 tion has not been attended with 

 the complete success which was 

 expected from it, I have great 

 satisfaction in informing your lord- 

 ship, that the courage and patience 

 .of the small band of troops em- 

 ployed on this occasion, under cir- 

 cumstances of peculiar hardship 

 and privation, have been exceeded 

 only by their intrepid conduct in 

 the field, forcing a passage at the 

 point of the bayonet, through a 

 thickly-wooded country, affording 

 constant shelter and strong posi- 

 tions to the enemy; but not a 

 single spot of cleared ground fa- 

 vourable to the operations of dis- 

 ciplined soldiers. 



Kingston, May 30, 1813. 

 Sir; — 1 have the honour to re- 

 port to your excellency, that in 

 conformity to an arranged plan of 

 operations with commodore sir 

 James Yeo, the fleet of boats as- 

 sembled astern of his ship at ten 

 o'clock on the night of the 28th 

 instant with the troops placed under 



my command, and led by a gun- 

 boat, under the direction of cap- 

 tain Mulcaster, royal navy, pro- 

 ceeded towards Sackett's harbour, 

 in the order prescribed to the 

 troops, in case the detachment was 

 obliged to march in column, viz. 

 the grenadier company, 100th, 

 with one section of the royal Scots, 

 two companies of the 8th, or king's, 

 four of the 104th, two of the Cana- 

 dian voltigeurs, two six-pounders, 

 with their gunners, and a company 

 of Glengarry light infantry, were 

 embarked on board alight schoon- 

 er, which was proposed to be tow- 

 ed, under the direction of officers 

 of the navy, so as to ensure the 

 guns being landed in time, to sup- 

 port the advance of the troops. 

 Although the night was dark, with 

 rain, the boats assembled in the 

 vicinity of Sackett's harbour, by- 

 one o'clock, in compact and regu- 

 lar order, and in this position it 

 was intended to remain until the 

 day broke, in the hope of effecting 

 a landing before the enemy could 

 be prepared to line the woods with 

 troops, which suTOund the coast : 

 but unfortunately a strong current 

 drifted the boats considerably, 

 while the darkness of the night, 

 and ignorance of the coast, pre- 

 vented them from recovering the 

 proper station, until the day dawn- 

 ed, when the whole pulled for the 

 point of debarkation. 



It was ray intention to have 

 landed in the cove formed by- 

 Horse Island, but on approaching 

 it, we discovered that the enemy 

 were fully prepared by a very 

 heavy fire of musketry from the 

 surrounding woods, which were 

 filled with infantry, supported with 

 a field-piece. I directed the boats 

 to pull round to the other side of 



