APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



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From the London Gazette^ Nov. IS. 



COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. 



Downing Street, Nov. 11. 

 A dispatch, of which the fol- 

 lowing is an extract, was this day 

 received by earl Bathurst, one of 

 his majesty's principal secretaries 

 of state, from lieut-general sir 

 G. Prevost, bart. commanding his 

 majesty's forces in North Ameri- 

 ca i— 



Head-quarters, St. David's, 

 Niagara Frontier, Aug. 25. 



Major-general Proctor, having 

 given way to the clamour of our 

 Indian allies to act offensively, 

 moved forward on the 20th ult. 

 with about 350 of the 41st regi- 

 ment, and between 3 and 4,000 

 Indians, and on the 2nd inst. at- 

 tempted to carry b)' assault, the 

 block-houses and works at San- 

 dusky, where the enemy had con- 

 centrated a considerable force. The 

 Indians, however, previously to 

 the assault, withdrew theniselves 

 from out of the leach of the ene- 

 my's fire. 



The handful of his majesty's 

 troops employed on this occasion 

 displayed the greatest bravery ; 

 nearly the whole of them having 

 reached the fort, and made every 

 effort to enter it; but a galling and 

 destructive fire being kept up by 

 the enemy, within the block- 

 house, and from behind the picket- 

 ting which completely protected 

 them, and which we had not the 

 means to force, the major-general 

 ihought it most prudent not to con- 

 tinue longer so unavailing a con- 

 test ; he accordingly drew off the 

 a»8ailantK,and returned toSandwich, 

 with the loss of 25 killed, as many 



missing, and about 40 ivounded. 

 Amongst the former are brevet 

 lieutenant-colonel Shortt, and lieu- 

 tenant J. G. Gordon, of the 41st 

 regiment. 



I am happy to be able to ac- 

 quaintyour lordship, that it appears 

 by further accounts received from 

 major-general Proctor to the 23rd 

 inst. that the enemy had been dis- 

 appointed in an attempt to create 

 distrust, and disaffection amongst, 

 our Indian allies, by a deputation 

 of chiefs, sent by them for that 

 purpose ; and that in a talk which 

 took place between the deputies 

 from the American Indians and 

 the chiefs of our Indian warriors, 

 the contempt with which general 

 Harrison's proposals were received 

 by the latter, and the determina- 

 tion expressed by them of adhering 

 to the cause of their great father 

 in England, appeared sensibly to 

 affect the deputies, and affords 

 strong grounds to believe that the 

 nations whom they represented 

 will not be induced to take up arms 

 against us, or their Indian brethren 

 acting with us. 



On my arrival at this frontier, I 

 found 2,000 British soldiers, on an 

 extended line, cooping up in Fort 

 George an American force exceed- 

 ing 4,000 men. Feeling desirous 

 of ascertaining in person the ex- 

 tent of the enemy's works, and of 

 viewing the means he possessed for 

 defending the position he occupied, 

 I ordered a general demonstration 

 to be made on Fort George, to 

 commence by the attack and sur- 

 prise of all the American picquets 

 thrown out in its front. This ser- 

 vice was executed to my entire 

 satisfaction ; the picquets were 

 driven in, a great part of them 

 being taken, with a very trifling 



