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APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



ARTICLES FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. 



COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. 



Downing Street, Feb. 9. 

 A DISPATCH, of which the 

 ■^^ followinjj; is a Copy, has been 

 received by Earl Bathurst, one of 

 his Majesty's principal Secretaries 

 of State, from Lieutenant-General 

 Sir George Prevost, Bart, com- 

 manding his Majesty's forces in 

 North America. 



Head Quarters, Quebec, Dec. 22. 

 My Lord ; 



I have the honour to transmit to 

 your lordship Colonel Murray's 

 report to Major-General Vincent, 

 of his having taken possession of 

 Fort George, at Niagara, on the 

 12th inst. without opposition. 



In consequence of my having 

 directed a forward movement to be 

 made by the advance of the right 

 division of the army serving in tlie 

 Canadas, for the purpose of check- 

 ing a system of plunder organized 

 bv the enemj- against the loyal in- 

 habitants of the Niagara district ; 

 Colonel Murray was ordered to 

 march with two six-pounders, a 

 small detachment of lightdragoons, 

 and three hundred and fifty rank 

 and file of the 100th regiment, 

 commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Hamilton, together with seventy of 

 the western warrior j, under Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel Elliot, of the Indian 

 department ; and notwithstanding 



the inclemency of the weather, this 

 force arrived in the neighbourhood 

 of Fort George, in time to frustrate 

 the enemy's predatory designs, and 

 to compel him to efl'ect a precipi- 

 tate retreat across the Niagara ri- 

 ver, having previously sent his 

 ordnance and stores to his own 

 side, and stained the character of 

 the American nation by the wanton 

 conflagration of the town of New- 

 ark, reduced at this mostinclement 

 season to a heap of ashes, in direct 

 violation of the reiterated protesta- 

 tions of the American commanding 

 generals to respect and protect pri- 

 vate property. I have much satis- 

 faction in adding to my report, that 

 the promptitude with which Colo- 

 nel Murray executed this service, 

 has been the means cif rescuing 

 a fertile and extensive district from 

 premeditated plunder, and its loyal 

 inhabitants from further outrage 

 and captivity. 



To I have, &c. 



Earl Bathurst, &c. G. PREVOST. 



Fort George, Dec. 12, 1813. 

 Sir, — Having obtained informa- 

 tion that the enemy had determin- 

 ed on driving the country betweea 

 Fort George and the advance, and 

 was carrying off the loyal part of 

 the inhabitants, notwithstanding 

 the inclemency of the season, I 



