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diate release of French prisoners 

 of corresponding ranks will take 

 place with the least possible delay. 

 I must not omit this opportunity 

 to express my entire satisfaction 

 with the indefatigable zeal of 

 Lieut. Colonel Jones, relative to 

 the comfort of the prisoners, and 

 my obligation to that officer, and 

 to Major Stanhope, on this oc- 

 casion. I am anxious, too, to do 

 justice to the conduct of General 

 Bizanet, which, truly characte- 

 ristic of a brave man, has been 

 marked from the first with the 

 most kind and humane attentions 

 to the prisoners. 



He has sent me the name of an 

 officer, prisoner in England, for- 

 merly his Aide de Camp, and I 

 would, gladly hope that, in com- 

 pliment to the General, this officer 

 would be immediately released 

 without exchange. 



Major Stanhope, who can better 

 than any body inform your Lord- 

 ship of ail particulars you may 

 wish to be informed of, is sent 

 purposely as the bearer of my 

 dispatches, which makes it unne- 

 cessary for me to add more. 

 I have the honour to be, &c. 



Thomas Graham. 

 Earl Bathurst, &c. &c. &c. 



COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. 



Downing Street, Mai/ 31. 



A dispatch, of which the fol- 

 lowing is an extract, has been this 

 day received by Earl Bathurst, 

 from Lieutenant General Sir Geo. 

 Prevost, dated 



Quebec, March 12, 1814. 



When I had the honour of ad- 

 dressing your L<.rdship on the 

 9th of February, the American 



army, under Major-General Wil- 

 kinson, continued to occupy their 

 position on the frontier of Lower 

 Canada, at the French Mills, on 

 the Salmon River, near St. Regis, 

 and at the Four Corners. 



I now beg leave to acquaint 

 you, that, between the 12th and 

 ICth of February, the enemy 

 abandoned their position, after 

 partially burning their block-houses 

 and barracks, erected with infinite 

 labour and great expense, and 

 also destroying their river craft 

 and batteaux, several hundred of 

 which have been frozen up in 

 Salmon River, and they have suc- 

 ceeded in moving their ordnance 

 and the principal part of their 

 provisions and stores. Two regi- 

 ments are stated to have proceeded 

 to Sackett's Harbour, and the re- 

 mainder of their force to Burling- 

 ton and Platsburgh, where Major- • 

 General Wilkinson has now taken 

 up his head-quarters. 



I am informed the frontier posi- 

 tions occupied by the enemy at 

 the close of the last campaign 

 were given up, by the orders of 

 the American Government, in 

 consequence of the extreme diffi- 

 culty experienced, and the enor- 

 mous expence incurred, in supply- 

 ing the troops allotted for their 

 defence with provisions, and the 

 daily decrease of their army by 

 sickness and desertion, arising 

 from the harassing and fatiguing 

 duties to which their troops were 

 exposed, from the constant ap- 

 prehension of being attacked 

 by us. 



As soon as information of the 

 enemy's movement was received. 

 Colonel Scott, of the 103rd regi- 

 ment, with a small effective force, 

 consisting of detachments from 



