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To Captain Sir Thomas Hardy 

 I consider myself under the great- 

 est obligations ; having experi- 

 enced every possible co-operation, 

 with an offer to disembark from 

 his squadron any proportion of 

 seamen or marines which I consi- 

 dered necessary. 



1 beg to acknowledge my thanks 

 to you in allowing your Aide-de- 

 Cauip, Lieutenant Gates, to ac- 

 company me upon this service. 

 He has been of great assistance 

 to me, and will have the honour 

 of delivering this dispatch. He 

 has also in his possession the co- 

 lours and standard found in Fort 

 Sullivan. 



I have th^ honour to be, &c. 

 (Signed) A. Pilkington. 

 Lieut.-Col, Deputy Adju- 

 tant-General. 

 Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. C. Sher- 

 brooke, K. B. 



COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. 



Downing-street, Sept. 20, 

 1814. 

 Captain Jervois, ;iide-de-Camp 

 to Lieut.-General Drnmmond, ar- 

 rived this morning with a dispatch 

 from Lieut.-General Sir George 

 Prevost, Bart, addressed to Earl 

 Bathurst, of which the following is 

 an extract : — 



Head-quarters, Montreal, 

 August 5. 

 I have the satisfaction of trans- 

 mitting to your Lordship Lieu- 

 tenant General Drummond's de- 

 tail of the distinguished exertions 

 of that division of the army near 

 the falls of Niagara, on the 25th 

 of last niontl), when the skill of 

 his iMHJcsty'.s (uiierals, and the 

 valoiii and discipline of his troops, 



were eminently conspicuous ; and 

 I beg leave to join the Lieutenant 

 General, m humbly soliciting his 

 Royal Highness the Prince Re- 

 gent's gracious consideration of 

 the meritorious services of the 

 officers particularised in his report. 

 This dispatch will be delivered 

 to your Lordship by Captain Jer- 

 vois, Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.- 

 Gen. Drumniond ; having shared 

 in the events of the 25th, he can 

 satisfy your Lordship's inquiries 

 respecting them, and he is well 

 calculated, from his local know- 

 ledge, to give your Lordship full 

 information upon the state of the 

 Upper Province. 



Head quarters. Upper Canada, 

 near Niagara Falls, 27th of 

 July. 

 Sir, — I embarked on board his 

 Majesty's schooner Netley, at 

 York, on Sunday evening, the 

 24tli inst. and reached Niagara at 

 day-break the following morning. 

 Finding from Lieut.-Col. Tucker 

 that Major General Riall was un- 

 derstood to be moving towards 

 the Falls of Niagara to support 

 the advance of his division, which 

 he had pushed on to that place on 

 the preceding evening, 1 ordered 

 Lieutenant Colonel Morrison, with 

 the 89th regiment and a detach- 

 ment of the Royals and King's 

 drawn from Fort George antl 

 Mississaga, to proceed to the same 

 point, in order that, with the 

 united force, 1 might act against 

 the enemy (posted at Street's 

 Creek, with his advance at Chip- 

 pawa) on my arrival, if it should 

 be found expedient. I ordered 

 Lieutenant Colonel Tucker, at the 

 same time, to proceed on the right 

 bank of tlic rivtr, nith three 



