APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 



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Missing — 1 deputy assistant quar- 

 ter master general, 1 captain, 3 

 lieutenants, 2 ensigns, 1 midship- 

 man, 1 adjutant, 7 seamen, 41 Ser- 

 jeants, 3 drummers, 479 rank and 

 file. 



COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. 



Downing-slreet, Nov. 26. 

 A dispatch, of which the fol- 

 lowing is a copy, has been received 

 from Lieutenant Gen. Sir George 

 Prevost, Bart, addressed to Earl 

 Bathurst, one of his Majesty's 

 Principal Secretaries of State : — 



Head Quarters, Plattsburg, 

 State of New York, Sep- 

 ie/nber 1 1 . 



My Lord,— Upon the arrival of 

 the reinforcements from the Ga- 

 ronne, 1 lost no time in assembling 

 three brigades on the frontier of 

 Lower Canada, extending from the 

 river Richelieu to the St. Lawrence ; 

 and in forming them into a division, 

 under the command of Major Ge- 

 neral De Rottenburg, for the pur- 

 pose of carrying into effect his 

 Royal Highness the Priiice Re- 

 gent's commands, which had been 

 conveyed to me by your Lordship, 

 in your dispatch of the 3rd of June 

 last. As the troops concentrated 

 and approached the line of separa- 

 tion between this Province and the 

 United States, the American army 

 abandoned its entrenched camp on 

 the river Chazy, at Chaplain; a 

 position I immediately seized, and 

 occupied in force on the 3rd inst. 

 The following day the whole of 

 the left division advanced to the vil- 

 lage of Chazy, without meeting the 

 least opposition from the enemy. 



On the 5th it halted within eight 



miles of this place, having sur- 

 mounted the difficulties created by 

 the obstructions in the road, from 

 the felling of trees, and the re- 

 moval of bridges. The next day 

 the division moved upon Platts- 

 burg, in two columns, on paral- 

 lel roads; the right column led by 

 Major General Powers's brigade, 

 supported by four companies of 

 light infantry, nnd a demi-brigade, 

 under Major Gen. Robinson ; the 

 left by Major General Brisbane's 

 brigade. The enemy's militia, 

 supported by his regulars, attempt- 

 ed to impede the advance of the 

 right column, but were driven be- 

 fore it from all their positions, and 

 the column entered Plattsburg. — 

 This rapid movement having re- 

 versed the strong position taken up 

 by the enemy at Dead Creek, it 

 was precipitately abandoned by 

 him, and his gun-boals alone left 

 to defend the ford, and to prevent 

 our restoring the bridges, which 

 had been imperfectly destroyed, an 

 inconvenience soon surmounted. — 

 Here I found the enemy in the oc- 

 cupation of an elevated ridge of 

 land on the south branch of the 

 Saranac, crowned with three strong 

 redoubts and other field works, 

 and block houses armed with heavy 

 ordnance, with their flotilla (the 

 Saratoga, 26 guns ; Surprise, 20 

 guns; Thunderer, 16 guns; Pre- 

 ble, 7 guns; 10 gun-boats, 14: 

 guns) at anchor out of gun-shot 

 from the shore, consisting of a ship, 

 a brig, a schooner, a sloop, and 10 

 gun-boats. I immediately com- 

 municated the circumstance to 

 Captain Downie, who had been re- 

 cently appointed to command the 

 vessels on Lake Champlain, con- 

 sisting of a ship, a brig, 2 sloops 

 and 12 gun-boats, (the Confiance 



