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you of any further particulars 

 you may require. 



I Iiave the honour, &c. 

 (Signed) J. B.SKERRETT. 

 To Major-Gen. Cooke, &c. 



P. S. A return of the guns and 

 military stores taken, will be sent 

 as soon as the quantity can be as- 

 certained. Two of the field-pieces 

 which the enemy advanced against 

 us, fell into our hands. 



Return of the hilled and wounded 

 of the troops under the command 

 of Colonel Skerrett, at the cap- 

 ture of the city of Seville by 

 assault, on the morning of the 

 ^th of August, 1812. 

 Total — 1 subaltern, 1 serjeant, 



1 rank and file, 2 horses, killed; 



1 subaltern, 12 rank and file, 



1 horse, wounded. 

 (Signed) 

 W. Clinton Wynyard, A. A. 

 General. 



London Gazette Extraordinary. 

 Tuesday, Oct. 6. 



Dovoning-street, Oct. 6, 1812. 

 Captain Coore, Aide-de-camp to 

 Lieutenant-General Sir George 

 Prevost, Governor in chief of his 

 Majesty's provinces in North Ame- 

 rica, arrived this morning with dis- 

 patches from the Lieutenant-Gen. 

 addressed to Earl Bathurst, one of 

 his Majesty's principal secretaries 

 of state, of which the following is 

 an extract and a copy : 



Montreal, Aug. 26. 



My Lord, — I feel the greatest 

 satisfaction in transmitting to your 

 Lordship a letter which I have this 

 day received by express from 



VoL.LIV. 



Major-General Brock, announcing 

 to me the surrender of Iwt De- 

 troit, on the 16th inst. by Briga- 

 dier-General Hull, with the army 

 under his command, exceeding 

 two thousand five hundred men, 

 together with twenty-five pieces 

 of ordnance. 



In my dispatches of the 17th 

 and 24th instant, I had the honour 

 of detailing to your Lordship the 

 operations which had taken place 

 in Upper Canada, in consequence 

 of the invasion of that province by 

 the army of the United States. 

 Brigadier-Gen. Hull having crossed 

 the Detroit river on the 12th of 

 last month, with 2,300 men, con- 

 sisting of regular cavalry and in- 

 fantry, and militia, bringing with 

 him several field-pieces ; and hav- 

 ing driven in tlie militia towards 

 Amherstburg, first advanced to 

 Sandwich, and afterwards ap- 

 proached Amherstburg, with a part 

 of his army to the river Canard, 

 about five miles from the fort, 

 where he was foiled in three at- 

 tempts to cross that river, and 

 suffered a considerable loss. The 

 garrison of Amherstburg consisted 

 at that time of a Subaltern's de- 

 tachment of the Royal Artillery, 

 commanded by Lieut. Troughton ; 

 of a detachment of 300 men of 

 the 41st regiment, under the com- 

 mand of Captain Muir ; and of 

 about as many of the militia ; 

 the whole under the command of 

 Lieutenant-Colonel Saint George, 

 Inspecting Field Officer of militia 

 in the district- 

 General Brock, relying upon the 

 strong assurances I had given him, 

 of a reinforcement as prompt and 

 as effectual as the circumstances 

 under which I was placed by this 

 new war would permit me to 

 li send, 



