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Michigan and then marched back again, without seeing any 

 provisions, until they had arrived vi'ithin about nine miles of 

 Detroit, on their return. Here they were refreshing them- 

 selves, on the products of some bee-hives and a fat steer, which 

 they had just killed. Here they were met by a flag of truce 

 borne by a british officer, and a file of men, from whom they 

 learned that they were prisoners of war! They marched for- 

 ward to Detroit, laid down their arms on the pavement, and 

 were marched into the fort, which was then so crowded that 

 there was scarcely room for them to lie down in it. 



Captain Brush who was guarding the provisions was inclu- 

 ded in the capitulation, as well as the provisions themselves; 

 and as if that were not enough, all the troops who were 

 then marching to join Hull's army, we presume, amounting to 

 ten thousand in all, were also surrendered. These, however, 

 never gave themselves up, but returned home. 



Thus ended this expedition. The militia were allowed to 

 return home on their parol of honor not to serve in the war 

 until exchanged. They were landed on our shore along lake 

 Erie, at different points. The company from Circleville, com- 

 manded by captain Bartholomew Fryatt, lieutenant Richard 

 Douglas, and ensign Pinney, were landed at the mouth of Hu- 

 ron river from an open boat, in which seventy-two of the com- 

 pany, had come from Detroit. From thence they made their 

 way home through Mansfield, Mt. Vernon, Newark and Lan- 

 caster, on their route. Other companies landed at Cleveland 

 and so came across the state to their homes, on the Scioto 

 river. 



General Hull and the regular officers, and soldiers were 

 reserved for the triumphant entry of the British officers, mto 

 Montreal and Quebec. Thither they were taken, and Hull 

 himself, seated in an old, ragged, open carriage, was drawn 

 through the streets of Montreal, and thus exhibited as a raree 

 show, to the natives there assembled. But the heart sickens 

 at the recital; and we dismiss Hull, and his expedition, with 

 the single remark, that he was afterwards tried for his con- 

 duct by a court martial on three charges, viz: First, for 



