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teen miles to Portage river. This advise was instantly car- 

 ried into effect. 



Being fully informed of the extent of Winchester's disaster, 

 General Harrison immediately thereafter, despatched Doctor 

 McKeehan, with medicines and gold, to Maiden, to admin- 

 ister relief to the wounded and sick prisoners, now con- 

 fined, with the other captives, in an open, muddy, wood yard ; 

 without fire, at Maiden. Harrison gave the Doctor an open 

 letter, addressed to any British officer, with whom he should 

 fall in with, on his route. Doctor McKeehan was accompanied, 

 in his cariole, by a Frenchman, as his guide. Bearing about 

 him, his commission of surgeon of our army, a quantity of me- 

 dicines, a considerable sum of money, in gold, his open letter 

 and a flag of truce, as an emblem, of the holy errand, upon 

 which he was sent; he and his guide, proceeded on their 

 way towards Maiden. As he journey'ed onwards, he was at- 

 tacked by the enemy, his companion slain, and himself woun- 

 ded, and made prisoner. In this condition he reached Maiden. 

 Proctor took from him, his gold, medicines, horse, cariole, 

 and flag of truce! Loading his prisoner, with heavy irons, 

 Proctor confined the doctor, in a dungeon. From Maiden, 

 Proctor sent him in irons to Niagara; from thence he was trans- 

 ported in irons, from dungeon to dungeon, all the way to Que-' 

 bee!! Are we describing the conduct of the savages on the 

 Niger? of the Upper Nile? or of some barbarous nation in the 

 heart of central Africa? No reader, we are stating, without 

 coloring, the treatment of Doctor , McKeehan, sent on the 

 holiest errand that any man could be sent, to a British army, 

 belonging to a nation, who professes to be, " the bulwark of 

 our religion!" A nation, professing more humanity and reli- 

 gion, than any other, in the world ! But - at the same time, a 

 nation, who for its numbers has shed more human blood than, 

 any other; a nation more cruel, more wicked; and who has done 

 less good in the world, than almost any other nation; who has 

 enslaved more men, and now holds them in bondage, than any 

 other nation, now or ever in existence. 



The Christianity of the British government is shown, by 



