The vessel when a few days out at sea was chased by an American frigate and driven into Halifax.

A second time she set sail, when she sprung a leak and was compelled to put back.
The attempt to send him across the ocean was now abandoned, and he was returned to Quebec.

Another step, equally inexplicable with his arrest, was soon after taken.

This was, his release and that of Mr.Macomb, of Detroit, who was also in confinement in Quebec, and the permission given them to return to their friends and families, although the war was not yet ended.

It may possibly be imagined that in the treatment these gentlemen received, the British commander-in-chief sheltered himself under the plea of their being "native-born British subjects," and perhaps when it was ascertained that Mr.Kinzie was indeed a citizen of the United States it was thought safest to release him.
In the mean time, General Harrison at the head of his troops had reached Detroit.