I shall proceed to extend this system now I have ascertained that the people are so well disposed--but my means are very limited.
I propose detaching 100 rank and file of the 41st regiment to Amherstburg, almost immediately.
_Colonel Baynes to Major-General Brock_.
QUEBEC, May 21, 1812.
Sir George has allowed me to make the following extracts from a dispatch of Mr.Foster's, dated the 28th April, which I do in the minister's own words: "The American government affect now to have taken every step incumbent on the executive as preparatory to war, and leave the ultimate decision to congress, as vested by the constitution in that body, which is fluctuating as the sea: there is a great party in the house of representatives for war, composed principally of the western and southern states--members who have little to lose, and may gain, while the northern and eastern states are vehement against it.

The embargo seems to have been resolved upon, because at the moment they did not know what else to do.

The cabinet wished only sixty days--the senate made it ninety.

Our government leaves no room to expect a repeal of the order in council, yet they wait for the return of the Hornet.

Something decisive must then be known; perhaps when they become completely convinced of Bonaparte's playing upon them, it will end in declaring against France.