However great the sum, it will be applied to very considerable advantage, provided your excellency be enabled to send reinforcements, as without them it is scarcely possible that the government of the United States will be so inactive or supine as to permit the present limited force to remain in possession of the country.

Whatever can be done to preserve it, or to delay its fall, your excellency may rest assured will be exerted.
Having been suddenly called away from York, I had not time to close my dispatch, giving your excellency an account of my proceedings during my stay at Amherstburg.

I now have the honor to forward two documents, detailing the steps taken by the Indian department to prevail on that unfortunate people to accommodate their differences with the American government.
_Extract from an American Newspaper_.
BUFFALO, July 14, 1812.
Major-General Brock is at present at Newark, superintending the various defences on the river.

He is stated to be an able and experienced officer, with undoubted courage.

He came from Little York soon after hearing the declaration of war, and, it was believed, with a serious intention of attacking Fort Niagara, but, contrary to what has been reported, he made no demand of a surrender.
Expecting a descent from the American army, the Canadians have, for ten days past, been removing their families and effects from the river into the interior.