They turned out very cheerfully, but already shew a spirit of impatience.

The king's stores are now at so low an ebb, that they scarcely furnish any article of use or comfort.

Blankets, hammocks and kettles, are all to be purchased; and the troops, when watching the banks of the river, stand in the utmost need of tents.

Mr.Couche has adopted the most efficacious means to pay the militia in paper currency.

I cannot positively state the number of militia that will be embodied, but they cannot exceed throughout the province 4,000 men.
The Americans are very active on the opposite side, in the erection of redoubts; we are not idle on our part, but unfortunately, having supplied Amherstburg with the guns which that post required from Fort George, depending upon getting others from Kingston to supply their place, we find ourselves at this moment rather short of that essential arm.