Colonel Lethbridge I have directed to return to Montreal.
The issue of army bills has taken place at Quebec, and I hope to be able shortly to send you a supply of them.
* * * * * We have previously alluded (page 206) to that part of the preceding letter which relates to the capture of Michilimakinack.

This capture appears to have been effected _contrary_ to Sir George Prevost's orders, as Fort St.Joseph being nearly 350 miles from Detroit and Sandwich, and as the expedition left the fort only four days after Hull's invasion, it was scarcely possible that Captain Roberts was then aware of that circumstance.

Neither in his letter to the adjutant-general, announcing the capture, does he excuse himself by stating that he had heard of the invasion.

In his dispatch to Earl Bathurst, written exactly a fortnight after the preceding letter, and dated Montreal, August 26, Sir George Prevost, in communicating the surrender of Detroit, expressed himself in very altered language, as he said: "In these measures he[60] was most opportunely aided by the fortunate surrender of Fort Michilimakinack, which, giving spirit and confidence to the Indian tribes in its neighbourhood, part of whom assisted in its capture, determined them to advance upon the rear and flanks of the American army, as soon as they heard that it had entered the province." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 58: This order strikes us as an unmilitary interference on the part of Sir George Prevost with Major-General Brock's authority, Captain Roberts being under the immediate command of the latter general.] [Footnote 59: See Captain Roberts' Dispatch, Appendix A, Sec.

1, No.