[The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock by Ferdinand Brock Tupper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock CHAPTER XIII 9/33
I may perhaps think it proper to stop their career. I enclose several documents lately received from Colonel Proctor, at Detroit.
That officer appears to have conducted himself with much judgment.
I likewise transmit a memorial which I have received from some merchants in the Niagara district, but of course I cannot judge of its merits. I shall be obliged to your excellency to direct the remittance of the L5,000, for which I sent a requisition some time ago, on account of the civil expenditure of this province, either in government paper or specie, as you may deem most convenient.
I doubt not the former meeting a ready currency. The very flattering manner in which your excellency is pleased to view my services, and your kindness in having represented them to his majesty's ministers in such favorable light, are gratifying to my feelings, and call for my grateful acknowledgments. _Major-General Brock to Sir George Prevost._ FORT GEORGE, September 9, 1812. I have been honored with your excellency's dispatch, dated the 24th ultimo, and have to thank you for ordering a company of the Glengary regiment to strengthen Colonel Lethbridge at Prescott, whose force you have been led to believe was weakened in consequence of my interference, but which, I beg leave to state, was done without my knowledge, and contrary to my intention. The enclosed copies of letters will inform you of the state of affairs to the westward.
It appears evident the enemy meditates a second attempt on Amherstburg.
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