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 158 SIR ISAAC BROCK.

turesque dress and ornaments, and majestic demeanour, accorded well with the solemn pomp and general character of a military pro- cession — amongst these, young Brant, Bears Foot, and Henry, were distinguished. In our mind we never saw a dress more elegant of its kind, and fit for active service in the woods, than that worn by young Brant, who, with his tomahawk in hand, was a perfect resemblance of all that could be imagined of the accomplished Indian warrior.

" Amongst the numerous gentlemen in the procession, we ob- served that old veteran, Lieutenant M'Dougall, of his Majesty's 8th, or king's regiment, who, like a brave and loyal man, came from Sandwich to attend the re-interment." — Upper Canada Gazette, October, 1824.

��SECTION II. — AMERICAN AUTHORS.

No. 1. Extracts from Niles' Weekly Register, Baltimore, 1812. " Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Detroit to his friend in Pittsburg, dated July 7, 1812. — 'General Hull is making prepara- tions to cross the river this evening or to-morrow, and it is expected that an immediate attack is contemplated on Maiden (Amherst- burg). The works of that place are not very strong, but they are well defended with artillery, having, I am told, forty pieces mounted and above two hundred regulars, with all the militia they can collect, the number not known : there is no doubt but there will be hard fighting before the place is taken. The army are all in health and good spirits, and wait with anxiety to be put on the other shore : they are certainly as fine looking men as ever I saw.'

" We have several reports of the capture of Fort Maiden, or Amherstburg. General Hull has sent expresses to the governor of Ohio and Kentucky for further supplies of troops, supposed for the purpose of maintaining the ground he may take, and to keep the allies in check. We trust he may religiously adhere to his procla- mation, whatever General Brock may say, and give no quarters to the white savages when found fighting by the side of the Indians, for whose extensive murders, on so many parts of our frontier, the British should be made responsible.

"September 5. — We have this week to announce a signal cala- mity, — General Hull, with the whole north western army, consisting

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