eral Hull is making
preparations to cross the river this evening or to-morrow, and
it is expected that an immediate attack is contemplated on
Maiden (Amherstburg). 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 I ever saw.'

"We have several reports of the capture of Fort Malden. General
Hull has sent expresses to the governors 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 proclamation,
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 the British should be made
responsible."

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 156: "The 'Letters of Veritas' were originally printed in a
weekly paper published at Montreal, in Lower Canada, and subsequently
collected into the little volume before us. Within a small compass,
these unpretending Letters contain a greater body of useful information
upon the campaigns in the Canadas than is any where else to be found.
They are, we believe, the production of a gentleman in Montreal, of
known respectability. Though not a military man, he enjoyed the best
opportunities for acquaintance with the circumstances of the war; and as
these letters, which excited great attention in the Canadas, appeared in
successive papers while Montreal was filled with almost all the officers
of rank who had served in the country, it may reasonably be presumed
that his errors, had he committed any, would not have escaped without
censure. Yet no reply was ever attempted to his statements, no doubt
ever expressed in the provinces, of the correctness of his
assertions."--_Quarterly Review, July_, 1822.]

[Footnote 157: Wampum is the current money among the Indians. It is of
two sorts, white and purple: the white is worked out of the insides of
the great Congues into the form of a bead, and perforated so as to be
strung on leather; the purple is worked out of the inside of the muscle
shell. They are wove as broad as one's hand, and about two feet long;
these they call belts, and give and receive them at their treaties, as
the seals of friendship. For lesser motives, a single string is given;
every bead is of a known value; and a belt of a less