xpected.
In reply, the troops fired grape and small arms, but without any
intention of doing mischief. The rioters again fired at the troops, but
not the slightest harm resulted to the troops. It was a kind of sham
battle. The military authorities began, however, to tire of it, and the
mob was fired into, when one man having been killed, and another having
been dangerously wounded, the mutineers dispersed, leaving some of the
most daring among them, to keep up a straggling fire from the bushes!
The military made thirteen prisoners and, as night was setting in, left
for Montreal. Next day, four hundred and fifty of the Montreal militia
marched to Pointe Claire, and from thence to St. Laurent, which is
situated in the rear of the Island of Montreal. There, they captured
twenty-four of the culprits, and brought them to head quarters. Thus,
there were thirty-seven rebels, prisoners in Montreal, when the United
States had declared war against Britain, and the first blood shed, in
consequence of the declaration of war in Canada, by the troops, was,
unfortunately, that of Canadians. But the Pointe Claire
_habitants_ bitterly repented the resistance which they had made
to the militia law, and many of them came to Montreal, craving the
forgiveness of the Governor, which they readily obtained. The
ringleaders alone were punished.

Hostilities were commenced in Upper Canada. No sooner had General
Brocke learned that war was proclaimed, than he conceived a project of
attack. He did not mean to penetrate into the enemy's country, but for
the better protection of his own, to secure the enemy's outposts. On
the 26th of June, he sent orders to Captain Roberts, who was at St.
Joseph's, a small post, or block house, situated on an island in Lake
Huron, maintained by thirty soldiers of the line and two artillerymen,
in charge of a serjeant of that corps, under the command of the gallant
captain, to attack Michillimackinac, an American fort defended by
seventy-five men, also under the command of a captain. He was further
instructed to retreat upon St. Mary's, one of the trading posts
belonging to the North West Fur Company, in the event of St. Joseph's
being attacked by the Americans. General Brocke's instructions reached
Captain Roberts on the eighth of July, and he lost no time in carrying
the first part of them into execution. Communicating the design, the
execution of which he had been entrusted with, to Mr. Pothier, in
charge of the