in the moment of trial, was to be consigned to "eternal
infamy." The watchword of the "patriots," was to be "the cannon lost at
Detroit or death."

During the truce, in Upper Canada, there was some skirmishing in Lower
Canada. At St. Regis, four hundred Americans surprised the Indian
village. Twenty-three men were made prisoners, and Lieutenant Rolette,
with Serjeant McGillivray, and six men were slain. But to
counterbalance this affair, a month later, some detachments of the 49th
regiment, a few artillery, and seventy militiamen from Cornwall and
Glengary, surrounded a block house at the Salmon River, and made
prisoners of a Captain, two subalterns and forty men; four batteaux and
fifty-seven stand of arms, falling also into the hands of the captors.

In no way discouraged, however much they may have been irritated by
these repeated failures, which had not even the excuse of inferiority
in numbers, or in any want of the materials of war, if the want of
vessels on the lake be not considered, the American government
energetically exerted itself to augment their naval forces on the lakes
and to reinforce General Dearborn. Indeed, that officer was now at the
head of ten thousand men, at Plattsburgh, and the American fleet on
Lake Ontario was already so much superior to that of the British, as to
make it necessary for the latter to remain inactive in harbour. The
British ship _Royal George_, was actually chased into Kingston channel,
and was there cannonaded for some time. It was only when the American
fleet came within range of the Kingston forts that they hauled off to
Four Mile Point, and anchored, the commander taking time to reflect
upon the expediency of bombarding Kingston. Next morning, having come
to an opposite conclusion, he stood out with his fleet into the open
lake and fell in with the _Governor Simcoe_. A chase was commenced, and
the _Governor Simcoe_ narrowly escaped by running over a reef of rocks,
and making for Kingston, which, like the _Royal George_, she reached
more hotly pursued than she had bargained for. It was late in the
season, and the weather becoming more and more boisterous, the
Americans bore away for Sackett's Harbour, in making for which they
captured two British schooners, taking from one of them, Captain
Brocke, the paymaster of the 49th regiment of the line, who had with
him the plate which had belonged to his gallant deceased brother, the
late Governor of Upper Canada. But the America