PUBLISHED BY THOMAS DOBSON, AT THE STONE HOUSE, 'Checked William Fry, Printer. EN ******* SEAL. District of Pennsylvania, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-ninth day of May, in the fortieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D.1816, Thomas Dobson, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Official Correspondence with the Department of War, relating to the Military Operations of the American Army under the command of Major General Izard, on the Northern Frontier of the United States, in the years 1814 and 1815." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."-And also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Actor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. 1900 14847 INTRODUCTION. THE people, in our free and happy country, have the right to expect information respecting events of national interest; and every man, who has been placed in a situation of trust in the public service, is amenable to the great tribunal of public opinion,-whose judgments differ from those of posterity, only inasmuch as time exposes to the latter, misrepresentations which not unfrequently involve contemporary history in doubt and obscurity. The following correspondence will enable the attentive reader to judge of the real state of our military affairs on the northern frontier, during the last year of the war with Great Britain. It may be proper here to remark, that our estimates, at that time, of the British force in the Canadas were considerably below the truth. From unquestionable sources of information, since the peace, it has been ascer |
