Dr. Sir, 

I must acknowledge you had great reason to be terrified with the first acc’ts, that was given of our unhappy defeat, and I must own, I was not a little surpris’d to find that Governor Innis was the means of alarming the Country with a report of that extraordinary nature, without having any better confirmation of the truth, than an affrighted waggoner’s story. Its true, we have been beaten, most shamefully beaten, by a handful of Men! who only intended to molest and disturb our March; Victory was their smallest expectation, but see the wondrous works of Providence! the uncertainty of Human things! We, but a few moments before, believ’d our number’s almost equal to the Canadian Force; they only ex-pected to annoy us. Yet, contrary to all expectation and human probability, and even to the com-mon course of things, we were totally defeated, sustain’d the loss of every thing; which they have got, are enrichen’d and strengthened by it. This, as you observe, must be an affecting story to the Colony; and will, no doubt, license the tongues of People to censure those they think most blama-bly; which by the by, often falls very wrongfully. I join very heartily with you in believing that when this story comes to be related in future Annals, it will meet with ridicule or indignation; for had I not been witness to the fact on that fatal Day, I sh’d scarce give credit to it now.