despatches several days before he set off to join the army opposed to General Hull, although the Reviewer[26] gives his readers to understand that it did not arrive until after General Hull's capture. The above statement will afford a full and satisfactory answer to the misrepresentations of the Quarterly Reviewer,[27] and to the unwarrantable insinuation by which they are accompanied, if indeed any answer were wanting to assertions in which the writer has directly contradicted himself. The Reviewer states, "that Sir George Prevost sent no instructions whatever to General Brock for some weeks after he received intimation of the war:"--and further, "that he, General Brock, was only restrained from the measure of attacking Fort Niagara, _by the perplexity of his situation, in being left without orders_." It is singular that the writer should have forgotten, that only five pages before, he had stated[28] that "_on the receipt_ of the intelligence of the American declaration of war, Major-General Brock, who commanded the troops in the Upper Province _immediately_ despatched DISCRETIONARY orders to the British officer in charge of Fort St. Joseph's, to act either _offensively_ or otherwise against the enemy at Michilimachinac, as he should find advisable." If General Brock was justified in giving these discretionary orders to act offensively as circumstances might require, it follows that he must have considered a similar line of conduct open to himself; and yet, in the face of this statement, the Reviewer gravely endeavours to persuade his readers, that General Brock was in perplexity with regard to the measures which he should pursue.