The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

FROM DETROIT. July 28.

Yesterday two Indians arrived here from Michilimackinac, who bring the unwelcome tidings of that post having fallen into the hands of the British; they give the account circumstantially, and say, they were there at the time. The Indians are well known by most people here, and full credit is given to their story. They say that before the news of war reached that place, a party of British and Indians, not more than one hundred in all, proceeded from Fort St. Josephs, where the news of war had been for some days, and arrived at Michilimackinac as friends. The officers, not suspecting any hostile intentions, suffered them to walk into the post, where they took peaceable possession of it, without a single gun having been fired. It was at first contemplated to put all the men in the fort and the other inhabitants of the Island, to the sword, but this they declined, and they now remain prisoners of war.

The property found in that place is immense—all the peltry collected to the west and south-west of it during the preceding winter arrived there, waiting for vessels from this quarter to transport it down the Lakes. Four vessels had gone up; two of which had proceeded to Chicago; the other two, Captain Rough's and Dobbin's, were taken.