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REPAIRING FORT DETROIT.
King finding it too small for the lodgment &c, of the troops that were necessary for the defense of the place, and knowing the poverty and the mean abil-ties of the inhabitants in regard thereto, entirely discharged and acquitted them of any trouble or expenses therewith, both for that present time and the
time to come, and took it entirely upon himself, enlarged and built this new fort on a different plan at his own expense, such as his Brittanic Majesty's troops found it on their arrival when they took possession. If you doubt of the veracity of what we assert, the Mr. Carpts, who wrought under the direction of Mr. Bellestre, and Mr. Port Neuf, who acted as engineer, as also the undertaker, and furnishers of the pickets and other wood necessary, can witness it and may be the more depended on as they are no ways interested in the present affair.
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