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Show 38 Eez'a'mce 4thsur. COL. KINGSTON. - fame time, they fell into a wood on their own right, and :1le Form again and forming again, attacked the German advanced polls, who tell "Wk "‘C Gt"'baek in great confufion upon the main body, which afterwards mans who run. commutiicated itfelf to the regiment of Helle~Hanau, polled nearly on a line with him, upon his left. At that mllant he heard a very heavy fire in the plantation, on his right, and difcovcrcd that the light infantry were broke, and were, as he heard, drove into the wood. After fome further .contell, he Battle loft. perceived that the regiment polled in thewoodonhis right had given way, and that the rebels had gained hls rlght and lelt. In this critical irritant he was wounded, and could give no account of courfe of what happened afteiwards, further than that the artillery fell into the hands of the enemy. LIEUTENANT COLONEL KINGSTON. flrfixtazzt-Gemral to the Canada Eapcriz'iim. j'mze 30', 1779. After the Colonel had given an account of the army palling the frontier of the province of Canada, the taking offl‘iconde Col. Kingflon. toga, the march by Skeenefborough, the action at Huberton, Fri/'z'JF/it‘t? (f L I E U r. C 07L. K 1 N o s 'r o .v.‘ at the ae‘tion of Beaumont's Edge, on the 7th of Oflober. He laid, he knew the memorandums therein fet down, to be the deceafed's hand-writing. He read feveral of them, ftating a variety of tarts, receipt of orders from the General, etc. parti- 0n baggag cularly an early order (July the 12th) to forbid any of the homes. of'riccrs being: permitted to ufe the baggage and provili<)n-horles belonging to the army. To thew that the time fpcnt in the repair of the roads was abfolutely neeelliiry, for the fpeedy fup- Scarcity ofpn- ply of the army, he llatcd, from Sir Francis Clarke's memo-rimm- randun book, that from the ad to the 5th or 7th of Auguft, there was frequently not more than one days provilion in liore ; that on the 6th, as well as he could recollect himfclf, there was a report made to him by the Commiflhry General, that there was not a f'lyply for the cnl‘uing‘ day, and for that reaion, the Commiilhry dclircd to take his direction, whether the right or left of the army fliould be ferved next morning, meaning the Briti‘h or the Germans ; but that as foon as the roads were re- paired, there was a conllant and full fupply. After havingr conducted the army up to the 12th or 13th Au~ gull, he proceeded :-He faid he had in his pollelli on the plan originally framed by General Reidlcl for the expedition to Be inington, with General Burgoyne's additions to, and alte- and almoll‘ of every movement and polition taken, previous to the expedition planned againfi Bennington, he produced copies Gen. B‘s letters and extracts of feveral letters, written by General Burgoyne, ‘0 ml"l‘_l".‘" &'C-d1.iri1ig (hole operations, to the Secretary of State, General rations of that plan, and .1 copy taken that morning: ' he mo- Moth." for tives which induced the German General to propole the expe- Bennington a. dition were, that, on a movement to Callletown, the party em‘pedition. 5)" M: W": he" Sir (:luv Carleton, Gen. Hervey, Adjutant-General in Greatmglmdequate. )3 . - u . . . . ployed on that expedition were informed, that the people were Well affected to the Britilh government about Connecticut river _ mtam, etc. in which it appeared that Gen. Burgoyne flared ftrong doubts that his force was inadequate; complained of the cnormitit-s committed by the favages, the little fervice they were of in forwarding effective operations, prefling the neceflity of fending with all pollible difpatch the additional companies from Canada lately arrived from England, and earneftly p‘I‘el' ling Sir Guy Carleton, if poflible, to fpare a gartilbn for-Th condcroga, in order that 'the force left in that garrifon might Fxrulpatcs Sir Guy Carleton. be withdrawn for the purpofe of augmenting his army. This written evidence being read, and followed by fome Ob‘ fervations by General Burgoyne, to thew that he did not mean to fix or imply any eenfure on the refufal of Sir Guy Carleton, becaufe he underftood by Sir Guy's inftruétions from the 36' cretary of State, that oliicer did not at all look upon himfe‘ll at liberty to comply with the requifition on his part now men‘ and Bennington; that a great many men might, if freed from the tyranny and power of the Congrefs, be induced to take arms and join us, and that great quantities of cattle, horfes, and pro- Vilions might be procured. The plan conlilled of two Objefis, the procuring provilions, recruits, 8m. and, if it {hould prove fuccefsful to the full extent Wilhed for, then to proceed by a de~ tour to the right, andjoin the main army at or near Albany ; if not, to return by the fame rout back to the main body. Colonel Baum was accordingly detached with Germans, Baum's Provincials, and Savages, amounting to about five hundred and feventy on the 13th. He was to be fupported by a chofen corps under Colonel Breyman, part of which was to conlill of corP,5. Reidfel's dilinounted dragoons ; and in cafe that either thefirit or fecond d‘etachment fllould prove unfuccefsful, or meet with a tioned; Colonel Kingllon proceeded, and gave the preference firong refinance, they were to be fuflained by the whole army. to the land tranfpott from Skeenelborough to Fort Edward; and proved the necellity of repairing the roads, for thc purpofe of bringing the flares and provifions forward. He then produced the memorandum-book of Sir Franc", Clarke, l'u'il Aid-de-Camp to Gen. Burgoyne, who was kill: Colonel Baum's journal of his operations, tranfmitted the feveral polls he occupied, was then read, by which itfrom savagcsxmmhc ap- fervicc. peered, that the lavages were ungovernable, proved entirely dilohedient to the orders of the Cllicers appointed to direél and controul them, and, in lhort, were of more (lillervi ce than ufe. lilo then llated that Colonel Breyman was lent forward the next |