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Show Hi: Excuses Rerursn. GENERAL am? his ENGINE \Vclt Indies, and to Europe than had arrived ; notwithllanding which, enough were found to tranlport the army which had been reinforced in the mean time, together with 1100 loyLeaves fifty £11131 inhabitants, at one embarkation, belides near 50 fail of veil ‘0 [ht I'Cbt‘ls' {els that were left at the wharfs, for the ule of the rebels, many of which were lhon converted into privateers, and decorated Hi:s verbal ex- with the thirteen liripcs. Thclb are facts, and I adduce them as unequivocal proof of "15 l'cfule'd- the inlufiicicncy of the realbns, given by Sir William, for his continuing" at 'Bol‘ton during the winter. And I allow him {ozre credit for laying nothing, in the Houl‘e of Commons, of tling and diverting the attentio n of the warrilbn t" the nnnnrobject, took poll on the cmnmznidiiw hei'rhts of 130 m chcltenheck. Here, as at Bun kcr'sdlill the \V'zrli‘sx'er ore great torwardnels when difcovercd: with'thi s dillierenciad-e in ever, that thelb wer e more extenfive, had lh'onsr abb'ttis rdiiid them, and were to lituatcd as not to admit ot the‘choice bf ground tor att acking them as the others did. a want of tranlports, and rclling his defence for dilimeying' the The r‘renei‘il tells us they mull have employed 12,000 men in their conllruction ; we order {oh-1y on its late arrival. But unfortunately for him this ground is equally untenable with that which he abandonec; they would have been defended by an equal num ber. A dctaehmentiof 2 00 for the northerly winds, which he tells us in the lame letter prevail at that leafon, are extremely favourable for a movement arkedi'i tranlports to fall down the harbou r to Callie \Villiam from whence the defient was to be made. The intervention ol‘a vio» lent ll'orm of wind and rain preven ted the attack and provi< den tially laved thole devoted troops - and the ' " 7 veriv next day, Without lhuthward. If {M PW" dC- The crulhing the privateering bufinels in its bud was another fi_""‘1-""i7_""" objeCt worthy the at: "ion of a General. In November 1775, t;;1dcl..".cd. the ailemblvpf :\lall..ehnlictts 3 7id an act for grantingr letters of marque lllld rcprizal, and conftituting‘r a court of admiralty for the condemnation of Britilh lhips. The dcll'rufiion of thole nefls ofpiratcs, the lea ports, where the evil originated, might have been very ealily effected, and would have rendered the moll: ellential lerviCC to the Britilli empire, as it would have prevented the depredations on our unhilpet‘ting trade, and have cut oil" finleaving Bof- ther inllaiice, in which anv confide nce had be" placed in our hero, they were to be dilappoi nted; ‘ in Roiiliffgefifieiiifig caInnonad ed and bombarded the town fro m "his (mum, . .D _ _ pps aim, three nights lllccellively, in theDorth cl'tL-rncuk beginning ot‘hlarchhmth ver y little effort however, unlels it u a; the .unt may therefore rcalonably conclude, that onlywverc ordered to dillodgc the rebels, and were emb any material change of circumllances havinO‘ taken place, (for the llorm that had prevented the debarkiltion of the troops had llopt the progrel‘s ~or" the works) the enter-prizes was abandoned, and, to the utter alloniihment of all who were got in the General 5 councils, orders lllued for evacuatin Evacuation. g ollon. ' Now, I beg leave to alk Sir William Howe whether Bolton The favourite was tenable the only rclourccs that for a long time enabled the rebels to carry on the war. But this was never once in contemplation. To judge from his letters, Sir lVilliam intended neither the one nor or not? he had indeed linked his reputation as a ge- 51‘9"" "it" ncral on the allirmative. Ifit was not, how could he or his glut" Dmlmfi, favourite engineer overlook this poll 9 Could they l‘uppol‘c that the other ; but alter lblacing himl‘elfat Bolton during the Winter, to have gone, at his own leifure, in aplealant l‘ealon of the year-to fome other place, the toot of this hill, would fail as loon as the l'eal'on opened to To quiet the minds of adminil‘tration, the general wrote he the rebels, who before winter had made regular approaches to occupy the top of it ? why were no precautions taken to pre< Vent it P why was not a poll ellablilhed there as at Bdnker'_ ‘0" "7‘0"" "'3' was not under " the lead apprehenlion of any attack from the Hill ? or if Bollon was tenable as the General hadpledqed him; 'mmhmgabmH‘ rebels by fur rize or otherwife; on the contrary, that it tahon. " ' s was to be wrYipned that they u, ould attempt f0 ralh a flep ,-" rcqucllcd inlli‘tiftioris i‘efpefling the efleéts at Bolton ; and pro~ felt, and I confels I have not the leaft doubt of, why in God's name was it {0 lhamefully abandoned P why were the army and the loyalills obliged to combat war, peltilencc, and famine poled that whenever the troops lhould be withdrawn, a battalion lhould be entrenched at a place where {hips could winter with (artery, for blockading the harbour. Our Confidence Government acquielced in the realbns he had given, and the in HWC dildwuliuranccs he had made, and not doubtingr but their General Ppm‘"d' in" that period, been lent to Carolina, Georgia, Nova Scotia, the ER avg-Ia"! Doacnssrsx. ‘3‘ army-me, . 2/. -li lhipping in the harbour, oving to more V'cfels having, within might be found at Bolton in the fpring, lent a large fOI‘Cc [0 that place, and expected him to have put a very diflerent face on the war there before he left it, But in tine, as in every o~ £1163 through the winter at Bolton, only to be hurried from it in the fpring? or why was the. town finally evacuated with circum- fiances {o dilpiritin-g to the troops, and lo encouraging to the rebels P All the cannon at Charles 'l‘own, the greatcft part of {00 "mm"! thofe at the lines on the Neck, two thirteen inch mortars, and 1ng:3: ‘93 If: other ordnance, amounting in the whole to (lerviceablc and {flight}: unferviceable) 100 pieces, great quantities of military liores, and even provifions, fell into the hands of the rebels. And as though {omething was lliil wantingto {well their triumph and. make it complete, a convention was entered into with thebrer R .3 . EA |