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Either, theref ‘ ore, tie l Blit i " ifli ‘ troom d ps troo muttpshate been theg‘rea‘tel‘t of all poltroons, who were unable to contend with an inferior number of new-raif ed, half-clothed and halfarmed American militia ;--+or elfe there mull have bitcni an ieivtreme deficiency in our Generalihip. \‘Vhichi may have been the cafe, what ground can eith hever of their er of them ailord for a triu I" "W"; fili‘L'fhis command, and been content to enjoy in privacy the for:dltnmfli "u tune he had acquired, till the nation had in iome mea‘i'ure di° gi‘iit‘ll the difgraces and lolfes we had iufiered under his coma ven out of Bofion; and who, after having befien beat-in at Trenton and Prince-Town, was flill more iiitglorio uily driven inand in America ; or till the dangrers and calamities, which, out of the Jet‘feys; Whole troops, by bravely beat imr in the rebel out-polls, had often pointed out to him «the way ti) victor‘v‘ while he never chofe to follow i ; but invariably allo wed the in comrequence of them, threaten us here at home, were pail fed over ;-~he might not then perhaps have been dil'turbed in his retirement. A‘gule‘M-"f'r'wzl But at a time when the Britifli empire in America is funk, I""""luh*"3' andwhen thoniitnds and thoufands of good fubjeéts in both countries are ruined by its fall; at a time, when, with the. lofs of our Colonies, the empire here in Britain itfelf is fliaken and endangered ; at fuch a time of public calamity, when every his army thereby brought to the brink of delh'ucnon, from which it was refcued by the fingle bravery and 'gotml-eondn et of Lieutenant Colonel l‘vlni'grave; who had been badlt-d and defeated in all his attempts, and out-generaled even ‘ov a man that was none; and who now, after three years command, a time ofdidrefs for a General to take to himlelfovations and triumphs greater than the Dike of ll'Iarlborough, or any Engliflt Was the da 7 he landed on Staten-Illand P-U‘xm l what lvrttence, (‘m-v'w' 1 e t . . l. ~-"' i .. commander ever thought of; to fuller himfelf to be crowned but wife in the mird of every man of fcnfe, the higheft degree of afloniflunent and indignation. Could a Commande 'n Chief, in a war of f0 much_impore found himfelf much lefs able to fupprel's the rebellion, than he I fay, could this gentleman fuller himfelf to be crowned with launls net-r laurcls which he never won ? 0r encourage the dedicating a "'0"triumphal arch with plumes and military trophies to his honour, Without his having once had the honour of a Conquer} ? "Then lb very extraordinary a method has; been tlihcll to per< fuade us of the high cf'timation in which he is held for his fulfil" LMum-,1,tance ; after the nation 3 ad been put to the e'xpence of to many military abilities, it is a piece ofjullicc dim to the public, to millions to no purpo c ; and when {0 many thoufands of good produce the opinion which even the rebels enter" tin of him ; lo very ditierent from that which is here given by his flatterers and dependants. The words of a letter adtlrefled to him in the American Crifis; :1 work which fome have given to Dr. Franklin. It is known to be written under the patronage of the Con grel‘s, and under the inlh'ue‘tions of their capital and belt informed leaders. {objects are ruined by the mifearriage of it-could he think, that we lhonld lofe all il‘nfe of the public calamities, becaufe he expreflhs no feelings .7 1‘ them .9 Did he think we fliould ima0" I‘Prfiml 9""‘5' gine that America w: 5 ill ours, becaufe he fhewed no Hume, but had a triumph nu for him upon the lofs of it ? Or that a three years {cries r?" _ :rpetual dii‘grraces v. ould not be fcen ‘ through all his ovati 1nd triumphal arches ? 4‘ ("W5 of 311 How much foever ' may be in a General's power to repre<'r.!uilci' (Jigsaw. and 3 3‘ . 94 A1"; . Americans to march of? unmolefied, and unpurfiuee‘; who had futi‘ered himfelf to be furprized at German-town, and had feel good Englifliman was trembling for the commonwealth; at fuch with laurcls, and to have triumphal arches erected to his honour; is fuch an infult offered to our underftandings, as cannot No {1.713, U,- command; who had fuflered l1iin1e1t'to be inido i‘it)tiflv dri~ 313,2: '1'.» a '5‘ If Sir lYilliain Howe had thought fit quietly to refign ‘4 A Him?" M" ~ ill mph P'Qr upon what foundation could a Gene ralu vho had feen the Britiih arms endure innumerable difgrzices under his ' i 4 fent his army as gre or left,c to {int any ‘17 H (flat arm/'07: yet one thing at lcall i: : ‘tziin, that Gen. Howe was furnifhed, with a force abundantl' ‘ fiicient to have on ‘lled the rebellion. Both friends and foes e in this, thaf from the year 1776 he never met Mr. "2-.- igton but wt . an army fupermr in number, as well as in Deodnefs, to that of the enemy which "'35 The fill-ERICflN CRISLQ, Arum/2N" I", [211.171,]?er in General Sir "07221171: 1710106. 5‘ If} the fizz/[tor (If Comma/‘1 Srizfl‘. - " That a man, whofe foul is abforl ed in the low trafiic 0meva vulgar vice, is incapable of moving in any luperior region, is L1; 1" clearly fliown in you by the event of every campaign ;--yonr hem. " military |