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Show [104] the power of entering into treaties and alliances under eerrain reflrié'tions therein fpecified, yet we do not find promulgated any aé't 0r refolution of the Allemblies of particular States conferring this power on you. " As we have communicated our powers to you, we mean to proceed without referve in this bufinefs ', we will not liuppofe that any objeftion can arife on your part to our communicating to the'public to much of your corref- pondence as may be neceflary to explain our own proceedings. At the fame time we. allure you, that in all luch publications, the refpeé't which we pay to the great body of people you are l‘uppofed to reprelisnt, (hall be evidenced by us in every poflible mark of conlideration and regard. WE. are with perfeét refpeé't, [1053 THE propofal contained in the letter, to enlarge ind:pendence, is at the firlt hlufh abl‘urd :---Anv {ta e,‘the dew pendence of which could be leilencd, is oil. corilbquence not independent. The offer therefore is a mere jargon of yvords, and calculated, as indeed the whole letter appears, tor the people, and particularly for thofe whom they have thought proper to call our fellow-citizens of this continent, or, in other words, the traitors who have joined the common enemy. But one of their great obje‘Cls wits, if pof- fible, to draw the Congrcls into {nine kind of treaty or correfpondence, in order that they might have where- wrthal to give weight to the calumnies they have pro- pagated, by declaring to the French court that the Con" grels were faithlefs, and indeed had ucflmlly bargained for the firbjeétion of America, the price of which was to be paid by thefe Commifiioners, IN confidence with this plan, and, ifpoflible, to obtain GENTLEMEN, an indirec‘t acknowledgment of their authority, they, on Your mo/Z obedient mid mo/t' bumble for-emits, CARLISLE, H. CLINTON, WM. EDEN, GEO. JOHNSTONE." the 26th of Auguft, 1778, made a rcquilition of the troops of the convention of Saratoga, in the following terms : By #1:? Earl ofC ARLISLE, Sir HENRY CLIN-a T O N, and VV l L l IA M E l) E N, Efq; t/Jreo of U 1'0»: which the Congrel's came to the followrng refolution : [it Iizrgjyfy'; oommi/fioners, appointed with figj‘zrimt poured; lo trmt, [on/12!! and agree upon the 721mm yqzriatz'r/g flit! dyorrzilrs now fizbflfling in certain oft/Jo colonies, plantations and province; of LVort/2-flmerim. " W HE R E AS Congrefs in a letter to the Britifh Commiflioners of the 17th ofJune lalt, did declare that they would be ready to enter upon the confideratron of a treaty of peace and commerce, not inconfif'tent With treaties already fubfilling, when the King of (th‘flt-brltllln fliould demonflrate a lincere difpofition for that pui‘pofe ; and that the only folid proof of this difpofition would be an explicit acknowledgement of the Independence of thefe chief of his majcll'y's forces, that the troops lately ferving under lieutenant-general Burgoyne, notwithlland- ing the folemn convention entered into at Saratogzi, in States, or withdrawing his fleets and armies : And. whereas, neither of thefe alternatives have been complied With, various pretences, till detained in New-England-"The following remonllrance againlt the unjul'r detention of the refore " R E s o L v E D, That no anfwer be given to the letter of the 11th infiant from the Britilh Commiflioneiis." ' ‘H E " " PON a reprefentatioii from the commander in which it is fiipulated that the {aid troops lhould have a free pallage to Great-Britain, are neverthelefs, under thole troops, and requifition {or their immediate releale, on the condition annexed to the article by which their pallage to England is f'tipulated, are now folernnly made to the American Congrel‘s : " WHEREAS |