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Show .19 Evidence ofSIR GUY CARLETON.' Evfzfiwce qg" SIR GUY CARLETON. polled himfelf accordingly, and was attacked much about the hour Sir lVilliam Howe informed him. Strongly in {-1- He'~.'.'entthrough a very long:examination,inthe courfe ofwhich W" "‘- G‘ H" he feemed extremely favourable to the Commander in Chief, and returned very dry anlivers to tho‘fe who interrogated him on the part of adminillration, particularly to 111‘. Eden, Sir Richard Sutton, and Governor jo'infione. Among other very firong circumllances in Sir W. liowe's favour, he related a converfation which patted between him and Col. Donop, in which that oflicer told him. that the General gave it to him in orders to direct Col. Rhall to raile defences, and fortify a houfe or houfes Rhall's mile". at Trenton ; that in cafe an attack llTOUlCl be made on that poll A. He Could give no direct opinion, as that mull have depended upon circumflances with which he prot‘efl'ed himfelf entirely unacquainted. 2. Had not Sir Guy Carleton carried on a cori‘efpondence with Lord George Germaine, refpeeling the conduit of the Northern expedition ? A. He would rather Willi to decline giving an anfwer ; he Not anl‘w. if he did not chufc to give one. corriijQRd-Wim Eb \Vere not all difpzttches forwarded for the General, thro' 1" l" ('"ma‘ll' the witnefs, and was not he the perfon to whom they were firll communicated ? A. He was ; but when General Burgoyne left the limits of his government, he had no more to do than to forward them. ""1‘l‘ll'l‘cil‘fwrc bv the rebels, the brigade lhould be able to defend themfelves 39.91"" at hmtill reinforced from Burdenton by Colonel Donop. Donop {aid ctcat. ,. p . that Rhall had neglected to obey the orders wn;ch he had conveyed to him from the General, and that was the cattle of the fatal furprize and dilitller wnich afterwards followed. General Howe then acquainted the Houfe, that he had clo- Q Did the Witnefs look upon himfelf to have any controul or direftion over the expedition .9 A. So long as Gen. Burgoyne remained in Canada he thought he certainly had. Q. Was it the witnel‘s that colleéted the force, and fettled the difiribution, and took all the necefi'ary meafures for for- fed his evidence for the preterit, but that he meant, fliould he. think it neceflary to bring other witzielles hereafter, to move for having them called, in Order to be examined. warding the expedition P A. It Was he made the necefl'ary preparations before the arrival of the General ; but afterwards, in order to expedite and forward the operations, and to fave the time which might be {pent in applications for frefh orders, he committed the whole management to the General himfelf. SIR GUY CARLETON. Rflu‘Z-flg Grimm! Bazgrync. Q \Vhether he thought that the Canada exoedition was to {Kill not 31:137. be executed percmptorily for forcing the way to Albany P A. That was a matter of opinion which he did not think him- H (1.131)) goync s {Elf 0b};ch t0 anfwer. 3:13:03" p" Q \Vhether he thought. the train of heavy or field artillery dilproportioned to the tervice ? A. He could not lay any thing refpefting that, becaufe he was unacquainted with the fervice to be performed after pafling Tiv conderoga; but he was inclined to think that an heavy train was necellary till Ticonderoga was reduced, and put into a tena‘ ble fiate. On, the train of ,Q. \Vhether the heavy train was not the fame as accompaaf‘lm'r)" nied the army, when the witnefs commanded the expedition in 1776 ? A. He believed it was. Q Whether the arrangement of both trains was not formed in concert with General Phillips ? A. He believed it might within the province, but could not 3y what palled upon the fubjeét, after the Generals had taken poliéliion of Ticonderago. .Q. Did not the witnefs think that the field train defcribed by' the Hon. General was neceilury to the eliciting the operations he was charged with P Examined 5} Col. Barre. Q W'hether, if acquainted that the General was likely to meet with great difficulties from the enemy, fuch as being firongly polled in the line of communication, he (the witnefs) looked upon himfelf fufliciently authorifed to countermand him and prevent him from proceeding ? A. If under his command he molt certainly fliould. .2, If the witnefs had learned that the enemy was in force on the frontier, 8cc. would he think himfelf warranted in {of- pending the operations P A. If the rebels were in the province he fliould colleét the whole force of the province to expel them. ,2: Not an anfwer; it was not to know what he would do If he thought in cafe of invafion within the province, but fuppofing that Gen. B's out?" the northern army had reached the frontier of the province, rfircmptory- and that an account of the firength of the enemy, and the difficulty of diflodging them had reached him, in that cafe would he look upon himfelf authorikd by his commiflion and inllructions from the Secretary of State to put a {top to the expedition, or fo bound to the peremptory orders under which he aaed, as to permit the northern army to proceed P A. If within the limits of his government, where he was compe- A. He |