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Show Ew'a'cme if Loan Bntcaxaas. . Evidence of C A r- "r A I rt M 0 N E v. ,. more advifahle to accept of the convention; and tnis was 3: CAPTAIN MON EY length unanimouily determined on. The General had the full confidence of his army from the Esra tilts/Z 1y Gazer/z] Billy/D'IIP. He afted as Deputy (garter-matter General in Canada, and Capt. Money mat the cantid. (1113' in which he was invel‘tcd with the fupreme command; that of lg: armi. they were perrret‘tly fatislied wrthhrs zeal and ability; that as well after as before the convention, he‘ was equally dear to them; that in all dillicultits and‘trying htuations, the General had always polished himlhlt; that the army approved of the after leaving that Province, in the abfencc of Lieutenant Colo- 613184 1"nel Carleton, the whole fervice devolved on him. From his rank and general commotion in the lbrvice, he con- On the Route, firmed in a more full, politive, and detailed manner, every particular movement and manoeuvre tinted by the Earl of Balear- Examined I5} Cpl/111d Barre. Gen.R. in 311':- General's return to Europe, as they looked upon a man who had all along lhared the common dangers, afihéhons,‘ and diftreiFTS with the private centincl, to he the llttfifl: perion-to re- commend than to the notice of their Sovereign; that in the dillribution ol‘yremetion, which has iinee generally talten place, they had every rcnfon and good ground to hope, tl at the reprefentation of their C(nnmtuider in Cl‘iiefvvould ih‘ongly plead in their favour; and. that, whether in linglander America, General Burgoyne would have proved t .e belt ll‘ICfld andfnoll proper advocate for the Cilieers and brave men who had lerved unv der him. Eanzzzz'mv! 5:12 Gavrmnr :701‘77 071:. Gama, fine at? His lordfhip could not undertake to fay what might have mutt-queues ofbcen the conl'equence of a eta-operation of Sir VVllllam Howey; a co-Opcrat:<m- army up the North River. He had, it was true, given opnn~ 0113 in the court}: of his examination; yet none, he trufted, but fuch as clearly arol'e from fuels, or from matters of which his rank and iitutition in the army entitled him to give. Farther than that he muft decline. An intended co-operation was firll expeeted, and it was not till the third of Oftober that the mf" tions of Sir Henry Clinton in the Highlands gave any certain allurance of a co-operation up the North River. After feveral queftions being afked by Mr. Burke, Colonel Cnflow, and Sir Richard Sutton, Mr. Eden defired to knOW, if the Officers in general approved of Sir William Howe's expedition by the way of Chefapeak. His Lordfhip was ordered to withdraw, on which a long debate on the point of order enfued, whether a witnefe of any rank or fituation was juftified in refuf' ing to anfwer. Lord Balcarras was called in by general confent, and on con« dition that he fnould not be prelied to anfwer any queflione to which he might think proper to objeét. His Lordiltip gave one general anfwer, that he could not 2;)an on the propriety of meafures of which he was not a wit‘ .618 nor upon them further than his rank and experience in -h:. ervice ent,i,-:.etl him to decide. Capt, ras, relative to the rout by Skeenfborough; the lituation of Fort George; the engagement at Fort Anne; the firft and fecond crofiing of the Iltltlftiir's River; the delay and the caufcs of it, previous to the battle of the myth neptcmber; the tranf- Ute-"fi mv-j-M. aélion of that day; and the infinite me the heavy artillerytillcry. proved on every oeeafion duringr the campaign. He :16.th as Commiflary of the Horfe. He had the care ot‘on {muffin ing the contrac‘l with the drivers ofthe waggons, {or the horfes, EKG. proviiion's. The General had iflued a fpecifie and general order, that no ()flicer, under any pretence whatever, fhould take an horfe from the ule of the baggage; that the horned cattle taken on the march {hould be employed in the land tranlport of provifions ; that there were {even days {pent only in the repair of the road from Fort Edward to Fort Anne, and one from Fort Anne to Skcenclborough, in the whole eight,- that the provilion tram."- port was efll‘flcd by 180 waggons; the water tranfport by 400 batteaux and craft acrofs Lake George; and the carrying place would on the whole have taken ten days or a fortnight's time more than the land tranlport by Sheenefnorouqh. After the jundrion of General Fral'er With the detachment on the other tide of Httdfon's River, July the 9th, it being determined to pufh for Albany, the delay was in order to get a month's provilions forward. The engagement at Stillwater Bloodv main} was a molt bloody confiift; it continued from three in the af- at Sulliva n: ternoon till dark ; the great weight of it lay n the 20th, 211i, and ()2d regiments; thefe retriments fullercd greatly, and were unfit for the line for form time,- the rebels dilputed the ground with great obllinacy, and uncommon reiblution, and were nevcr entirely broke till it was too dark to purfue them, in a country to naturally fironq. He could not tell exaetly the rank and file {it for at‘tual ferviee. He did not know that the 62d regi- ment confided of but lixty four rank and file, and five Ofliccrs fit for ferviec; the returns would tell that; but he believe d the three regiments already mentioned did not amount to three hun- g Regimcntinel dred men, and were of courfe inferior to a complrat battalion. éeo m n. They were much fironltrer 0n the 7th of October, numbers of Eel; recovers , and {tightly wounded, l1.‘.\ ing conlide rably fireng‘thened them. He rcconnoitered the right of th: rebel camp in their lines, pre- |