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Show Etw'dmce 0f 31 A j o R Emir/HIM ofCArrAIN BLOOMFIELD B A L L. prcfs himfclfin warm terms of approbation refpce'ting Genera! _ .. _ Burgoyne. Gvnd‘hiiliwnc- He iiever heard that Gen. Phillips made a propofition at 521ver "55‘1" W rotom't to endeavour to force his way buck to 'l‘1conderog‘n with few: his "Wyn pf" of the army; but he was prefent when Gen. Phillips 03,.er to haznrd his own perlim, attended by UHF. 01‘ two bail" guides through the woods, in order to throw himfelt rnto that fortrefs, and defend it ngninft the rebels fliould they think proer to attack it. His Lordfhip nnfwered two queftions as follows. 145, barn-C. hurfes to" mcn- Does the noble Lord think that fourteen hundred horfcs severe not too great :1 number to carry the baggage, cannon, were not arrived in their proper fiation, on account of which Germars of turningr the right of the enemy ; that five or fix Britifh x‘e-"‘¢i°"Ygiments (we bi‘get which.)_ engaged in the line, had fuii‘ered greatly ; that the rebels dilputed the ground with great obfti- nacv and refolution, but that being wounded early in the action, he would fpenk nothing as to what happened after that circumftnnce took plleC ; that the troops, harrafl'ed, fatigued, and decreafed in numbers as they were, were not, in his opinion, fit the next day to improve the viétory they had gained. He underwent, as did Lord Harrington, a very longycrofsexamination. The queftions were chiefly put by Sir Richard He does not, be nufc he (‘1 ' ‘" underihmd, that there was a a demand for more horfes th. 1 could be procured. Is it not his Lordflrip's opinion, that if the park of artillery Sutton, and Mr. Eden ; but the witneffes were fironger, if poffihle, in their :zifwers, than on their examinations in chief. The crofs-examination was chiefly directed to learn, whether there were not too many horfes employed ; whether the heavy and heavy field pieces had been abandoned after the tuition of cannon were not too numerous, and whether, in fine, the land the 7th of October, that the army thus dilincumbered might have found its way back to Fort Edward F-By no means, he- tranfport was not the caufe of the flownefs of the movements forward. provilion, ftores, 85c. of an army confldernbly under 7000 men ? re- the left of the centre was uncovered, and the opportunity lofthm a duitlve COF-fi‘QN‘WN" it‘cnufe the heavy artillery and heavy field pieces proved its befi I"? "‘5‘" "‘"d defence, in its fubfequent iituation, till after the furrender; "m‘iamii‘iw' that it would he imporiiblc to rcpnts the ford over Hudfon's River, unlefs protected by them; and that being furrounded on every tide, if they had abandoned their cannon, that circumfiance alone would have proved their deftruetion, as their own artillery would be employed againft them. \Ve beg leave to fate a circumthtnce relative to this engages ment, mentioned by Lord Harrington, but which Capt. Money could not fpenk to ; after the German battalion had given way on the left, General Reidfel did every thing in his power to rally them, and bring them back to the charge, but to no real set-o. It was duringr the retreat on the right, which nev G. Frazermor- ceiliirily took place, left from the defeetion on the left, that ""1 "U"ndt‘d- part of the army f'nould be turned and furrounded, that thc gallant Genernl Frazer received the wound, which in a few hours proved mortal. MAJOR Major Ball. BALL. He confirmed every thing material already given in evidence till the battle of Stillwater, in which he was wounded early in the day. He was peremptory in his opinions, and gave them without referve. He faid he fought in the line on that day, CAPTAIN BLOOMFIELD. qf t/Je ArtiZ/mj. After giving nnfwers to the fucceflive queflions already fiated, Capt.BIoamfidi and beingr very fully erofs-examined relative to the number ofonthc but-05L?horfes, carriages, Sec. employed in the land tranfport; the number of light and heavy field pieces, the weights, callihres, 81c. ofthe artillery park, the necel'iity of which he fully juttitied in every particular, he gave the following narrative of the battle of the 7th of Oétober. He fuid, that the 24th regiment was placed in a wood on Oralsrofbattln his right, and the light infantry on the right of them forward in a plantation, or opening of clear ground; on his left, the battalion of Heiie~Hannu, and form other German corps. The artillery, two medium twelves, were planted on a hill, on the plantation in his front; and a little on one fide 6 fixpounders. The pofition was therefore this ; the artillery and Germans were poited on the plain ,- the wood on the right was lined with the 24th ; in the other plantation, fl‘ill further on the right, and which was divided only by the wood, the light infantry, advanced corps, Sec. were poded. In this polition the army remained, lumn advanced into the plain. when the rebel CO'Rcbcls attack. They came forward out which was formed on the edge of the plain by the Commander of the woods in front, in Chief; that the rebels fought with great obftinacy i that the 1 , commanded by General Frazer, and the centre, WC" mod heavy cannonade enfued on our purt, which the rebels formed in time; that the left, compofed of the Germans. this cannonade, grape (hot, and rifle-fire from the troopsf for "u ' . were but partly on his left. bore with remarkable refolution. 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