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Show COL. KINGSTON. Eon/um of LIEUT. COL. KINGSTON. On his crofs-examination by Sir Richard Sutton, Colonel fore the 7th, and the body at the {econd ford, he believed, Kingllon faid, that he did not know that there were any hor- On horfcs. after, on the 8th. {es to {pare to remount Reidl‘el's difmounted dragoons; that he knew of none but thote appropriated to the carrying of provilions, camp baqgaee, artillery, and thofe belongingr to the Said, there was a remarkable inliance happened at Saratoga (rimming) in a on the 8th or 9th. General Frazer, a few minutes before he Clctg; man. died, requefled that he might be privately interred in the redoubt next the enemy. The injunction was not rigidly complied with; for Generals Burgoyne, Reidftl, and Phillips, with lireh otlicers and others as could be {pared from their polls, and he Snow: inlixnt e among the rtft, attended the funeral, in rclpet‘t to the memory of that very gallant ofiicer. The rebels, the only act of in- humanity he knew them to be guilty of, obliervingi the funeral procellion, pointed two guns at the redoubt, and kept up an ineellant fire until the body was covered in. The Chaplain, however, notwithllandingr his very unpleafant fituation, went through the funeral lbrvice with all due propriety and folemnity, teeming to be totally regardlefs of any iconfequences while difeharging‘ his duty. He {aid he had an original paper in his hand, being; minutes taken at the l'eeond council of war of the Generals Land Field Oliiccrs. The names of the officers were not read. l'ays, that the 47th regiment is not to be depended up, on, in cafe the pmpolition from General Gates fhoul d be reieéled. is of opinion, that the 62d is too much reduced and difpirited to be able to do regimental duty in real aftio n.--- Similar oplnlons, or nearly to the fame effect, but not uite {o thong, were given as to other regiments. Foreign othccrs German's mt coul . d not A anliv _ cr for their men in an enterprize which forbid fight. all expectation of friccefs. Britilh unanimoull y cngaered for then feveral regiments and corps, f0 lone; as they remained in their prelent polition, being determined i0 refill the attack of the enemy to the lull. prefent. Three of the Field Officers were not It was unanimoufly agreed in a confultati on between the G6" that an attem t {h ld ‘ , "In Fort Edward at all cve nts, had not p on he made to 8'" the intelligence already" neral Ollicers only £13th 10 have been given by the {couts happily prevented it. On oliicers; that the otlicers could not {pare theirs, as they had not enough to {upply their own wants ; that he and Sir Francis Clarke found themlislves greatly tiillrefred for ho'rfes, and that be procured fome with n'nzch dilhculty; that the hortes belonging to the train and provilion tranlport, belonged to the contractor in Canada, who provided them; that he liiw no t l On the 8th a working and coveringr party Were {can on the plain of Saratoga, throwing up works ; but a party being l'ent forward, they crolled the r] vet and polled themfelves on the other tide at the head of the ford. It was intended by the General to attempt a retreat, and hazard a fecond ar‘tion which would have taken place, had not the out-{count given intelligence ofthol‘e politions having been taken, the truth of uhich was afterwards contained to him by General Gate5. Sick of the rebels preterit, boo and upwards, lick not prefent, about 700. l treat to Fort Edward on the well fide of the river ; the body on our rear, and on the heights oppofite Saratoga, were polled be- ground in America fit for cavalry to make a charge on, though Dragoons, in {inall parties, for fecret intelligence, Sac. dragoons might i have proved ofeliential {ervicm He did not know that there Were many women followed the army ; he had no time to attend to their beauty or their numbers; he never heard there And women. Were two thoufand, nor did he believe there were half that number. Examine/7 791 Gmrral' ]? 1171397140. By the queflions aflted by the honourable gentleman, it would imply as ifI was influenced by improper palhons. ral quellions to Col. Kingdom. He put {eve- The Col. anfwered, that there were only three women allowed to every company; that provilions were allowed for {0 many and no more ; that the Commiflary, without a grols breach of his duty, could not iii-ac any more rations than what the order allowed ; and, as for impeding- the baggage, it was impotiible, for if any more women than were allowed by the order attended, they mutt have walked, or found a mode ofcarriage for themfelves: but Without entering into fiu'ther particulars, he had every realbn to believe that there was no colour of complaint on that head. Examine/I 7? (harem/2r frlyzzdnw. A co-operarion up the i‘h rth River, it" in force, Would, as lf'fiil'V-'.H‘.had he had heard from (om * of the rebel qcner-il oilicvrét, and mad: ‘(n‘l"""{;l Gin time, have obiiqed Gen. Gate: to have quiter his po‘ititn. "lid"! me He believed, ifSir ‘.Villiam Him}, with the {Fraud army, had h i i Come up by that route, the imprelhon he would. have made would have been in proportion to his numbers. it «as, reaibn- able "0 think, that he would have etiefted more with a greater force than what he no "erllood might have thrl} done by an in~ ferior one. He undertiood the country between Albany and NEW-York was very lironft. I'M did not litiow what degree of interruption or oblil‘ut‘iion Sir "William Howe init ht have met with from Gen. Valhington, in the courlc of his operations F 2 Up ; ‘. E\\.\.e"o~n.fiJ A. Evident: (If LIEUT. |