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Show Ely/{lean of MAJOR GENERAL Rosana-sort. E01401" tanAion GENERAL ROBERTSON. ought to be VCficd With very extenfive powers, ‘ and prefent patronag'e. to 'aifil‘t and forward the operations of the . Such a command was always iuppofed to originate in high confidence ,- and it fhould of 7mm rot/J, with what it apparently profefied. 1779. Col. Barre. He didbrciiot tlxllnk, that it Was either the with of this mun-ROM].on t b , .- l . . . . i o '- There were woods, mommisa and feveral "VHS! he acknow l i _ d u)0n the route from New York to Albany.-_-Strong ‘9" to {UH 1‘16 ‘ 'mellc‘ls 0T, if it were, that it would be praC-extinguiihed. c never ticable. "fist: riii ht be taken and defended by numbers much inferior. I) t' ‘ tion of game ' ofgthe NzgthRiver rivers which intoofthethem tern fide, North River ‘ on the eafwere very deep;fellfome were fordable. {Thfi "‘1‘" bylal‘d' craft dee ones could be Failed overbe on . the ihallow ones could floats, rafts, and in ma forded‘He, could not fay, whether it would or would not be fafe to - in America might be employed as a balance againil the. rebels ; and that the arms of Great Britain being thrown in, might prepoiiderate the fcale in our favour. He did not fee any intention of fubduinq America; but he IFoldexperienebelieved, all Circumllances confidered, with old and experi-Cd ""1"" 00m" eiiced oflicers to command, America might be brought to her mand‘ former He could not fay whether operations by water, by the North Wm, mm." River were practicable. He was clear, that by the "Erratum: tion co-opeiaof the naval force and procuring llate of obedience: He could not undertake to fay, that hc'faw to the end or the American War, nor could fix a water-conveyance for any limited time to its duration. floopS, craft, &c. could be procured for the .purpofe; but on taxation had been given up before the vote of independence the fuppofition that there could, he {aw nothing to materially obtlruét or defeat fuch a meafure. . He had no intercourfe Wlth'tl'ie people of America, fin" mand, during the remainder of the campaign 1776. He was in England, or on fea, during the whole of the campmgén 1777H6 had, during his '{tay at New York, in 17] . autumn 1777, and the campaign I778, feveral converfatwns with Americans of and. confequencc.~- . weight , . - j -He had, under. the above exceptions, given his tellimony chiefly mation of others. on the infor . . . h Lord Amherfl, he confeffed, in his operations up the Nort River, had no enemy to contend With. He only {poke there- fore on the grounds of probability, and what he had reafon 10 believe would have been the ilfue of fuch operations: . d Hc did not know, nor hear, that the Britifh Cabinet ha confulted any military men on the conduct of the Americans. They might, without its coming to his knowledge. 'I he nobl; Lordflt the head of the American departmefrlitchad (3221:: :1; him in_ one inflance, which be related to‘t e _.ommi f proceeding day, concerning the propriety 0‘ fending Pym] ""3 s, to Great "‘ America liere Britain, and tranlmitting tllnem biz; >thcon' or unaltered, He gave .1115 Opinion, that luc a mo " 0 , dut‘tinq military operations, at {0 very great a dillance, wa , . :.nipi. r. .. oper. He always thought that a Comm..andeli-‘ Chlé ‘ r 1'1 outrht ~. 5 He believed, if there been PO taxation, [hfffe would have been no rebel lion ; thathad it. He did not exaftly know, whether the breaking out of the rebellion, He was at bpfiop- He was prefent at Longr Illand, and {laid at New York in his com~ He did not fup: pofe that the loyal' Americans, armed, ‘ were equal - to reflore , legal and coiifiitutional government, Without the aid and co« operation of this country. He thought, that the loyal fubiefis urfuc to fuch operations, in the face of an enemy, in force fufiicient difpute the paflage. That would depend upon the decrrcc. offirenqth on one fide, arid refifiaiice on the other, and thg proper diftribution and dire€tion of the force employed. tookplace, noduch vote would have ever paffed; nor if the concdiatory bills had reached America, even after Gen. Burs goynes detest, bUt prevrous to the treaty with France; ConEFCfS, however \E:C}llI1CllnCd to reject them, would not have ventured contradiCting the prevailing voice Of the people. He was no _)Lidge of the wifdom of the councils of this coun30'; nor, if he had an opinion upon the fubjeél, would it be CCFHI, or confident With his rank and fituation, to give an anfwerrothe Hon. Member's qtieflion in the terms in whichit Waspmpofed. a . ‘Tho he cannot fee to the end of the war, or how . it Will or Clinton‘s arm; Will not terminate, he had no opinion how far it would be wife to purfue or defifl from it. He looked upon Sir Henry Clinton to be a very able and aétive Officer. He had no returns, but inetplrefumed the army, under his propii-r order and command, d C underflood that America was to be fubdued but that rebellion was to be extinguifhcd. . l the troops, that it might. courte be accompanied ecarripg'ugn 1778, was equal, or nearly equal to that un- _€r Sir William Howe the proceedino campaign 1777. He behered his army was equal to the plaii of the campaian, that of :{1 efenfive war, and being always prepared to feizc aiijd improve afilzgrable Circumfmnces. He could not {peak to the exa&§ra"‘;5§?rrsa‘ n . "3 0f the troops detached to the "Toll Indies under GC- Lampad‘s' {emf} Grant, or the corps fent under Colonel Campbell to the uu . r . could‘lzild. Fliers were feveral members of that Hoqu, who , gl‘C the Committee information on that head. He "aid that the former bod better ' amou nted to five thoufand and the . . poife a"lte r to thzee ". , he had noyreturns‘.m his llion. ‘ He did not P b know if. 'L'. ; lay 9 "i'- 4; , AL; . Jul Examz'mrl' by Coloml Barre. h. {0 11 owe d '-in order northern army. |