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Show SON. Loki-me of MAJOR GENE? AL ROBERT ke to, , lay that he knows . Robertlbn underta 6) DoeQ _ ‘t General x! the numbers of the rebel army, either from documents, or ns authentic information, at any one period, during the campaig .- --4, M x~~~ .9 vt./,_/‘ Orly/x '_ r ‘4, He dad not, further than Irom general report and heamv. Q The General has laid, that if a force had been pulliéd over from Staten Bland of two or three thoulimd men, and lcnded st Anibov, or ii.lizzihethu'l‘own, the rebel magazine.» near Bruulwle night have been dellroyed or turned, and the retreat of the rebels to Neiwrk and over the Delaware, intercepted? .. 1.151.933". A. He allowed the force within New-York illnnd was not mu the rrbm- very numerous, but a corps of zooo men‘might'be lpared. It Evidence of NIAJOR GENERAL ROBERTSON. to the opening of the campaign r777, when the General was in England, in which he endeavoured to lhew, that he was totally milinformcd, and knew nothing of the aétual circum- liances, the wit refs being then ahlEnt in England. \ The General has alluded to an cxprcfiion in a letter addrelled to me, relative to the improbability of Gen. Burgoyne's extricating himfelf from his then lituation ; wilhed the General wot ld lily what day he. arrived in America 5' A'. September the 25th. (L then the General wrote that letter, had not he heard ofth: notion at Stillwatcr, September the 19th P XI. Did not recolleft; could not lily-he was indifpofed at might be hazardous to land at Coriel's Perry, in the lace ofa polled encmy. It could hardly be expedited, that :-_1 flying,r enemy would take poll while they were purlued by a lupcrior force. he had heard of the Stillwater. He did not know of any route but thror gh Elizabeth-Town; he fpt'c'nng the evacuation of Bolton, and to lhew, if there had ltruvw of no p'ilTes on the edge of the mountain; there mightbe been any ltores, military or others, improperly left behind, that it was the General's peculiar province, to fee that that fervice hve roads, with u hich he was unacquuinted. Elizabeth-Town nits the high road. He could not thy but the magazines might h:- rcmoved; he rather imagined they could not. He had hcnrdthnt the rebels made leveral floods, and took feveral polls in their retreat from Lord Cornwallis. The weather was very hzid, the rains heavy, and the roads much broke up. He would not pretend to lay whether it would be jLiliiliablc to detach to the time. The letter was wrote by his direétiori ; butibclicved He took up a conliderable time in examining to the point re- waslhithfully and pundtually performed. He next interrogated the witnelé clofely as to the 63er part of the campaign I777 in the Jerfeys. i Q Il‘he thought the field could be taken Without tent or field Field could not equipage ? fl. He helicved not. b5 133"" "it!" Q The General gave it as his opinion that the King's army 0‘" mm' l? hodolllnnd and Elizabeth Town. The men could have carMm carry ten ried ten days provifions on their backs, which would be no more d1‘3‘5l‘lmlli0m- than twelve pounds and a half, and would not be totally at a might have pulled through the Jerfeys to the Delaware; and {0 have proceeded to Philadelphia, or obliged hlr. VVafhinqton to quit his lh‘ong camp near Qiibbleton: Does the General know lols, though they fliould mils of poflelling theinlblves ol‘the rebel the country between )uibhleton and the route marked out by magazines near Brunfwick. He did not know what force was under Lee, Putnam, or in the Highlands. It might not be pro- this movement ? per to lirip New-York. The General might have hadprivatc Saw nothing to realbns; but informed as he was at New-York, he faw nothing FI""'<‘N fin‘it" to prevent, fuch a move, and balancing the probable advantages ""33"" "‘5' and dil'advnntagcs, he {aw nothing futlicient to alter his opinion thnt the experiment was worth making. He does not rccolleft that he ever conununicatcd his {entiments on the lubjeél to per‘ tons in power; he might have mentioned it in coriverfation; he did not particularly recollect. that he had. Sir William Howe now led the. witnefs once more to his favo- rite fcene of tuition, the North river and its vicinities, where he kept him till the cloclt lh‘uclt twelve, very little to the edification ol the auditory, or to his own fatisfaétion ; the only direét ahlwer the General gave being, that if the royal army had once polleilion of the Highlands, the proceedingr to Albany in order to co-operzite with the army under Genéfil Burgoyne, woul‘ he an operation attended with facility, and a moral certainty 0l luccclfi. Fremont to this Sir Willam led him into the Jerfles, relative {0 A. He never l‘aid he did: he thought fuch a movement would have that efi‘eft, and he knew nothing yet firfiicient to induce him to change his opinion. Q. Does: General Robertfon know that there were fuflicientwdm of P0?" b021,", crzllt, pontoons, fee. with the army in the Jerfeys, to mom and craft enaole them to pull; over the Delaware ? "9 9919"." .fl. He could not tell, being then in England, but there might be timber enough felled in a few days, and worked up tor the purpolh of tranfporting the troops acrofs. ‘Q Would l'uch a mealhre be advil‘able, and an enemy on either hank polled in force? A. He could not fay ; that would depend upon circumllan‘ ces. It might lead to a general engagement. 2: Would that be engaging at an advantage, in the midl‘tCarloaslmerroof a (from; and hoftilc country, and no polls or retreat fecured gums and "I" 1n cale of a difalter ? "er ( x4. That would depend upon the judgment of the General. 2, Is then General Robertlbn lhfficient V informed of the tate of the country, of the army, of Mr. iiVafiiiugton's politron |