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Show BATTLE. rf onoxt'zrt. BA'rrLE 13f BROOKLYN. fut-c has been originally wrongr a 1d ill corvette-d, or teas in it- in the execution, in that cafe we may loft; a good Ulilllllt'l‘, and retain a bad commander. Every honeti rnrin mull fee, that the public interelt is much concerned in the making this necetfury ditlintztion. cogent} of all The conduct of all oppolitions is little different. In every 03‘1"""1‘0‘15' milkarriuqe their invariable rule of pr'ztetiee has been to jullify the commander, and to lay the blame on the rriiiritler‘. Far Obligrd rm (Mr-from hurtlingy any concern for their country, and exprelling a {1km "51W mill-ind refeirtment zit any mil-conduct in the commanders,- they him" hold thenn'i-lves rather obliged to them for di Egracing the fervice, and furnilhing them with :1 frelh ground of attack upon their rivals. ,- I-‘ih'e charge of Upon the mil‘etirrizrge at Carthagena in 1741, minir‘lers, they 0N"- l" 1741- 11nd, had llarved the war, and tied up the hands of the commanders. Afterwards, their own letters, which Vernon pub- lifhcd, proved the lenders in oppolitir.>n knew the {allhood of this charge. But it {erred their pur'pole to give it out, and the people were made believe it. M'r. Pitt‘s oli- Upon Admiral Byng's n‘iifbehnviour in r7;6, ll'lr. Pitt told 0:1 U‘K'Byngthe Houfe, in his own favourite and obfurd idiom, he found no criminality in h/Ir. Byng. Mr. l'itt himi‘ell‘, when he came His faying to be miniiier, upon the mif‘Conduc‘t zit Roehfort, experienced "hm "1 PWCY- fomething ol the fame kind. But as the Neweallle party had, as he find, lent him their majority, the oppolition was too feeble to make head zigninlt him. fifiiiliaifl‘: ‘ If in tii‘o_ie<‘tirrg any dilhmt expedition, :1 minitler {hall have "'1; MAM" tormed a good and proper plan, and turnifhed a lul'tieient force > I 1:31:31? Gem-ll?" for", End of carrying the. plan into execution, that lies ' With the eonununder. 021' If: (We _ "their Lord George Germaine became feeremry, the Britilh Kim. glklimterett in America was at its lovet'l ebb. Our troops had i been Inglorioully pent up in Robert, and {till more inglorioufly driven out of it. The whole American empire was reduced to Halifax and (@E'bfic, and @ebee irrelfwasibefieged. In this low flute of our afihirs, Lord George Germaine took the feals, 77'" "norms and gave 21 vigour to our councils unknown to them before. CWT-"e. By engaging a large body of foreign troops, and fending the earlictt fuecour up the river St. Lawrence, the whole of C1" nada was recovered, :1 fleet was built at St. Johu'b‘, and the rebels were beaten from ofi‘ the lakes. ,, General o D . n were rill tort-ed; ten thouland of the rebels, as the General ' .\ ‘ a \ ‘ r I ~ «A: s > h1m1.lt‘ ' L‘t unts‘ them, were tlcl‘Ltlth ,.. befide the killed, tvound- ed, and orrprneo, eleven huntired of them were made pril‘onerS, Rebels defeated. and the refit tie. With the utmolt precipitation into their lines, purlued by the vi‘etors elole up to their trenches. Filled with all the nrdour of lueeefs, the troops would inlluntlv have entered thep ltamp, ML.{11 the General thought he had, for that day at lean none the reoel :rrmy damage enough ; and ehofe to eive them time to recover from their fright. See his own acetiunt of the Rflfill‘. cc 'Inc ‘l. gremdier m. . 'ns‘ ~v and 33d . .' ‘ ‘ front of the regiment being in CO-Troop‘s eager to ‘ r . , . vw . -' l ‘ -lump, {Jon .zppqrotnnied mtmn ~ ' mullxet i lliot of‘ the enemy's lines florm ‘Wt i""1135 at lirookl‘yn ; from whence tbele battalions, without regard to "5' the lire. of cannon and lmzill arms unon them, purfued numbers ‘1 .mlen.‘ .4 vvu. ~5-'. .attire l ' rttvels than ‘ ti tie "tiring . from the heights, to elolei to their prmeipnl red not, and With lueh eagernefs to attack it by llomi, that it requirtd repeated orders to premil on them to detitt from the attempt. had they been pernutted to go on, it is my Opi-Cen. men they would have carried the redoubt; but as it was anpa- ("=1 H's opiniv ‘3‘" "WM rtittthe lines ‘7‘ v ‘ A 1 .. I: \ Q ‘ "r - ‘ V mult have been ours at a verv ehenp rate high": ""13"!" . ., .4 . in." W . J m . " tlht. ngunn Spluntlirltt, I no" ld not rnk the lots that mtryht hzrveud'l r wr-~J tilts. net! y:in rut ‘\A.,.';,‘. . ordered Mi. . ' Alarm, and them bziek toi it hollow ha", ll (hr Mont of the v. L-lle, out of the rent-h or mulquet rv." . .. the-. render u < ‘ l er, 1 (an. . r L it ~ or. thin the troonsv were thus emer I ftirR,t‘m21'l<snrt theV a N. ._ . _ .V . . ‘ . .‘ the my}, Irind that :t irriuired repeated orders to prevail upon condl‘L‘"* them to neon, when the Central himlhlt was of opinion, and every other rmn plainlv lIu', that the li n es unit have been for". n ‘. -‘v . , ‘ l V t . kid, ant. fire whole rebel ztrvn tuiten or d . weds" Even \K'ltll-, "0P5 1‘ Oilf [1‘13 Illi‘I'l'itlllS elf/T , f duty. for the execution of it, he has difehargtd his part, and done The Emndve all that is incumbent upon him. The mnnnerof making uleof O . - . "I ‘1) ‘1 x x i ll... hold the mealure, as originally planned, was right and pro. per, and we blzune the minitier, beezuife the gt neral inifhehaved ;land :1 {out chI/tfilxfl‘ 1n number, and much more in difcrplme to that which oppofed him. By a iult dilpofition the out-polls I 'q. t-l» , ., - tBM‘" ‘ Needles, 15 AM." , ‘ . V . ' - ltrtireit‘lur-x}; ierall ' hence. 3 be found, of a defeated nrniy .'(‘ M3,". _ ‘1 ‘1"de* lg‘mm . Yelp-Ch generxls to . ingot to have the advantage. P":‘P}mf'~‘l)' flying t»" L"; ~ -. ‘ etr trenches, ever deiending them ,. , . , "tr dOLllM'.‘ their number. '1' he ' ' loiinq the battle of Turin Efilamt‘l‘fird in a -, . : y, . , , out". mime - 2 r... rm; 1t, " 'V ii‘1 enlist-ivon a . "1"?» «uh l - -. - . . Prince nuqene had eertuin- Fl" .1 m-‘L " delayed "13' he bud ' ‘not‘lup vto them, ‘ ot belieg‘ml; them \ch regular gfiiitédEA-wih It 5 i . - i the battle of Lzrnden AndKErrg'Wil . ~51 to ins lines, m; 1.11 Jifzirlha L111: ‘rnburgh attackedbytrullas foon 5: Linden. :;_, K399"? HP tomy; them, "yer 3‘. the grin-h: 9.} T ‘1 Q a ‘ NJ ".t mthout . r t{giving lmn time to croft. the ~A~..Lhi ‘ " fhzu the eozmnutioer in til -' \., vo «. theotnrrgenemle. 2! ,1, ‘- v-i‘ll‘ Ii'wrre-y 4) , t 14ng , . . -_2:; . , to follow the Judement Ganmre": "wt 5' rm; , the rebel ' .. i .. ' ‘5 "C‘ . . tire . - 1 .1; 1-. ‘L‘t . byte», '4; /.. If, on the other t '"W BattleofBrookl. an thoulann men, and attended by 21 great fleet, landed on Lon"I 5-: f. , C".\~\ a good general, and retain a bad iiriiiiltet‘. 79 * 1 felt" too hazardous or imprzu‘tienble ; and we‘lay upon the tem. wander the blame. of not having fireeeeded in it, we rmnylof'g General ‘ J Howe, . at the head of between tw ent}, .. act; or Iliad- |