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Show 0/! D‘ESERTING BURGoYNn. MUSGRAVE liflmwnt mvlrl' he could not intercept their pallage at ten. Flu: nation furely 0"" "‘ 54'0"". need not repent the having put this gentleman at the head of an miin' {will ()0 American efiablilhment for fifty-four thoufand troops, attended "will "an , with ninety-11x {hips of war. LETTER from NEW YORK. Burgoyne‘s min December 101%, I777. f you was in this town, you would be furprized to find the WWW" ‘0 GE"- Howes fo unpopular; they have been f0 here all this campaign. Hm" The total lots of General Burgoyne's army can only be imputed to them. NEW-"‘3? (lif'ifi- By thistime, to poflefs the lakes and the North River, m "1 A"""""' and, by that means to fepcrate the northern and fouthern colonies, feems to have been the expectation of the King, Nliniflry, l‘arliztment, and the nation. I-lad General Howe gone up the North River, inflead of rifting to the Southward,that line of feperation would have been formed in July; General Burgoyne's army would have been fared, and both armies, conjunétly or feparately, might have acted againfi New England, which would have been {hiking at the heart of the rebellion. ~ Plan to tong. it. Had this been done in December, the rebel inhabitants of Connecticut mull have taken fllelter in lVIaiTaclitilTets and New Hanipflzire, and there they Inuit have all flarved or fubmitted in the ipace of a few months, as thofe provinces never yet mamtained their own inhabitants. All this might have been done ; admitting, however improbable, that "Talliington had forced our polls on the North River, and pafled it, which is not likely he could do, not having boats, and having both our armies and {hipping oppofed to him. Suppofing therefore, as the molt probable cafe, that he could not pafs the North Kiver, he mull either remain atame fpec'tator of the conquefi of New England, or attack Staten Illand ; for New York he could not approach without paihng the North River. That ifland might eafily have been defended, as very firong pofitfons may be taken on it, it is greatly PFO‘ 166ml by the flipping, and the pofls there could eatily bef rem; orce Beatles, VVafhington, in attempting" the North River, might, in the courlb of the campaign, have given General Howe an opportunity of attacking him with fuccefs. General Howe might then have either conquered or dcl‘troyed Connefticut, and then the roll of the northern rebel Colonies, mull either have llarvhed, or fired for pardon. The connoelt of the Southern provmces, would the year enfuing, have‘followed of courfe. Now all the bulinefs is to begin over again on our part, under infinite dil‘tidvantages, the defeat and capture of General Burgoyne's army having railed the infolence of the rebels to the higheft pitch, and they now boalt that they are invincible. In fart General Howe's round about voyage to Philadelphia, vomge m the and turning his back on the very place where. he ought to have ‘ thwal'd con" ail-"ted, has done more to flrengthen rebellion than all the films "mm"Committees and Congrefles among the rebels, and their confederates at home. General Howe in his retreat from the Jeri-eys, in his embar- Sacrifice: the kation, in his fifty on board the tranfports, before he failed, in Camdl am» his voyage to the mouth of the Delaware, where he played at bo‘ peep with the rebels, and, in his circumbendibus to Chefapeak Bay, expended near three months of the finefi time ofthe campaign; and all this to go out of his way, to defert his real bnfinefs, and to leave Burgoyne, with 6000 regulars, to fall a factitice. :l‘here never was a campaign fo injndiciouf‘ly conducted. By gmng up Chefapeak, and marching to the Delaware, he was underthe neceliity of fending his fiore lhips and tranfports round again to the Delaware, to meet him, and there the troops were nearly itarved, as well as the inhabitants that remained in Philadelphia; the rebel craft and fri-rfates, under the protection of Mad Ifland and Red Bank, cutting or? his communication by water, with the fleet, or more than two months. In fhort, except the. mere matter of fiahting, and his victories A Succemu" of have never yet amounted to any thing, the rebels taking poll on blunders. the next hill, and delying him, all his campaigns exhibit only a fuccellion of blunders. ‘He defeated lValhington at Brand ywine, bur v 'as himfelf fan'- Mufgravc faves pnfed at German Town, during a thick fog, and the confequen- H0\\'L"5 armyces might have been fatal, had notLientenant Colonel l‘oluilrgrave, frlth in: companies of the 40th regiment, made a finpriiing lland ma lione-houfe; this gave time foroztr line to advance and repulfe the enemy. Fifty-two men laydead roundthe bowie, iinll‘nf them on the iteps of the door. The rebels had time to bringr five pieces of cannon againft it, but, fortunately for us, it was cannon proof, none of the lhot entering but at the windows. AfLCrthis, the Hellians were reputed, in an attack on Red 0 a Bank All... "Wild ""1 ll"? I lirippot‘e, that the batteries on the two fhores, and on Governor's {331:er mm bland. rendered it impratiticable. But then the General could i i not but know this. And the public might have expected that he would have prefled the ensmy'fo much the more, and America et'iah- given them no time to el'cape from him at land ; iniee he knew forced and fupported. saves Howe. A! 9--2¢1.L1.. If Lord Howe I do not however put the dilemma. Either the fliips, on one Could- WK We" of the foregoing days, could have pufhed up beyond the ferry, "'"l '(l""‘ "W" .1 nd prevented that vati tranfportation ; or, they could not ; becaufe ‘3 . 4.3;. 1.9.- - 8v |
