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Show Oz: CONCLUIZRING AMERICA. GENERAL In hurt, there is not a common foldier in the. army but knows, that deferting‘ the North River loft Burgoyne and his army; that his l-cins: fought down has given the rebels tenfold eonn. Howe's fifLEMMAs middle of the campaign, and in leaving whatever armies you' may fend via Canada, to be fxvallowed up by the New England men. denee. and thrown a gloom over the alpet‘t or" our adults in It is not any apology to the nation, in General Howe and his America. .i _ oflatr.4 campaign . .' . row contritium! :q. the arms are ALALLQ as tints, hating: before our eyes the grois and mortitying blunders ol the friends faying, that Burgoyne thought himlelf lh‘ong enough ; his duty, ifhe underflood any thing ofhis profeliion, Was to be leave a fmall army to defend it; ' ‘ ' V i ‘ uniting you at home. General Burgoyne, with the wreck of his {mail army, has """WBNES")'1"55been tome time near Boiion, between Charlciiown neck and am" Cambridge. Our tranfports are now at Rhodc Illand with an intent to take them on board. I lineerely with them all enibarked, for I am much afraid the rebels will make ufe of tonic fubtertuge to detain them. The more one reflects on the manner this campaign has been condueted, the more one is aftonilhed. It the intention is to "'11; toconquer conquer a country, there is an abl‘olute necelhty for occupying Ame-"m. the principal pali'es ; more eipecially if that country is extenlive. and the inhabitants numerous. In doing this you divide the threes and relourees of the enemy, and, as I have already remarked, you may bi at them in detail. Now the grand pals in Britilh America is the North River, and the. Lake's (hzorge and Champlain, which muti be politifed it there is n ferious intention to bring this rebellion to a {peedy eonclui‘ion. But it‘ you would rather have a ten vears war, and a hundred millions additional debt, then you may Continue to indulge General Howe. or any other General, who may fueeeed him: in atoning himlelf and the army with 4 {ea ioyage in ill" "e I 9 -u . " .- w,~.- __._ If General Howe intends to keep Philadelphia, which has colt him a whole campaign, and the nation 14,000 men, ineludé mined m Eng. and the triumph of America. It would [not be an .unadvnable meature to lutpend the Habeas Corpus act, w1th relpeét to tread ll ‘7 Rflfi‘h' will dc- . to fubdue : they would not make a delperate refiilance after the conquefi of their northern friends. ing Burgoyne's army, and the killed and wounded, lick and ' '5" ' {ons committed in England; that would gt) a great way towards -f‘" your whole forte into New England, which would not refill a vigorous campaign, or allowing it did, however improbable, the reduction of Connecticut would fiarve the reft of that coun-1 try into fubmiflion i you then have only the fou‘thern colonies 21:11:: mu; m the London prints. than croakings of the downtnl ot ltngland ' "s, that with fltipping and {inall craft, and poil‘efling fome of the thRiim ftrongelts polls on its banks with troops, you may then carry i middlé dead of his own army, he mull either remain near it himfelf, or If he remains near it, I cann not comprehend how America is to be conquered; nor can I conjecture how he is to march forward, as \Vafhington is only twelve miles from him, ('0 iltongly polled that. he does not chufe to attack him. It is true he may, by crofiing the Delaware on his right, return again to the Jeri‘eys ; or, on his left he may pafs into Maryland; but in either of thefe Provinces, after having patroled the country, with VVafhington at his heels, he will do no good without coming to a battle and gain- Gcn- Howe"; mg a decifive victory, unlefs he {hould chufe to furprife the ‘mcm‘m' whole world again by another fea trip. Whichever of thefe methods he follows, an army mutt be left at Philadelphia, {0 that our conqueft becomes a burthen; for the troops required to garriibn that fingle town, would have fupported the communication on the North River, which would have difunited the rebels, and gone a great way to quell the rebellion. You fee I do not prefume to think he will abandon Philadcla Phla; {is that might {object him to be aflted, why he fpent {0 much time, men, and money to take it E jammy) Ifl I778. , .1 {uppofc that Lord Howe ha; arrived at Rhode Ifland by I ‘Stlmfo He has failed to that quarter, on purpofe to wipe31 mi » "~;\x I have not time, and belides it would be tedious, to mention If any thing cfi‘eElive is intended next campaign, the WarMnfr bring the mull be brought back to the North River. After occupying war on the " ' s b.) n thedctz‘nlive rill iii'ongly re- all our expectations. I {hall only fay, that till reintoreements inforccdare fcnt us, our operations in this country are likely to be for the moi? part defenlive ; and the l‘uecet‘s or our future mealiires will greatly depend on the military genius who is to conduct us next campaign. Advicen: rer Our lolies this campaign will greatly animate oppoiition and "£15935 SW i:tlic rebel l'artizans in England ; and we expect to fee little elle his own army, in a part of the country where Evenhis Victories are ufelefs. ,1; 1A ', .. ink-:0... .2. :4 A1.., , Lu" on the North River, and not to {pend the campaign and waile refent. Confidence in P \Ve anticipate here the afionilhment and deprciiion, the claYis‘Mmlilt‘r {Ol'niorous lantentntions, the bitter complaints, ard the general Amcrim' indignation, that will lueccliively arife at home ; but we I‘L‘poll',‘ the greateii confidence in the lleadinels of the ininilh‘y, and in the vigour and abilities of the noble lord at the head of the American department. |
