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Show Resexi'nerrr 4/" r5: ARMY. H o w E ' s P L A N s [57'me 121'; 0 w N. 311150; "C' I am much afraid the rebels will invent fome fcheme to detain ifhe lhould retire by fea, it mull give the rebels additional con- them altogether. fidence, and be a proof either of the weaknefs of the army, or Our gallant commander has expended at leaft 14,000 men this campaign ; and to confole us for that lots, has had the honour of appointing Mr. Galloway, formerly: one of the rebel Corn grefs, {ole fu werintendant of the port 0t Philadelphia. Perhaps fuch a grandkftroke, and the pleafure of reading his letters, mi. Mmgfimim & nutely difplaying his retreat through the Jerfeys, which made ut'rmmwt of our brave fellows almolt gnaw their own flefh out of rage, may the j' on alto confole you. By God, had you feen our common men, "alright PM" when they ferried them over to Staten Illand, they would have (Eritzthiliaidim flruck you with fuch a complicated picture of mortification and refentment, as would have left a lalting impreflion. It took the nation till the third year of this rebellion, to place a body of troops in this country futiicient to conquer it; the intent of fending Burgovne to Canada, was for no other end than to penetrate by the way of the Lakes, while General Howe went up the North River ; yet the moment that this is brought within our view, Howe, as ifafraid ofjoining Burgoyne, turns tail, goes to tea, and deferts the very bufinefs upon which the whole nation was intent. Generaldiifatil: There is a general dilTatisfaclion here and at Philadelphia. fathom All the territory we poITefs in l'ennlylvania, is the point of land formed by the confluence of the Delaware and the Schuylkill, Howe'seonquefi meafuring nearly five miles in length, by two in breadth. The 17-7, firtmilcs town itfelf is included. by "'0' This, and the ground on which out army encamps, are the funi of our con uefts this year. You will obfcrve, that your humbleflervant does not defpair of the Commonwealtl . Indeed, whining and defpondence are inexcufablc, when the times demand firmnefs and vigour, In defiance of ill conduct and the times, were you to fee us {ome- timcs you would laugh heartily ; in our barrack the army lill is produced, more than once a day, to conjeéture upon a commander 11] Cthl'; tor we no longer look for one in America, fince Burgoyne is in the hands of the enemy. the imbecility of our new commander. There never was,'fince the exiflence of time, an army more ardent for battle than ours now in America; they only want to he led on, to prove that they will conquer or die for their country; they think that the conceliions lately made at home to the rebels, arife from a want Arm? "prism of confidence in them, which irritates them exceedingly. They "l 9"" IVY-""55 fay they have often been prefentcd to the enemy ;--have lbiiie-(mmm' times been permitted to attack them :-but never have been led to follow their victory with effect. They have had a foldier, but not a General. General Howe's dependents here fay, that he had his plan of operations from home, and that he was not to deviate from the orders fent him. Thefe gentlemen have been ealily confuted by reading to them the following paragraph of General Howe's own letter, dated june 3d 1777. " The campaign will nowH;,,.1,mflm..d " immediately take place in the Jcrfeys; and I lhall proceed his own by his " as occurrences may arife, according to the plan mar/e [worn/11mm" to your Lordfliip in my former difpatches." This extract always fiienccs them ;----it proves that he formed the plan ofthe campaign 1777, and only deigncd to communicate it to Adminillration. Another circumfiance ought not to be forgot: he complain- His e‘tcrzfc for ed in the fame letter of the camp equipage not arriving till the WI 03min: 24th of May ; and his letter would lead us to conceive it had "3"1‘93113" "Z retarded the opening of the campaign. After this, the army {In}: "A W 0‘ was marched up to lValhington's entrenclnnents in the jerfeys, and marched back again, and embarked for Philadelphia by the romantic navigation of Chelhpeak bay. The camp equipage was moft certainly carried on board the (hips, but it was not landed with the troops at the head of the Elke, but tent round by fea to the Delaware, in which river it remained till the end of the campaigt . It would appear that the commander, as his owrt letter iiates it, was relieved from much anxiety by the arrival ot the equipagc, but that when it did arrive, he did not think pro- per to ufe it for the accommodation of the troops. LETTER from NEW YORK. , flirty, 51!», 1778. General Clinton failed for Philadelphia the firl‘t of this month to l‘ucceed General Howe in the command of our army . Our tituation is fueh at Philadelphia, that we ouO‘ht not to think Of my decilive action in that quarter. Geno-rial Clinton indeed may yery cafily, and it would be a credit to our arms , marCh acrols the Jerfeys to New York, and reunite all our forces, in readinels to act as me exigency of our affairs may requi re; bu; l . If General Howe had afted with vigour, and in concert with Iliiu'litlouswn‘ the Canada army, all the. tort e of the rebels could not have with- dwflood them. Inflead of that he fubdivided our forces, leaving Burgoyne with 6000 men to attack a country inhabited by near :1 million of people ; and with 18 or 20,000 men went a fum. mer voyage by fen, to land in a country, and take a toVB» which he never durft, or never thCL"'7ll-t proper to quit for more than one day's march. If all there forces had been properly combined the rebellion would by this time have been over. . Indeed there is no military man who underflood any thing of his buline-fs, but forefaw inevitable deflrui‘tion to the caufe and M 2 glory \. R 1. n.-:‘l‘..s"p dim 1f he can, the em‘nar 'atitm Of General Burgoyne's troops. .‘LW \isn‘t .4 :4 1.1.. . Al" 90 |