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Show Hononas 13/} lg» Howe. REBELS OPINION qf Howz. Dcfrondcncc' 0" trlory of his country, whenever it was firit whifpered that the they were never to 101}: light of a junction with General Howe, His candua a . which of courfe implies, that he was either to favour their patentlycontrg- plan tranfpired, an univcrl-al deipondcnce among the loyal A. finpificd; and men of vigour and penetration, expreiied their reinforce the northern rebel militia. This I aver is evident from the infiructions which have been lately printed in this town. .At this critical Junclure, their two Excellencies go to fea Rebels ridicule doubts, forrow, contempt, and abhorrence, Jui't as the Circum. . dances ofthiiigs prefented tlieinfclvcs. Wltll the whole iiect and grand army, lcavmg our northern,him for giving or Burgoyne's army to periih for want of that i'upport which‘hem 3"" incricans took place ; men of moderation were filent and looked The ham", {X glerv he loll. i If General Howe had carried the war up Hudfim's river, he would have faved Burgoyne's army, crufhed the rebellion, and re-eilabliflied our tottering empire: for himfclf he would have gained immortal glory. His grateful country would have covered him with honours, and our lateii poi‘terity would have revertd his memory. But unhappily for us, We have feen in art, and are likely to continue to fee, the melancholy reverie or all this. Yet ainidll the diitrefles of our country, one cannot help lamenting the fate of that man, whoie very heart muft be rent, when he reflects on the honour and glory that awaited him, but have now {or ever pafled away. LETTER fiom flfrty NEW 17th, his Majeity and Adminifiration, and the nation had undoubtcd- 9'7"" "my" ly ordered, and expeéted would be given them. The rebels, who are not deficient in penetration, laugh, and fav, " Your " General, by his movements, made us a prefent of Burgoyne's "army and left us alfo a greater one in New York, it we " had muftercd force enough to take it. Snppoiing that lVafhington had any genius, God knows, he had no occaiion to exert it againfl: us; our folly, ignorance, or envy, did every thing for him ! It was impolhble, in the whole extent of America, to fix on National ho- a more diiadvantageous fpot than Philadelphia to carry on the nourlofl. war from. That town, as foon as taken, mutt have been abandoncd, or protected by the whole army. Indeed, the going YORK, there, and the covering it, have loft us a campaign, ali our 1778. The great line of ill conduct in this quarter, you mui't have already felt at home. By the mod injudicious divifion of our northern army, fomc thoufands of our fouthern armv, and ivhat‘is infinitely more to be regretted, our national honhur. It is a mercy, a faving grace to the General that you have recalled him; for he never t'eemed inclined to abandon his With an army fufl‘icicnt for the conquefl of charming conqueft. He and his army, his brother and his fleet, have done little elfe for the belt part of eight or nine this country, General Howe, infiead of going up the Htidfon, months, than hover round it, forming the great Mr. Gallo- forces in America, the caufe of England has, for the prefcnt, been ruined, left one third of his army to garrifon New York, and with Gm Howe in the rctl went to Philadelphia, to perambulatc its environs dur- I'lniadclyhia. approach by movmg up the Hudfon, or by attacking W'aih-rymhismflmm ington in the Jerfeys early in the lining, or fummer; at lcait hinder him from detaching any of the continental troops to ing moit part ofthe campaign, and then compofedly took up his winter quarters in that town ; whilil "'aihington, with not more than 7:00 men, fiationed hind-21f at Valley forge, only tweruy-four miles diiiant, and was ilill in the fame polition by the lait accounts which arrived here only a day or two ago. filikk": :Sni‘y Every body in this place, and at Philadelphia, are in .amazcnumber of lawment that war: raw troops, {peaking comparatively With our "001,, onn, and thcte raw troops halt naked, fliould block up a VC~ teran army double their number. You have aiked me in more than one letter, what were our reafons for going to the fouthward at the very time that our northern army was approaching the head of the Hudfon? This is as incomprehenlible to us as it is to you ; for we fee by the King's inilriifliOiiS to General Burgoyne, and Colonel St.cher, which we had by the laft fliips from London, tlhat I WY way's iatellitcs, You will obfcrve that the reafons againfl' carrying on the war Imprudence tn fI‘Om Philadelphia were numerous: by going there, our army voyage {outlivwas divuled ; New York with an immeniity of King's ilores, and other valuable property endangered; our northern army con- figned to deihuctioti ; Philadelphia, a town which could not C kept without an army; that country juil: in the centre of the rebel provinces could be equally fupported by the northern, and fouthern rebels, and of {rich 3 nature, that no commandingr PDQ could be taken, either to divide, or over-awe the enemy i; thchl‘lVCI‘ a long, and dangerous navigation, full of fhoais, and {Ubfi-fl to freeze in the winter; (0 that our fleet mutt either remain blocked up in the winter by the ice, or feparate from thc iimyhby moving of before the cold fet in; and, the I‘Cb613 flfl'0_ eiiion of both lhores, could, from their various harbours, :{h'mh the greatefi profpeé‘t offuccel‘s againii our merchant-4P5, and tranfpofis, either going up, or coming down. On 4.. 4'1": - infigam a; 1.1.. , A \it" his gomg fourh' embarked troops were bound to the ibuthward. For fome time at New York we were at a lots for their deiiination, as pilot: war‘l' one day were {hipped for the northward, and another day for the fotithward, and all carried ofl‘ in the fleet. As ioon as their 93 ~; 3. 92 |