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Show On the contrary, by acting on the. Hudfon, our army remained ingm‘ thCNorth in full force ; Gen.Howe could have begun the campaignwnh at Rive" leafi 6000 more troops ; his operations to the northward and his liollefliiig the Hudfon, covering'all our polls, he would have cut the rebel countrV in two ; againil either half of which Burgoyne and he united, might in the enl‘uing campaign have car. ried on tliei or; he would have faved Englilhmen from the greatell and moli mortifying difgrace that ever betel them as a nation, and he hiinfelf would have been the greateft man in our annals ~--he would have acquired immortal glory. How the voyage to Philadelphia came to be undertaken, a movement fo contrary to common fenfe, to the general Judgment of the molt intelligent people here, to the molt obyious rules of war, and apparentiy contrary to cxprefs 'infiruttions from home, and at the fin": glance fo evidently .I‘LIII'ICUS to the Charaaer of ltrd HW'C- cziiife of England in America, s a queltion, which, I believe, their two excellencies only, can explain. Lord Howe certainly came out with the moft compleatidea of his own weight, and importance: it cannot be. doubted, that, on his arrival here, he imagined that coudefcenlions from him would far outweigh any exertion of our national ltrength. But we are new confident, he is recovered from that idea: he certainlv had a great predilection for the Americans; his bro: ther's monument in \VelhninGer-Abbey, at the expenceot New~England, it is fuppoi‘ed, led him to believe, that all America reverenced himi‘elf, and would garlic ' round him as their lole mediator. But Franklin who hadmade a tool of him in England, as well as of many others, foon eoniineed him of his want of . importance. The following circumflances may give you tome notion of the Situation of the refugees here. You mull undei‘fl'and, by rt fugees, the ge itlemen who have been driven off, on account of their uniform attachment to government ; not your rebels, who came in upon proclamation, to regain their ellates, that were in , poll‘eliion of the King's army. His {imii'fii re- A number of refugees, long {ettled in the fouthern colonlt‘fis FlY ‘0 thin-fu- and inoiily Engliflimen, who had been {hipped of the greattil part of their fortunes, applied to his Lordlliip for letter? of 8‘5' marque, to cruize againlt the rebels; but he Fiernly l‘Cle‘d; " lVill you never have do 10 with opprefiing thefe poor people;, will you never give them an opportunity of l‘eeing their errorr ---'l‘his was the aniwcr Of the King's Admiral t0 abody of his ,1‘»l:ijeii:,"s loyal fubjer'ts, whom thcfe poor people (as his Lordfliip called them) had treated molt barbaroully, had banilht‘d lrom their habitations, and ltqueftercd their clintes, in order to carry on the prel'ent rebellious war. This condur}, however, could not lioldlong; letters ofinarque have been lineegranted. do not give this as a {:erJ; it has been loin)r publieldy talkfidlzf . . '. here. o' I" ' The bent emen who received fuch a rebufi' on ma 'b lure, were not lilent on the occafio n. , y y 8 His Lordflup'Ts great error is, in think every thing. \\ e do not know th at he co 95 InUh .5 imfclf e (1 u."ll to An excell - . ent mmunicates with any moralclm aétc perlon but his brother. Their meat h ures, therefore are ‘ 1 their own. In mak . ing him . a politician theJ l, ‘ . pure Y 1 quite r ofhisH'latitude.. Yet after all K l, } out *l '15 itl m4.in, \ y _ 1 ,. are put hlmieis dele rved yeleemu. is moral charaéter is unim C'lCl'l ll ‘ rcfpec‘t: he,‘ is quite the cont rail to 'i a" . ‘ certainP i erf on-m a ever' y the naval hiie, he has not a fuperior [he br'i . jvcfi nimn cdéuig t ‘ not with for a more '1‘blc, or ~ more. gallant commander. In tome inthinces we have I . . ~ « ‘ conduct in this neighbourhoodi)t bgdlvéi criiloii‘lkiibi: 2}): my. good VJWW‘TI' )‘. who is the pink .of politenelé, and the quinte fiiencehiii'vrqry‘ori' choie to .dlfilngUlfll himfelf by petitionino that the Pr 111%, under his command fliould occupy the3 out- offs mfg?" 5 bridge; he‘ had his with for a loner time b piv'hi‘ht 'mlgsnumbers of our heft recruits. The iii-an i3,oei ierousL :Efifi good-natured, and no doubt brave ; but weal: and vaiiiiJ r m Y treme degree. You fliould keep fuch people at home diean CX‘ excellent for a court parade.-I with Mrs/Fryon wouid fetid id: him. that I have have bggil n Cifigifitf: e tlhe ftenes ‘ of diflipation ' ' and gaming ' Hints ' ‘ p n<_countenanee , or, as the General'smg5< on gain." "I" 11‘1": friends correct us, " permitted." I have drawn a curtai round wanton wives and daughters 5' fland or fall by his public aetions ; ; for a public man Qualiit :if thefe are riolit weD n ' 0 fiiule at his private ainufements ; befides my refpebct ior theiliidies Will not permit me to enter on this one; and yet it is a tempting Rory-f0 fubjeét thouoh 1 rich animatin'g-fo i‘educin that I mull drop the pen to preferve my own principles. g, LETTER fi‘om NEW YORK . M‘D' 18217, i778. bafiltinyliigmsémnfdied' that. the rebels triumph great ly in Ham's defick ‘Omal ie us dds army, at Philadelphia; but that ough t not "‘7' ces infiead fpair ;. for, it his bad generalflup diVid ed our foruigo 'ne .0 dcpmbining them, by which we infiered the lots of that isynoiejlii lad our grand army pent up in Phil adelphia; fimply a m ifepce of our weaknefs, or the rebels firen gth, but ddcrted 0pmr o o 1Howe s defieiency in milit ary knowledge 3 who and failed tnort iein army, which _was Ctr-operating with him, ou mull CO0 aatown that took hIS‘ whole army to guard it. legiance. quuher the rebels, and bring them back to their 211- We have no al~ tion, I maku ave no other alternative but victory or deftruc-ttjrfwi vc but imon th e no doubt, but many of the people of property "‘tW YO‘N ‘W g cm, W ould be glad to come to an accommodatio n, as the . Vh.§.o;a4ix. . ..\t' Proprietyofaé'i- Gamma and thy LADIES. CHARACTER qr" Logo Howe. I 94 |