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Show MATTER of FACT. MATTER «if FACT. mg m they loll at vinq made a tingle. effort to recover the honour tw0 thou. to reduced often was (though Wafhington Trenton advantage {and men at Morris Town) leaving the rebels all the enabled alone which action, that by obtained they credit and them to recruit a tingle man. "nitrous con~ Before I quit Jerfey, allow me to point out to your Lordfhip attending duct otG.Ho\W foiue other parts of our conduct, and the confequcnce iffued, was tion proclama l" "I" .l""1"}'5' it. Upon the army entering Jerfey, a in remain {hould as luch all to pardon promifing protection and and matheir houfes. The people pretty generally remained, of the order by ligned s, nv thoufands received printed direction commander in chief. But neither the proclamation nor the protections favcd the people from plunder, nor from infult; pertheir property was taken or deflroycd without tllllinéhmi of read not could I-Icllians ns. protccno fons. '1 hey lhewed their them, nor would not underftand them, and the Britifli foldiers thought they had as good a right to a {bare as the Heflians. This I allure your Lordfhip was very generally the cafe while the army was advancing into the country, was and were in pof- feilion ofit. In their retreat it was ttill worfe; all who did not leave their wives and children, and abandon their property, were conlidered as rebels. "hen the rebels repoffelled themfelves of the country, they treated all who had taken protec- Pr , "Twin," tions with the utmoll feverity. Thus was this whole province prmidmm \,_,deither irritated againlt his Majeily's government, by a breach paniuus‘ all sir-of faith, or abandoned to perfecution, where they had flieu'n yu‘xaliml. any loyalty. No flep. was taken to conciliate their afleflions. The dilloyal were not difarmed, nor arms put in the hands of the loyal, though both might have been done with the greateft cafe. No fleps of found policy were purfued to fecure the country ; it was finally abandoned, and a proof given that proclamations and protections were no allurances of fafety fit to be re' In fueh cafes the people The People {hould nevervbe deceived, muchqlefs abandoned to dellruciion "mum "We! 5% when they .were promiied protection. Protection ouvht ne"e:d"3"l"d' to be promiled by government, but it fhould be alforbded at fall rifles ; much lefs promifed without even an intention of perform1ng; which I am forry to ee, from the correfpondence vour Lordflnp has publiflled, it was not in this cafe, as it there a pears that it was not intended to keep polTeliion of lerfev: P Havmg conduected the Commander in Chiefout of the lerfeys Ivfhall leave him to perform his feven weeks voyage-to Elke2 hiver (after having llrll taken a peep of a \v‘ek into Delaware Bay, to ,know 1t 1t was navigable) while I fhall berr your LTordlhfip s attention tp the aflairs of the town and province of I\ew-X ork. I do not lute to treatof public fcandal; I will not let fall a fingle Word upon any man's intrigues, where they do not Gamintr a mi1nterfere With the public good; where they do, the public has anons I‘IS'WVIE in right to know the caqu of fupinenefs and-inattention in a Gene-a Gt‘lr‘ral'i ral, or of corruption in a Commilfarv. Gamingr mull ever prpve ofht‘he very worll eonfcquences iii an armyfand totally ruinous it the example lhould happen to be fet publicly by the Commander: it then defiroys fuhordination and i‘efrieet, encourages licentiouliiefs, and all difcipline falls of courfe. A Ifay, the young C‘fiicer who beholds his General in fueh a lituation, will foon lofe the refpect to his liation which he has loll to his perfon, when he is allowed to {port as freely at his elbow on his liender income, as the General does upon his princely revenues. He is :tlhamed not to do it; he expefis to make his court by it. There is little osconomy in an army where high gaming is allowed,- it is beneath the man who plays at night for hundreds, to trouble himfelf next day how he is to live upon his pay: He runs in debt for his neeellaries, and the Country mull be plundered to fupply his midrefs. Ialk Bad erTctfls on you, my Lord, can the General, or anv other Oihcer of ranlt,thc officers. pretend to refirain, much lefs punifl:, aninferior for plunderinv‘, when be perhaps won all the poor gentleman's mon?y the night before? To this carafe, perhaps, as much as to the example fet_by the Helix-ans, may be attributed the leandalous height have not failed to avail themfclves of, and which I can affurc which plundering is arrived at in the army. And yet, ‘my Lord, _I cannot fuppofe that this was the caufe of Oflicers of I Will not pretend to fay that Jerfey has not always WT)" hlgh rank taking large quantities of wine, tobacco, and been as rebellious a colony as any of the thirteen, but I allert that there always has been many thoufands of loyal fubjec‘ls 111 it, and that there would have been at this hour double the num~ were known to be loyal, and who eagerly embraced the firft OPPOI'ttilnty ofjoining the King's troops. This muff have been than 0116- her there are in it, had it not been for the mifeondufi 11191"5 new C" young,r Ofiicer who beholds his General every evenimr at a pharofiable, I will not fay lofe his temper, though eeio‘ainly lubyect to fret like other men who play a game of chance, in which there can be no amufement but as it qratifies avarice--~ 1iedon.-~An aweful example! which the leaders in rebellion more occafions my "in," on your Lordihip I have beheld the bad effects of on our atlairs. new pointed at to your Lordfhip. . 11: he copying a circle of at lealt‘hxty miles..- In which {ituation when he approach; continued until he was reinlortted 1n fpring, ((1 within 3 few miles of Brunfwick; and was permitted, though it was ftill inferior, to poll himfelfin f0 llrong a pt)liti01i, that The army therefore "(1., Umrr‘ re-nm thought prudent to attack him. of which they tum.» rm to ,lM- uitted Jerfcy, 'relinquifl'iiug a whole province, ever hawithout before, months fix pollcllion full in 1i." ‘Yl‘l‘mf‘ "'"liad been M '. '§e§.9L- £2 1‘ {gm of Query town Within ten miles of them, often nearer, 0c: :0: valuable cheers belonging to ll'Ierehants at New-York, who done under the impreflions of that favourite idea, " that Pap " liament WW‘ 4 |