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Show av. fortnsrorm's Seneca. danger. But his always to. be remembered, if orders had not been given for leaving Philadelphia, our great flnp} ofwzuuvmildlnot have been in the river Delaware, and theretore New York was equally capable of receiving the defence, which they r 111to.--I mean at prefent only to tak natice 0f fome aflertions in a pamphl et that has been circulated with great 1ndulh'y aflually did prefent when d'EPtaing camped that port. 80 the quefhon of to-day. that on every alternauve, the operanons of 1113 force would have wn er uall ‘ abortive. b But ihe 1ioble lord fays, the army would have been llarved. To mv knowledge, there was five weeks provihon tonthe army at Philadelphia, and fiill greater quantifies 1n the river when ' ‘Lnro' "WY-'5 we arrived there, though it had been determmed to leave the lace. . . I know how iufily high the chara€ter of the noble lord {lands ciir‘lam"llcr' for naval reputation ; no man could etleem it in a higher degree m With him A than I did myfelf, define the traiilhftion I am going to {peak of. ' Gov. Ionnsroys's SPEECH. Xl‘hether thofe preparations were made , or otherwife, is a quer- tion I (hell not now ente Perhaps my difappointment was the greater 011 that account, and the efiimate I made of the force of the enemy, was lefs from the opinion I had of the vice-admiral who commanded our fleet. I underfland his conduct has rece1ved repeated applaufe from oflicers of high reputation in this home, while I‘was abfent from ficknefs ; but this {hall not prevent me from lpeaking , as preparatory to millead our jud uments in a This performance I can hardly attribut e to the noble lord to pummel). Whom 1t'relates : 1t 13 too tulipme flat tery to fupp fl," ofe he had any (cred. [hare 111 it, or that he can give It the leaft countenance 110v."nor fhould I have envied his lordfhip any of the praifes beliow: ed by fo idolatrous an author, if he had not taken notice-of fo infignificant a‘perfon as myfelf, and mili ‘eprefented mv Opinions, H13 patron mxg ht have enjoyed the glory of 111alting‘ i1 bridge ofMakcs 3 mm": boats to pafs the army over the rill that feparates Sandy Hook over a rill alfrom the mai n, with the atliftance of all the boats from fifty fail "Cd bi" "'50" of pendants, four hundred tranfports, and two hundred flat "00 bom' boats, wit hout any interference. I am willing the Hou fe lhould underl'tand this marvellous work was equa l to every thimr in ancient ftory, and even fuperior to Czefar's bridge over 0the Rhine ; but in that part which refpedts myfelf I cannot 1'0 eafi~ ly fubmit. . C. Now, Sir, I affert, before you and the whole worl mV own opinion freely on this, and everyothcr fubhieé‘t. I have Two Admiral‘s'been told the two noble admiral: (Koppel and Howe) have been d, that Gm, tn" what is imputed to me by the author of this pamphlet, is not ofi'cr‘sliiis‘fervLii-Z: PM" (‘OI‘WS pouring: incenfe on each others heads 1n‘ve1'y copious dreams. .I ""‘Tms "f "" agree thev fland in the molt relpeé‘table 11gb: on account of then' ""1"," O" "C fin/rr fervices ; and I alfo agree with my friend below me, that mm 8 him"! ‘in cafe any miniflcr has been guilty of any improper conduct, that has driven fuch men from the fcrvice of the {late at this critical moment, when the exertions of all good men are {0 much wanted to repel the common enemy, that fuch a minifter lhould feel the indignation of this Houfe, and of his country at large. But if it fliould appear on the other hand, 'Tixrfv' are mothat any fet of 111ilitary men, in their fevcral pretentious, are 1}:th ("F "‘6 become too high for the ftate, I hope there is fiill left in the ma Howe men; the moment Iheard the French fleet had appeared, Ill‘Am‘i'ic" thought it my duty to go dovvn to Sandyhook in the night to offer bmc' tion, virtue and foirit fullicicnt to repel fuch claims, and ability enough to be found in the naval department to relifl the power of our enemies, even if the two noble admirals were no more. Ad1ninlllration has certainly great credit in difpatching the two packets from Falmouth, to give the noble lord notice of the failing ofthe Toulon fquadron, and the packet that did arv rive in America having fallen in with that'fquadron, from eve~ ry particular which the captain related, it was evident to me, beyond a doubt, that they were bound to {weep the coaft of A‘ inerica, from Virginia northward. livid HOW: in- The packet arrived the 29th of June, and certainly gave fuf- formed of the fiC ient time for every preparation to be made for receiving the. "‘"d'dm‘ew'cncmy, wh'o'did not arrive off New York till the I 1th of July'- true. I never obtruded myfelf into the focietv of any fct ofto Lord my poor fervices ; neither did I ever bewail our deplorable fituation from the circumllance of the French fquadron com ing on the coall of America. I thought it a lucky circumftance I . exprelled that fentiment to all with whom I converfe d. I am glad I did not know the imminent danger we were in unti came to this city, the centre ofall true intelligence othe lI , rwife I might have palled moreuneafy hours. I clfo deny, that ever .I aflerted Lord Howe had a fuperiority over the French fqua ~ 'dron when they appeared off the port of New York. If the noble Lord can remember any thing that paired between him and a perfon of {0 little confequcnce as myfelf, he muli know, that fo‘far from entertaining that fentiment, when the noble Lord talked of going out of the harbour to gimp f/JFZ'! dart/r, I [aid that I thought he was not of fuflicient force to hazard an engage‘ ment; but I always thought with a proper difpofition of his fOrce, he was fully capable of defending the entrance of the har~ bour. "That I faid then, and what I aflbrt now, is, that after I.\l.}l0\\'t‘ equal the junfiion of the Cornwall of 74 guns, the Raifonable of 64, if M ulterior tl1f°=R631t>w11of 50, and the Centurion of 50, all heavy metal ‘0 d'mWS" flMPS, Lord Howe was tyne], if not felon-for, in force to the tench fquadron. ' _I give it alfo as my opinion, with deference *9 better judgments, that when his Lordfhip appeared ofl' Rhode .1. and, thongh he did not take "the whole of his‘tbrce with high, Whether t at |