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Show On :1 JUN er ION "wifé Burtonvwz. H o w 12's z'II-finnzdial P x o M 1 s E s. relatingr to the northern army ,9 Does not the Letter fay that Sir Guy Carleton was to " detach Lieutenant General Bur~ " goyne with direftion to proceed with all polliblc expedition " rejoin (him) General Howe, and to put himfelf under his A ilmftimwill! " command E" That with a view of quelling the rebellion as Burgoyne. ‘3‘ {won as polhble it is become highly neceil'ary that the moft " {peedv. .innetion of the two. armies Q. ihould ,.. . be 6385th P"And in another place, " '9 " " " " I {hull write to on W illiam Howe from hence by the lirfi packet; but you Will neverthelefs endeavour to giye him the earhcit intelligence or this mealure, and alto dircct Lieut. General Burgoyne, and Lieutenant Colonel St. Leger, to neglect no opportunity of domg the fame, that they may receive inih‘uetions from Sir William Howe." Surely no order could have been framed that, in the eyes ofa militar ) ' man u on_ theGeneral than _ s .‘could a. mm V more bindin 4 ‘ " lays, " Still I think it probable that by the latter end of the mitts or Gen(S " York, the Jerfeys, and Hellians which he left expoi'ed and unlupportcd 'at Trenton. General Howe, in the beginning of his fpeech exprefsly dc- clared, he only meant to " firl‘tify himfelf ;" yet we afterwards find him. turned the accufer, and obliquely charging adminis firation with crimes of the melt ferious nature-that of hiding from Parliament the true llate of our affairs in America,and pro: miling fuccefs when they knew there was no reafon to expeft it. 1‘5r-F01'5‘3'K'3‘571This ground Mr. Fox took up after him, and with his ilfual virulence charged miniflers dircftly with having " treacheroufly " and traiIEroufly deceived this country." He {aid they had dew. elated to the Houfe of Commons, " that they had reafon to " expeft a fucct-fsful campaign, when they knew, and when " they had it in their pockets under the General's own hand, -" that nothing was to be expected." ficn. Hr. He's " found a conliderable part of the inhabitants who may he em- -" bodied as militia, and forne as provincial troops, for the in‘ terror defence of the province, which mull be a great aid in t the further progrefs of the war. " And in the fame letter he III Founded pro- :1 general plan, from which he could not deviate without 12a? gar/1m movements he had_ .3? or zfl'ezatiizX an exiedrtion l > whole . .. not time to countermand, and whofe operations he knew were much [0 be laid to his charge as the {urprize and defeat of the (pith. " voted lall autumn, &C." And again, " I have rcafon th " expeet, in cafe of fuccefs in Pennfylvania, there will be the copy 0t this letter to Sir (any Carleton P It made a part of Aria-name rurbcgun. The moment thefe troops crofied the lakes, they be? bu‘3°>‘"C°1°f5-c;zrne apart Qt his army, and their fubfequent misfortunes, if they arofe from the want of fupport and cooperation, are as Turns accuferi ‘ influence him in oppontion to my certain knowledve." Howe-yer delulivc the niinificr's hopes and conjegtures mav have been, his‘intelligence does not appear to have bccn materially‘diflerent from that of the General, riotivitlitiantlinr: this gonna aficrtron to the contrary.----Lct us hear what the Gencral's letters fay upon this l‘ubhieCt-fihofe very letters which Mr. Fox charges the miniilcr with having had in his pocket when he told the Houfe he had real-on to expect a fucecfstul campalgn. April 2, 1777, he writes from New-York, that -" it is his opinion the rebels will not be able to raife their armv The General's words were not lo pointed as thofe of Mr, Fox, nor did they convey a charge to dirct'tly; yet their 3118311" campaign we {hall be in oflefhon of the provinces of New "0"" cnnlylvania." In his letter of the of the 20th of December 177.6, the General tells the Minifier, that, " the opinions of people were much changed in l'cnn-" liylvania, and their minds in general, from the late progrefs -" of the army difpofed to peace ; in which li‘ntirnent they " would be confirmed by our getting poflellion of Philadelphia." 4" peared very practicable, though I thould have but an army " of 19,000 men." Iwill not infill upon the fuel, that the rebels did actually find dif~ ficulties in railing troops, but will, for the lake of the argument, {uppofe the miniiler ignorant of what every body elle knew; nor will I lay any firefs upon the grmt alu'ls‘n'e; of the General, nor his activity and ‘-‘ impatience to begin the campaign," which are mentioned by the minilier in his letter ofthe x8th of Why, and are given as reafotzs for his hoping for a {uccefsful campaign. I will confine myl'clf limply to the information contained in the General's letters, and will then leave it to the World to judge whether the Minifter's aflertion is not jufiified in the moli ample manner even upon this ground. The noble Lord told the Houfe, " that he hadreal‘on to ex- Miniflcr jufli- " poet a fuccefst‘ul campaign." The General writes to the no- fit-d. ble Lord, ‘9 that by the latter end of the campaign he expeas f‘ to be in poflellion of the provinces of New York, Jerfeys, ‘.‘ were under ii railing troops, that he hoped I fl'lould be able " and Pennfylvania?' 'tis true he adds,- " that this in fame is )Tacéfure mutt dEPend upon the fuccelles of the"north€rg ' ' ' 9? t at C --And he toys in his Speech, " In the mean time from all the " intelligence I received, the reduction of Pennf‘vlvania ap- ing. is the fame, The}; were as follow : 9‘ The noble Lord {aid " he learned from his intelligence the difliculties the rebels ‘-‘ to gtt a fuliicicnt force in Pcnnfylvania for the defencehof LL‘ dil‘patch made him perfectly acquainted with every circumilance 9‘ that province; and he ftill hoped that this campa ign would ‘ be the loft. So that in fpite of my potitive allhrarmcsht rom the ," fpot, the miniiler's delulive hopes and conjectures were to ' army. "9-5-5: 1. .J . any inflructions whatever to himielf. I am aflonifhed that an othcer could hazard a charge to unmilitary. Could any in, flrucfitions be necellhry when the copy of the fecretary of liatc's :4 ‘13; 11mi- mining the arrangements for the Canada expedition) without |