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Show I‘lOVt'E'S LETTERS/.7920 [12" i‘lINIS TLR. AMA-ZED at the MtNIsTER's Exeartox s. " army." In his letter to Sir Guy Carleton, inclofed in the letter to the Minilier of the 2d of April, Gen. Howe writes, Fr.»an.tlnv.-e's" that the potlellion of 'l‘iconderog‘a, would iaturally be the W" 36"" " lirit ohieet of the northern army ;" and recommended " the " {taming Albany and the adjacent country" as the fecond, " The further progrels of this corps," hays he, " depending " {0 much upon the enemy's movements, cannot be {tiirel'ECnat " this dittance of time, flill I flatter myfelt, and have reafon to And we find that General I-ImVe's wilhes Genillowe a: his own letter, dated Halifax, 8th June 177 , where he l'ays, " I. cannot take leave of your Lordlhip without exprelhng‘ my " utter amazement at the decilive and mailerly llrohes for " afhilance in their power, that it will prove no difficult talk to " carrying fuch- extcnlive plans into immediate execution, as " reduce the more rebellious parts of the province." The 16th of July the Gen. writes, " the enemy's movements " taking this turn," (viz. llvafhintfton marching to the defence of l'emnylvania) " Iapprehcnd General Burgoyne will meet " " " " " with little interruption, otherwite than the difficulties he " mull encounter in tranfporting ftores and provilions for the " merits of a grateful country, the hailing glory which inch " fervices merit; and that I may in form: degree contribute to But let us fee how far the Miniller's ‘L out, were I at liberty to march in force immediately by my " left, infiead ofmy right, I fliouldhave little doubt of fubduing " before winter the provinces where the rebellion originated. ‘4 If my late letters reach Dlr. Howe, I ilill hope this plan 6‘ my be 5‘10?th from Albany." Who would not have imagined from theft: accounts that the rebellion was at an end 9 Vith would have hefitated at promif~ inga fuecelstul campaign? It is true, our expectations were deceived, our hopes were molt cruelly diliippointed ; but {hall the authors of our misfortunes, thofe very men who flattered us with the hope of brilliant fuccefs from operations they themfelvcs planned, and who afterwards by their delays and blunders walled the campaign, and flicririced our armies, be allowed to call thole hopes deluflve, and charge the Minifter with deceiving Parliament, when they thcmfclves have been the only dc‘ carvers. Al‘r'as the force fent out from this country equal to the objefls or the .- inerican war? :l‘he noble, Lord at the head of the American department have been etleeted lince your Lordfhip has all'umed the conduct of this war, which is already molt happily caper-imam by thofe who have the honour of relying here under your aufpices. That you may finally receive the acknowledge- " the completion of meal‘ures to vigoroully concerted, is the " fervent with of your Lordlhip's, 8m. 'W. Howe." In his letter of the 2d of April 1777, the General acknow- In 1775 Gm. ledges that the force of I776 was adequate to its object. It How 36,6500 would be therefore prepoflerous in me to adduce a tingle ar- mt"; ll "ht"? gument to prove it. I will however beg leave juft to llate the ""1 x6909" following facts, that General Howe's army, in 1776, exceeded 30,000 regular, eflective troops, exclulivc of thofe left at Halifax and of the northern army, and that llralliington's army did not amount to more than 16,000 men. By what means fuch an army, {0 well appointed, fervecl by {0 large a train of artillery, and attended by to numerous a fleet,eould tail of {needs againlt a divided people, dellitute of Ollicers, Soldiers, Magazines, tortilied towns, iliips of war, or any apparent relources, will be the fubiect oi~ my inguiry.‘ " I follow the General in not entering into the policy oryuince of the war, not fhall I dWcll upon the. wanton and unparallelled lherifice of the bravelt of our troops on Bunker's Hill, but Will take up his conduct where he tnoughtproper to do it in his lpeech, viz. at the time of his receiving orders from the fccrctary 0t ttate for evacuating Bofion, and before I follow him to the fouthward will llmw~thar by his not quitting Bolton when he was ordered to do it, and it might have been effected without any dilgrace, the army remained thro' the winter cooped up in a moft igno- minions lituation, fuffering for want of ncccitaries, espo‘fed to lIll-Ult, and were neither the objects of terror or cauie ot dillrefs Train of Gen. being allusd in the Home of Commons, foon after he came into to the rebels ;----that by alr‘tntloningr that poll when he had wrote Hubris 0H5", what force he thought Would be futhcicnt to reduce the revolted colonies? repliedf" That the mcal‘urcs of the force *0 government that he {hould not, " ih‘o'uld be the wilhes of the General." inis :ruly is a g nerous method of ellimating forcefor from it with marks of diligrace, he did his utrnoii to depretsthe military K"!- that he thought ofthe preparations, and of the minitler, under whole unmediate direction they were made, will befi appear, by " will be found {0 numerous and to ready to give every aid and hopes were authoril‘ed by his intelligence from that quarter. And 9'". 3"" General Burgoyne, in his letter dated Skeenfborough, July II, VFW" 1777, {3373, " your Lordlhip will pardon me, it‘I lament that " my orders do not give me the latitude. I ventured to propofe ‘4 in my oripinal project for the campaign to make a real effort, 44 infi *ad ofa t‘eint upon New England. As things have turned :27 were not. only gratified 111 thus relpcct, but the force that was "1131:" ‘4‘ "15 V, ,x. ~. . M. ,_ . . . ,.,.'.. L' lent truth) the 1p: :pg of two, {o to exceeded his molliangume "‘" 1"" "1m" , 1L , - . ,4 . ‘ ' ' espcttations, that ne appttris to have been lurprizcd to a degree 0t Allonzllnnent at the amazmg elforts that had been made. " expect the friends of government in that part ofthe country, " fupply of his army." The deceivcrs turn accufers. military operations. and by declaring that Bolton was tenable and then indexing; the rebels to di'ivehxm {pirit ofthe troops and to mile thole of the rebelsp-thgt tho Eh: lll‘v'JL‘ Lolld‘ua |