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Show feemed to be come when rebellion was to be {wept from the face " ability, and the latter needs no explanation." Such'are the fentiments which the Americans entertain of this gentleman, and f0 great the contempt they ex refs of him. arm, attended as it was to be, in its awful progrefs, bv the blcfling of providence on the one fide, and the favages of Canada even the enemies fiandards taken in battle, in forming an avenue for himfelf and fellow conquerors to have walked through? A romantic n-i. \‘fhat then are we to think of a beaten General's debafing the King's enflgns (for he had none of his enemies) by plant‘ "mPh ins: all the colours of the army in a grand avenue three hun- dried feet in length, lined with the King's troops, between two triumphal arches, for himfelf and his brother to march along in pompous proceflion, followed by a numerous train of attenblended rofe, and feven N1." after rlc'to- dants, with {even {ilken knibglits of the nu on the other. This proclamation, though mighty fublime, was looked upon by the illiterate Americans as mighty obfcure. You thought proper, therefore, a few months afterwards to elu- eidate it by a very clear commentary, written at Saratoga, The public admired the happy variety of flile that diliinguifhed thofe two performances. They concluded you to be a verv good author, but recollec‘lcd, with furprize, that they hail And furrender. once dreamed you were a great General. This illufion, though vamfhed from their minds, feems llill to keep polfellion of yours : for though we are now groaning under the weight of thqu mif- fortunes which your defeat. has brought uponius, you are not _ _ contented, 8", "'lih efcapmg the indignation 01" your country, you, boldly, flep forward in _ the _ Senate, and inlift upon your I think 111 prudence you lhould have more of the burning mountain, and their fourteen Turkey claim to its applaufe, dreffed damfels, to an area of 150 yards fquare, lined alfo with the King's troops, for the exhibition of a tilt and tournament, or mock fight of old chivalry, in honour of this triumphant delayed‘this claim a little time longer. Englifh ears are not ‘ Ct lufhcrently prepared for it. Allow a few more Precedents ‘0 be Cllnbllfl‘lfd, 11nd then-you. may make it with fafety and hero ; and all this fea and land ovation made ; not in Confe- fuccefs : for with an Adininlllration of cowards, and an Oppo. uence of an uninterrupted fueceflion of viélories, like thofe of fition 0f bullies, dlfal'POPlrmem and difgrace will foon become But after :three the Duke of Marlborough; not after the conqueft of Canada by years difgraces a Wolfe, a Townfhend, and an Amherfi ; or after the much more valuable conquefi of all the French provinces and poffefqnd defeats. (ions in India, under the rwzfr and aflz‘ve General Coote; but after thirteen provinces wretchedly loll, and a three years feries of ruinous difgraces and defeats. the heft "$103 to approbation and reward. You, bir, took the earliefi meafures to obtain the patronage Sacrifices to apof the latter of thofe refpecntable bodies ; for the moment you l'Ofi‘l‘m- furrendered your arms to the rebels, you relolved to fact-rice your PTHWPICS ‘0 the Ol'POllt}OD: Th" facru'ce "3" "if" the molt propitious acceptance, for it came accompanied mm the worfl tidings this country ever board. You h 1d l‘Jne a deed . High national When you received the Command of the Northern expedi- 35:";an tion, the public expeftation was raifed to the highelbpitch, by " . geyr‘m ‘n‘ ' "'your magnificent harangues in the fenate, and your liberalpro- mifes of a€t1ve and extenfive operation in the field. The Minif- _This llep being taken, the next confideration was to Jitter-"Tm mould you were refolved, fhould not be imputed to r u. - (HUGS. Howe, Sir Guy Carleton, and the American Secretary, pie among whom it fented themfclves at firll, as the pm: confidential General, not only unconneéted with oppofition, but would be proper to divide the whole, zealous in the caufe of the fupremacy of the Britilh Legiflature. Remark" 5'" his But it was not fuflieient that our expeétations {hould be "mum‘w" raifed; the fears of the enemy were to be encreafcd in the fame proportion. To produce this effeé't, a proclamation was publifhed at Ticonderoga, which out-thundered all your great guns, numerous and noify as they were. of an offended Jupiter. You there affumed the form Vengeance and death were in your right hand-Peace and forgivencfs in your left. . The time fecmcd AL; your letters lhew, that, for a time, you attributed your want of fuceels ertirily to the failure of that co~operzition which you expected from Gen. Howe's army. This was the la" ruave you held to t‘:a "vilinifter, to your a n y. 3:16 He, tr Sir William Howe limi'elf. You i'polte it in them.;1i grew ‘and unambiguous earner n -ur ., by Capt. Campbell, w..en ou meffag‘e to Sir Henry Cli declared that, " you would not have wire '2}; your commu~ " nication with '1 iconderoga, had you not upcéled a c» ‘ 2.96S 3 slams Sir 2'il;iam 0f "‘5 "litm- try were as fanguine as the mob, and rejoiced beyond meafure, that they had, at lall, found an Opportunity of employing a " rating or", .1, N pail offences. In reading the Convention at Saratoga, he. ti rgot that you had once been a llickler for the honour of a Britilh foldier. mine who {hould bear the blame of thofe mistortunes, which, near _.. m " < that fecured even the forgivenefs of Ct l. Barre for 211} your a1? JIHL IUS SCJUR US 072 the Expea'z'zz'wz fi'am Canada. Math-i- ngr. . a. 1.1,", vanity, if, after forty thoufand enemies killed and taken at the battle of Blenheim, he had encouraged his officers and dependents to dedicate to him a triumphal arch, and had employed of the earth, by the irrei'iliible vigour of your outvftretched .k; 23"} Wihatkwould have been {aid of the Dulce of 1V arlborough's blarlhorough Exreerarroxsfim Bnncorxe. Tr. rurtra nfin‘ DISGRACES art-(i Derrars. " either prudence or c------c ; the former fuppofes your ina |