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Show 0277'er ,r/L'mmzt (if-[ifs I N D I C I S I O N. TéeAxrrLLEnr mm] Ron-rs. wards the necellity of employing it. Fir-fr fixed on " rating: army at Albany." Now, had you not given up your Sir W. Howe. communication with Ticonderoga, it is clear you could never have been forced to furrender your army. The whole of your down to attend its motions, and the enormous delays occullo ncd, if we may believe yorrrlelf, was entirely to the rebels to recover from their firfl panic, and to collect :L- then, owingr to Gen. Howe's failure in the expeeledcooperation. Strong us this ground or‘defence might at hril light appear, you were obliged, for prudential real‘ons, totally t0 delert it, you would neither have found men to oppole, nor works to iu‘ tcrrupt your progrefs through the country. pollibly pretend to rival : it was therefore necelliiry to give up every idea of criminating him before rou could procure the concurrence ot‘the whole party in defending you. \xVith regard to Sir Guy Carleton, it had been given out by your friends that he had been greatly deficient in making the neceflitry preparations for the commencement of your campaign, and lhamcfully The!‘ CI, 5i, Grdilatory in forvarding to you the fupphes and allillance that were afterwards to come from his province. Unfortunately he too was connected with a port of the oppofition, in fuch a manv ner as made it ireceliin‘y to lizpprefs this charge, for the fame rcafons that induced you to keep back that againft Sir William Howe. There now remained nothing to lay the blame upon, but your orders from the Secretary ofState. Thole hopelefs orders therefz re are now to be centured for every thing you did, and every thing that you omitted to do-for your marches and your halts-for lyiti" by. while you had a profpcfl of fuccefs, and Lad on the A, advancing when you had none-and finally, for that {trangefi "mica" sdcmmf all itmnge ideas, that when you could proceed no further, tury- it was better to l'urrt'ndvzx than to attempt to retreat. The first charge agziinft you in the conduct of your unfortu~ note expedition, is the carrying with you a quantity of artillery {o totally incompatible with that cereriry or movement, on which your i'uccel‘s entirely depended. It ans necellury indeed to carry a train to Ticonderoga. equal to the reduc‘iion of the (Em-75W of," very ilrong works that we experired to meet with there. thinly gziin that army which had been completely diiperi'ed. "here-Delaye d the us, hud you advanced rapidly without incumbrance or delay, am)" hnd abandon every advantage you could have derived from it. Sir W'illiurn Home had now lelt the King's fiandard to its own fortune in America, and had returned to look for laurels under the banners of oppolition. He was of a weight and {landing in the corps, which you, though a hopeful recruit, could not Carleton. in a great degree, by the Hornets of its progrel‘s, grave tull time So far you could hnvciuftified yourrhlt‘en'cn without the example of In point of fact, what works did this artillery of yours ever get the better of}; Alter paliing Ticonderoga, you met with but one fortified camp of the enemy, and all your boatted artillery nevur enabled you to advan e a tingle loot beyond it. But it was not lullicient to cmburrafs yourf‘elf with every incumbrance that could retard the progrelk or an army ; it was necellary, in order to complete your plan, to adopt loch a route as would add to every ditliculty, and augment every dr- lay. lnltead of the :élrnight and common palliuge by the u'uy of Lake George, which it never would have occurred to any other officer to have departed from, you thought: proper, at the expence 0'5 much time and incredible labour, to cut a, road thrrujgir a piece of ground the melt difficult and impracticul‘ile that perhaps tall America aflorded, You {cent to ht: mnvizn'cd, DI s and that to the fi't‘nernlity of mankind this mearure would 11})PC'.11'(;,. lein‘ altogether inergli ‘ahlc, and were therefore pic: id to eminnu-ter . , f: ,nicztte to us your motives for a mozcmeut {o cfiti't‘llizfly treemzv-‘bmtC u! mutt tric. You Were apprehenfire, it Items, in the liril place, that the retrograde motion of the army from liltttmthorough to diconderororii, would abate the panic or the theory, and at the fame time have a huti elicit on the ipiriis or your own troops. Your philofophy {ferns of apiece with yo rgcncruhhi lt mull be in {tune new {yftem that you hut": tliktii‘cttd, man is molt :1: rifled when it is lead poliihlc to oiertzaltc him, and that a loldicr led out of his road in puriizit ot‘an enemy. will feel himlizlf dejefted or dtprelled, it he returns into. :t :ntwr the purluit is over. General Frazer's corps rottde tlll‘.‘ r tro- grude motion from liuberton, and yet I protcis the grenn . on For that: and light infantry never betrayed the hnullel‘t {ymptom at tho c :niuihci- oir Guy Carleton ; but further, you ll: ruin endeavoured to truth of this {trunge theory of yours : but you‘are‘ further CHEpleafed to cxprels your opinion, that had you gone oy the Price. procure his opinion in your fa‘t'onr; the enemy would have delayed you greatly by. matting a thrnd ‘You. and your lea: ed friend (Tar/wait: Money, have informed the committee, that artillery kill. men :Ll‘iil diflancc, and that it makes a greater impreliion on the enemy's defences, than mr‘rc multiluetry ("Ln eticct. indeed l--lt did not require the teuirnony of :Mc'tes and the propnere, much leis that of two men rrz-m Saratogo, to convince ihe mull incredulous fenator rjfilthe truth of this allegation. But you ll]0Uld have recollec- :Lil, 5.1, that the vezy carriage ofthis artillery created afterwards try-‘1." hmh- n b , 2. Al... .443 misfortune, The army was pinned at Fort George ; and in this opinion all your witnchcs ore. plea- fed to concur; Now let us hate the ptcimles horn irhr; conclulion is drawn. i The rebels had fled from Ticonderoga, where they had-coh let‘led till the rorce it was i oilihle for them to ullhml‘zlc-~Wncre they had works of a molt utilizing llrcngth. and had :1 11d: crery preparation for :1 long end Vigorous octencc.‘ _ .: You, therefore, fuppoie that thole very revert, panic-igpf, |