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Show . R E v I E w I37" t/l'c WA R. above their rear, which would have given us their whole army V . to a man. R\ iiez‘lccling‘ to occupy the heights of Dorcheller, \rnich L"At‘l-‘J'lie liad coiittaiitlv before his eves for ten months, and which he knew from the lirll * the rriliels intended to poll'efs, he was forced to fly with ignoniiny from Bollon ; _purehafing a quiet ratrezit bv :1 fecret capitulation, never ‘having' the candour to rm n his obligation to the negoeiator of his lafety, but all alongr diline‘enuoullv attempting to impure on the world, :" that his " line military diliiolition had enchanted the rebels. From this place he 'rled with all the precmitation of amau (.i' ~1mi‘,lt" . C\\.1Ll\_l11- completely (lilieomlited, (ion-5d. abandoning an hundred pieces of can~ non and mortars, great quantities of military llores, and even u'ovilions, and fueh 21 mil allortment ol linens and woollens as latied the New England rebels, who‘were in great dillrefs for hem, no let's than twoyears ; together With 10o vellels of various denominations, which v'ere all litted out againll us nezft fummer. and {touring the \Vellern Ocean, nearly ruined for that . vear our whole "fell India 'l‘rade. i He was repeatedly urged :1 id intrcated. _to illue orders. for ran‘fporting the linens and woollens to Halitax, that they might hr: reltored to the proper owners, but to no Purpole; fullen, indolent and dillipated, he was incapable of domg any bulmels, . or oil lirrxnountinq arr; diflicultv. The lame iiirutiile-s or want of motives prevented his leavmg a Crarril'on on George's Illand near Nantalkct Road, though a bmpolal of his owii to the Minii‘ler. A battalion on that Illand, which is vei‘v defenlible, would, with a llnp of war, have coma pletelv fecured Bollon Harbour. But for want of the procould have given to a man of war, teflioii that liieh a frarrilbn ‘ Ice: then. lol}, and received from her, the rebels foon forced Capt. Banksdo leave the Road, in confeqnence of which, molt of our fiore {hips from Europe and the \Vell Indies with near a thoufand men in tranlborts, ran diretlly into Bollon Harbour, and were taken. . R-i: v I r w df tZ'e W A R‘. 147 them. If his mind had not been of a molt impenetra ile or‘ call l : lous texture how dreadfully mortilied mull he have h'lt wl‘ An Tlllili'illi-a; he Judas he had commenced his flight, and not vet otit‘oit lirihii . ll "mm of the {pires of Bollo‘n,' a lhip‘ol~ war from England hailed him, and gave him the minifier's dilhatehes applauding his realbns for. an! [awn/g Bollon, and judifi' ing his relblution of» i'e~ Inammg there, as (1/1 Et'm‘mzaimwould have been a verv unad< Vilable meafure. Thus he fled with thofe prail‘es / in his pocket, which had been laviihed upon him, only on the {up pofitl on that he ttill kept firm in his port. There are few mines but‘would have felt this lll‘OhiI‘ for life. V l hough he knew the Ilt'CClllE)‘ of remaining in Bollon on account of his expected reinliircements, and to keep up an alarm to prevent the rebels from reinforcing their army before (Luebe e, vet he went to {hut himfelf up on the inliol‘pitableeoail of Nova shutia, eight days fail out ot his road, inllead of going to NewYork, which at lalt he thought proper to do three month s after. Immediately on 01 r (li'l-L'ltlllg Boilon the rebels dctaclml a large reinforcement to their aimv in Canada. As to ({lc‘ bee, he had left it to its line, "or rather apparentlv conhgned' it to the rebels ; on the 10th of Oriober, while liJlllC‘ ing himfelf at Bolton, General Carleton's letters beleechlng fuceours arrived, with intelligence he had not an hundred foldiers under his command. ()urgreat man, {0 wife, {'0 mm», and zealous, in confultation with Admiral Graves determined a battalion of marines lhould be lent : in three days the tranfports were ready to take them on board: but at that iiniant Admiral Graves receiving a new light, thought lit to declare, that to fend tranfports up the St. ,l.a\vrenee was unadviiable and impracticable. People wondered from whence the Admiral had received this hidden illumination, as he had been quite of another opinion three days before. Then our General ‘under. took the bulinefs; but he came to a quicker deeiiion : doing-0th,.» ., in one day what Graves had taken three to do ; that is, COlllll‘." 4,": r... m. to a determination to lend them, and a determination not to gzrrni tor-tiar. ~ Orders were fent in fummer and fall 1775 to evacuate Bollon, h'liiiitii‘3' being alhamed of the inglorious fituation of troops fend them. Sending troops would have been doing loinething, We (\ '5"therefore it went no further than an idea, as we were ah. "5 fo cooped up, expol‘ed to inl‘ult, want, and furprize; and no better pleated when doing nothing. lonsger either objects of terror, or caule of diflrefs to the rebels. There orders our connnander rejeél'ed. The profpee‘t of hx Alter all this prepare an: and exertion of wililom, the vellel from @ebec was {cut bit-l; exprefs the 13th of October in the evening, to let Gen. Carl's? months total idlenel‘s, was too great a happinefs for a {luggilh ton know, that it was the decided opinion of Gcli'u'zil Howe. H'we willies [3 be, matched. mind to relinquifh. In reply, he fent home the followmg bravado 2 " that it were to be wiflzed the rebels would hazard " fo, ralh an attempt as to attack him." _ But they did make the attempt, and he funk under it, with- out a fingle effort or fii'uwgle, on his part, to make head agamft D ' » and Admiral Graves, that it was impracticable i'or vellc-ls with troop: on board to get up the river St Lawrence; but that vellels with supra/1‘1 without any troops certainly might. In his pallage from lvlalifax to New York, he might have de- Rub-1 ,3,;,,,:,,,, firoyed every thing that could float in all the rebels harho: rs, m ,.:._H,,\.; LC; them. and vet have landed when he. did, Auguii .rzd, on Long bland. melt: nee. ll General Gage fwd {arbitration (3f 1:725:33: My 1775, at t/Je By Frequent landings on the mall, he would have weal-:ened T 2 fem time with their intention of an:1¢}z‘zg at Banker': 111/]. \‘t'allnngton‘s |