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Show TRAVELS THROUGH UP PER CANADA~ of the State has been moll: f11amcfully appointed from the very outfet. l heard General Wayne, then the commander in hief, declare at Philadelphia, th at a fh ?rt time after they had begun their march, more than one third of his men were attacked in the woods, at the fame period. ' 'ith a dyfcntery; that the furgcons had not even been furniGH:d with a medicine chcfl:; and that nothing could have faved the greater part of the troops from death, had not one of the young furgeons fortunately difcovc rcd , after many different things had been tried in vain, that the bar] of the root of a particular fort of yellow poplar tree was a powerful antidote to the diforder. Many times alfo, he faid, his army had been 011 the point of fuffering from famine in their own country, owing to the cr.reldli1efs of their commiflaries. So badly indeed had the army been fupplied, even la tterly, with provifions, that when notice was fent to the federal general by the BritiD1 officers, that they had received orders to deliver up th eir refpeetive poil:s purfuant to the treaty, and that they were prepared to do [o whenever he was ready to take poficffion of them, an anfwer was returned, that unlefs the Briti{h officers could fupply his army with a confiderable quantity of provifions on arriving at the lakes, he could not attempt to march for many weeks. The federal army was generouny fupplied w.ith fifty barrels of pork, as much as the Briti!h could poffibly fpare; notwithil:anding which, it did not make its appearance till a confiderable time after the day appointed for the delivery of the pofl:s. The federal army is compofed aJmoil: wholly of IriG1men and German., that were brought over as redemptioners, and cnlifred as foon as they landed, before they had an opportunity of learning what great wages were given to labourers in the States. The natives of the country are too fond of making money to refl: fatisfied with the pay of a common foldier. The American prints, until the late treaty of amity was ratified, teemed with the mofl: grofs abufe of the BritiD1 government, for retaining poffeffion of Niagara Fort, and che other military pofl:s on the lakes, after the independence of the States had been acknowledged, and peace concluded. It was never taken into confideration, that if the Britifh government had thought proper to have withdrawn its troops from the poil:s I R E M A R K s. .)OJ poil:s r..t once: immediately after the definitive treaty was 1gned, the w. orks would m. al. l probability luve been dcfl:royed by the I n d"t ans, W·i t1 1 - m whofe terntones they were fituatcd, long before the people of the St~tc~ could have taker~ poffcfTion of them; for no part of their army was wrthm hundreds of mrles of the pofls, and the cotrntry through which they mufl: have pafl: in getting to them was a mere wildernefs. but if the army had gained the pofl:s, the fl:ate were in no condition, i;nmediatcly after the war, to h,wc kept in them fuch large bodies of the military as would h ave been abfolutcly neceffary for their defence whilil: at enmity with the Indians, and it is by no mean's improbable, but that the pofi-s might have been foon abandoned. The retention of them, th~refore, to. the prefent day, was, in faCt:, a circumfbnce highly beneficial t~ the mt~refl:s of tl:c. States, notwithfl:anding that fuch an outcry was ratfed agamil: the Bnt1ili on that account, inaftnuch as the Americans now find themfelves poiTeficd of extenG ve fortifications 011 the fro.nti_crs, in perfeCt: repair, without having been at the expcnce of bmldmg them, or maintaining troops in them for the fpace of ten years, during which period no equivalent advantages could have been derived from their pofleffion. It is not to be fu ppofed, however, that the BritiD1 government meant to confer a favour on her late colonies by retaining the pofts; j( was well known that the people of the new il:ates would be eager, fooner or later, to get poffeffion of forts iituated within their boundary line, and occupied by il:rangers; and as there were particular parts of the definitive tr~aty which fome of the fl:ates did not fc em very ready to comply W1th, the poil:s were detained as a fecurity for its due ratification on the part of the ~tatts. In the late tre~tty of amity and commerce, thefc differences were .finally a commodated to the f<ttisfaetion of Great Britain, and the poil: were confcquently delivered up. On the furrender of them very handiomc compliments \•:ere paid, in the public p~pers throughout the States, to the ~ritifh oflicers, for the polite and fnendly manner in which they gave them up. The gardens of the officer~ were all left in full bearing, and high preft.:rvation; and all the little convenien c ic~ |