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Published November 2, 1775.
The following LETTERS are published by
order of the Hon. Continental Congress.
“Mv dear General, Montreal, Nov. 17.
"KY yiTH great pleasure I transmit
% / Y° u a letter from Col. Arnold
VW for Gen. Washington, together
' V with the copy of his letter to
me. Col. Eafton has fixguns mounted on shore,
three twelve pounders, one nine ditto, and
two fixes, at the River Sorrel, and the two
row gallies. Mr. Carleton, with his eleven
fail, has not yet been able to pass him by.
Indeed Eafton has obliged him twice to weigh
anchor, and remove higher up the river.• I
am making all dispatch to attack him on my
fide, with field artillery mounted i* batteaus.
I have had great difficulty about the troops. I
am afraid many of them will go home : how
ever, depending'on my good fortune, 1 hope
to keep enough to give the final blow to mini
serial politics in this province, as I hope
effectual measures will be taken to prevent their
laying hold of it again.
“ I must beg the boat§ may be sent back, if
poffibie, which take up the difeharged men.
Some of them might be left at the Pointau
Fere. lam exceedingly hurried, and have rot
done half my business with you. I shall eka
blifh a poll, which will set out next Monday for
Ticonderoga. Will you appoint a Poll-Matter
there ? May von enjoy better health. I am, Ac.
RICHARD MONTGOMERY"
Ticonderoga, Nov. 22, 1775. 90'clock, P. M.
“ Sir,
" I sent off the express about noon to day,
who brought me your favourbf the 9th. Since
his departure, I received a letter from Gene al
Montgomery, inclofing a copy of one from
Col. Arnold. Copies of both Ido myfelf thc
honor to transmit you.
“ If General Carleton had reached Quebec
before Co). Arnold, it is probable the latter
might have met with more difficulties than he
expected, from the reinforcement the former
carr* d with him, but I hope by this time that
our troops are in barracks at Quebec.
" Col. Arnold's march does him great
honor. Some future historian will make it the
fubje& of admiration to his readers.
Nov. 23. The froft has been so severe last
night, that the lake, as far down towards
Crown-point as vre can fee, which is about
three miles, is intirely closed.
The Honorable John Hancock, Esq; &c. &c.
St. Maria, two leagues and a half from Point
Levy, November 8, 1775.
" Dear Sir,
“ Your favour of the 29th ult. I received
at ten o'clock this morning, which gave me
much pleasure : I heartily congratulate you on
your success thus far: I think you have great
reason to be apprehensive for me; the time I
mentioned to General Wafliington being so
long since elapsed, I was not then apprised,
or indeed apprebenfive of one half of the dif
ficulties we had to encounter, of which I can
not at present give a particular detail. Can
only fay we h^ve hauled our batteaus up over
falls, up rapid streams, over carrying places,
and marched through morasses, thick woods;
and over mountains about three hundred and
twenty miles, many of which we had to pass
several times to bring over our baggage. These
difficulties the soldiers have with the greatest
fortitude surmounted, and about two thirds of
the detachment are happily arrived here, and
within two days march most of them in good
health and high spirits.
“ The otber part, with Col. Enos, returned
from the Dead river contrary to my expecta
tion, he having orders to fend back only the
sick, and those that could not be furnilhed
with provisions. I wrote General Schuyler the
thirteenth of October, by an Indian I thought
trusty, inclofed to my friend in Quebec, and
as I have had no answer from either, and he
pretends being taken at Quebec, I make no
doubt he has betrayed his trust, which I am
confirmed in as 1 find they have been some
time apprised of our coining to Quebec, and
have destroyed all the canoes at Point Levy,,
to preventour passing. This difficulty will be
obviated by birch canoes, as we have about
twenty of them, with forty Savages who have
joined us, and profefs great friendfhip, as well
as the Canadians, by whom we have been very
friendly received, and who will be able to
furnifh us with a number of canoes.
I am informed by the French there are two
frigates and several (mall armed vessels lying
before Quebec, and a large ship or two lately
arrived from Boston; however I propofc
Monday, 40 Min. after 5
Tuesday, 25 Min. after 6
Wednesday, 14 Min. after 7
Thursday, 8 Min. after 8
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient and most humble servant,
PH. SCHUYLER.
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
I Friday, 7 Min. after ,
I Saturday, 1 Min. after io
I Sunday, 2 Min. after 11
New Moon the tzd.
I crossing the St. Lawrence As soon as possible,
I and if any opportunity offers of attacking
Quebec with success, shall embrace it, other
wise shall endeavour to join your army at
Montreal. I shall as often as in my power
advise you of my proceedings, and beg the
favor of hearing of you by every opportunity.
The inclofed letter to his Excellency Gen.
IWafhington beg the favor of your forwarding
by express. lam very refpe&fully, dear Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
Brig. Gen. Montgomery. BENE. ARNOLD.
P. S. Since my writing the above, I have
seen a friend from Quebec, who informs me a
Ifrigate of twenty-fix guns and two transports,
with one hundred and fifty recruits, arrived
from St. John's, Newfoundland, last Sunday,
which, with the inhabitants who have been
compelled to take up arms, amount to about
three hundred men. That the French and
English inhabitants in general are on our fide,
and that the city are short of provisions; I
shall endeavour to cut of their communication
with the country and make no doubt, if no
more recruits arrive, to bring them to terms
soon, or at leak keep them in close quarters
until your arrival here, which I wait with im
patience, but if St. John's fhoald not have
Surrendered, and you can possibly spare a regi
ment this way, I think the city must of course
fall into our hands. B. A.
Point Levy, November 14, 1775.
" Dear Sir,
" The foregoing is a copy of my last, by
the two Indians you sent by express the 29th
ult. who, I hear this moment, are taken five
leagues above this, since which I have waited
two or three days for the rear to come up, and
in preparing ladders, &e. The winds has
been so high these three nights, that [have
.o. been able to croE the river. I have near
i&ty canoes teaev; ifotfYa&nA 37^1 l.^giho-'
derated, I design crossing this evening ; the
Hunter sloop and Lizard frigate lie opposite to
prevent us, btft make no doubt I shall be able
to avoid- them. I this moment received the
agreeable intelligence (via Sorrel) that you are
in pofleffiou of St. John's, and have invested
Montreal. I can give no intelligence, save
that the merchant ships are busy day And night
in loading and four have already failed. I
am, Sir, your's, &c.
NEW-JERSE Y.
A MESSAGE to the Governor, from the
Council.
May it please your Excellency,
WHEN we confider the uninterrupted harmony
which for many years hath fuhfided between
the Governor and Council of this province— When
we reflex upon the repeated assurances we have re
ceived of your approbation of, and confidence in,
our unwearied endeavours zealoudy to discharge the
duties of our station--And as we flatter ourselves the
constant tenor of our conduct towards your Excel
lency has ever manifefted the most refpe&ful regard
to your person and station--It is with no small degree
of pain and regret we find ourselves constrained to
lay before your Excellency some observations on the
reply you were pleased to make to the Council's ad
dress in answer to your Speech at the opening of the
present session of Assembly; more especially at this
unhappy period, when even the appearance of disu
nion between the several branches of the legislature
ought carefully to be avoided. Your reply, Sir,
though rather darkly penned, contains, we apprehend,
some reflexions and innuendos, which our confeiences
tell us we do not deserve, and which we cannot,
therefore, with honor or due regard te our station,
pass unnoticed.
Your Excellency was pleased in your speech to ask
us whether we could answer for your personal fafety.
We replied in our address, in such plain and open
language as we thought could not have been mifun
derltood, could not have admitted any doubt or
cavil, nor the most distant hint of fubterfuge, that
you and the other officers of the crown are, in
our apprebenfion, perfectly fafe in this province.
From persons who have too much at Stake not
to dread the consequence of a total subversion of
government, order and authority, who while they
lament the public disorders of the present times, are
anxiously studious to lessen their effect -the inha
bitants of this province, such a declarative might we
think, have been received with joy and gladness by
your Excellency, rather than with insinuations of
your doubts and apprehensions, drawn from the
language of Associations, the orders and resolutions
of Congresses and Committees, or from the effects of
either of them in this or the neighbouring colonies.
We trusted that you would have congratulated us on
the degree of serenity still existing in this province,
rather than damp our hopes by foreboding what may
happen H^RRfrom what has happened ELSEWHERE;
or by throwing an unworthy reflexion on the inhabit
tants of ibis province, in supposing that such officers
of the crown, who have or Shall con feientioufly dis
charge then* duty, need be under any doubts of the
proteaion, support and applause of the people.
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We promised ourselves that the experience you
have long had of our zeal in the cause of public
justice, the honor of government, and support of the
constitution, might have induced more confidence in
our aflertjbns than the language of your reply seems
to convey. However, Sir, if ever we have again
the honor of a reply from you to an address, we
trust, that whilst the council of New-Jersey pre
serve a conduct which calumny dares not openly
afperfe, though they should happen to differ in opinion
with your Excellency as to the real circumftanccs of
the province, they will escape every insinuation of
subterfuge or insincerity; which, however ap
plicable to secret foes, mutt be heaud with disdain,
by the known friends and real well-wishers to this
country.
Council-Chamber, December 4, 1775.
A MESSAGE from the Governor to the Council.
Gentlemen,
T'HE uninterrupted harmony which has fub
ffled between me and the council, has been
one of the mos fatisfadiory events of my admini
fl ration. It has been my confant inclination and
endeavour to preserve it by every means confident
with my duty. My conduct to you as a body, and
as individuals, has ever been Juch as to manifeft a
disposition to oblige you as far as was in mv power.
If this has been hitherto the case (which 1 believe
^~±\ -(.ran °r?d fm 1 ic A rC^tQrhl, d^c {
jhould, at this unhappy period, wantonly a^ with
out cause, do any thing that might endanger tzat
harmony, or occasion " even the appearance of
disunion." Why you Jhould, therefore, cf a sad
den, apprehend that 1 meant, in my reply to, our
adarejs, to cast any refections on your conduct, /
cannot conceive. If my expreffons are, as you fa,
darkly penned, that circumfance might have af
fordedyou a just pretence for aJhing an explanation,
but furel, not for an unheftating application to
yburfelves of any matter “ which your confci
entes tell you that you do not deserve.
hour addrejs was perfectly fatisfaflory to me,
except that part in which,ou gave,our opinion
refpe&ing the personal fafety of the officers of this
government. I Jhould have been very happy if I
could have joined you in that opinion ; and should
not then have failed congratulating,ou on so joyful
an occasion. It did not appear to me that it was
warranted by the circumflances really exiting in the
province, aud it evidently carried with it an im
plication that the degree of apprehension mentioned
in my speech was ill-founded, ids nothing was
farther from my intentions than the exciting cfjalje
alarms, I did not choose to lie even under Ibe Jufpi
cion. On that account I thought it necefar, to
particularize some of the reasons which inauced me
to differ in sentiments with you in that point.
Whether you or I have the bes ground for our
opinion, others willjudge. I exprejs'd not the leaf
doubt of your thinking febe opinion you have just
and right, but I thought it proper at the fame time
to afure you, that 1 could not agree with you in
that opinion, " without being guilty of aJubser
fage, which gentlemen of your candour must dis
approve." Why you should from these words fcp
poje, that I meant a difiant hint, that you bad been
guilt, of Juch a fubterfuge, I cannot imagine ;
especially as your " consciences tell you that ,ou
do not deserve it." Nor can I conceive that you
have the leaf pretence for taxing me with " throw
ing an unworthy reflection on the inhabitants of
this province." Whatever I ma, think applicable
to some individuals on the present occasion, I have
said nothing which can, without manifeft per
version of my words, be applied to the people at
large. M, real opinion of them, and m, confidence
in their affection and regard, are too fully and
clearly exprefed i,, my fpeecb, and my conduct has
been conformable thereto, not to defeat any purpose
that mu, be intended by Juch an unworthy sugges
tion.
Though I think as favourable of the crown
officers in general in this province as you can do,
yet lam not able to comprehend that it must there- t
fore be an " ungenerous insinuation" to intimate
that some of them may have been induced by timi
dity or other motives, to " depart from the line of
their duty." That some have actually departed
from the line of their duty, from some motives or
other, is a matter too publickl, known tojufify an,
attempt at concealment, particularly asyou have at
this feffon advised me to juftend one of the mos
It is not nteceffary or proper for us to extend otif
views to other colonies, in order to form our senti
ments or opinions of the conduct and behaviour of
officers of the crown. Whth refpe& to crown officers
in general in this province, we cannot but think it an
ungenerous infatuation that there are any who have
departed from the line of their duty, from the impulse
of timidity; or other motives in view to present
fafety. Such aspersions, permit us to fay, ought not
to be thrown out, but on the surest grounds that such
characters really exist amongst us.
If the return of the affection and regard, which
your Excellency acknowledges you have experienced
from all ranks of people in this province, is to be
general calumny and detraction, it is not likely there
will be found many who will choose to pay “ such a
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