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HOUSE of COMMONS, MAY 26.
MR. Aiderman Wilkes moved that Gen. Bar
goyne ffiould give ah account at large of
what had happened within his ferv.ee, as a public
man torn the time he went to America, till he left
that continent. „.
Sir William Meredith ob tried to motions crimi
gating the General, who had afled. not like men
who here ignobly and ngldr ioefly voted their conn
try to blcod&<d and destruction, 'but had ventured
his life and befe fervic.es.
Mr. Wilkes fifing up to explain said, I 1-y no
charge to the honourable General; it was the echo
of the public voice, which fays, the Saratoga fur
render of a whole BMtifh army, was ignominious
and disgraceful to the voiced: England and of all
Europe; I therefore with that the honourable Ge
neral be brou^h- to t fair trrl
Mr. George Granville wfc^d to revive the Com
miuce on the state cf the nation, now diilolved, that
the Canada papers might lie before them.
Mr Charge F x said, that the lame papers might
be referred 10 a new Committee which he would*
prefer beriofe he hetree tne tame resolutions would
no; be paff.d : lit wa^for a thorough and complete
inveCic^ion; he wa-apprehe-nVe 'hat upon certain
questions being piked, the ipirit 01 the honourable
General woui Dead him to go mto the detail for his
own juftmeatian and from (^ epenuefs and can
dour, he wish'd to tt&'e the motion so a to take in
property :he whole unrealved Lfcwwen cf these rce
laAch^y events. Tre Dancer ct the a.my was,
as L hg worthy /Ua^t.T,a d t u 4 said. i§ omir/Dus
whoever might be the occ^hoa cf that ignominy,
whether the General or the Minifiry.
Lord Npjent delivered a warm panegyrirk on the
gallantry of Ceneral Burgoyne and his military ta
lents, but at the fame time endeavouring to juftif.
Lord George Germaine, and to call to the recoikai
on ofthe Roafe. that the Secretary cf Sate for the
colonies, in justifying his owr.'part of the bufoefs,
had uniformly avoided faying a fyllabie to prejudice
the character of Mr Burgoyne. He was apainft the
enquiry particularly from the absence of Generals
Bowe 'and Carleton, who might be involved in the
snarer.
Mr. Alderman Wilkes's motion was then read by
the speaker which was to this purport : ' That the
House co no a Committee on the state and p r esent
filiation of the array which farrencered at Saratoga,
and en wh*t conditions General Burgoyne returned
to Great Britain."
An amendment was then rneVad by Mr. Fox and
feCQnded by Mr. Powyti, to.confider all the tranf
adions of the Bruffi army under General Burgoyne.
Mr Powys wished the enquiry had been at firft
fufpecded. but the House having before tern, to cer
tain resolutions a/ainft the he -Durable gentleman
now cm his defence, it wa due to the honourable
gentleman, and to his country, though all parties
perhaps concerned were not prefect; but the ex
culpation of the Minister was the a'cuLrion of the
honourable General. He had wished to have no
fliare in this enquiry; bnt,find ng that government
had, in DR eftabhfhed a perfe^ly good condu& on
the foppofed errors or mifbehsviour of the General,
he wifh^d to ascertain the truth.
Mr. Cornwall said, Thht as the question was so
put in the former Committee, on this traufaaion
at Saratoga, the fault (and a very great 'and furious
one) muff lie either upon the Minister for the colo
nies. or the General. He thought both blameless
and praise worthy. The evil lay in the fatality and
incertitude of human affairs, and the chance of war.
He thought it likewise improper on account of the
concession of the honourable member, from b s fair
nefs and honourable fentimehts, to enter on this
inquisition ; yet he thought it improper and unjuit
to urge the honourable gentleman ca a fubje& so
delicate and important to himfelf.
Mr Corn\ all thought the Court of enquiry of
General officers now named, and perhaps a future
Court Martial, would be proper, but the House in
competent to the trial; it never had been done; and
instanced former miscarriages, particularly Mat
thews and Lvock, thirty years ago.
General l/ur^oyjie said he understood the gentte
men who made the motion would prepuie foeftionh
He intended to end with a motion oi his own, to.in
clude the whole of theft questions; but as the de
ba;e seemed to take addfe'ut turn; he would be
for the amendment. He felt occasion to invoke, in
the fulled ex ent, the candou, of the House, for a
man whose faculties at all times unequal, I adfoeen
expofed* He flood unconnected and qpfupported,
neither courting nor feafring party, on the basts of
truth and his own honour, to answer Mr. Wilkes
Upon the.lndian alliance, which he bad always at
best coufidered as a necessary evil. He determined
to go the soldier of the flare, not the executioner;
upon these principles he had conducted himfelf.
notwithstanding wha' was alledged by his enemies to
the contrary , he had been obbged to run a race
with the Congress in securing the alliance of the fa
v^ges ; they courted and termed them with p-efents;
as well as the British ; he had in more instances
tkSn one controlled the Indians. In this town there
is now a^Mr. Luc, formerly in the French service,
new in the Service of Great Britain, who has merit,
he wifoed that gentleman, instead of accusing hint
(the General) of barbarities, had been called to the
bar of this House - He is an ambitious and a fortu
nate man. Instead cf attacking a General urfortu
nrtear^nnfalhionable hewifhed the noble L rd at
the head cf American affirm w^ whom Mr Luc
was very familiar would fta : e the tfubOance of Mr.
Luc^.alleca^ions against him; difeha v2the Indians
her? he in £R Nir Lee ^dthe ! 'am; deforc
ed. He was near putting that ^n to an ignomini
ous death, especially on accoun'tyot the miffacre of
that unhappy lady Mfs Ray. He folly penned
the p eclamation, and to held put terrors, but not
to carry them into execution. Tre purport of tit
convention and other q"efuons, he should new an
swer : ^,. Vyner handed the lift of pr < puled questi
ons, wn.ch the General read, and then
Mr. Turner spoke to order - aganft going into a
committee upon this bufineß, m„h more against the
House going on in the present fate of the matters
Mr. Burgoyne went on by command of the House,
and at his own desire, wishing for the committee oil
the amendment nfadeby Mr Fex, beoaufe he would
produce papers which would develops the whole af
fair more fully and circ^tlantialiy) than he could
do Viva voce. He had spoke haudfoinely of the
behaviour of his troops to this day, under the mod
feVere trials of mind and body. He said there had
been much defection but it would be found an hon
orable desertion, if that epithet could be given td
defertien ; they had left letters greatly ,0 their cr^
dit behind them dtfigning the motives for their de
fection.
He thought it his duty to refute the redfons gi
ven by the Congress for their condroft.
He fait a fecead letter to the Congress soliciting
leave to come home, in case they adhered to their
former resolutions.
He read a letter from General Washington to him,
as part of Hs speech, dated ' Head quarters Penri
fylvania, March 11 i%8;" a mail e/egant, gener
ous and bandfame letter 'to General Burgoyne, of
feme length.
Coming home, was upon his propofol ; he never
was considered by the. convention bf-Scratota as a
prisoner; but his propdfal to come home, wa- to re
turn. if required by Congress provided the terms
of the convention Should be prorr^aed beyond the
probable time. He came home 'o doju'ice te him
felf and his fellow folders, fu ffirrers under a con
vention figbed by his hat d.
A further reafou for the committee to proceeds
was in bis mind, because his name had been so efred
and so feriouily called forth into debate i - t' at hoof;
and so freely treated without Boors The idra gone
forth was. that blame was irrputable somewhere ;
and if Minifies v ere innocent, he vas guilty. Ha
wished every Mi' '<- to put bin ftif, for an instant,
in his fituatioa. Finding himfelf under an inuuii&.
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