Sir : -- A note I had from General Greene leaves me in doubt if his memory had served him to relate to you, with exactness, the substance of the conversation that had passed between him and myself on the subject of Major Andre. In an affair of so much consequence to my friend, to the two armies, and humanity, I would leave no possibility of a misunderstanding, and therefore take the liberty to put in writing the substance of what I said to General Greene. I offered to prove by the evidence of Colonel Robinson and the officers of the Vulture, that
a Sparks' Life of Arnold, p. 71, 2, 8. b Sparks' Life of Arnold, p. 275-6.
THE TOWN OK GREENBURGH.
Major Andre wont on shore at General Arnold's desire, in a boat sent for biin with a flag of truce ; that he not only came ashore with the knowledge and under the protection of the General who commanded in the district, hut that he took no step while on shore, but by the direction of General Arnold, as will appear by the enclosed letter from him to your Excellency. Under these circumstances I could not, and hoped you would not, consider Major Andre as a spy, for any improper phrase in his letter to you.
The hu ts he relates correspond with evidence I offer, but he admits a conclusion which does not follow. The change of clothes and name was ordered by General Arnold, under whose direction he necessarily was while within his command.