song came to his turn, Andre gave the favorite military chanson attributed to Wolfe, who sung it on the eve of the battle where he died :

" Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys ? Why, soldiers, why, Whose business 'tis to die I For should next campaign Send us to Him who made us, boys, We're free from pain : But should we remain, A bottle and kind land-lady Makes all well again. "a

The circumstances relative to Major Andre's arrest has already been related.

"On Friday the 29th September, 1780, just one week since he had started from Smith's house for New York, Andre was brought before a Board of Enquiry convened by General Washington. It was assembled in an old Dutch church in Tappan, now pulled down, and consisted of the following officers : Major-Generals, Greene, Sterling, St. Claire, La Fayette, Howe and Steuben; Brigadiers, Parsons, Clinton, Knox, Glover, Patterson, Hand, Huntington and Starke. Greene was president, and John Lawrence the judge -advocate-general. Before this court Andre made the following statement :

ANDRE'S STATEMENT.

" On the 20th of December I left New York to get on board the Vulture, in order (as I thought) to meet General Arnold there in the night. No boat, however, came off, and I waited on board until the night of the 21st. During the day, a flag of truce was sent from the Vulture to complain of the violation of a military rule in the instance of a boat having been decoyed on shore by a flag, and fired upon. The letter was addressed to General Arnold, signed by Captain Sutherland, but written in my hand, and countersigned 'J. Anderson, secretary.' Its intent was to indicate my presence on board the Vulture. In