- " While tliis immaculate General " [Charlex Lee,] " had the comniaiid " in New York, about 2 lO pieces of heavy cannon which were mounted " in Fort George and upon the Battery, were forcil)ly taken away by " hie orders, and lodged upon the Common," [Ihe MirAJ "facing his "Quarters. But, lest upon the arrival of the British Army, they " shouldbe retaken, he ordered them to be earried up to King' s Bridge, "about 14 miles from New York. The persons employed in this service " wanting horses, applied to the General to supply the defect. An hon- "est, a virtuous man, and a Christian, will shudder at the answer : "'Chain 20 damned Tories to each gun, and let them draw them out "*and be cursed. It is a proper employment for such villains, and a " ' punishment they deserve for their eternal loyalty they so much " ' boast of,'" (Jones's Hislori/ nf .Vcie Yvrk, during the Ilevolutioimn/ War, i., 82, 8:i.)

" I counted two hundred and eighty pieces of Cannon, from twenty- "four to three pounders, at Kingsbridge, which the Committee had se- " cured for the use of the Colonies," (Doctnr Benjumin Church's treasonable letter, intercepted in July, 1775.)

^Stephen Ward to the ProuincUd Congress, " March 6, 1776."

*Ji>unud of the Cnmmittee nf Safelij, " Die Mercurii, 10 ho., .\.M.. " Jany. 51, 1776."

soon made known, however ; and, as may be reasonably supposed, not only Westchester-county, but the Committee of Safety, in the City of New York, the Provincial Congress having taken a recess on the twenty-second of December preceding, was thrown into the greatest excitement.