In the prosecution of the duties to which General Lee had been thus assigned -- in his enlistment of men into the service of the Continent ; in his appointment of the ruffian, Isaiic Sears, to a high militar}' office ; in the barbarities inflicted on the inhabitants of Queens-county, by his authorized representative, Sears ; in his haughty disregard of the local authorities, legal or revolutionary, in New York ; and in his personal and official intercourse with those authorities and with the inhabitants of the City -- the Insfrtictioiis which General Washington had given to him, as well as the superior enactments of the Continental Congress and his own knowledge of the proprieties of intercourse between individuals and of the character of obligations in business relations, were entirely disregarded ; and he permitted himself to be controlled, instead, by his own vile and illcontrolled passions and by the promptings of those, as ill-constituted as himself, who were gathered around him and who pandered to his vanity and his malignancy, for the promotion of their own evil purposes. It is not within the purposes of this publication, however, to take more than a passing uotice

8 JoiirNfll of the CommUtee of Safety, "Die Luna-, 4 ho., P.M., March " 18, 1776 ;" and the same, " Die Martis, t ho., P.M., March 19, 1776."

9 7«Hm<iI of the Committee of Safely, " Die Sabbati, A.M., 3Iarch 23, "1776."

General Waihmgton to the Preridenl of Oougreft, " Ca3IBSII>ge, 4 Jann- "ary, 1776 ;" the tame, "Cambridge, 11 January, 1776;" Gmenii Ho**- ington's InsJmctumt to General Lee, " Head-Qcarters, Cambridge, 8 Jan- "uaiy, 1776."