" 1 am e.vtremely concerned that the quotas of men to be furnished by '*the ueigliboring States have proved so deficient. The busy season "and harvest, to whicli it has been ascribed, being now over, in a great "degree, I Hatter mjself, from the zeal they have heretofore manifested, " they will alford every possible assistance, They are well apprised of "the importance of this State, in the present contest, and the necessity " of maintaining it against the attempts of the enemy." (General lf<w/iimjton to the Comention, " New-Yokk, .\ugust 11, 1776.")

How ill-founded General Washington's faith in the sincerity of the other States was, beyond the limits of their respective individual interests, has been duly recorded in history, is well-known to every intelligent reader, and need not be repeated, in this place.

' (i^eiKraJ Washington lo General Schuyler, " Xew York, 15 July, 1770 ;" The Annual Register for 1776 : History of Europe* 167; etc.

Stedman, (Bistury of the American War, i., 191,) said the Admiral and his command arrived at Sandy-hook, on the first of July ; but his error will be evident to every one.

-As the remarkable influence which the General and the Admiral possessed over the King, even under the most adverse circumstances, has been fre<iuently noticed and very rarely explained, a passing notice of the reason for that influence may not bo unwelcome to the reader.

tie Lancey, in his Xotes on Jones's History of Xeic-York during the Htcolulionary Wnr, (i., 722,) has partly "let the cat out of the bag," by saying they "were sons of Emanuel Scrope Howe, second Viscount " Howe, by Mary Sophia, an illegitimate daughter of George I., by his *' mistress, the Hanoverian Baroness Kihnausegge, and, consequently, "in point of fiict, first cousins once removed of George III." But our friend appears to have gone a little astray, since George III. was the grciit-grandson of George I. ; and the children of a daughter of the latter could hardly have been "first cousins once removed" of the former.