It provided for the removal of all which remained, of those Cannon which had been brought from the City and laid on the roadsides of the County of Westchester -- those which had been spiked and unspiked, guarded and left unguarded, at such heavy cost, some months previously -- and General Clinton was requested to have carriages made for such of those guns as he should consider necessary for the defenceof the works to the northward of King's Bridge.' At the suggestion of General Washington,* measures

because of "suspicions" which somebody had entertained concerning them, to the several County Committees, but in a tone of mildness which was remarkably unusual ; ' and, in other ways, endeavoring to serve the cause of the country -- one of the most remarkable of the multitude of subjects which, at that time, crowded themselves before the Convention, for its consideration, was a letter from John Sleght, Chairman of the Committee of Kingston, " stating " that the women surround the Committee-chamber, " and say, if they cannot have Tea, their husbands " and sons shall fight no more.""

At length, every preparation for service in the field having been made, on Thursday, the twenty-second of August, the Campaign was opened. Had Lord Howe been despatched, with the heavy reinforcements which he brought, directly to New York instead of to Halifax -- and, since it was known, in England, that New York would be the base of all the operations of the Campaign, there was no other reason