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

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were taken for the removal of the women, children, and infirm persons, in the City of New York, to places of greater safety ; ^ for obstructing the navigation, in both the Hudson and the East-rivers, as well as in Buttermilk-channel, the latter separating Governor's-island from Long Island ; * providing for the temporary support of those who should be driven from their homes, by the enemy ; ' transferring the disposition of those whom it had cast into prison,