iVide page 307, ante.

See, also, General Hotre to Lord George Germaine, "New York "Island, 25 September, 177fi;" the same to the same, "New-Yohk, 30 " November, 177G ; " Speech of Sir IVilliam Howe hefort: a Committee of the House of Cf/mmong, April 29, 1779, -- Almon's Parliamentary Register, xii. 323; Testimoutf of the Earl of Com icallis before a Committee of the House of Commons, May!!, 1779. -- Almon's Parliamenlarij Kegisln-, xiii., 3; etc.

' Vide page 386, ante.

That diKippointnient was expressed to the Hume Gorernment. in the General's despatch of the twenty-fifth of September, 177G, in these wonls : " We must also have recruits from Europe, not finding the Anier- " icjins disposed to serve with arms, notwithstanding the hopes held out "to me, upon my arrival at this post." In his Speech before a Committee of the House of Commons, on the ttcentij-ninlh of April, 1779, the General repeated the expression of his disappointment, on that subject, in these emphatic words: "I miutt, here, add, that I found the Americans " not so well-disposed to join us, and to serve, as I had been taught to "expect." The careful student of the history of that period will also bear testimony, in confirnuttion of what General Howe thus wrote and i raid, that the .Vmericans, those who had been persecuted and outraj;ed ' because of "suspicions" that they were " disaflected," notwithstanding the very reasonable reasons which they had for thus transferring their atrength to the Royal Army, generally remaine<l at their homes, with their families, without voluntarily taking up amis, in either Army ; and that the Loyal Dattalions were composed, almost exclusively, of the floating population, largely men of foreign birth or Americans whose immoralitit!S or necessities had induced them to enter the service.