You'll see by adverting to the Returns, that some Companies "have more Officers than Privates, at best ; but not content with that, " and instead of sending home the Officers who have very few men, " almost none, and turning over those few men into other Companies, " they add Brevet Officei-s, not only to pick the pockets of the pub- " lick, here, but, also, those Brevet Officers are to be dismissed from "the Militia Rolls, at home ; and, in a few times more being called "forth, there will be no Slilitia left in the State.

" These things I thought it my duty to report to you, as the char- "acter of the State is at stake; and how the Officers who have done " these things w ill get along, here, I don't know, as we now make " Weekly Ration Returns as well as Returns of the Army, by which " they must be discovered. The consequence is bad to the Officers ; how- " ever, they must take their fate.

" I am sorry to have the character of the State suffer liy such conduct " of its Officers.

********* " I am, honoured Sir, your dutiful Son, '•Jos. Trumbull.

" Governour Trumbull."

We have seen no evidence that either General Wooster or Conmiissary-geueral Trumbull took any steps for either the arrest of the offenders or a suppression of the offences.

and properly disciplined * -- adding fuel to the flame of discord, which, on more than oue occasion, required all the good judgment and determination of which the Commander-in-chief was master, to prevent a serious outbreak.^