But toward the end of peace so devoutly to be wished for, he unfortunately was not able to make any progress whatever One of his first acts was to dispatch an officer under a flag of truce with a letter addressed to " George Washington, Esq./' impertinence, the offireminding one of that other historic British cial designation of the fallen and captive Emperor Napoleon, after Waterloo, as "General Bonaparte." Howe's messenger, after exchanging'the most elegant and amiable courtesies with the American officer who came to meet him, stated that he had a letter for a " Mr. " Washington. The other informed him that some unaccountable mistake must have been made, that there was no person answering to such a name in the whole patriot camp. The missive the specified priwas next produced, and still it was disavowed thatpuzzled messenger vate individual had any known existence. The was fain to return to liis chief without accomplishing his laudable to spare the erring . colonies the fearthe last offerlong object. This was that been threatened had so ful chastisement On the 2d of July the British ships left Gravesend, advanced in stately procession through the Narrows, dropped anchor one by one along the shores of Staten Island, and began to discharge the troops, who, gladly remarks Dawson, were tk welcomed by the inhabitants of oppression that' beautiful island as their deliverers from the terrible Not until the 12th of July was any of the Revolutionary powers."

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