To-morrow one Company actually enber 1 1 that thirty-two of the latter listed in the Enemy's Service will be march'd been taken into custody, to Philadelphia, there to be confined In jail ion or her conspirators, says: "I till the Establishment of our Courts enables us In rpe Matters be so managed that two or to hang the Ringdeaders." And on October 10 iree of ■nthen cipal Miscreants who have (see p. 3(d) he goes so far as to declare that tl ■en tak' hanged as Spies." October unless vigorous measures are instantly taken lM b: referri ng 1 Tory conspirators captured a revolt will surely supervene in Westchester ,' Wash i 1 1 g i ? exclaims: " In the Name and Dutchess Counties.

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Blow." Evidently Duer's prophecy for the 17th was one of the various conjoining things which influenced Washington to suspect that Howe's movement to Throgg's Neck was but a part of the enemy's plan, and accordingly to allow a full week to pass by without inaugurating any new plan of his own. On the morning of the loth Washington issued a stirring address to the army, probably as characteristic a specimen of his writings of this nature as his career affords: "As the enemy seem mew to be endeavoring to strike some stroke before the close of the campaign," said he, "the General most earnestly conjures both officers and men, if they have any love for their country and concern for its liberties and regard to the safety of their parents, wives, children, ami countrymen, that they will act with bravery and spirit becoming the cause in which they are engaged; ami to encourage and animate them so to do. there is every advantage of ground and situation, so that if we do not conquer it must be our own faults.