his power to reap a fresh Harvest of Laurels, and inure on accountof of this Country wli leeks up to him as one of the brave Apostles her dearest Rights." Lee's machinations to supplant Washington in the supreme command were in course of development at this period, g ;n„l the gloomy outlook for the American cause, with the appallin record of recent disaster, gave buoyancy to his selfish expectations. red His participation in the campaign that followed is best remembe for his sneers and gibes at his commander, which passed from mouth His reto month of his clique, both in the army and in congress.with the mark that Washington was conducting the war mainly nt. enjoyme ar particul with ed circulat was pickax and the spade Finally, when Washington departed to New Jersey after the battle of White Plains, Lee, left in command in Westchester County, took a course of almost open insubordination. It was not until the Kith of October that any official decision was arrived at looking to abandonment of the Harlem Heights and Kingsbridge position, and even then the action taken was only in the form of a resolve upon a proposition of policy. A council of war was held in attendance, beat the headquarters of General Lee, the officers Lee, Putnam, sides the commander-in-chief, being Major-Generals Stirling, Lord -Generals Brigadier Heath, Spencer, and Sullivan, Fellows, Scott, , Wadsworth Nixon, Parsons, McDougal, Mifflin, George Clinton, and Lincoln, and Colonel Knox, commanding the artillery-- to whom Washington, after conveying such information as he possessed respecting the conjectured purpose of the enemy to "Whether (it havsurround the army, put the following question: ing appeared that the obstructions in the North River have proved insufficient, and that the enemy's whole force is now in our rear, at Frog's Point) it is now deemed possible, in our present sit not ion, to prevent the enemv from cutting off the communication with the country and compelling us to fight them, at all disadvantages, or surThe assembled officers, with the render prisoners at discretion?" Clinton, replied that "it is not George single exception of General possible to prevent the communication from being cut off; and that one of the consequences mentioned in the question must certainly This of course implied a practically unanimous conclufollow." sion on the part of Washington's generals that the "present situation " should be given up.