In the prosecution of the duties to which General Lee had been thus assigned -- in his enlistment of men into the service of the Continent ; in his appointment of the ruffian, Isaac Sears, to a high military office ; in the barbarities inflicted on the inhabitants of Queens-county, by his authorized representative, Sears ; in his haughty disregard of the local authorities, legal or revolutionary, in New York ; and in hig personal and official intercourse with those authorities and with the inhabitants of the City -- the Instructions which General Washington had given to him, as well as the superior enactments of the Continental Congress and his own knowledge of the proprieties of intercourse between individuals and of the character of obligations in business relations, were entirely disregarded ; and he permitted himself to be controlled, instead, by his own vile and illcontrolled passions and by the promptings of those, as ill-constituted as himself, who were gathered around him and who pandered to his vanity and his malignancy, for the promotion of their own evil purposes. It is not within the purposes of this publication, however, to take more than a passing notice

s Journal of the Committee of Safety, "Die Luna;, 4 ho., P.M., March "18, 1776;" and the same, "Die Martis, 4 ho., P.M., March 19, 1776."

» Journal of the CommUlee of Safety, " Die Sabbati, A.M., March 23, "1776."

"> General Washington to the President of Congress, " Cambridge, 4 Janu- "ary, 1776;" the same, "Cambridge, 11 January, 1776;" General Washington's Instructions to General Lee, " Head-Quarters, Cambridge, 8 Jan- "uary, 1776."