" I am extremely concerned that the quotas of men to he furnished by "the neighboring States have proved so deficient. The busy season "and harvest, to which it has been ascribed, being now over, in a great "degree, I flatter myself, from the zeal they have heretofore manifested, " they will afford every possible assistance, They are well apprised of " the importance of tins State, in the present contest, and the necessity " of maintaining it against the attempts of the enemy." (General Washington to the Convention, " New-York, August 11, 1776.")

How ill-founded General Washington's faith in the sincerity of the other States was, beyond the limits of their respective individual interests, has been duly recorded in history, is well-known to every intelligent reader, and need not be repeated, in this place.

1 General Washington to General Schuyler, " New York, 15 July, 1776 ; " The Annual Register for 1776 : History of Europe* 167 ; etc.

Stedman, (History of tlie American War, i., 191,) said the Admiral and his command arrived at Sandy-hook, on the first of July ; but his error will be evident to every one.

2 As the remarkable influence which the General and the Admiral possessed over the King, even under the most adverse circumstances, has been frequently noticed and very rarely explained, a passing notice of the reason fur that influence may not be unwelcome to the reader.

do Lancey, in his Notes on Jones's History of New-York during the Revolutionary War, (i., 722,) has partly " let the cat out of the bag," by saying they " were sons of Emanuel Scrope Howe, second Viscount "Howe, by Mary Sophia, an illegitimate daughter of George I., by his " mistress, the Hanoverian Baroness Kilmansegge, and, consequently, "in point of fact, first cousins once removed of George III." But our friend appears to have gone a little astray, since George III. was the great-grandson of George I. ; and the children of a daughter of the latter could hardly have been "first cousins once removed" of the former.