But there were, also, other circumstances, of which their accusers knew nothing and of which the world, to-day, knows only very little, which largely controlled them ; and it is only reasonable and fair, therefore, that the accused should, also, be heard on the subject -- when a Committee of the House of Commons was charged with the grave duty of inquiring into the conduct of General Howe, during his command of the King's troops in North America, that distinguished Officer made a written defense, in which we find the following words, relative to the operations of the Royal Army, in Westchester-county :

'* From the twelfth of October, the day the Army " landed on Frog's-neck, to the twenty-first of the " same month, we were employed in getting up Stores " and Provisions ; and in bringing over the Dragoons, " the Second Division of Hessians, and the carriages " and horses for transportating Provisions, Artillery, " Ammunition, and Baggage. Four or five days had

2 [Galloway's] Letters to a Nobleman, 36; [Galloway's] Reply to (he Observations of Lieut. Gen. Sir William Howe, on a pamphlet, entitled Letters to a Nobleman ; Letter from " Cicero " to Lord Howe, 2, 3 ; Wraxall's Memoirs of his own Time, Edit. Philadelphia : 1845, 163 ; etc.

8 A Letter to the Right Honorable Lord Viscount H e, Edit. London:

1779, 42, 43 ; Letter from " Cicero " to Lord Home, 196 ; Wraxall's Memoirs, 163 ; etc.