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- For the London Evening Port.REASONS for a certain Officer's Conduct on Long Island, not infetted in the Gazette.“ r Ordered Lord Cornwallis not to make the I attack, if he fouud the pafs occupied,”— becaufe I had good grounds, from- their former conduft, to Relieve the Americans would impudently and audacioufly defend it.“ They marched in Angle columns,”—becaufe a parcel of d ’d riflemen woullt;£ haveplayed the devil with us from the hills, had we not kept in the plain clear fields, which were too narrow to admit two columns—thanks to the Dutch farmers for their unfenced corn fields.“ Ordered them out of the reach of their muf-quetry into a hollow ground,”—becaufe they would Mtherways have given us anotherBunker’s-hill drubbing, which was clearly their intention.^ “ Broke ground about 600 yards from their works,”—becaufe I could depend on nothing but the fuperiority of artillery, having defeated 4000 of their light trcops who had none.I lhall leave it to your tordlhip’s better judgment, whether I atted politically and agreeable to the Scotch Junto, in fuffering the Heflians, under the pretence of not underftanding Englilh, to defiroy thole prifoners who fell into their hands ; or whether the Scotch could be reftrained from butchering thofe who furrendered to them, being the firft fair opportunity for open revenge upon Englilhmen fince 1745.I ain lorry to inform your Lordlhip, that nocr-ders could urge the- Englilh regiments to kill a fingle prifoner ; they will never heartily do the bufinefs to full expectation.I beg for your Lordlhip’s immediate inftrue-tions upon the fubjeft of another army; for by the middle of March next, one-third mull be wafted away like that in Bofton, where we inuftered 11 ,ooo, who were but about 7000 when we took the field this year.Alfo inftruflions, whether it would not be ad-vifeable to indent the German troops for three years to Wafhington. This will bring government five pounds per man, and will be fome fav-ing of expence. I mean this in cafe I ihould get footingon the continent; for while we are on the iilands, they will find fome difficulty to defert.I am with great efteem, c. c.For the London Evening Poll.Epigrammatical Postscript of a letter from an officer at Long Ijland to his friend and patronin the Mini fry.V k ^T HO' you, and your colleagues, by night and by day,For thefe fixteen long years have been making your way.Driving furioufly on’ards pell.mell.Let me whifperone word acrofs thMdantk,If you don’t make-more hafte—we’ll ferve you a damn'd trick,And get on before you to He lt.** Hell-Gate, an advanced poll in New-York.
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London Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 19, 1776
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NY, USA 27 Jul 2017
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