nd semi-annual muster-rolls made this impossible. He says
the expenses of fitting the soldiers for the field were not paid by the
Elector, although the money was taken from their pay. He charges the
German princes whose soldiers were in the English army with cheating the
contractors for supplies. He accepts the apocryphal story told by Seume of
the illegal violence with which men were forced into the service, yet in
all of these and many other matters Kapp is altogether wrong.

[1] Attributed by Mr. Ford to Franklin.

No less an authority than Moser, the historian, long ago pointed out that
the Americans, with Franklin at their head, had perjured themselves. The
Hessians wrote home their contempt for the leaders and the people of
America from actual personal observation. From Washington down the
greatest unfairness was shown to the "Loyalists," who were driven into
exile, stripped of all their property. He it was who tried to tempt the
Hessians to desert, who proposed to burn New York, who ordered the
execution of Andre, who wanted Aspill [Asgill], an entirely innocent man,
put to death, and connived at the robbery of the Hessian prisoners of
their English pay, prevented their exchange, and kept the stores and
clothing sent for them. In Schloezer's "Letters" are found the unfavorable
opinions of the Americans written home by Captain Wagner, wounded at the
side of Count Donop; in Wiederhold's "Diary," Philadelphia is described as
a "confluenz canaillorum," as bad as Sodom and Gomorrha, those who had
escaped the gallows in Europe being warmly welcomed in the New World.
Ewald warned the people of a suburb of Philadelphia that there was no
honor among them; and Bauermeister, a British adjutant-general, was
equally emphatic. Pfister, in his "History of the American Revolutionary
War," gives many details of the bad conduct of the leaders and people of
the young republic.

Dr. Kapp's false charges relate to (1) the enlistment and service of
Hessian troops; (2) the frauds practised on them on their discharge; (3)
the approval by the Hessian Parliament of the treaty with Great Britain;
(4) the payment by England of the amount claimed on account of the Seven
Years' War; (5) the distribution of English pay among Hessian soldiers;
(6) the relief of Hessian taxes; (7) the charge that the Elector received
for troops enlisted in the British service some 60,000,000 thalers; (8)
and "blood" money for the wounded. Much of our [the