in
quiet, there is danger, that in giving time to an enemy who can
send reinforcements of regulars faster than we can raise them,
they may strengthen Canada and Halifax beyond the assailment of
our lax and divided powers. Perhaps, however, the patriotic
efforts from Kentucky and Ohio, by recalling the British force
to its upper posts, may yet give time to Dearborn to strike a
blow below. Effectual possession of the river from Montreal to
the Chaudiere, which is practicable would give us the upper
country at our leisure, and close for ever the scenes of the
tomahawk and scalping knife."

No. 2.--Page 240.

_Revolutionary Services of General Hull, as taken from his Defence
before the Court Martial_, _in March_, 1814.

"For more than half a century I supported a character without
reproach. My youth was devoted to the service of my country; I
fought her battles in that war which achieved her liberty and
independence, and which was ended before many of you,
gentlemen, who are my judges, were born. If upon any occasion a
man may speak of his own merits, it is at such a time as this;
and I hope I may be permitted to present to you, in very few
words, a narration of my life, while I was engaged in scenes
which were calculated to prove a man's firmness and courage. I
shall do it with less reluctance, because the testimony I have
offered of the venerable men who served with me in the
revolutionary war, will vouch for all I have to say. In the
year 1775, at the age of about twenty-one years, I was
appointed a captain in one of the Connecticut regiments; during
that campaign, and until March, 1776, when the enemy evacuated
Boston, I served with the army at Cambridge and Roxbury, and in
the immediate command of General Washington. I was with that
part of the army, in March, 1776, which took possession of
Dorchester heights--the movement which compelled the enemy to
evacuate Boston. The next day, the regiment to which I belonged
marched for New York. I was on Long Island when the enemy
landed, and remained until the night the whole army retreated.
I was in several small skirmishes, both on Long Island and York
Island, before the army retired to the White Plains. I then
belonged to Colonel Charles Webb's regiment, of Connecticut.

"This regiment was in the severest part of the action