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cognisance of any such matter; nor do I think it, with great
submission to your Honor, any part of their duty. I must
therefore conclude, that this information, from the mode of its
origin, as well as from the repeated evasions of a fair hearing,
is now rested upon the author's own shoulders.

I therefore beg that your Honor will please to order Brig.-Gen.
Arnold in arrest for the following crimes, which I am ready to
verify, viz.:--

1. For endeavoring to asperse your petitioner's personal
character in the most infamous manner.

2. For unwarrantably degrading and reducing the rank conferred on
your petitioner by his (Gen. Arnold's) superior officers, and
subjecting your petitioner to serve in an inferior rank to that
to which he had been appointed.

3. For ungentlemanlike conduct in his letter to Gen. Wooster, of
the 25th of January last, charging your petitioner with a
falsehood, and in a private manner, which is justly chargeable on
himself.

4. For suffering the small-pox to spread in the camp before
Quebec, and promoting inoculation there in the Continental army.

5. For depriving a part of the army under his command of their
usual allowance of provisions, ordered by Congress.

6. For interfering with and countermanding the order of his
superior officer.

7. For plundering the inhabitants of Montreal, in direct
violation of a solemn capitulation, or agreement, entered into
with them by our late brave and worthy Gen. Montgomery, to the
eternal disgrace of the Continental arms.

8. For giving unjustifiable, unwarrantable, cruel and bloody
orders, directing whole villages to be destroyed, and the
inhabitants thereof put to death by fire & sword, without any
distinction to friend or foe, age or sex.

9. For entering into an unwarrantable, unjustifiable & partial
agreement with Capt. Foster for the exchange of prisoners taken
at the Cedars, without the knowledge, advice, or consent of any
officer then there present with him on the spot.

10. For ordering inoculation of the Continental Army at Sorel,
without the knowledge of, and contrary to the intentions of the
general commanding that Northern Department; by which fatal
consequences ensued.

11. For great misconduct in his command of the Continental