fleet
on Lake Champlain, which occasioned the loss thereof.

12. For great misconduct during his command from the camp at
Cambridge, in the year 1775, until he was superseded by Gen.
Montgomery, at Point Aux-Tremble, near Quebec.

13. For disobedience of the orders of his superior officers,
while acting by a commission from the Provincial Congress of the
Province of Massachusetts Bay; and for a disobedience of the
orders of a committee of the same Congress, sent from that State
to inspect his conduct, and also for insulting, abusing, and
imprisoning the said committee; as also for a _treasonable
attempt_ to make his escape with the navigation men, at or near
Ticonderoga, to the enemy at St. Johns, which oblidged the then
commanding officer at Ticonderoga and its dependencies to issue a
positive order to the officers commanding our batteries at Crown
Point, to stop or sink the vessels attempting to pass that post,
and by force of arms to make a prisoner of the said Gen. Arnold
(then a colonel), which was accordingly done.

JOHN BROWN, _Lieutenant-Colonel_.

ALBANY, 1st Dec., 1776.

PITTSFIELD 9th June 1779

Sir

I send you the enclosed hope you will present it to Congress the
first opportunity not doubting their Disposition to do equal
Justice to Persons of every Denomination in these united States,
and that in justice in my instance must be owing rather to
misinformation than anything else, altho in the present Case it
is scarcely supposable.

The very extraordinary trial alluded to in the Petition is truly
a Matter of Surprize to every Officer and Citizen in this part of
the World and is of such a dangerous tendency that I think it
ought to be attended to, what is more extraordinary it is I am
told the only trial of the kind ever had in Congress.--In the
Year 1776 I petitioned to Congress for a trial who refused me,
giving for reason that Congress was not a proper tribunal and
therefore refered me to the Officer commanding the northern
Department.

Genl. Arnold on the First application obtained a hearing and
determination on that Principle I am a Stranger

I am with the greatest Respect

Your hons. most obedt mos