Appendix to the Canada Papers: Relating Principally to the Convention Army After Its Arrival in the Neighbourhood of Boston, in the Years 1777 and 1778

Excerpt from Appendix to the Canada Papers: Relating Principally to the Convention Army After Its Arrival in the Neighbourhood of Boston, in the Years 1777 and 1778

Facedz'willing to receive them as lodgers were they at liberty oto 0. E.the foldiers apartments are likewife miich out of repair in many parts. There are many other complaints and cir cumf'tances in the regulations want farthenexplanationpthat I Will not trouble you with, Sir, becaufe it is my hope and belief, if reafonable men take them into confideration, they will be eafily redrefied; but that the article regarding quar ters {hall be properly fulfilled before any parole is figned, is a fentiment which ho individual will depart from. In regard to myfelf, Sir, and General Phillips, I fhall fay little; our treatment is new to us, though we are not firangers to what it is to be in the hands of our enemies. We are fully convinced, Sir, we fliould have no caufe of complaint were the power to redrefs us in you; but if the bodies in which the great authorities of your flate are vefied, have not means or inclinations to inforce, nor the people hofpitality and civilization'voluntarily to grant compliance in matters of public faith, we have only'to protefi and to claim a removal to fome other dii'tri t, not imagining it poflible that the fame ideas fhould fubfif't in two parts of America. I have the honour to be, 'with great perfonal refpe t, and fenfeof your'attention.

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