large barrels left this on the 14th ultimo, and twelve barrels arrived here on Thursday, and were that very clay sent off; in short, nothing sticks either at Albany or here. By recurring to some of General Wooster’s letters transmitted by me, Congress will observe that there seemed to be no doubt of procuring a sufficient supply of flour, but these misfortunes will ever happen for want of discipline and subordination. Had that prevailed, I should not have been (as I have to this very day) left in the dark with respect to everything in Canada.

I hope every officer in the Army by this time sees the necessity of discipline. My letters to Congress evince that I have long seen it, and dreaded the consequences that it was easy to foresee would arise from the want of it, and that they will seriously set about the proper measure to introduce. I cannot help wishing that our military code was made more severe: thirty-nine lashes are not an adequate punishment for a wretch who, by laying down to sleep on his post, exposes a garrison to be cut off.

Our affairs in Canada are not irretrievable, and hope we shall soon receive happier accounts from that quarter.

I am, dear sir, most respectfully, your obedient and most humble servant,

PHILIP SCHUYLER.

To the Honourable John Hancock, Esq.

GENERAL SULLIVAN TO PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

St. Johns, June 1, 1776.

MUCH ESTEEMED SIR: I must beg leave to inform Congress that I arrived here last evening with my brigade, except Colonel Dayton’s and part of Colonel Wayne’s Regiment; the former of which was, by order of General Schuyler, sent to Tryon County, the latter, I hear, are detained at New-York, 1 know not for what length of time. Upon my arrival I was informed that General Thomas was down with the small-pox, without the least prospect of a recovery. General Wooster is here, with his baggage, returning to Connecticut, by means of which the command devolves upon me. I have done everything I possibly could in the time to get information of the true state of affairs; and can, in a word, inform you that no one thing is right; everything is in the utmost confusion, and almost every one frightened at they know not what. The report is that General Carleton has advanced to Three Rivers, and the ships are coming up the River St. Lawrence; other persons, who have come from eighty miles below Quebeck, declare that there is no appearance of men or ships on this side that city; and, for my own part, I am fully convinced that the latter report is true; however that may be, I am surprised that an army should live in continual fear, and even retreat before an enemy which no person has seen. I think they might at least have ventured some persons in whom they could confide, to view them from the neighbouring heights, and give some account of the numbers and movements; but nothing of the kind is done. I shall set out early to-morrow for Montreal, and will proceed till I can find with certainty where the enemy is, and what they are about. I find the lower, and some of the higher class of French people in our favour, and fear that we are about to leave them. A Captain of the Militia this day waited on me, by desire, as he says, of three parishes, which offer to turn out six hundred men to assist us, and furnish them with arms and provisions. They complain that we have slighted their repeated offers to join us. How this is I cannot pretend to determine. I have requested their officers to meet me at Chamhly in the morning; and I think, if I find the men in earnest, I may with as much propriety employ them on our side as Carleton does the Indians on his. I shall, however, endeavour to encourage their dispositions, and make the best advantage of it I can. I am extremely sorry to inform you that from the officers whose business it was to give Congress the true state of matters, Congress has not, as I believe, received anything like it. This I conclude from the repeated letters sent to General Washington, giving the most favourable accounts, and promising a speedy reduction of Quebeck; when there was not even a probability of it, and the Army with which this was to be done had dwindled into a mob, without even the form of order or regularity—the consequences of which we have experienced, by the infamous retreat from Quebeck, and the still more scandalous surrender of the fort at the Cedars; for the particulars of which I refer you to the honourable. Commissioners, now upon their return to Philadelphia. I shall immediately appoint a Court of Inquiry upon Colonel Bedel and Major Butterfield, and transmit Congress the result; and shall do everything in my power to rectify the disorder, and get the Army into some kind of regularity. I find no proper Commissary appointed, and the publick stores left to the mercy of sergeants and other persons, who are guilty of every kind of fraud. The regiments sent here are torn and divided into numerous parts, and scattered from one end of the country to another. This method, besides its being highly impoliticly will even prevent the officers from making proper returns of their men, and naturally destroys that subordination which ever ought to be kept up in an Army. There I las been no return of warlike stores sent here; and the powder sent from here to him, I am informed, has been greatly diminished, and no person can tell how. To give you a fjll account of what I have already learned would take a volume. I must, therefore, beg leave to refer you to the honourable Commissioners, who will give you full information on the subject. I shall, immediately after I find out whore General Carleton with his formidable force is, and what they etc about, give you the earliest information in the extreme.

I have the honour to be, dear sir, your most obedient servant,

JOHN SULLIVAN.

To the President of Congress.

MAJOR FRAZER TO PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

Boston, Saturday, June 1, 1776.

SIR: Enclosed is an exact inventory of every article found in the docks and harbour of Boston since the enemy evacuated that place. You will please to observe I employed two companies of men for that purpose, ten in each. Mr. Calijf and his company would not receive any wages for their labour, but thought themselves entitled to salvage, as I wrote you before. I should be glad to know t*ie determination of Congress about it before I go to Boston, for I promised them I would let them know at my return, if possible; also what will be done with the vessels and cargoes, fcc, left by the enemy, a list of which I enclose your Honour. My wages and rations as Assistant Quartermaster-General, I have never known yet; and extraordinary duty in Boston, receiving everything that was left there of King’s stores, &tc. Also, whether the bargains and sales made by the King’s officers just before their embarkation to the inhabitants, will stand good; the consideration paid very trifling, and not their own property some of it, as well as many presents which they made of horses and carriages, &c., which the agent has sold, but detains the money in his hands till your determination, and desired me to inquire about it.

I would have waited on your Honour in person, but have been confined to my room these two days with the ague and fever. I hope to be able to set out for Boston on Tuesday next. Lieutenant-Colonel Buckmaster, of our regiment, was so badly wounded at Bunker-Hill, that he has never done any duty in the regiment since; and the Surgeon of the regiment says he will never be able to do any more. General Greene wrote something about him to the Honourable John Adams by me.

I am your Honour’s most obedient humble servant,

JOHN G. FRAZEH.

To the Honourable John Hancock, Esq.

Inventory of things taken out of Docks and Harbour of BOSTON.

By E. WINTER, CALIFF, & COMPANY, viz: