MEMOIR ES Balder in OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD HENRY LEE, AND HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE MOST DISTINGUISHED MEN IN AMERICA AND EUROPE, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THEIR CHARACTERS, AND OF THE EVENTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. BY HIS GRANDSON RICHARD H. LEE, OF LEESBURG, VIRGINIA. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. PHILADELPHIA: H. C. CAREY AND I. LEA, CHESNUT STREET. William Brown, Printer. 1825. 14h4 Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixth day of September, SEAL. in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1825, H. C. CAREY & I. LEA, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee, and his Correspondence with the most distinguished Men in America and Europe, illustrative of their Characters, and of the Events of the American Revolution.-By his Grandson, Richard H. Lee, of Leesburg, Virginia. In two volumes. Vol II." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, CORRESPONDENCE, BETWEEN GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON AND RICHARD HENRY LEE, Esq. CAMP AT CAMBRIDGE, July 10, 1775. DEAR SIR-I was exceeding glad to receive a letter from you, as I always shall be whenever it is convenient, though perhaps my hurry, till such time as matters are drawn a little out of the chaos they appear in at present, will not suffer me to write you such full and satisfactory answers, or give such clear, and precise accounts of our situation and views, as I could wish, or you might expect. After a journey, a good deal retarded, principally by the desire of the different townships through which I travelled, and of showing respect to the general of your armies, I arrived here on this day week; since which I have been labouring with as much assiduity by fair, and threatening means, to obtain returns of our strength in this camp and Roxbury, and their dependences as a man could do, and never have been able to accomplish the matter till this day; now, I will not answer for the correctness of them, although I have sent several of the regimental returns back more than once, to have mistakes rectified. I do not doubt but the Congress will think me very remiss in not writing to them sooner, but you may rely on it yourself, and I beg you to assure them, that it has never been in my power till this day, to comply with their orders. Could I have conceived, that, that which ought, and in a regular army, would have been done in an hour, would employ VOL. II.-B |