TO THE HONORABLE AMERICAN CONGRESS, Written, during the War between the UNITED COLONIES, AND GREAT BRITAIN, BY HIS EXCELLENCY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE NOW PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES. Copied, by Special Permiffion, from the Original Papers preserved VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR CADELL JUNIOR AND DAVIES, G. G. AND J. RO- BINSON, B. AND J. WHITE, W. OTRIDGE AND SON, J. DE BRETT, R. FAULDER, AND T. EGERTON. ADVERTISEMENT. ESPECTING the fource from which the following letters have been drawn, and the grounds on which the reader is expected to reft his belief of their authenticity, it may be fufficient to inform him (and, for the truth of the affertion, to appeal to His Excellency, Thomas Pinckney, the American Minifter Plenipotentiary), that permiffion was obtained from the proper authority, to transcribe, from the original papers preferved in the Secretary of State's office in Philadelphia, thefe and fundry other authentic documents relating to the contest between the colonics and the mother country, viz. Letters from the Commanders of the continental forces, and other perfons employed in the public. service,-intercepted Letters from British Officers and other adherents to the royal caufe,-Communications from the Governors, Conventions, and Committees of the feveral American States,-Difpatches from Agents and Commiffioners,-Inftructions,-Reports of Committees of Congress,-parts of the Secret Journals hitherto unpublished, and various |