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NYM(G.779.042
28 Jun 1779:21 (1445)
[News from Poughkeepsie, June 7.] Extract of a letter. "The
subduction of the North River is the capital object of the
Tory Monarch and ministry of Great Britain--but to
accomplish this the reduction of our garrison at West-Point,
is absolutely necessary: accordingly his Excellency the
renouned General Sir Henry Clinton, set out lately from New-
York, in company with a sufficient council of English and
Scotch nobility and gentry, with an army composed of all the
British, foreign and American Tories, he could muster. A
small redoubt of three guns, called La Fayette, was
constructed on the bank of the river at Verplank's Point,
which being planned with a view to chastise some pirates in
the neighbourhood, as well as to divert his Excellency on
his passage to West-Point, should he come that way; it has,
to the joy of all good men, answered both those valuable
purposes; for King's Ferry, near it, has received many
advantages by it--and the admirable entertainment it has
last week afforded his said Excellency, his army and navy,
was beyond description, because the exhibition was
unexpected to him as it was elegant--In short, the music was
so grand as to invite the whole country, who flocked in from
many miles distance, to the dance--and by the time that a
sufficient number arrived, to honour his Excellency with the
Grand Ball at West-Point, and a country dance in the
neighbourhood, he unfortunately got so tired, and sulky, and
distressed with so much new company, which he was sorry that
he had invited, that it is supposed he has, by the advice of
his said council, resolved shortly to repair to his lodgings
in New-York."
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