Lee was found guilty, and sentenced to be suspended from any command in the army of the United States for one year. He retired to his plantation in Berkely county, Virginia, where he gave vent to the bitterness of his feelings, by writing "Queries, Political and Military."

He now lived in a style peculiar to himself; his house was more like a barn than a palace; but a few select and valuable books assuaged the anguish of his ardent mind.In the year 1782, he came to a determination to sell his estate, and settle near some seaport town, where he might renew his intercourse with mankind. He left Berkely, came to Baltimore, where he spent a week with a few old friends; he then proceeded to Philadelphia.

On his arrival in that city, he took lodgings at an inn, where, at the end of four days, he was seized with a fever, which terminated his life on the 2d of October, 1782.During his delirium, he expressed several incoherent sentences; and his last words were, "Stand by me, my brave grenadiers."

His funeral was attended by a large concourse of people, the clergy of different denominations, and several persons of distinction.

Charles Lee was well informed, above the middle size, and his remarkable aquiline nose, rendered his face somewhat disagreeable He was eccentric in his manners, rather lax in his morals, witty, brave, and an enthusiastic admirer of liberty. His envy of the preeminence of Washington was the cause of his disgrace, and his life affords another proof, that the most brilliant talents are like feminine beauty-only valuable while guided by prudence.

His will contains the following curious. item" I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or church-yard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meeting-house; for, since I have resided in this country, I have kept so much bad company when living, that I do not chuse to continue it when dead."

Count d'Estaigne, who had sailed from Toulon with twelve sail of the line and three frigates, with six thousand soldiers on board, arrived on the coast of Virginia in the beginning of July. In August, General Sullivan made an unsuccessful attempt to take possession of Rhode-Island.

In the meantime, Colonel Campbell was sent on an expedition against Georgia. He embarked at New-York, with a competent

force, under convoy of a British squadron, commanded by commodore Parker. This fleet arrived at the entrance of the river Savannah, about the end of December; the troops were landed, and, after defeating the Americans, they took possession of the capital of the province, together with its fort, its military stores, and all the shipping that lay in the river.

Washington, after the retreat of the British, army, marched to White Plains, near KingsBridge, where he encamped. He remained in this position till the latter end of autumn, when he retired to Middlebrook, in Jersey. Here his army erected huts similar to those they hed made at Valley Forge, and went into winter quarters.

In May, 1779, General Clinton sent a division of the British army to take StoneyPoint, a strong fort on the western side of the North River. This expedition was success ful, as the distance to which Washington lay with his army prevented him from giving any assistance to the garrison. The British general fortified Stoney Point in the strongest manner, and encamped at Phillipsburgh, half way between that fortress and New-York, to be in readiness to compel Washington to an engagement, if he should leave his station in Jersey.

In order to counteract these operations, Washington advanced towards the British army. He took a strong position at WestPoint, on the banks of the North River, and formed a design to recover Stoney Point by surprise. He sent General Wayne, one of the most intrepid officers in his army, to conduct this enterprise. Wayne, at the head of a detachment of chosen men, arrived in the evening of the 15th of July within sight of Stoney Point. He formed his men in two columns, with orders to use the bayonet only. The right column was commanded by himself in person, the left by Major Stewart, a bold and active man. At midnight the two columns marched to the attack on the opposite sides of the works, which were surrounded with a morass and two rows of abbatis, well provided with artillery. The Americans were opposed by a tremendous fire of musquetry and grape shot, but they pressed forward with the bayonet, and both columns met in the centre of the works, where the garrison, amounting to five hundred men, were obliged to surrender prisoners of war.

When the British general received intelligence of the surprise of Stoney Point, he marched with his army to retake it, and as Washington did not consider the posession

of that fortress of sufficient importance to risque a general action, he demolished as much of the works as time would permit, and carried off the artillery. The British troops retook it three days after it was surprised.

During these transactions in the province of New-York, Governor Tryon, and Sir George Collier, made an incursion into Connecticut; where they burnt the towns of Fairfield and Norwalk, and destroyed a number of shipping.

Washington was unable to prevent these devastations. He was obliged to keep possession of West-Point, in order to protect the middle colonies, and this post was considered of such importance, that General Parsons, instead of pressing the commander in chief for a large detachment, wrote to him as follows: "The British may probably distress. the country exceedingly, by the ravages they will commit; but I would rather see all the towns on the coast of my country in flames, than that the enemy should possess West Point." At this important position, Washington fixed his winter quarters, and the British general turned his attention to the conquest of the southern colonies.

Towards the end of the year 1779, Gen. Clinton sailed from New-York with a consi