HISTORY or VERMONT. 9^ 



ill America, did not seem to have given full 

 satisfaction to the Britibh ministry. I'hey \\ere 

 liot pleased with his restraining the Indians, arid 

 liot suffering them to carry on the war in their 

 iiitstomar)'- manner of plundering, burning and 

 scalping ;* and th'ey had such extravagant ideas 

 bfthe force and prowess of the British troops, 

 that they had flattered themselves that as soon 

 as the royal armies were set in motion, the con-' 

 test would be decided, and the American rebel- 

 lion crushed in the course of one campaign. 

 Little acquainted with American affairs, and 

 extremely sanguine in all their plans and ex- 

 pectations, they formed their arrangenients for 

 a new campaign, without so much as consulting^ 

 general Carleton, by far the most able of a!!* 

 their generals in America. They formed their 

 plan without any reference to his judgment, and' 

 ih the execution left nothing to his opinion of' 

 discretion ; but assigned the command in Cana- 

 da, and on the lakes, to lieutenant general Bur- 

 goyne. This offifcer seems to have been a fa- 

 vorite with the British ministry ; he had per- 

 formed some gallant actions in Portngal, and 

 was distinguished as a scholar and a courtier. 

 His abilities in his military profession had not 

 been called in question ; and his fondness for 

 enterprise and thirst for military glory, though 

 it might be equalled, could not be exceeded. 

 Nothing however, had taken place in the course 

 of his services, that could have lead the British' 

 minister to conclude that he excelled general 

 Carleton, either in wisdom, exertion, address, 

 or soundness of judgment. 



• Murray. Vol. II, p. 298. Smftlkt. Vol. V. p. 340,' 



