APPENDIX. 439 



idti of honor to fuch baders of viflory, you thall be allowfd to take the 

 fcalps of the dead, when killed by your fiie, and in fair oppofiiion ; but 

 on no account, or p etence, or fubtlety. or prevaricatioD, are they to be tv 

 Jnen from the wounded, or eveadving ; and flill lefs pardonabl:, if pofli- 

 ble, will it be held, to kill men in that condition, on purpose, and upoxi a 

 fnppofuion. that' t^'\s pro'eftion tn the wounded would be thereby evaded. 



Bafe lurking a(TiflJii>, incendiaries, ravagers, and plunderers of the coun« 

 try, to whatever aimy they may belong, fhall be treated with lefs refe'^ve ; 

 but the latitude mull be given you by order, and 1 muft be the judge of 

 theoccarion. 



Should the enemy on their part, dare to countenance a£l$ of barbarity 

 towards thofe who may fall into their hands, it fhall be your's alfo to re- 

 taliate ; but till fevericy (li ill be thus compelled, bear immoveable in your 

 hearts this folid maxim, (it cannot bs too deeply imprcffed) that the great 

 tffential reward worthy fervice of your alliance, the (inccrify of your zeal 

 to the king, your father and never failini; proteftor, will be examined and 

 judged upon the teft, only of your fteady and uniform adherence to the 

 oidcrs and counfcls of thofe to whom his majtrfty has entruftcd the direc* 

 tion and the honor of his arms. 



Answer from an old Chief of the Iroquois. 



1 (land up, in the rjame of all the njnons prefent. to alTure our father, 

 tliat we have attentively liftened to hii di'courfe. We receive vou as our 

 father, becaufc when you fpeak, we hear the voice of our great father be- 

 yond the great lake. 



With Ode common a'fTent, we promife a conRant obedience to all you 

 have ordered, and all you (hall oi"dcr ; and may the father of days givcyou 

 aiany and fuccefs ! 



We rejoice in the approbation vou have exprefTed of our behavior. 



We have been fried and tempted by the Baftonians ; but we have loved 

 our father, and our hatchets have been fh^rpencd upon cur afFeftions. 



In proof of the fincerity of our profefTions, our whole villages, able to 

 go to war, are come forth. The old and infirm, our infants and oui: wivesV 

 iibne, remain at home. 



No. Ill, ^ 



A PROCLAMATION". 

 *• BY John Burgoyne, £.fq Ueutcntnt GeicrJ of h's Maji/iy's armies in Ameri- 

 ca. Colonel of the Q^ieen'i regim'rit of li'^hl dra^oom, Gooc^nor of fort William 

 in North Siitain, one of the R.prejentatives of the Lommom of O'Neal Britain in. 

 Parliament, and commanding an trm\ ani fleet employed en a.n expedition f ran 

 Canadi, &c. &c tSfc. Chap. IV. p. loo. 



" THE forC'es entrufled to my cotnmand are defigred to zCt in con- 

 cert and upon a commm principle, with the numtrous armies and flset« 

 which already di'^p ay in every quarter of America, the power, the juftice, 

 Sfhd, when properly fought, the mercy of the king. 



" Tne caufe, in which the Britifh arms are thus exerted, applies to the 

 mofl affefting interefls of the human heart ; and the military fervantsof" 

 t*^ crown, at (irft called forth fjr the fole purpofe of relloringthe rightsof 

 Che coaftitution, now combine with lave of tbcir couatry, and duty toth*i- 



