130 Life of Count Rum ford. 



I am able to fill up with some interesting details what 

 M. Pictet presents in this condensed form. Doubtless 

 Thompson showed to his friend the commendatory 

 document from General Leslie, as he did the originals 

 of other papers. The order issued from Leslie's head- 

 quarters, as given in Rivington's Gazette, is as follows: 



" DAVIS HOUSE, March i, 1782. 



" Lieutenant-General Leslie desires Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Thompson and the officers and soldiers of the cavalry and 

 infantry who served under his command will accept his best 

 thanks for the services performed by them on the late expedition. 

 The Lieutenant-General cannot too truly express to the army 

 the opinion he entertains of the merit of Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Thompson's conduct upon the occasion, and of the spirited 

 behavior of the troops. The constancy with which they 

 supported the fatigues of a long and very rapid march claims 

 his approbation, no less than their exertions in presence of the 

 enemy." 



Under date of April 13, 1782, Rivington announces: 



" New York. On Thursday arrived from South Carolina, 

 the Earl of Dunmore, Colonel Thompson, who lately effected a 

 successful attack upon the Rebels in South Carolina, and many 

 other officers of the army arrived in town from thence on Tues- 

 day evening and yesterday." 



The New York Mercury of April 16 gives this an- 

 nouncement : 



" Thursday last, arrived at Sandy Hook, in ten days from 

 Charleston, South Carolina, a fleet of forty-five sail, of navy and 

 army victuallers (most of which arrived at that place last fall from 

 Europe), under convoy of his Majesty's ships Carysfort, Duke de 

 Chartres, Astrea, Charlestown, and Grana. When the fleet left 

 Charleston, the garrison was very healthy and well supplied 

 with all sorts of provisions. General Greene, with an army of 

 about two thousand men, being at thirty miles' distance. In the 



