Arnold being with me & both her & myself much fatigued prevents my doing myself the honor of Delivering these Dispatches myself.' In fine condition.Īfter the failure of his plan to surrender West Point to the British, Benedict Arnold defected and was commissioned a brigadier general in the British army. Ramsey will have the honor to deliver, to whom I beg leave to refer your Lordship for particulars. Corby requested me to take charge of Sir Henry Clinton's Dispatches for your Lordship, which Capt. On the 27th Lord Cornwallis his suite, & a number of Officers who came Passengers in the Robust left her, when Capt.

a Fleet of one hundred & twenty odd Merchantmen, under Convoy of the Robust & James, sailed from New York, for Portsmouth, a few days after the Fleet sailed most of the convoy parted in a gale of wind, on the 25th the Robust sprang a Leake & bore away for the West Indies. Handwritten letter from Penzance to a 'Lord,' evidently Lord Germain, conveying dispatches from Henry Clinton, formerly the British Commander-in-Chief in North America who had secured Arnold's treasonous alliance. Arnold,” one page both sides, 7.25 x 9, January 16, 1782.

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