Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . the maturing of Arnolds treason, and the arrangements for its execution shouldbe committed. A correspondence was for some time carried on between themunder a mercantile disguise and the feigned names of Gustavus and Anderson;and at length, to facilitate their communications, the Vulture sloop-of-war movedup the North river, and took a
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . the maturing of Arnolds treason, and the arrangements for its execution shouldbe committed. A correspondence was for some time carried on between themunder a mercantile disguise and the feigned names of Gustavus and Anderson;and at length, to facilitate their communications, the Vulture sloop-of-war movedup the North river, and took a station convenient for the purpose, but not sonear as to excite suspicion. An interview was agreed upon, and in the nightof September 21, 1780, he was taken in a boat, which was despatched for thepurpose, and carried to the beach, without the posts of both armies, under apass for John Anderson. He met General Arnold at the house of a Mr. the conference was yet unfinished daylight approached ; and to avoidthe danger of discovery, it was proposed that he should remain concealed untilthe succeeding night. He is understood to have refused to be carried withinthe American posts, but the promise made him by Arnold to respect this objec JOHN AN Portrait of Benedict Arnold.* tion was not observed. He was carried within them contrary to his wishesand without his knowledge. He continued with Arnold the succeeding day,and when on the following night, he proposed to return to the Vulture, theboatman refused to carry him, because she had during the day shifted her sta-tion, in consequence of a gun having been moved to the shore and brought tobear upon her. This embarrassing circumstance reduced him to the necessityof endeavoring to reach New York by land. Yielding with reluctance to theurgent representations of Arnold, he laid aside his regimentals, which he hadhitherto worn under a surtout, and put on a suit of plain clothes ; and receivinga pass from the American genera
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