. The works of Washington Irving. dy exacted by the Germanprinces, they were to be paid seven potmdsfour shillings and four pence sterling for everysoldier furnished by them, and as much morefor every one slain. Of this notable arrangement, Washington,as we observed, was not yet aware. The 62 %lte of Masbington designs of the enemy, writes he, are toomuch behind the curtain for me to form any-accurate opinion of their plan of operations forthe summers campaign. We are left to wan-der, therefore, in the field of conjecture. * Within a few days afterwards, he had vagueaccounts of Hessians and Ha
. The works of Washington Irving. dy exacted by the Germanprinces, they were to be paid seven potmdsfour shillings and four pence sterling for everysoldier furnished by them, and as much morefor every one slain. Of this notable arrangement, Washington,as we observed, was not yet aware. The 62 %lte of Masbington designs of the enemy, writes he, are toomuch behind the curtain for me to form any-accurate opinion of their plan of operations forthe summers campaign. We are left to wan-der, therefore, in the field of conjecture. * Within a few days afterwards, he had vagueaccounts of Hessians and Hanoverian troopscoming over ; but it was not until the 17thof May, when he received letters from GeneralSchuyler, inclosing others from the command-ers in Canada, that he knew in what directionsome of these bolts of war were launched ; andthis calls for some further particulars of thecampaign on the banks of the St. Ivawrence;which we shall give to the reader in the ensu-ing chapter. * Letter to the President of Congress, 5th
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