Note 816 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

There is a contemporary broadside of it in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library, and it was printed for the English public in the Gentleman's Mag. in August. Walpole, in London, in August, records his opinion of it, "penned with such threats as would expose him to derision if he failed, and would diminish the lustre of his success if he obtained any" (Last Journals, ii. 130). The dates given to it vary from June 29th to July 4th. It will also be found in Anburey's Travels; Thacher's Military Journal; Moore's Diary (p. 454), from the Penna. Evening Post, Aug. 21; Fonblanque's Burgoyne (App. F); Riedesel's Memoirs; Hadden's Journal (p. 59); Proceedings of the Mass. Hist. Soc. (xii. 189) and N. Y. Hist. Soc. (Jan., 1872); Vermont Hist. Soc. Collections (i. 163); Niles's Register (1876 ed., p. 179); N. Hampshire State Papers, viii. 660. It instigated various burlesques (Moore's Diary, 459; his Songs and Ballads of the Rev., 167).