Note 1012 — Chapter V · (continued 3)

In a letter by Clinton, Oct. 11, 1780, to Germain, he details in an accompanying narrative the rise of the correspondence with Arnold, which began eighteen months before. Sargent notes it as being in the State Paper Office, "America and West Indies, vol. cxxvi.", and says it has not been printed. The Sparks MSS. (no. xxxii.) has a copy, where is his next letter of the 12th, telling the story of André's execution, which is printed in the Remembrancer, vii. part 2, p. 343, and in Dawson, p. 240. Clinton also wrote to Lord Amherst on the 16th; and on the 30th he wrote a secret letter to Germain, in which he says that he has paid £6,315 to Arnold (Sparks MSS., xxxii. and xlviii.). Germain's letters to Clinton and Arnold of Nov. 28th and Dec. 7th are in Sparks MSS., xlviii. On a fly-leaf of Stedman's History of the Amer. War, Clinton, having dissented to that writer's narrative (vol. ii. p. 249,—given in Dawson, 196), wrote what he called an extract from his MS. History of the War, no other portion of which is known. This is printed in Mahon, vii. App.; Sargent's André; Dawson, p. 177, and Jones's N. Y. during the Rev., vol. i. App. p. 737. Washington in this extract is severely criticised, and this is also the case in a pamphlet, The Case of Major John André, who was put to death by the Rebels, Oct. 2d, 1780, candidly represented, with remarks on said case (pp. 28), New York, Rivington, 1780,—a copy in proof-sheets in the Carter-Brown library, being the only one known, and it has been supposed that it was prepared under Clinton's supervision and suppressed (Sargent, 274; Mag. of Amer. Hist., Dec., 1879, iii. 739). The introduction is dated N. Y., Nov. 28, 1780.