tact and good effect of his letters, 246;
offers to cooperate in an attack on New York, 247;
furnishes admirable suggestions to D'Estaing, 247;
not dazzled by French, 248;
objects to giving rank to foreign officers, 248, 249;
opposes transfer of Steuben from inspectorship to the line, 249;
his thoroughly American position, 250;
absence of provinciality, 251, 252;
a national leader, 252;
opposes invasion of Canada, 253;