[881] It appeared in two editions, and the book is now usually priced at about £3 (Sabin, iii. no. 9,255; Sparks, no. 404; Stevens, Bibl. Amer. (1885), no. 58; Menzies, no. 269.)
Burgoyne's documents, as laid before Parliament, had been printed in the Parliamentary Register. The Gentleman's Mag. had chronicled the progress of the investigation. Cf. Annual Register (xxi. 168) and Russell's Memoirs and Correspondence of Fox (i. 176).
The principal English MS. sources for the study of the whole campaign are these: The minutes of inquiry into the causes of Burgoyne's failure in the volume "Secretary of State, 1777-1781", in the War Office, London; Quebec series, in the Public Record Office, vols. xiv., xvi. (Cf. Brymner's Reports on Canadian Archives, 1883, p. 77; 1885, p. xi.)
[882] The volume contains Burgoyne's speech, prefatory to his narrative; his narrative; the evidence of Carleton, Balcarras, Harrington, Major Forbes, Lieut.-Colonel Kingston, and others; a review of the evidence and conclusion. In the Appendix are Burgoyne's "Thoughts for conducting the war from the side of Canada;" various letters of Burgoyne, Carleton, etc.; Burgoyne's speech to the Indians; Baum's instructions; St. Leger's letter from Oswego, Aug. 27, 1777; Burgoyne's letter from Albany, Oct. 20th; his councils of war, Oct. 12th and 13th; the terms proposed by Gates. There are added various plans of battle, elsewhere mentioned.
[883] Sabin, iii. no. 9,256; Menzies, no. 270. Privately reprinted in New York (75 copies) in 1865. It is said to have been printed without the sanction of Burgoyne.
[884] Sabin, iii. no. 9,265.
[885] Menzies, no. 271; Sabin, iii. no. 9,264. Sabin also notes, no. 9,267, Reponse à un des articles des Annales politiques de M. Linguet concernant la défaite du Général Burgoyne en Amérique (Londres, 1788). Cf. on Burgoyne's subsequent exchange, Rogers's Hadden's Journal.
[886] Other addresses are N. B. Sylvester's Saratoga and Hay-ad-ros-se-ra (July 4, 1876); George G. Scott's Saratoga County address; J. S. L'Amoreaux at Ballston Spa (July, 1876); Edward F. Bullard's, at Schuylerviile (July 4, 1776); H. C. Maine's Burgoyne's Campaign. The remarks of Messrs. Edward Wemple and S. S. Cox in Congress, Dec. 4, 1884, on the Saratoga monument, have been printed.
[887] The evidence on this point is overwhelming. "Those", wrote Washington, in a letter intended only for the eye of his step-son, "who want faith to believe the accounts of the shocking wastes of Howe's army—of their ravaging, plundering, and the abuse of women—may be convinced to their sorrow ... if a check cannot be put to their progress."
[888] Cf. letter of the Secret Committee of Congress to Silas Deane in Paris, Aug. 7, 1776 (N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1877, p. 99). Pertaining to this movement is a journal of a campaign from Philadelphia to Paulus Hook, by Algernon Roberts (Sparks MSS.), which is printed in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., vii. 456. It covers Aug. 16-Sept. 17, 1776. Cf. orderly-book in Hist. Mag., ii. 353; and a journal in the Penna. Hist. Soc. Coll., i. 223.