The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

S A L E M. December 21.

The following extracts of letters, which passed between his Excellency General Washington and Sir Guy Carleton, are said to be genuine.

Extract of a letter from his Excellency Gen. Washington, to Sir Guy Carleton, dated Head Quarters, 8th September, 1782.

"I cannot help remarking, that your Excellency has several times lately taken occasion to mention that all hostilities stand suspended on your part—I must confess that to me this expression wants explanation: I can have no conception of a suspension of hostilities, but that which arises from a mutual agreement of the powers at war, and which extends to naval as well as land operations.—That your Excellency has thought proper, on your part, to make a partial suspension, may be admitted;—but whether this has been owing to political or other motives is not for me to decide: it is however, a known fact, that at the same time the British cruizers on our coast have been more than usually alert: and while Americans are admitted to understand their real interest, it will be difficult for them, when a suspension of hostilities is spoken of, to separate the idea of its extending to sea as well as land.

I cannot ascribe the inroads of Savages upon our Northwestern frontiers to the causes from whence your Excellency supposes them to originate; neither can I allow that they are committed without directions from the Commander in Chief in Canada: for by prisoners and deserters, it is apparent, that those ravaging parties are composed of White troops, under the command of officers regularly commissioned, as well as Savages; and it would be a solecism to suppose, that such parties could be out without the knowledge of their Commander in Chief."

Extract of a letter from Sir Guy Carleton, to his Excellency General Washington, dated New York, September 12, 1782.

"Partial though our suspension of hostilities may be called, I thought it sufficient to have prevented those cruelties in the Jerseys [avowed] which I have had occasion to mention more than once. But if war was the choice, I never expected this suspension should operate further than to induce them to carry it on as is practised by men of liberal minds.—I am clearly of opinion with your Excellency, that mutual agreement is necessary for a suspension of hostilities: and that without this mutual agreement, either party is free to act as each may judge expedient: yet I must at the same time frankly declare to you, that being no longer able to discern the object we contend for, I disapprove of all hostilities, by land and sea, as they only tend to multiply the miseries of individuals, when the public can reap no advantage by success.

As to the Savages, I have the best assurances, that from a certain period, not very long after my arrival here, no parties of Indians were sent out, and that messengers were dispatched to recall those who had gone forth before that time—and I have particular assurances of disapprobation of all that happened to your party on the side of Sandusky, except so far as was necessary for self defence."