The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, May 8.

The following is said to be a genuine copy of the letter from his Excellency Gen. Washington to Sir Henry Clinton, on the subject of the murder of Capt. Huddy.

SIR, Head-Quarters, April 21, 1782.

The inclosed representation from the inhabitants of the county of Monmouth, with testimonials to the fact (which can be corroborated by other unquestionable evidence) will bring before your Excellency the most wanton, cruel, and unprecedented murder that ever disgraced the arms of a civilized people. I shall not, because I conceive it altogether unnecessary, trouble your Excellency with any animadversions on this transaction. Candor obliges me to be explicit:

To save the innocent I demand the guilty. Capt. Lippencott therefore, or the officer who commanded at the execution of Capt. Huddy, must be given up; or if that officer was of inferior rank to him, so many of the perpetrators as will, according to the tariff of exchange, be an equivalent. To do this will mark the justice of your Excellency's character. In failure of it, I shall hold myself justified in the eyes of God and man, for the measures to which I shall resort.

I beg your Excellency to be persuaded, that it cannot be more disagreeable to you to be addressed in this language, than it is to me to offer it; but the subject requires frankness and decision.

I have to request your speedy determination, as my resolution is suspended but for your answer.

I have the honor to be, &c.

We hear that Sir Henry Clinton has sent out to his Excellency Gen. Washington, the principal perpetrators of the murder of Capt. Huddy, viz. Lippencott, Tilton, and a third, whose name is not mentioned.