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An Animadversory ADDRESS, &c.
GENTLEMEN and FRIENDS,
I SHALL make no apology for writing this pamphlet; sure I am it was meant for your good: Besides, this is not the first time I have mov∣ed my quill in your behalf. Many times have I hazarded my life for you, as well as for my own property; and if occasion shall in future require, will freely do it again.
ON my return from a barbarous captivity, (part of which extraordinary sufferings was for your sakes) to Bennington, the latter end of May, 1778, and having received the congratulations of a large circle of friends, and returned them the mutual ex∣change of compliment and friendship, and had agree∣ably entertained ourselves in commemorating the surprizing success of the last campaign; —the down∣fall of a whole British army, with a BURGOYNE at their head: And after moving the flowing bowl, expatiated on the ever-memorable battle and victory of Bennington, the forerunner and grand typical fi∣gure of the destruction of the Northern army; we then took a retrospective view of our old New-York quarrel, and entered into a discussion on the politi∣cal