The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

436 WASHINGTON'S WRITINGS. [EAT, 46,
occasioned frequent instances of younger offcers commanding their seniors, from the former having received
their commissions, and the latter not; and these not
only in the line of the army at large, but in their own
brigades, and even in their own regiments. This, it
will be readily conceived, is necessarily productive of
much confusion, altercation, and complaint, and requires
the speediest remedy.
By accounts from Monmouth, more of the enemy's
dead have been found. It is said the number buried
by us and the inhabitants exceeds three hundred.
I have the honor to be, &c.
TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.-*
11 July, 1.778.
DEAR SIR,
I this morning had the pleasure of receiving your
polite and firiendly letter of the 7th. My warmest
acknowledgments are due for the indulgent terms in
which you express your sense of my conduct, in our' Congress had adjourned to Philadelphia. President Laurens wrote
from that place;-" I arrived here on Thursday last, but hitherto have
not collected a sufficient number of States to form a Congress; consequently I have received no commands. Your Excellency will therefore
be pleased to accept this as the address of an individual, intended to
assure you, Sir, of my hearty congratulations with my countrymen, on
the success of the American arms under your immediate command at
the battle of Monmouth, and more particularly of my own happiness in
the additional glory achieved by you in retrieving the honor of these
States in the moment of an alarming dilemma. It is not my' design to
attempt encomiums. I am as unequal to the task as the act is unnecessary. Love and respect for your Excellency are impressed on the heart
of every grateful American, and your name will be revered by posterity.
Our acknowledgments are especially due to Heaven for the preservation of your person, necessarily exposed for the salvation of America to
the most imminent danger on the late occasion." - MS. Letter, July 7th.