CHAPTER XXVII.

Precautions against Tories—Secret Committees—Declaration of Lord Howe—His Letter to the Colonial Governors—His Letter to Washington rejected—Interview between the British Adjutant-General and Colonel Reed—Reception of the Adjutant-General by Washington—The Phœnix and Rose in the Tappan Sea, and Haverstraw Bay—Arming of the River Yeomanry—George Clinton at the Gates of the Highlands 250