On page 297 is an account of the campaign in Virginia:
As soon as one hundred cavalry had passed the water, Lieutenant-colonel Tarleton directed them to charge into the town, to
continue the confusion of the Americans, and to apprehend, if possible, the governor and assembly . . . The attempt to secure
Mr. Jefferson was ineffectual; he discovered the British dragoons from his house, which stands on the point of a mountain,
before they could approach him, and he provided for his personal liberty by a precipitate retreat . . .
Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1754-1833, General in the British army, fought through the Revolutionary war. On his return to England he wrote this account
of the campaigns, in which he is supposed to have had the assistance of Perdita [Mary Robinson] and others. Tarleton’s attacks on Lord Cornwallis were criticized by Mackenzie. See no. 493.
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1815 Catalogue, page 23. no. 60, Cary’s American state papers, [Gen. Washington’s letters,] 2 v 8vo.
WASHINGTON,
George.
Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress, Written, during the War between the United Colonies and Great Britain,
by his Excellency, George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces, now President of the United States. Copied, by Special Permission, from the
Original papers preserved in the Office of the Secretary of State, Philadelphia [by John Carey]. Vol. I [-II].
London: Printed for
Cadell Junior and Davies,
G. G. and J. Robinson [and others],
1795.
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First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 186 leaves, frontispiece lacking; vol. II, 194 leaves; the added title-page prefixed to this
London edition reads:
American State Papers, being a Collection of Original and Authentic Documents relative to the War Between the United States
and Great Britain. Published by Special Permission. Volume the First [-Second].
1795.
Vol. I rebound in half brown morocco by the Library of Congress in 1916. Vol. II bound for Jefferson in tree calf. Both volumes
initialled by him at sigs. I and T. Vol. II with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Presentation copy from John Carey, with his ALS., 1 page 4to., dated from London, April 6, 1795, bound in at the beginning
of vol. I, with a passage below the signature cut off by the binder. The letter reads: “I do myself the honor of transmitting you two volumes of those official documents, which, through your favor and indulgence,
I was enabled to transcribe. I would have published two or three volumes more, had not a chasm in the commander-in-chief’s
correspondence, and the want of many of the inclosures, stopped my progress. On this subject, I take the liberty of writing
to Mr. Madison, Mr. Page, and Mr. Beckley, hoping, by their interposition on the spot, to have the deficiencies supplied.
If successful, I shall immediately proceed, and finish the work as soon as possible.
"Here I beg leave to observe, that, recollecting your caution respecting the premature publication of certain passages, I
have endeavoured to pursue the path you had marked out, and to keep clear of everything which might, at the present day, have
an unpleasing tendency. Had I published in Philadelphia, I should have been less scrupulous:--there, any unlucky slips could
have been attributed only to inadvertence; whereas, now that I live under a government radically hostile to the Union, they
might, by the American reader, be attributed to sinister motives on my part,--& possibly give rise to some invective against
even You, Sir, for having, though with the most laudable intentions, countenanced the publication. And, though perfectly convinced
that such declamation were incapable of disturbing a mind like yours, yet I was unwilling that my conduct should furnish the
theme; and preferred injuring the sale of the book by the omission of many passages which would have ”
