TO EDMUND PENDLETON.[0]
Philadelphia, October 31, 1780.
Dear Sir,—Congress have felt a becoming resentment
of the barbarous treatment of the gentlemen in
captivity at Charleston, and have directed General
Washington to require of Clinton an explanation of
the matter. Nothing has yet been done in consequence
of it, except an application to Clinton, which,
as he had at that time not been officially informed of
the fact, he evaded by general assurances of the humanity,
&c., of Cornwallis. General Washington
had very luckily, between the application and the
answer, received two of the Earl's bloody proclamations,
which he very handsomely communicated to
Sir Henry.
