Butler, with a party of Indians, breaks into the Wyo-
ming settlement.... His treachery to colonel Zebulon
Butler.... Kingston besieged by the Indians; surrenders,
and the garrison and inhabitants butchered.... Wilkes-
barre also surrenders, and meets the same fate... Dis-
tresses of the settlers in Wyoming.... Colonel Alden
surprised, and with some of his party killed....Colonel
Clarke surprises St. Vincents, and takes possession of
it....Congress determine to attack Canada and the other
British possessions in North America....General Wash-
ington urges reasons against the plan.... Has a personal
interview with a committee of congress, and induces
that body to abandon the enterprise.