In 1778, Sir Henry Clinton became the supreme commander of British forces in America, with his headquarters in New York. Judged as a cautious general and uneasy in his command, he failed to aid Cornwallis in the Yorktown campaign in 1781 and thereafter resigned. This portrait is from an engraving by A. H. Ritchie. THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY tense to take Persons from their Houses within the King's Posts, much less plunder them as being Rebels, excepting when in Acts of Absolute Rebellion, yet then their Effects are not to be seized, as Trial must preceed any Act of Rigor!' To further discourage indiscriminate terrorism, "Any Persons of whatsoever denomination" passing through