New burgh Sedition. While Washington

tud his headquarters in New burgh, on the Hudson, December, 1782, great di atisfaction manifested itself among his officers, and they addre ed a memorial to Congre , demanding their back pay, and security for future services.. Congre refused to grant the demands, and in the following March a well-written addre was circulated with a view to stirring up a revolt. The matter became so serious that Washington appeared before a meeting of the protestants, where putting on his spectacles he reme>ked, ‘*You see, gentlemen, that I have not only grown gray but blind in your service,”’ and then delivered such a patriotic addre that the spirit ef insubordination immediately disappeared.