Respecting the diversion of Clinton in Burgoyne's favor, the letters of Putnam, whose business it was to hold the passes of the Hudson against the British, are in Sparks's _Washington_ (v. App. p. 471), and in his _Correspondence of the Revolution_ (i. 438; ii. App. 536, etc.), and in the _Western Reserve Hist. Soc. Tracts_, no. 46.[864] Dawson, beside the despatch of Putnam to Washington on the capture, gives also George Clinton's to Washington (i. 341, 342).[865] Contemporary American accounts of the capture and of the burning of Kingston are in Moore's _Diary_ (p. 506, 510); and a narrative, by G. W. Pratt, of the Kingston episode is in the _Ulster Hist. Soc. Coll._ (i. 107). [Illustration] On the British side, Sir Henry Clinton's despatches are in _Almon's Remembrancer_ (vol. v.), and that to Howe of Oct. 9th is in Dawson (i. 344), with one from Commodore Hotham to Howe (p. 346).[866] The maps of the Hudson already enumerated are of use in the study of this movement.[867] Plans of intended works (1776) and obstructions in the river near Fort Montgomery are given in the _Calendar of Historical MSS. relating to the War of the Rev._ (Albany, 1868, vol. i. 474, 616),[868] and a MS. plan of William A. Patterson, first lieutenant, 15th reg., April 22, 1776, is in the _Heath MSS._, i. 246 (Mass. Hist. Soc.). The correspondence of the committee of Congress with the commissioners in France, regarding the effect of the surrender of Burgoyne, is in _Diplomatic Correspondence_ (i. 338, 355). Cf. Stuart's _Jonathan Trumbull_. Jonathan Loring Austin, dispatched by the Massachusetts authorities, carried the first intelligence to France.[869] Schulenberg wrote to the commissioners from Berlin (_Diplom. Corresp._, ii. 120), and Izard replied (_Ibid._, ii. 370).[870] Burgoyne sailed from Rhode Island for England in April, 1778.[871] On arriving, he had an early interview with Lord George Germain, but the king refused to see him. He appeared in Parliament,[872] where he had earlier been a firm but not bellicose upholder of the government,[873] on May 21st, and on the 26th and 28th made speeches in his own defence, which were published in London, June 16, 1778, as _The substance of General Burgoyne's speeches, ... with an appendix containing Gen. Washington's letter to Gen. Burgoyne_.[874] The king, piqued at finding Burgoyne on the side of the opposition in Parliament, ordered him to return to his imprisoned troops, and, rather than go, the general resigned his civil and military offices, and printed an explanation in _A letter from Lieutenant-General Burgoyne to his constituents, with the correspondence between the secretaries of war and him, relative to his return to America_ (London, 1779).[875] [Illustration: ATTACK ON CLINTON AND MONTGOMERY.