The Colonel asked, "What do you want me to say?" "Tell him I ain't no hog. I ain't no hog!" "What do you mean by that?" "Why, they give us nothing but corn to eat -- I ain't no hog, I tell you !"

However, we must take the Colonel's own account, rendered to the vState, as to when he was captured, as correct, fortified as it is by the following letter, written while he was a prisoner, and which in part at least corroborates it :

flat Lands, L. I., December 13, 17S0.

Dear Sir : -- I would beg leave to present your Excellency with the following facts, and request your attention for a moment. I have lately rec'd a most melancholly account of the distresses of my wife and family by a letter from my daughter. ***** There is a Capt. Ogden. Lieut. Fowler, and Ensign Hyatt, prisoners to our State. They belonged to Col. James Delancey's Corps, and an Ensign Vincent of Co. C. Robbinson's Corps. These have been indulged with a parole to return to New York, while a number of our prisoners are detained here, and not one indulged with a parole to return home. Altho' many have applied, particularly Lieut. Jacob Van Tassel, whose house has been burned, and whose wife and children to mv knowledge, reduced to beggary and himself in poor state of health for a long time. There is said Lieut. Van Tassel, and ors, whom I beg" you would use your influence to have exchanged for some of the aforementioned,