Let the reader imagine the grateful emotions of Col. Livingston, his increased esteem for his commander, and the alacrity with which, under such an impulse, he went back to his station of high trust and danger.""

a Sparks' Life of Arnold, p. 241, 2-3. b Sparks' Life of Arnold, 249. c Sparks' Life of Arnold, p. 253.

THE TOWN OF CORTLANDT.

One of the most interesting associations connected with this spot, is the recollection, that here were located the head-quarters of General Washington.

" On my return from the southward in 1782," says the translator of Chastellux, (who has thought proper to withhold his name,) "I spent a day or two at the American camp at Verplanck's Point, where I had the honor of dining with General Washington. I had suffered severely from an ague which I could not get quit of, though I had taken the exercise of a hard trotting horse, and got thus far to the northward in the month of October. The General observing it, told me he was sure I had not met with a good glass of wine for some time -- an article then very rare -- but that my disorder must be frightened away. He made me drink three or four of his silver camp cups of excellent Maderia at noon, and recommended to me to take a generous glass of claret after dinner; a prescription by no means repugnant to my feelings, and which I most religiously followed. I mounted my horse the next morning, and continued my journey to Massachusetts, without ever experiencing the slightest return of my disorder.