I beg leave to add that jour favorable treatment of Major Andre, will be a favor I shall ever he intent to return to any you hold dear.

My mcmoiy does not retain with the exactness I could wish, the words of the letter which General Greene showed me from Major Andre to your Excellency. For Sir Henry Clinton's satisfaction I beg you will order a copy of it to be sent to me at N. Y. I have the honor to be your Excellency's

Most obedient aud humble Servant, James Robeetson.

" This letter could have produced no effect, even if it had not arrived too late ; for it touched upon no points which had not already been examined and decided. The commissioners returned to New York."a

Andre was executed at 1 2 o'clock the same day.

" On the night of the 3d of August, 1781, about 1 1 o'clock, the British and American guard boats met in the river near Dobb's Ferry, when a considerable firing ensued ; the Americans had one man badly wounded, who died soon after. The damage sustained by the enemy was not known." August 7th, 1781, in the morning, about two o'clock, the

o Spark's LUe oi Arnold, 276.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

American army was awakened by the firing of cannon at Dobb's Ferry. It appeared that two of the enemy's gun boats had come upas high as the ferry, probably to endeavor to seize some vessels or boats. On finding they were discovered, they fired four cannon, but to no effect. Four cannon were discharged at the boats from the battery, on which they went down the river .a