He also said, that the evening of the 22d September iust., he passed King's Ferry, between our posts of Stony and Verplank's Points, in the dress he is at present in, and uhich, he said, is not his regimentals, and which dress he procured after he lauded from the I ulture, and when he was within our posts, and that he was proceeding to New York, but was taken on his way at Tarrytown, as he has mentioned in his letter, on Saturday the 23d September inst. about nine o'clock in the morning."

The six papers from Arnold being produced, he acknowledged they were found in his boots; the pass to John Anderson was also owned and the fact that he had assumed that name. Anderson's letter to Sheldon, of September 7th, {Anti. page 262) was also read. He avowed himself its author; but though it went to prove his intention not to en-

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ter our lines, he observed that it could not affect the present case, as he wrote it in New York under Clinton's orders:

"The Board having interrogated Major Audre about his conception of his coming on shore under the sanction of a flag he said tltat it was impossible for him to suppose he came on shore under tliat sanction ; and added, that if he came on shore under that sanction, he certainly might have returned under it.

"Major Andre having acknowledged the preceding facts, and being asked whether he had anything to say respecting them, answered, He left them to operate with the Board."