"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."

It was probably in connection with this point of a flag that Greene asked the question: -- "When you came on shore from the Vulture, Major Andre, and met General Arnold, did you consider yourself acting as a private individual, or as a British officer ? " "I wore my uniform," was the reply, and undoubtedly esteemed myself to be what indeed I was, a British officer." It will be recollected that it was not as an officer he was acting and clad when he was arrested.0

His personal examination being now concluded the prisoner was remanded into custody.

" The Board having considered the letter from His Excellency General Washington, respecting Major Andre, Adjutant-General to the British army, the confession, of Major Andre and the paper produced to them, Report to nis Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, the following fact which appear to them concerning Major Andre.

" First, That he came on shore from the Vulture, sloop-of-war, in the night of the 21st September inst. on an interview with General Arnold, in a private and secret manner.