The light caused by this extensive con-flagration, during the deep darkness of a rainy night, alarmed the inhabitants of distant towns, and gave them the earliest intelligence of the sack of Danbury. At Fredericksburg in the State of New York, twelve miles off, there was also a great quantity of Continental stores, and the well-affected people of the place beheld in the lurid horizon, the devastation that followed the steps of the invader. Apprehending a similar visit, they were on the alert all night in preparations for defence. The British commanders at Danbury in the mean-while sent out no detachments, and paid little or no attention to the small American parties that hovered in the vicinity. The King's soldiers were engaged alternately in revelry and destruction, until the appearance of daylight. Early in the morning General Tryon received intelligence that the whole force of the country was collecting for the purpose of cutting off his retreat along the strong and dangerous ground which he must needs pass on his return to the shipping. He now proceeded with the utmost haste to the completion of his work. Hitherto only a single dwelling had been burnt, but as there was no longer time to remove the stores from their places of deposit, the buildings that contained them were set on fire and consumed along with their contents. The flames spreading on every side, many contiguous houses occupied by the inhabitants, shared unintentionally a similar fate. In this scene of excitement and tumult while upward of forty buildings were in full blaze, including a Congregational church and nineteen dwelling houses, the drums of the invaders beat to arms, and the troops having formed in marching order, commenced, between eight and nine o'clock, a rapid retreat. The camp-followers, as the army moved along, were, as usual, busily employed in collecting and driving off such horses and cattle as they could find.