The precise amount has never been ascertained, but from the best authority, it con-sisted, among a variety of other things, of the following ar-ticles, viz.: from two to four thousand barrels of pork and beef; more than a thousand barrels of flour; two thousand bushels of grain; three hundred puncheons of rum; fifty pipes of wine; one hundred and fifty hogsheads of sugar and mo-lasses; ordinance and hospital furniture; medicines; pioneers', engineers' and carpenters' tools; and arms and ammunition in great variety and abundance; together with a quantity of regimental clothing, and four or five thousand pair of shoes and stockings. But the loss most severely felt, consisted in the destruction of nearly two thousand tents and marquees. These had been prepared for the campaign about to open, and for want of them the American army suffered much during the subsequent year. Among those who fell in the final struggle, was an old man belonging to Litchfield named Paul Peck, long renowned throughout his native state, as the most expert hunter and the best marksman of his times. When news came that the British troops were in possession of Danbury, he immediately prepared for service a large and favorite gun, that carried balls an unusual distance. At the advanced age of seventy-five, he then joined the Litchfield volunteers, and marched against the enemy. It was eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the 28th when this company overtook the British rear-guard at Wilton, but it was actively engaged during the residue of