This officer was by birth a Hanoverian, educated to arms from early life, who in his youth had served in Germany during the celebrated "Seven years' war," at the head of a small body of rangers, and was sent out to the assistance of royalty in this country with a reputation, which he is said to have justly deserved, of possessing extraordinary abilities as a partisan. During the first years of the war, his chasseurs became very celebrated, and did the crown good service; but afterward, partly from the severity of his discipline, and partly from his foreign birth and manners, his men became dissatis-fied and deserted, and most of his officers sought service under other commanders. The other corps was much more numer-ous; consisting of four or five troops of light dragoons and seven or eight companies of foot, and during the latter part of the war, these were the light troops upon whose exertions the crown chiefly relied, in the county of Westchester. They were first commanded by Major Bearmore, and subsequently by the redoubtable Colonel James Delancey of Westfarms. Proper military instruction had been extended to them, and, to combine example with command, a battalion of regulars and a squadron of the Sixteenth or Seventeenth light dra-goons had been ordered to encamp in their vicinity, and unite in their exercises. When not on duty, they occupied the woods and fields of Morrisania, whose proprietors were re-publicans, and for the most part, in the service of the United States. There, where populous villages now gladden the eye, the British refugees lived in log-huts, upon lands assigned them by the royal authorities, making free use of the soil, and committing waste at discretion, upon what they termed the property of rebels. Bands of this daring and restless