and the sickness they had suffered in consequence of bad quarters and scanty and unwholesome provisions. They now exclaimed loudly against the order of march as related to themselves, attributing it to resentment and a design to sacrifice them.-- Their colonel equally displeased openly avowed the same opinion, seeming to think the positive directions respecting himself implied a doubt of his courage and declaring that cavalry had never before been put in the front of a line of battle in the dark. At ten o'clock in the evening the American army was put in motion to surprise the hostile camp at Camden, and by a singular coincidence lord Cornwallis with his whole force marched upon Clermont about the same time for a similar purpose. The night was exceedingly dark, and the Americans had moved about half the distance between the adverse encampments, when about two o'clock in the morn-ing they were made aware of the presence of an enemy by a heavy fire of musketry which suddenly poured in upon the head of the vanguard. As the colonel had apprehended, eight or ten of the dragoons were killed or wounded by his sudden attack. A charge from the British horse, with loud huzzas immediately followed. The legionary cavalry falling back upon the foot, threw the whole corps into confusion, and the recoil which occurred in front of an advancing column of infantry, produced general consternation throughout the whole line of the army. The disastrous result of the engagement which ensued immediately after daylight on the ensuing morning is well known. In a vain attempt to rally the panic stricken militia, the cavalry of the legion became disordered, and in that state were charged and put to rout by a far superior body of the enemy's dragoons. Although the greatest efforts were made to keep the legionary soldiers together, not one half ever joined their colors at Hillsborough, which became their rallying point; all the rest having been either killed, captured or dispersed.