Sir William Howe, on a pamphlet, entitled Letters to a Nobleman, Second Edition, 37.) Three days after the date of that Return, [August 12,] the two fleets, convoyed, respectively, by Commodore Hotham and the Repulse, came into the harbor of New York, with the Guards and the Fii"st Division of the Hessians, {Compare Lord George Germaine's despateh to General Howe, dated, " Whitehall, 21 "June, 1776," wit/i General Howe's d&tpaieh to Lord George Germaine, dated " Staten-Isl.vnd, 15 August, 177C ; ") and, two days subsequently, [j4ti3HS( 14,] Sir Peter Parker and Lord Dunniore also arrived, {General Howe to Lord George Gerrniiine, " Sr.\TEX-IsLAND, 1.5 August, 177C,") the former, with what remained of the forces which had been sent to Virginia and the Carolinas, " as well as with some Regiments from Florida "and the West Indies," (^Hnwfi Register for 1776: History of Europe, *169,) numbering, "at least,five thousandmen," (Jones's Historf/ of New

in the graphic language of one of the most able writers of that period, at the time now under consideration an intimate friend of the master-spirits of the Convention of New York, " The British Army was "commanded by able and experienced Officers; the " rebel by men destitute of military skill or experience " and, for the most part, taken from mechanic arts or " the plough. The first were possessed of the best " appointments, and of more than they gould use ; "and the other of the worst, and of less than they " wanted. The one were attended by the ablest Sur- "geons and Physicians, healthy, and high-spirited; " the other were neglected in their health, clothing, " and pay, were sickly, and constantly murmuring "and dissatisfied. And the one were veteran troops, " carrying victory and conquest wheresoever they were " led ; the other were new-raised and undisciplined, " a panic-struck and defeated enemy, whenever at- " tacked -- such is the true comparative diflTerence " between the force sent to suppress, and that which "supported, the Rebellion."*