2 General Howe made no mention of a third Brigade of British troops having been left, to garrison the City ; but common sense tells us there must have been siicli a Garrison, within the thickly settled portions of the City; and Captain Hall, (HisWrij nf the Civil iVar in America, i.,203,) and Stedman, (Hisionj o f the American War, i., 210,) both of them officers of the Royal Army, have left records of the fact.

3 Captain Hall, (History of the VivU liar i'k America, i., 203,) said the troops were embarked, for this movement, in Titrtle h&y ; but, inasmuch as the naval portiuns of the movement were made under the personal superintendence of Admiral Lord Howe, we have preferred his statement, in his despatch to the Admiralty, ("Eagle, off 'New-York, November "2.!, 1T7G,") that the embarkation was at Kip's-ba.y.

*Admiral Lord Howe to Mr. Stcpliens, Secretarijof the Admiralty, " Eagle, "off New-York, November 23, 1776;" General Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New-York, November 30, 1776;" General 'Washiitgton to General Heath, " Headquarters, October 12,1776 ;"' the same to the Congress, "Heights OF Haerlem, 12 October, 1776," postscript dated, "Oc- " tober 13th ; " Diary of David Htm, October 12, 1776 ; General Wathington to Governor Cooke, "Headquarters, Harlem Heights, October 12, " 1776;" postscript dated " October I3th ; " CJolonel SmalUcood to the Maryland Convention, "Camp OF THE JIaryland Regulars, Head-quae- " TERS, October 12, 1776 ; " Extract of a letter from Harlem, in The Pennsylvania Evening Post, Voluni" 2, Number 271, Philadelphia, Tuesday, October 15, 1776 ; the same, in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1767, Philadelphia, Wednesday, October 16, 1776 ; [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 203; Stedman's History of the Amei ican War. i., 210 ; Gordon's Histwy of lite American ItevoUUion, ii., 336 ; Memoir of General Heath, 70 ; etc.