It is a singular fact that the Major-general referred to in the Note, also inspired the destruction of the White Plains, in which Major Austin also first plundered those whose houses he destroyed. {Testimony of Sergeant Churchill and Tilltij How, on the trial of Major Awtin, as to the robbery, and Major Analiu's Defence before the same Courts as to the original author of the deva«»tAtion.)

have already stated,* he has been condemned for having blundered because he occupied Throgg's-neck instead of some more favorable point, on the mainland ; but, MS we have also shown, whatever of censure there may have been due for having thus blundered in occupying that isolated Neck, if there was any blunder in the case, it belonged to Admiral Lord Howe instead of to the General, his brother. General Howe has been condemned, also, because of his long stay on Throgg'sneck, without having attempted to move from that position, in any direction whatever,* but surely no one would have desired him to move into an enemy's country, in the face of an active military force of that enemy, without a Commissariat, without the necessary military Stores which would become necessary in his conduct of the proposed movement into that enemy's country, and without the slightest pretense to the necessary means for transporting even his Officers' baggage, of all of which the first and second detachments had taken comparatively little to the Neck, and of all of which the subsequent and main supplies I were held back by adverse winds, which prevented the vessels which bore them from passing through Hell-gate.* In addition to the delays in moving the Commissariat, the military Stores, and the Horses and Waggons of the Quarter-master-general's Department,' to which reference has been made, some delay was also experienced in moving three Battalions of Hessians, from Staten-island, for the reinforcement of the main body, on the Neck ; * and thus, in General Howe's own words, " Four or five days had been " unavoidably taken up in landing at Frog's-Neck, " instead of going, at once, to Pell's- point, which " would have been an imprudent measure, as it could