The strength of the Brigade commanded by Colonel Glover has been already stated, in detail, from official sources ; and, because Colonel Glover would not have left the encampment and all the baggage and stores of the Brigade without a sufficient guard, there is an evident truthfulness in his statement that he carried from his encampment only "about seven " hundred and fifty men and three field-pieces." But, in the same connection, it must be remembered that the two Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonel's Read and Shepard, sustained almost the entire attacks of the enemy -- Colonel Baldwin fell back, without having sustained any other than an artillery-fire; and Captain Curtis only saw the enemy, in the distance, on the other side of the valley-- and that, therefore, the number of Americans who were actually engaged did not, probably, exceed four hundred rank and file. The strength of the enemy who was actually engaged has not been stated by any of the foreign authorities ; and we can do no more than state the facts which are well-authenticated, and to draw our conclusions !rom them. It is known that the detachment of the Royal Army which was first moved to Pell's-neck was composed of the Light

• We have depended, in this statement of tlic spirited action at Polham, on Colonel Glover's homely description of it, contained in a letter, dated at " Mile-sqv are, October 'I'l, ITTii," which was eviileutly written for the eye of a friend, although it very soon found its way into the newspapers, from one of which -- The Freeman'^ Jonrtml and Neir Hampshire OazeUe, Vol. 1., No. 27., Pohtsmoi Tii, Tuesday, November 20, 1776 -- we made our copy. Force copied it, with some unimportant variations, in his /Imerienii Archives, V., ii., 1188, 1189 ; but wo have preferred to use the contemporary edition.