■i In a letter which was written by an Officer of the Royal Army, dated on the tenth of Xovember, and printed in The Middlesex Jonrnal and Eiening Adeerliser,}so. 1209, Lo.NDON : From Saturday, December 21, to Tuesday, December 24, 1771;, will be found our authority for what we have saiil of the purposes of General Howe, of his preparations for carrying out those purposes, and of the cause of his disappointment ; and a reference to the letter of Colonel Glover, with w hich our readers arealreaily familiar, (" lIiLE-.Syi ARE, October 22, 1776,") there is an ample confirmation of each of the statements -- the Colonel erroneously stated that the Royal Army was moved from New Kochelle, on Sunday, the twenty seventh of October, insteail of on Friday, the twenty-fifth of that month, and so continued to be two days too late, in each of his subsequent statements; but, in all else, his statements of the movement of General Howe : of the discovery, by General Lee, of the purpose to cut him oH from the main body of the Army ; of the consequent detour of the column, into the Dobbs's-ferry road ; of its forced night-march ; and of

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

At length, all the necessary preparations having been completed, early in the morning of Monday, the twenty-eighth of October, the Royal Army struck its tents, in the encampment, at Scarsdale, which it had occupied since the preceding Friday ; and, in two columns, right in front, it moved towards the White Plains. ' The right column, which was composed mostly of British troops, was commanded by Lieutenant-general Sir Henry Clinton ; ^ the left column, with whom was General Howe, 'was composed mostly of German troops, and was commanded by Lieutenant-general Heister. *