Hall's Tavern, at Hall's-corners, now known as Elmsford, on the road leailing from the White Plains to Tarrytown, told us, many years ago, that he heard that severe cannonade, and saw the smoke occasioned by it, and very clearly remembered It ; and, as may be reasonably supposed, under such circumstances, he regarded it as something more than ordinarily terrible.

What we have said concerning the extent of time thus occupied by the Hessian .\rtillerists, in their cannonade of the .-Vmericans, was authorized by Colonel Haslet, in his letter to General Rodney, already referred to ; by Campbell's Rewlutiimarij Services and Ciril Life of General William Hull, 54 ; etc.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

standard military maxim, of that period, which required the immediate removal of everything which might, possibly, jeopardize a flank or the rear of a column, no matter how insignificant it might otherwise be; and, undoubtedly, with the concurrence of the impromptu Council, of which mention has been made, General Howe determined to dislodge the Americans who had occupied Chatterton's-hill, before he proceeded further, in his movement against the main body of the American Army, then within its line of entrenchments, and awaiting his evidently intended assault. With that purpose in view, the main body of the Royal Army was ordered to rest on its arms, on the Plain, within a mile, and in open sight, from the American lines ; orders were issued for a Battalion of Hessians to pass over the Bronx-river,' supported by the Second Brigade of British troops, composed of the Fifth, Twenty-eighth, Thirty-fifth, and Forty-ninth Regiments of Foot, commanded by Brigadier-general Leslie; and by the Brigade of Hessians, composed of Linsing's, Mingerode's, Lengereck's, and Kochler's Regiments of Grenadiers and his own Regiment of Chasseurs, commanded by Colonel Donop -- the last mentioned Brigade to be taken from the right of the Army, where it had been posted -- for the purpose of assaulting the position on Chatterton's-hill, in front ; and Colonel Rail was ordered to move the Brigade which he commanded, on a charge, on the right of the Americans, simultane- j ously with the movement of the Hessian forlorn-hope | and its supporting parties, on their front.'