As we have already stateil, {ride page i'.V.), ante,) there are veiy grave doubts concerning Caiitaiu Hamilton's presence, with the Company, on Cliatterton's-hill, on the eventful day of the Battle ; and it is of ques- ! tionable |)ropriety, therefore, to identify him w ith the shortcomings of his command, so gmphically jiortrajed by Colonel Haslet, in his letter to General Rodney, to which we have referred, in thi' text-- shorlcoiniugs which were certainly such as reflected nothing else than disgrace on both the body of the Company and the Otlicer who was in command, ou .that occasion, whomsoever he may have been. Generals Washington, Howe, Coruwallis, Robertson, and Heath, and : Captains Harris and Hall, all of whom witnessed the action and dej scribed it, and Gordon, Stcduiau, Jlarshall, and Sparks, all of them j standard historiau.s, whose ailvautages for aoiuiring accurate information were in nowise neglected, were uniformly and rigidly silent on the subject of the alleged services of Captain Hamilton's Company of .\rtillery; while the advei-se testimony of Colonel Haslet, which we have stated in the text, sujjporled, in a great measure by that of Captain Hull, the latter concerning the other of the two pieces and those who nninned it, on the extreme left of the line, (Campbell's The Ilerolutionarij Serricen oiiri Ciril Life of General William Hull, [A,) leaves nothing, concerning that Company, on that occasion, to which the admirers of Alexander Hamilton can refer, w ith any pleasure, the pre- 1 tensions of his son, to which we have referred, to the contrary notwithstanding.