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.

'- General Hoice to Lord George Germuiiie, " New-York, 30 November, " 177G ;" Tlie Annual Ilegisler for 177G, History of Europe, 178 * ; History of the n'ar in America, Edit. Dublin : 17"!), i., l!).'); etc.

^Sauthier's Plan of the Operatiitns of the King's Army, etc.

General Heath, an eye-witness, siiid, that, after they had "forded the "river," they "marched along, under the cover of the hill, until they "had gained sufficient gro\ind to the left of the Americans, when, by "facing to the left," etc.-- (.l/cmoirs, 78.)

^General Howe tn Jjord George (Sernitiine, *^ 'Sr.w'-YonK, 30 November, *' 177C;'' The Annuol Register for 177('», History of Europe, 17K* ; etc.