But (reneral Washington had evidently planned better than he knew ; and, in the proviilence of (Jod, sonic results which were more beneficial to the Americans than any which he had conceived and ho[)ed for, were niupiestionably derived from thai seemingly unpromising experiment of occupying and holding tiiat exceedingly exposed position, on the western bank of the Bronx; among which result-*, in America, we may mention the effect of that occupation, as an apparent menace against the left Hank and rear of the Royal Army, in whatever movement that Army, under (Jeneral Howe, should make against the American lines; tlie delay in that evidently projected movement of the Royal Army, to enable its commanding (xcneral to remove what ajtpeared to have been a dangerous element from Chatterton's-hill -- a delay whieh enabled the Americans to strengthen their defensive works and to become better prep.ared for defending them, whenever the Royal Army should move against them ; -- and the reduction of that great Army, which was, then, in front of the American lines, and ready to move against them, for the purpose of assaulting the Americans who had occupied the hill as well for that of holding the hill, subsequently, which reduction of the strength of his main body compelled General Howe to wait for the arrival of reinforcements, to abandon his intention to assault the works which sheltered the main body of the American Army, and, finally, to retire from Westchester-county -- the firstmentioned of which consequences aflbrding still further time and opportunities to General Washington and his feeble command : the latter two afibrding to the Americans, everywhere, the tclat, as well as some of the advantages, of better generalship and of consequent success. All these, among other not much lessimportant results, although they were probably hidden from General ^\'ashington, when he devised and ordered the movement, were, unquestionably, among the residts, in America, of that " inexplicable " occupation of Chatterton's-hill, on the morning of the twenty-eighth of October, ITTli: with the results, in Europe, of that occupation, we have nothing to do, in this place.'