See, also, a Letter from a Gentleman in the Army, Anted " Camp near "the Mills, about three miles North oi' the White-Plains, Novem- "berl, 177G," published in The I'ennsyhania Erenimj Post, No. 280, Philadelphia, Thursday, November 14, 177(5; General George Clinton to John MeKeason, "Camp at the old place, near the White Plains, 2 "November, 1776 ;" General Hoite to Lord George Gennaine, *^ Hew- "York, :)0 November, 1770 ;" etc.

General Howe and several othei-s have fallen iuto the error of supposing that the Village of the White-Plains was also burned, on the occasion now under notice : it was not burned until the night of the fifth of November, when, after he had robbed the huust'S, it was destroyed by ai)arty of MassiH-Iiusetts truops, commaiided by Jlajor Austin.

'In the cross-cxamiiiation of General Lord Coi iiwallis. by the members of a Committee of the House of Comniuns, ('it the sixth of May, 1779, his Lordship was <u>ked, "Was there not a time, at the White "Plains, when our .\riiiy lay on their arms, intending to attack the " enemy, but were prevented by rain?," to which he replied, " After "the enemy fell back to the heights, near Nortli-Castle, they left an "advance Corps on the heighls of the White Plains ; there were or- "dei's given for an attack of that Corps, which was prevented by a vi- "olentrain. We did not lay upon our anus." The inquiry was continued by the ('oiiimittee asking, " From the situation of the relicl *' Army aiul of our's, was that siorni in their or our faces?" to which bie Lordship replied, I do not apprehend that the attack was pre* "vented by the storm of rain being in either of our faces; there are "other effects of a storm, hiicIi as s|H>iliiig the roads and preventing "the dr»v>'ing of artillery up steep hills." The Committee continued, by asking, " Whether if the jiowder was wet, on both sides, the at- " tacks might not have been made by bayonets ? ; " to which his Lord ship replied, " I do not recolh-i-t that I sjtiii the powrler was wet ;" and, there, the subject was droj^pwl. -- (Alnion's I'urt inmentanj Register, Fifth Si-Bsiou of the Fourteenth ParliaUH nt of Great lirilain, xiii., 14.)