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.)

* General Uoice to Lord George Gernudne, ■' Nkw-Yokk, aO November, " 1770."

' Although it was not stated, at the time, and notwithstanding it has not been stated, since that time, that General Howe proposed to attJick the Americans, in their new position, on the mjrning after it was taken by them, we are sure that that was his purpose, when he ordered the Hessian Grenadiers from Chatteiton"s-liiU ; and made the preparations for "drawing of artillery up steep hills," to w hich General Lord (^rnwallis referreil, in his testimony ; and ordered or approved the uiovenient on the extreme left of the .\merican lines, of which mention will be made, hereafter. Nothing else than such a i>roJect, it seems to us, could have warranted all these openttions ; and, certainly, nothing else could have leil some of the British writers, including Captain Hall, {History of the Civil War in America, i., 210,) to consider the occapation of the abandoned lines, by the Hessian Grenadiers, as u pursuit of the fugitive Americans.