' 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.

On the morning of Friday, the first of November, simultaneously with the movement of the Hessian Grenadiers and with other equally important preparations-- the whole, we believe, preparatory to an assault on the new position of the American Army, in the high grounds of North Castle, -- a heavy body, from the Right of the Royal Army, with a number of field-pieces, was moved against the extreme left of the American lines, where the Division commanded by General Heath was posted, and opened a heavy fire ; which was returned by Captain-lieutenant Bryant and Lieutenant Jackson, of the American Artillery, neither party sustaining any loss which was particularly worthy of record. " A violent rain, however, again interposed; and the project, whatever it may have been, was abandoned.'