His first question to our General, " was, ' How is your l)ivisi(jn ? ' He was answered, ' They are all in or- " ' der.' ' Have you,' said the Comlnander-iii chief, 'any troops on the hill, "' over the hollow? ' He was answered, ' Malcolm's Regiment is there.' ' If " 'you do not call them ofr,immPdiately,' says the General, 'you may lose " ' them, if the enemy push a column up the hollow.' He was answered, " ' that, even in that case, their retreat should be made safe : that a strong " Regiment was posted at the head of the hollow, behind the wall ; that " this Regiment, with the oblique fire of the Division, would so check the " enemy, as to allow Malcolm to make a safe retreat. Th<? (Jomniander- " ill-chief coiicliuled by wiying, ' Take care that you do not lose them.'

"The Artillery of the Division was so well directed as to throw the "British artillery-men, several times, into confusion ; and, fiinling that " they could not, here, make any impression, they drew back their pieces, "the Column not advancing," [itrohahly because of the failure of the main body to advance against Ihe American lines, in cooperation with this detachment, as we have already stated.]

"The British Artillery now made a circuitous movement ; and came "down, toward the American right. Here, unknown to them, were "some twelve-pounders, Uiion the discharge of which, they made off " w ith their field-pieces, as fast as their hoi-ses could draw them.