" Whig and Tory has been lost in one general sceni " of ravage and desolation." ' In that work, the Hessians and the British troops were equally notorious ; and what the soldiery spared, was frequently carried away by the soldiers' wives and mistresses, who formed a part of the retinue of the Army.* Indeed, the warmth of controversy called out from one of the most prominent Loyalists of that period, the following graphic description of the outrages inflicted by the King's troops: "The inhuman treatment alluded to, " was the indiscriminate plunder suffered to be com- " mitted, by the soldiery under his command, on "Staten Island, Long Island, the White Plains, and " in the Province of New .Tersey, where friend and " foe, loyalist and rebel, met with the same fate -- a "series of continued plunder, which was a disgrace to "an Army pretending to discipline, and which, while " it tended to relax the discipline of the troops, could " not fail to create the greatest aversion, even in the "breast of loyalty itself, to a service which, under the " fair pretence of giving them orotection . robbed them, " in many instances, of even the necessaries of life." * But the sufferings endured by the inhabitants of Westchester-couiity were not confined to those which were produced by the outrages inflicted by the Royal Army and its followers. We have already alluded,'" incidentally, to the robberies of Horses which were inflicted on the farmers of that County, by Officers of the American Army, for their private uses, at their respective homes -- not by the Rank and File, nor by the soldiers' wives and concubines, nor in a foreign country ; but by the Commissioned Officers of the Army of Americans who had been moved into the County, for the protection of the inhabitants and of their properties.