to FishhiU off of Colonel Tash's regiment of New Hampshire militia kill " for the assistance of the committee of safety in holding the disaffected in check." By recurring to the consecutive extracts from the Duer-Tilghman correspondence printed on pp. 359-362, it will he seen that Duer, on the 12th of October, communicated to Washington's headquarters information (or supposed information) which the State convention, by "several examinations " of Tories had obtained, of a concerted plan for a -rand British movement upon both thinks of the American army "by means of Hudson's and the East River," in which enterprise "their partisans in this State" were to CO-operat( -- "Thursday next" (the 17th of October) being fixed for the united undertaking. In almost every letter written by Duer to Tilghman during the eventful month from the 22d of September to the- 21st of October, mention is made with much particularity and in the bitterest terms of the very numerous Tory conspiracies then rife.1 Moreover, Washington was constantly apprehending conspirators and suspects, and no one had a keener appreciation than he of the need of strict measures against the seditious Tories. The detachment of a whole regiment from his army for the local purposes of the committee of safety in such critical circumstances as prevailed on the 13th of October is a peculiarly interesting incident. Washington seems also to have been considerably impressed by Duer's intel igence of a general British plan for the 17th of October. The pre diction was evidently treasured up at headquarters, for Tilghman, writing to Duer on the 15th, remarks: "The information you furnish concerning the intended operations on Thursday next deserve our highest thanks; it may be false, if it is, there is no harm done, hut we shall be better prepared for them if true.