than the bad judgment of those, in England, who controlled the movements of the troops, that he was not thus sent -- the Campaign could have been opened '. several weeks earlier, when General Washington was i much less prepared to receive an enernv, and, therefore, • when a complete success in the suppression of the Eebellion was very much more promising ; but that Almighty power which controlled all things, had other purposes ; and the cause of America was promoted by that remarkable blunder among those who opposed it. On the morning of Thursday, the twenty-second of August, as we have said, the active operations of the

8 Journal of the Convention, "Monday morning, Augt. 26, 1776." fl Journal of the Convention, "Monday morning, Augt. 26, 1776." It may be proper for us to say that the Chairman's letter was referred to the Deputation from Ulster county ; and that, a few weeks subsequently, tired of waiting for the Tea, " mobs, from different parts "of the country," went to Kingston; broke open the buildings which contained it ; and, undoubtedly, helped themselves and their mothers and sisters and wives and daughters to what was then officially called " that detestable article called Tea."

WESTCHESTEK COUNTY.

Eoyal Army were commenced by the movement of the British Grenadiers and Light Infantry and the Hessians, or rather the German, Grenadiers, Light Infantry, and Chasseurs -- the last-named commanded by the Count Donop -- the whole numbering '' not less "than four thousand men," 1 of the elite of the Army, the whole commanded by General Sir Henry Clinton, to Gravesend Bay, near Coney-island, where, under the fire of three frigates and two bombketehes, 2 the naval portion of the movement having been commanded by Commodore Hotham, the entire detach- ' ment, with forty pieces of artillery, were landed, in two hours' and a half, without meeting the slightest opposition from the Americans.