Sir William Howe, on a pamphlet, entitled Letters to a Nobleman, Second Edition, 37.) Three days after the date of that Return, [August 12,] the two fleets, convoyed, respectively, by Commodore Hotham and the Repulse, came into the harbor of New York, with the Guards and the First Division of the Hessians, (Compare Lord George Germaine?s despatch to General Howe, dated, " Whitehall, 21 "June, 1776," with General Howe's despatch to Lord George Germaine, dated " Staten-Island, 15 August, 1776 ; ") and, two days subsequently, [August 14,] Sir Peter Parker and Lord Dunmore also arrived, (General Howe to Lord George Germaine, " Staten-Island, 15 August, 1776,") the former, with what remained of the forces which had been sent to Virginia and the Carolinas, " as well as with some Regiments from Florida " and the West Indies,'* (Annual Register for 1776 : History of Europe, *169,) numbering, "at least, five thousand men," (Jones's History of New

in the graphic language of one of the most able writers of that period, at the time now under consideration an intimate friend of the master-spirits of the Convention of New York, "The British Army was "commanded by able and experienced Officers; the " rebel by men destitute of military skill or experience " and, for the most part, taken from mechanic arts or " the plough. The first were possessed of the best " appointments, and of more than they could use ; " and the other of the worst, and of less than they " wanted. The one were attended by the ablest Surgeons and Physicians, healthy, and high-spirited; " the other were neglected in their health, clothing, " and pay, were sickly, and constantly murmuring " and dissatisfied. And the one were veteran troops, " carrying victory and conquest wheresoever they were "led; the other were new-raised and undisciplined, " a panic-struck and defeated enemy, whenever at- " tacked -- such is the true comparative difference " between the force sent to suppress, and that which " supported, the Rebellion." *