In his evidently new-born zeal, adverse to the military and personal character of General Charles Lee, Bancroft has exposed his entire inability to understand and correctly describe a military movoment, whatever his capability of understanding and correctly describing a political movement may be, in what he has written concerning '■ the origin of " the retirement of the American Army from New York," (History of the United States, Edit. Boston : 1866, ix., 175, note ; the same, centenary edition, v., 440, note.)

In his attempt to take from General Lee everthing of credit for having united with others, in advising that "retirement of tile American Army from New York," which is now under consideration, that venerable and distinguished historian has entirely disregarded the action of that Council of War, in which the Commander in-chief was officially informed, the first time, of tho opinions of the General Officers, concerning the further occupation of the Heights of Hariem by the mai n body of the Ameri. an Army, on which opinions the General Orders for

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

The several positions occupied by the different portions of the Army, from day to day, have not been noticed, with any degree of particularity, in any of the official documents or publications of that period, as far as we have knowledge ; but it is evident that the command of Major-general Spencer was moved from the exterior lines, on the Heights of Harlem, to which it had been ordered on the preceding Monday, [October 14,] 1 and carried into Westchester-county -- the Brigades commanded, respectively, by Brigadiergenerals Wadsworth and Fellows were moved to Kingsbridge, 2 probably further northward ; and the Brigade commanded by Brigadier-general Lord Stirling, to which the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Weedon and Reed were added, 3 was pushed forward, first, to the Mile Square and, afterwards, to the White Plains.* A portion, if not the whole, of the Brigade commanded by Colonel Glover was evidently moved to support whatever guard there may have been posted on the outlet from Pell's, or Rodman's, neck; 5 two Regiments of the Massachu"