2 Judge Jones, in his remarkably accurate History of New York during the Revolutionary War, (i., 122,) said of General Howe's occupation of Throgg's neck, "here a whole fortnight was spent in doing nothing " (plundering the inhabitants and stealing their horses excepted)." We incline to the belief, however, that General Howe had no communication with the mainland sufficient to enable him to seize horses ; and there could not have been much opportunity for plunder, by the troops, unless on the Neck, for the same controlling reason.

The Judge was also evidently in error as to the period of General Howe's occupation of the Neck -- he landed, there, on the twelfth of October, and he moved from it, on the eighteenth of the same month, which can hardly be saia, with propriety, to have been " a whole fortnight."

3 General Howe lo Lord George Germaine, " New- York, 30 November, " 1776."

* General George Clinton to Lieutenant-colonel Hamilton, " Poughkeep- "sie, 28 December, 1777."

It is a singular fact that the Major-general referred to in the Note, also inspired the destruction of the White Plains, in which Major Austin also first plundered those whose houses he destroyed. ( Testimony of Sergeant Churchill and Tilley How, on the trial of Major Anil in, as to the robbery, and Major Austin's Defence before tlie same Court, as to the original author of the devastation.)

have already stated,* he has been condemned for having blundered because he occupied Throgg's-neck instead of some more favorable point, on the mainland ; but, as we have also shown, whatever of censure there may have been due for having thus blundered in occupying that isolated Neck, if there was any blunder in the case, it belonged to Admiral Lord Howe instead of to the General, his brother.