The strength of the Brigade commanded by Colonel Glover has been already stated, in detail, from official sources ; 2 and, because Colonel Glover would not have left the encampment and all the baggage and stores of the Brigade without a sufficient guard, there is an evident truthfulness in his statement tk>it he carried from his encampment only " about seven " hundred and fifty men and three field-pieces." But, in the same connection, it must be remembered that the two Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonel's Read and Shepard, sustained almost the entire attacks of the enemy -- Colonel Baldwin fell back, without having sustained any other than an artillery-fire; and Captain Curtis only saw the enemy, in the distance, on the other side of the valley -- and that, therefore, the number of Americans who were actually engaged did not, probably, exceed four hundred rank and file. The strength of the enemy who was actually engaged has not been stated by any of the foreign authorities ; and. we can do no more than statethe facts which are well-authenticated, and to draw our conclusions from them. It is known that the detachment of the Royal Army which was first moved to Pell's-neck was composed of the Light

1 We have depended, in this statement of the spirited action at Pel - ham on Colonel Glover's homely description of it, contained in a letter, dated at " Mile-square, October 22, 1776," which was evidently written for the eye of a friend, although it very soon found its way into the newspapers, from one of which -- The Freeman's Journal and New Hampshire Qatetle, Vol. 1., No. 27., Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 26, 1776