4 In a letterwhich was written by an Officer of the Koyal Army, dated on the tenth of November, and printed in The Middlesex Journal and Evening Advertiser, No. 1209, London : From Saturday, December 21, to Tuesday, December 24, 1776, will be found our authority for what we have said of the purposes of General Howe, of his preparations for carrying out those purposes, and of the cause of his disappointment ; and a reference to the letter of Colonel Glover, with which our readers are already familiar, ("Mile-Square, October 22, 1776,") there ib an ample confirmation of each of the statements -- the Colonel erroneously stated that the Koyal Army was moved from New Rochelle, on Sunday, the twenty-seventh of October, instead of on Friday, the twenty-fifth of that month, and so continued to be two days too late, in each of his subsequent statements ; but, in all else, his statements of the movement of General Howe ; of the discovery, by General Lee, of the purpose to cut him off from the main body of the Army ; of the consequent detour of the column, into the Dobbs's-ferry road ; of its forced night-march ; and of

WESTCHESTEK COUNTY.

At length, all the necessary preparations having been completed, early in the morning of Monday, the twenty-eighth of October, the Royal Army struck its tents, in the encampment, at Scarsdale, which it had occupied since the preceding Friday; and, iu two columns, right in front, it moved towards the White Plains. 1 The right column, which was composed mostly of British troops, was commanded by Lieutenant-general Sir Henry Clinton ; '* the left column, with whom was General Howe, 3 was com- , posed mostly of German troops, and was commanded by Lieutenant-general Heister. 4