Generals Washington, Howe, CornwalliB, Robertson, and Heath, and Captains Harris and Hall, all of whom witnessed tho action and described it, and Gordon, Stedman, Marshall, and Sparks, all of them standard historians, whose advantages for acquiring accurate information were in nowise neglected, were uniformly and rigidly silent on the subject of the alleged services of Captain Hamilton's Company of Artillery ; while the adverse testimony of Colonel Haslet, which we have stated in the text, supported, in a great measure by that of Captain Hull, the latter concerning the other of the two pieces and those who manned it, on the extreme left of the line, (Campbell's The Revolutionary Senices and Civil Life of General William Hull, 54,) leaves nothing, concerning that Company, on that occasion, to which the admirers of Alexander Hamilton can refer, with any pleasure, the pretensions of his sou, to which we have referred, to the contrary notwithstanding.

2 General Howe to Lord George Germame, " New-York, 30 November, "1776;" The Annual. Register for Vn 6, History of Europe, 178 *; History of the War in America, Edit. Dublin : 1779, i., 195 ; etc.

SSauthier's Plan of the Operations of the King's Army, etc.

General Heath, an eye-witness, said, that, after they had " forded the "river " they "marched along, under the cover of the hill, until they " had gained sufficient ground to the left of the Americans, when, by "facing to the left," etc.-- (Memoirs, 78.)

tGeneral Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New-Yobk, 30 November, " 1776 ;" The Annual Register for 1776, History of Europe, 178* : etc.