15 In General Leslie's Eeturn, no mention was made of a Field-officer of the Fifth Regiment having been wounded.

* In General Leslie's Return of Officers wounded, Captain Massey's name is among those of the Lieutenants, although the tabular statement returns him as a Captain, in which it agrees with General Howe's Keport. He was a Captain-Lieutenant.

7 In General Leslie's Return, the wounded were stated to have numbered one hundred and twelve Bank and File.

8 In General Leslie's Return, no mention was made of any missing Hank and File.

» In this statement, we have followed General Howe's Return of Com-

* No Returns from these Regiments have been found.

Brigade commanded by Colonel Rail sustained a loss of eight Rank and File, killed ; Lieutenant Muhlhausen, one Sergeant, and forty-four Rank and File, wounded; and one horse, killed. The Regiment of Chasseurs and the four Regiments of Grenadiers -- one of them, probably, the half-drowned forlorn-hope -- composing the Brigade commanded by Colonel Donop, sustained a loss of four Rank and File, killed ; Captain De Westerhagen, Lieutenant De Rau, and fourteen Rank and File, wounded ; and two Rank and File, missing. 10

As far as our knowledge of it extends, history is wholly silent, concerning the influences which controlled General Washington and concerning the objects which he had in view, when he determined to occupy Chatterton's-hill, with so large a proportion of his already feeble and uncertain Army, including three of the best, if not the best three, of his Regiments; 11 and, especially, at a later hour, when,, at a critical moment and in the face of an overwhelming enemy, he determined, also, to strengthen the force whom he had already sent, and to hold the position, at all hazards, sending, for those purposes, another very strong detachment of those troops in whom he reposed his greatest confidence, as soldiers, and whom he could ill-spare from the insufficiently manned lines which he, himself, was then occupying.