It could hardly be considered, therefore, with any degree of propriety, as anything else than a detached and independent position, formmissioned and Non-commissioned Officers, Rank and File, Killed, Wounded, and Missing, etc., appended to his despatch to Lord George Germaine, dated "New-York, 3 December, 1776." We have compared it with the Return of tlie Killed and Wounded of Che Second Brigade, etc., made by General Leslie ; and find that, although the details of the classifications differ, the aggregate of the British loss is the same -- one hundred and fifty-seven Officers and Men.

M General Some's Return of Commissioned and Non commissioned Officers, Ranlc and File, Killed, Wounded, and Missing, appended to his despatch to Lord George Germaine, dated "New-York, 3 December, 1776."

It is proper for us to say, however, that that Return included all the losses sustained by the Regiments referred to, from the nineteenth to the twenty-eighth of October, both these dates included ; and it is possible, therefore, that some of the casualties named in the text were sustained elsewhere than on or near Chatterton's-hill. We have no meaus for ascertaining their exact losses, on the twenty-eighth of October.

11 We are not insensible that Stedman, in his History of the American War, (I., 214,) said " the reason of their " [tfie Americans,] "occupying " this posture," [on ChaUerton' s-hill,] " is inexplicable; unless it be that "they could not be contained within the works of their Camp;" but the reason assigned was too evidently ridiculous to be regarded with the slightest respect.