See, also, a Letter from a Gentleman in the Army, 'dated " Camp near " the Mills, about three miles North of the White-Plains, November 1, 1776," published in The Pennsylvania Evening Post, No. 280, Philadelphia, Thursday, November 14, 1776; General George Clinton to John McKesson, "Camp at the old place, near the White Plains, 2 " November, 1776 ; " General Howe to Lord George Germaine, " New- " York, 30 November, 1776 ;" etc.

General Howe and several others have fallen into the error of supposing that the Village of the White-Plains was also burned, on the occasion now under notice : it was not burned until the night of the fifth of November, when, after he had robbed the houses, it was destroyed by a party of Massachusetts troops, commanded by Major Austin.

s In the cross-examination of General Lord Cornwallis, by the members of a Committee of the House of Commons, on the sixth of May, 1779, his Lordship was asked, " Was there not a time, at the White " Plains when our Army lay on their arms, intending to attack the " enemy, but were prevented by rain ? ," to which he replied, " After " the enemy fell back to the heights, near North-Castle, they left an "advance Corps on the heights of the White Plains ; there were or- " ders given for an attack of that Corps, which was prevented by a vi- " olent rain. We did not lay upon our arms." The inquiry was continued by the Committee asking, " From the situation of the rebel " Army and of our's, was that Blorm in their or our faces ? " to which his Lordship replied, '' I do not apprehend that the attack was presented by the storm of rain being in either of our faces; there are "other effects of a storm, such as spoiling the roads and preventing " the drawing of artillery up steep hills." The Committee continued, by asking, " Whether if the powder was wet, on both sides, the at- •' tacks might not have been made by bayonets ? ; " to which his Lordship replied, " I do not recollect that I said the powder was wet ;" and, there, the subject was dropped.-- (Almon's Parliamentary Register, Fifth Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain, xiii., 14.)