" 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.)

4 General Howe to Lord George Germaine, •' New- York, 30 November,

"1776." .

» Although it was Dot stated, at the time, and notwithstanding it has not been stated, since that time, that General Howe proposed to attack the Americans, in their new position, on the morning after it was taken by them, we are sure that that was his purpose, when he ordered the Hessian Grenadieis from Chatterton's-hill ; and made the preparations for " drawing of artillery up steep hills," to which General Lord Cornwallis ■referred, in his testimony ; and ordered or approved the movement on the extreme left of the American lines, of which mention will be made, hereafter. Nothing else than such a project, it seems to us, could have warranted all these operations ; and, certainly, nothing else could have led some of the British writers, including Captain Hall, {History of the Civil War in America, i., 210,) to consider the occupation of the abandoned lines, by the Hessian Grenadiers, as a pursuit of the fugitive Americans.