» 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.

On the morning of Friday, the first of November, simultaneously with the movement of the Hessian Grenadiers and with other equally important preparations -- the whole, we believe, preparatory to an assault qn the new position of. the American Army, in the high grounds of North Castle, -- a heavy body, from the Right of the Royal Army, with a number of field-pieces, was moved against the extreme left of the American Hues, where the Division commanded by General Heath was posted, and opened a heavy fire ; which was returned by Captain-lieutenant Bryant and Lieutenant Jackson, of the American Artillery, neither party sustaining any loss which was particularly worthy of record. 6 A violent rain, however, again interposed; and the project, whatever it may have been, was abandoned. '