Lee, pointing to the grounds just mentioned, "is tlie ground we ought to occupy." "Let us tlieu go and view it," replied the Commander-iu-Chief, When on the way, a light horseman came up on full gallop, his horse almost out of breath, and addressed General "Washington -- "The British are in the camp, sir." The General observed, "Gentlemen, ^ve have now other business than recf)nnoitring," putting his horse in full gallop for the camp, and followed by the other officers. When arrived at head-quarters, the Adjutant-General, (Read.) who had remained at camp, informed the Commander-in-Chief, that tlie guards had been all beat in, and the whole American army were now nt their respective posts, in order of battle. The Commander-iu-Chief turned round to the officers, and only said, "Gentlemen, j'ou will repair to your respective post, and do the best j'ou can." "Our General. (Heath.) on arriving at his own division, found them all in the lines; and. from the height of his posts, found that the first attack was directed against the Americans on Cliatterton's hill. The Mttle river Bronx, which ran between the Ani'Tican right and this hi'l, after running round its nortli side, turned and ran duwn on the cast and south-cast. The British advanced in two columns. At

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• ,',:.< inetanf, tlie cannonade ■vras brisk on both sides: directed by the British n-fi»69 the hollow and Bronx, agaiast the Americans ou the hill, and by thcni nturucd. Almost at the same instant, the right column, composed of British tr<A.'ns, preci'ded by about twenty light horse in full gallop, and brandishing their fcwords, appeared on the road leadinc; to the court-house, and now directly in the fniat of our General's division. The light-horse leaped the fence of a wheat field, at the foot of the hUl, on which Col.