This brougi;! on a pretty bvislc cannonade, though at too great a distance to do much e.vcciition. I lost one maa, and had tv."o wounded. I have heard of no other injur}" done us. We are b\' the late movements now far advanced -- in front, of cou:;'.'. most e.vposed. The enemy retired to their former encampment in the evening, leaving strong advanced pickets, and working parties vrho are busily employvJ in erecting banks on tlic heights in and near the tov/n. Deserters, (especiaily from the Queen's light dragoons,) come daily over to us ; and now and then oar Rangers send in a straggling prisoner. Captain Van Wick of my brigade, who. at his earnest desire, wa.s appointed to a company of rangers, was day before tliL ycstcrday unfortunately killed. He went out in the morning with about thirty men, and fell in v,-ith about one hundred of tlic enemy in a house not far dista t from their lines -- charged them with spirit, gave them n brisk fire, but unforta;:- ately, wh^n loading his piece the second time, was shot in the head, and i<.'-'- dead. His lieutenant shot down the man who lulled his captain. The enemy fled : our party brought o!T their captain, and yesterday evening I had him interred with the honors of war. He was a good mn.n, and a valiant ollicer. Prr.y comniuiiicate this sad news to his widow, (to whom I would write, had I leisure. > in a mamicr tliat will least aSect her-