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Show Evidence of Mama GENERAL Ronexrsox. E'z'fdt‘flrerfl‘dAJOR GENERAL ROBERTSON. tion at Qibblcton, to give a diret‘t opinion, thatrforward Opt- O». that time was General Robertfon ready to move with on to Phirations in the Jerlieys, crol‘s the Delaware, and 10 been an have ladelphia, all circumdances confidered, would advil‘able meafitre ? 1!. He could not fay. As a matter of opinion he gave it to ‘ and he fuppofed that the General had good renfons for making ated, that orders were immediately given for the light troops, pickets, ' and advanced polls to move forward, without waiting 2. General Robertl‘on has {Lid that the Delaware at Trenton for the body of the army ; and were not they conliderably ad. He would delire the General to recollect lines at Brooklyn, the evening preceding their evacuation: vaneed before the lir‘ft brigade, commanded by the General, when he law the rebel rear guard embarking P 14. He heard they were detached, he did not fee them: he {aw troops forward, but could not from his own knowledge, fay what troops they were. (L General i'ttzbertlbn has {aid that a detachment of two or three tliotilitntl mt- might be pullied acrofs from Staten Illand, to Elizabeth Town or Amboy, in order to cut oil the rebel magazines near Brunfwick, and intercept the retreat of the rebel he likcwavs {aid that he had advanced as far as where the two array over the Delaware ; the General was then at New York : roads meet, on the road from Brooklyn to Yellow Hook: will ‘ General Robertfon then undertake to fay, that it was no more does he know that there were flat bottomed boats futhcient to carry ul‘ tranfport luch a detachment to the Jerfeys at that time, belides thofe employed in the operations up the North River? f]. He believed not, but he fuppm'ed there were {loops and WM: enough craft of various kinds, which might be had, and would have to Cll'l‘ytmorh- is 700 yards acrofs. himfelf, and connder, whether he would have that fafi fiand . as part of his evidence? at Tmmm 733 yardS- (L Did not General Robertfon hear, that as foon as it was known from IVlztj or Montrelbr that the rebel lines were evacu- the choice he did. Delaware the firfi brigade and when did he in: rch P A. He was ready at eight, and marched about half after Gen. R. ready tight, as foon as ins aid de camp returned from head-quarters. 1t 8 o'clock. He was at the time. in England, the heft of his knowledge. 63 {aid he only accuracy, A. He did not pretend to fpeak With . , ‘ {o by quefs : he would not undertake to allert whether it was . _ more or let‘s, or was exactly 700. (L General Robertlon, on the lali day's examination, find, I he. was within one hundred and twenty or thirty yards of the than one hundred and thirty yards from that {pot to the part of the lines which oppofed his front ? A. He believed it was about that difiance, it might be more, it might be two hundred. LL. Will General Robertfon from his own knowledge fay, artfwered the purpole that the diltance from the fpot deferibed to the lines was not more that two hundred yards ? Accurate as to A. He believed not: he had often rode over the ground, and by the belt ellimate he could make of the dillance, he dl‘l‘mmthought it could be hardly to much. There were no velliges En‘amz'flrrl 5y Gommvzor ffulvgflmze. Pollitllion mull he taken-of the l i glands before any opera-From Sandy tions up the North River could be adopted with any prolpet‘t11:""kffl‘_u_bjnli ofl‘uccel‘s. From Sandy Hook to Albany was about 170 miles. as" 2:; 1:: He had run it up in twenty hours. The craft called the Al-houm cmmmn of the lines foon after they were taken; but he thought he had bany Hoops generally compute it a run of four tides. given the diltances pretty accurately. Q; General Robertfon has faid, that the morning after the evacuation of the lines at Brooklyn, he was waiting for orders: ' might not he have proceeded under the general order, and have taken his particular fiation according to his rank, bzc. _' x7. He might, but he thought it his duty to have Sir Wllliam Howe's direftions. _ l (L What time did General Robertfon firft receive notrttl that the lines were evacuated 9 l .4. Before {even o'clock. 1 (L When did he underfiand that circumfiance was known? Rebel "Wham u, know" a, IL" A. About fix or before it. (L. If the faét was known at fix, what time would it take to . put the army ready to move in force .3 A. He could not fay: a very lhort time. QWhat , The tide railing-c 2 days. runs firong‘, and he law it How fo high up as Albany, full four feet. It runs in a diret‘tion nearly North and South; it has. no turns in it; nor could any lflntl poiition be taken to bring' batteries to bear on the heads of fhips, or their Items. The batteries therefore mull be on the banks, parallel with the broadfides. No great annoyance could be given by batteries, gr, 1mm," Wmd and tide favouring. When {hips polled by lnndrouid arr-'3' batteries they received little or no damage. He rememberedtlmnmushth‘flt to he the cafe, particularly of the Role and the thltlf'a W119 patted the rebel batteries, which by the report, none, finnke, Ste. did not appear to him to be mounted with lets than two hundred pieces of cannon. He did not know what OYCC the rebels were in the Highlands early in the campaign I7.77; but if they were not flirtinger then when Sir Henry llnten took Fort Montgomery, in the latter end of Autumn, n |