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FORE: Lord North��He forms a Ministry��Chatham declaims against Secret Influence��Grenville's Election Committee��Lord North's Conciliatory Measures��Determination of the Bostonians��The Boston Massacre��Trial of the Soldiers��Apparent Success of North's Measures��Affair of the Falkland Islands��Promptitude of the Ministry��The Quarrel composed��Trials of Woodfall and Almon��The Right of Parliamentary Reporting��Strengthening of the Ministry��Quarrels in the City��The Royal Marriage Act��Fate of the Queen of Denmark��Anarchical Condition of Poland��Interference of Russia��Deposition of Poniatowski��Frederick's Scheme of Partition��It is ratified��Inquiry into Indian Affairs��Lord North's Tea Bill��Lord Dartmouth and Hutchinson��The Hutchinson Letters��Dishonourable Conduct of Franklin��Establishment of Corresponding Committees��Burning of the Gaspee��Destruction of the Tea��Franklin avows the Publication of the Letters��Wedderburn's Speech��The Boston Port Bill��The Massachusetts Government Bill��The Coils of Coercion��Virginia joins Massachusetts��Gage Dissolves the Boston Assembly��He fortifies Boston Neck��The General Congress��A Declaration of Rights��The Assembly at Concord��They enrol Militia��Seizure of Ammunition and Arms��Meeting of Parliament��Chatham's conciliatory Speech��His Bill for the Pacification of the Colonies��Its Fate��Lord North's Proposal��Burke's Resolutions��Prorogation of Parliament��Beginning of the War.Two British columns advancing by night��one by the shore road and the other over the hills��managed to capture the patrols and approach the outposts of the Americans. Washington having been all day engaged in strengthening his lines, had returned to New York. Putnam was posted on the left; and General Stirling was posted on the right on the seashore, near the part called the Narrows. On the hills Sullivan occupied one of the passes towards the left. The column on the British right, consisting of Hessians, under General Von Heister, seized on the village of Flat Bush, nearly opposite to Sullivan. At the same time, Sir Henry Clinton and Sir William Erskine reconnoitred Sullivan's position and the rest of the line of hills, and sent word to General Howe that it would not be difficult to turn Sullivan's position where the hills were low, near the village of Bedford. Howe immediately ordered Lord Percy to support Clinton with his brigades, in the direction of Bedford, and General Grant to endeavour to turn the position of General Stirling, whilst the Hessians were ready to attack Sullivan in front. At a signal, Howe himself marched along with one of the divisions. In order to draw the enemy's attention from the movements of General Clinton, Grant made a direct attack upon Stirling's position, which brought to his aid a great part of Sullivan's forces, thus deserting their own ground. Grant maintained his attack till daylight, by which time Clinton had, by a slight skirmish, crossed the line on his side. The attention from his march was diverted by Von Heister attacking Putnam's position on the direct way to Brooklyn, and Lord Howe, from his ships, opening a cannonade on Governor's Island and Red Hook, in the rear of that town. About eight o'clock came a fire from Clinton's column, which had now forced its way into the rear of Putnam and between the Americans and Brooklyn. On this discovery they endeavoured to make a way to their lines before that town, but were driven back by Clinton only to find themselves assailed in the rear by Von Heister. Thus hemmed in, they fled in confusion. This action in their rear alarmed both Sullivan and Stirling, yet they maintained their ground against Grant till they learned the total rout of their comrades opposed to Clinton and Heister, when they laid down their arms and ran for it. Knowing the ground better than the British, many of them managed to escape to Brooklyn; but one thousand and ninety-seven prisoners were taken, and from one thousand two hundred to one thousand five hundred Americans were killed or wounded. The English lost only about four hundred killed and wounded.

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