P.Horry, thus details the event:--"On the 20th inst.

I attacked a guard of the 63d and Prince of Wales' Regiment, with a number of Tories, at the Great Savannah, near Nelson's Ferry; killed and took twenty-two regulars, and two Tories prisoners, and retook one hundred and fifty Continentals of the Maryland line, one wagon and a drum; one captain and a subaltern were also captured.

Our loss is one killed, and Captain Benson is slightly wounded on the head." It will scarcely be believed that, of this hundred and fifty Continentals, but three men consented to join the ranks of their liberator.

It may be that they were somewhat loth to be led, even though it were to victory, by the man whose ludicrous equipments and followers, but a few weeks before, had only provoked their merriment.

The reason given for their refusal, however, was not deficient in force.