At 1 o'clock P.M. having removed every thing of value, we were ordered to retreat from the Hook. As soon as we began our march, four ships came up and anchored near the shore around the Hook; at the same time a number of boats, and floating batteries, came down from just above New York; the latter run up into the cove, opposite the causeway, that leads to Bergen. After taking a considerable time to see that there was no body to hurt them, they began a most furious cannonade on our empty works, which continued till they had wearied themselves. In a word, they dared to come much nearer, and displayed the boasted British valor in much brighter colours; than ever they had while there remained a single man to oppose them. Mean while our little battalion retreated with drums beating, and colours flying, to Bergen; and before night the brave Britons ventured on shore, and took possession of our evacuated works, where they have taken every precaution to prevent our formidable detachment from returning and driving them from a post which with so great a display of heroism, they have got possession of.