[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] and moat humble tenant, ■it HIS ANDRE, adjvtttnirgt m rol. " Hi* Era Uency, General Washington, Aft, Ac, <fc." That he came on shore from the Vulture sloop of war in the night of [he twenty-first of September instant, somewhere under the Haverstraw Mountain. That the boat he came on shore in carried no tiatj, and that he had mi a siirtout coat over his regimentals, and that he wore his srr-tout coal when he was taken. That he met General Arnold on the shore and had an interview with him there. He also said that when he left the Vulture sloop of war it was understood he was to return that night; hut it was then doubted, and if he could not return tie was promised to be concealed on shore in a place of safety until the next night w hen he was to return in the same manner he came on shore, and when the nex, da] came he was solicitous to get hack, and made Inquiries in tin-course of the day how he should return, when he was informed he could not return that way and he must lake the route In' did afterwards, lie also said that the first notice he bad of his being within any of our posts was