concurrent attack upon the French posts was resolved on, and General Amherst, with 12,000 men, after reducing Ticonderago stands in the western ambulatory of the south transept. It is tabular, and neatly executed by Westmacott. The centre is composed of a rustic memorial, crowned with a sword and helmet, before which the deceased is introduced expiring in the arms of a soldier. An Indian stands by contemplating the event in sorrow. The inscription is brief: Erected at the Public Expense MDCCCXII. In resisting an attack on Queenstown, In Upper Canada. The disastrous enterprises undertaken against America at the close of the Peninsular war, occasioned the loss of the three other officers already alluded to. It was then that a British army, amounting nearly to five thousand men, landed in safety at Chesapeak Bay, and General Ross, who held the chief command, determined to proceed against the city of Washington. But at the very onset of the march adversity began to hover over the expedition. The heat of the sun was intense, and the inen straggled rawly behind, unable to endure the fatigue of a most dusty road. Arrived near the town of Bladenburg, the enemy unexpectedly presented themselves, and a loose fight took place, in which, though the Americans were routed with facility, the British suffered a heavy loss from the indecision and imprudence of their movements. The sacking of Washington now took place. Ross was at first inclined to receive a ransom for the public works and government property of the place; but while his men halted before the walls, awaiting an answer to a flag of truce, the Americans fired upon the embassy; and even the General had his horse shot under him. This rashness dispelled all idea of accommodation, and the ruin of Washington was speedily effected. The Senate House, the President's palace, the dock-yard, arsenal, and barracks; the naval and military store-houses, a fifty-gun frigate, several gun-brigs and armed schooners, with a variety of gun-boats and armed craft; three rope yards, various offices, some hundreds of cannon, nearly twenty thousand stand of arms, and a vast quantity of shot, shells, and hand-grenades, were fired or destroyed, and altogether reduced either to ashes or fragments. The powdermills exploded with a terrible crash, and the bed of the river was choked and Crown Point, was to proceed along the river Sorrel, and form a junction with General Wolfe, while General Prideaux and Sir with wrecks. This work of devastation was awfully completed during the -course of one night, and Ross then advanced upon Baltimore. Before he reached this place, however, a body of Americans made a sudden attack upon his lines during an interval of rest, and as he rode to the front, and mingled freely in the skirmish, to ascertain the nature of the opposition, a ball from a rifle penetrated his side, and he fell mortally wounded into the arms of an aid-de-camp. He was only able to name his wife, and recommend her and his family to the nation, when he expired, as a small party were conveying him to the boats of the fleet. Brave and young, his fall was sensibly felt by the army, and was to all appearances a severe misfortune to the expedition. The amiability of his manners had greatly endeared him to the men, and though when he first landed some hesitation and error clouded his military reputation, he seemed to be just on the point of coming into a full consciousness of his own abilities, and doing honour to his station, by a happy union of prudence and activity, when he was snatched away in a moment of insignificant contention. He is commeniorated by a tabular monument from the chisel of J. Kendrick, which is elevated above that door in the south transept of St. Paul's, which leads down to the crypt. The design is a poor display of personifications. In the centre is a tomb, upon which Valour deposits an American flag, while Britannia lies recumbent in sorrow, and Fame descends from above with a wreath of laurel. During the interval which elapsed while intelligence of Ross's death was conveyed to England, and a successor had time to reach the scene of action, the British, who had repaired to New Orleans, were reduced to a miserable extremity. At length, Sir Edward Pakenham became the chief, and General Gibbs the second in command of the army, and affairs assumed a character of vigilance and resolution. Finding a general battle indispensable, Pakenham disposed himself for action with admirable talent, but his plans were meanly executed, or to speak with more truth, they were in every respect completely frustrated. Nevertheless he pronounced the word of attack with calm resolution, and abetted the valour of his men with indefatigable exertion. But all was vain; the British were shamefully provided with efficient Colonels, and their intrepidity seemed absolutely excluded from the possibility of success. Still there was nothing that the gallant, but ill-fated Pakenham could dare which he did not attempt. He scoured the field in every direction, and led several regiments to the charge in person. At length putting himself at the head of the 44th, whose Colonel was no where to be found, he received a wound in the knee from a musket-ball, which killed his horse. Mounting another, however, he hurried on again with the regiment, until a second ball took decided effect, and he fell without life to the ground. The conduct of General Gibbs was also highly meritorious, and his fortune equally adverse-for he, too, was left dead on the field of battle. Such in part was the William Johnson performed a similar service against the forts long the falls of Niagara. These different positions being fortified with remarkable strength, both by nature and art, were extremely difficult of access; but such was the skill and force with which the operations of the British were conducted, that Niagara was captured under every circumstance of gallantry, while Ticonderago and Crown Point were evacuated upon their approach. There now remained nothing but to pursue this tide of unexampled success, and add the capital of Canada to the series of conquests: the marches of our victorious detachments were accordingly directed towards this object. Quebec is an extensive and elegant town, elevated upon a rocky foundation, at the distance of 120 leagues from the sea, where the confluence of the rivers St. Charles and St. Lawrence takes place. Few positions could be more formidable, and no intrenchments better sunk, or more numerously defended, than those by which it was then protected. When Wolfe first beheld the local strength of the town, the adverse nature of the country, and the number and excellent disposition of the enemy, though of an adventurous and bold temperament, he is reported to have thought the station impregnable, and to have despaired of success. No labour, and no vigilance, however, were spared to overcome the combination of difficulties which opposed him; and he was employed, both by night and by day, in preparations for an effectual assault. He erected batteries upon Orleans and Levi Points, by which his guns commanded the town, above which he placed Admiral Holmes, and Admiral Saunders below. Meanwhile, by every artifice of movement and counter march, battle of New Orleans, at which the British, to adopt a dictinction without a difference, were defeated without being beaten. To the memory of Fakenham and Gibbs a monument was decreed by the House of Commons, which has been completed by Westmacott, and will be recognised near the south door of St. Paul's Cathedral. Statues of the two Generals, in their regimentals, the one resting his arm on the other, are there elevated, upon a plain pedestal, which has no inscription. It is an unsatisfactory performance; the figures are stiff and unmeaning, and really suggest an inglorious assurance of acts, for they look like the shades of discomfited mortals. An engraving of the monument is given in the plate which faces the notice of Captain Westcott, in the life of Nelson. he studied to seduce the French commander, Montcalm, from his security; but in vain: strong in the conviction of his advantage, no feint could betray the latter into any change of station. The fatigue and anxiety attendant upon these arduous duties already became apparent in a constitution naturally delicate; disappointment turned into disease, and the English General was laid up in violent illness. When only partially recovered, he forwarded home despatches, in which he minutely recounted the progress of the siege, and the precariousness of his situation; and though the langour of indisposition tinged the relation with despondency, still the vigour of the detail gave as strong an assurance of the ability he exercised upon the occasion, as the elegance of the expressions proved his talents as a writer and a scholar. This duty performed, he resolved to persevere to the latest extremity, and by directing some movements up the river, under Admiral Holmes, succeeded in detaching 1500 of the enemy from the town, in order to watch the result. This first diversification effected, he ordered a feint to be made by one part of the fleet upon the intrenchments below the town, while he sailed up the river himself with the greater part of his army. There he quickly shifted his men into boats, and, aided by the return of the tide, dropped down again with a rapidity which deceived all attention. The ships followed to cover his landing, but the current swept them away from the proposed point of debarkation, yet, when they did reach the shore, Wolfe determined to brave the issue, and clamber the steep ascent above them. No sooner were the orders given, than the infantry nobly swung themselves upwards by clinging to the stumps of trees and broken rocks; dislodged the sentinels that guarded the only pathway on the hill, and before the dawn had cleared, formed themselves in battle array upon the top of the eminence. When the news of this desperate attack was conveyed to the French commander, he would scarcely credit the report, and when convinced of its reality, was content to adjudge it one of those indecisive feints in which Wolfe had so often indulged. But he was soon and terribly undeceived; for advancing to observe the movement, he beheld with astonishment that both the fleet and army perfectly commanded the town above and below, and that nothing but the most decisive courage could save him from ruin. Accordingly he led forth his troops with promptitude, and after a disposition on both sides, marked by great activity and skill, the contest mingled with rigorous valeur. Wolfe's principal direction to his men was to reserve their fire until they drew close to the enemy; they obeyed, and the consequent destruction was awful. Foremost himself in the onset, he received a bullet-wound in the head; but disregarding the injury, he bound a kerchief over his brow, and led on a fresh attack. Another and deeper wound pierced his stomach, which he also concealed, and was still enthusiastic in encouragement and example, when a third bullet penetrated his breast, and he was conveyed exhausted from the midst of slaughter. But the victory was already decided, and though the detachment which had been ordered up the river now returned fresh and uninjured into action, still the main body of the enemy was routed, and their reinforcement quickly shared a similar fate. Removed behind the ranks, and only attended by a private and an officer, Wolfe, though he lay struggling with agony, seemed to feel but one care, and that regarded the fortune of the battle. He entreated the orderly to lift him up, and enable him to enjoy a view of the contest, but the hurry of death already dimmed his eyes, and he was forced to confess that all was clouded and indistinct to his sight. He then emphatically requested the officer who stood by to give him an account of what passed, and was thus told that the enemy appeared greatly broken. This information did not much quiet him, and he repeated his enquiries, until he was told that they were decidedly routed. This news seemed to give him ease, but he reiterated his questions until he was promptly assured that they fled in all directions; whereupon he faintly exclaimed, 'I am satisfied,' and instantly expired. Such was the death of Wolfe, grievous to his country, but glorious to himself; and though the victory he perished to gain was dearly desirable, still the loss by which it was purchased was for a long time lamented as irreparable. His military reputation amongst his countrymen was singularly eminent, and characterised in its progress by the most flattering circumstances. Unaided by family interest, and unsupported by the intrigues of party, or the spirit of faction, he had risen to the first honours of his profession, without experiencing the weakness of age, or the |