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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'»'i S. VII. May 14. '59. 



"8th. Lay in Beaumont Church most of this daj% At 

 noon discovered men walking at the border of the woods. 

 Several partj's sent out to endeavour to make prisoners. 

 None taken.' The partj-s brought in several sheep, hogs, 

 fowls, &c., with a great quantity of household furniture 

 and wearing apparel, at which conduct Major Dalling 

 seem'd greatly offended. All the household furniture and 

 wearing apparel deposited in the church of Beaumont, 

 with a manifesto fixed on the church door. 



" 9th. Marched from Beaumont to Point Levj'. On 

 our arrival was informed that General Wolfe the night 

 before had landed on the north side of the Kiver St. Law- 

 rence, and to the eastward of Montmorency Falls, with 

 the Grenadiers, Light Infantry, and most of the 2nd and 

 3rd brigades. The regiments at Point Levy struck their 

 tents, and remained in the woods for 12 hours, Avhen 

 they encamped on their old ground, which consequently 

 made the enemy imagine the whole were on the north 

 shore, and gave time to General Wolfe to take post and 

 fortify his camp. 



" 10. A soldier of the 48th regiment deserted to the 

 enemy from his post. 



" Major Dalling, with two companys of his detachment, 

 marched to reinforce Colonel Burton. Towards evening 

 great thunder, lightening, and rain. Little done. 



" 11th. Some cannonading from town. 



"The enemy has changed their encampments to pre- 

 vent the annoyance of a battery erected on the opposite 

 side of the Falls of Montmorency, by putting themselves 

 under cover of a hill, which has rendered our battery 

 useless. But notwithstanding it's to be hoped that our 

 engineers will use their outmost efforts to reconoitere their 

 situation, and erect on some advantageous ground ano- 

 ther for their amusement. 



" Hafts begun this day for transporting men. They are 

 almost the same as projected by the Cheviilier Tolar'd, 



excepting some bad alterations made by Frizer of 



the Koj'al Americans, one of the many quacks we import 

 from foreign services. Major Dalling's detachment 

 marched from Point Levy to the battery (erecting where 

 the General and Admiral formerly reconoitred). 



"At one o'clock in the morning of the r2th inst. was 

 the last gun mounted. The battery consists of 5 13-in. 

 mortars, and 6 32 -pounders. 



" 12th. This morning the marines took post in a re- 

 doubt above the battery. 



"Towards noon some boats discovered coming down 

 the river and landing men, among whom was seen red 

 coats. It's feared the enemy have made prisoners from 

 General Amherst's army. 



" Major Dalling's detachment to the westward of the 

 battery (posted). 



" About 10 o'clock this "night opened the battery on the 

 town, to where and from whence a great number of shot 

 and shells were fired. None of us hurt. 



" 13th. Nothing extraordinary. Posted this night to 

 the right of the battery. Neither shot or shells from 

 either sides. 



" 14th. Good weather. Little done. Posted this night 

 to the right of the battery. A few shot and shell fired 

 from our battery, but none from town. Great cannonad- 

 ing to the east of Montmorency by the enemy's batterys. 



" 15th. Little done on this" side. Fortifying the "en- 

 campment to the eastward of Montmorency." 



" About 12 o'clock this night Capt. Goram of the Ran- 

 gers found three whale-boats, which he lodged in a copse 

 of wood, and it's thought he intends to surprize a schooner 

 close by the town. 



"IGtli. A very smart cannonading from town, which 

 has been in fire most of this day. A new bomb-battery 

 erecting to the right of the former. 



"This night three ships of war were to pass the town; 



and after posting the men under proper cover for saving 

 them from shot or shell, we were at length disappointed : 

 the reason not known. 



"At 12 o'clock this night, Capt. Goram set out in order 

 to surprise the schooner aforesaid, but after padling one 

 hour he returned to Major Dalling's post, saying he 

 could not find it, which was pretty extraordinary as the 

 schooner still remained in the same creek as formerly, 

 and the distance from the shore could not exceed half a 

 mile. 



" 17th. The reasons of the ships not passing the town 

 last night is imputed to want of wind, which is just 

 possible as there was a good breeze on shore. 



"5 men killed and three scalped by the enemy to the 



eastward of Montmorency. Captain Coseman of the 



regt. dangerously wounded, he being fired on when plac- 

 ing some sentinels at an advanced post. 



"A soldier of Capt. Garden's company of Light Infan- . 

 try deserted to the enemy, after killing his comrade. 



" A deserter from the enemy informs that they intend 

 to attack our battery at Point Levy, also Colonel Burton's 

 post; saying that the 13th inst. IGOO men crossed the 

 river on that intention, but returned the 14th on pretence 

 of being discovered. 



" The weather continues good. Little doing. Posted by 

 the battery as usual; neither shot or shell during the 

 night by either sides. 



" 18th. This morning General Wolfe reconoitred the 

 opposite or north shore above the town ; seems to think 

 a landing practicable. 



" In the afternoon Major Dalling marched Avith twff 

 companys along the south shore three miles to the west- 

 ward of our post, in order to look for places most conve- 

 nient for the troops to ascend at the landing on the north 

 shore. He found two or three. 



" On our return to our cantonments we were ordered to 

 take a little rest, as we were to escort General Wolfe in 

 the morning." 



J. NOBLK. 



18. Glebe Street, Inverness. 



JACOBIN AND JACOBITE POLITICAL SQUIBS IN 

 CONTRAST, WITH QUERY. 



If ballad-poetry partakes, as is said, of the na- 

 tional character of the composers of it, may it not 

 as truly be said that political poetry betrays the 

 character of political parties ? 



In the year 1800, having expressed a wish to 

 see the celebrated Peter Pindar (Dr. Wolcott), I 

 was promised an introduction to him by a barris- 

 ter ; and, accordingly, in an evening at the latter 

 end of that year I was taken to a room in London 

 in which a Jacobinical political society was wont 

 to meet, under the name (as given to nie) of an 

 Oyster Club, of which Dr. Wolcott was one of the 

 heads. 



There were about twenty persons present on 

 my being introduced to the doctor in person ; and 

 after supper I was seated near him round the fire. 

 In the course of the evening one of the party, 

 who was called on for a song, told us that a fewj 

 days before Dr. Wolcott had paid him a visit at 

 his chambers, after whose departure a MS. son£ 

 was found on the floor (leaving it to be inferredl 



