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law. I know no king of England but King James.' * 

 This interview was ultimately brought to a close by 

 Frontenac's proud retort. " I will answer your general 

 only by the mouths of my cannon " and he eventually 

 did so, and much to the point. Major Walley, in his 

 journal, republished in Smith's History of Canada has 

 given full particulars of the operations he commanded 

 on the Beauport shore ; the idea was for the English to 

 cross in their boats or ford the river St. Charles, ascend 

 by the coteau Ste. Genevieve and take the city in 

 reverse, whilst Phips would fiercely cannonade it from 

 his ships : the spot, where Wolfe 69 years later ascended, 

 at the ruisseau St. Denis, was pointed out to Phips but 

 he would not alter his original plan. 



Nothing seems to have been done that day (16th) ; in 

 the evening there occured "a great shouting, mingled 

 with the roll of drums and the sound of fifes," in the 

 Upper Town, when, in reply to an English officer's 

 question, a French prisoner in the English fleet, of the 

 name of Granville, captured whilst reconnoitring 

 opposite Mai Bay, informed him it was Callieres, just 

 arrived from Montreal with 700 or 800 men, many of 

 them regulars. Space precludes ray developing in detail 

 Major Walley's operations and repulse at Beauport, 

 where the local militia gave his men a warm reception, 

 though Quebec had to deplore the death of a valuable 

 officer — le chevalier de Clermont — and the ultimate 

 loss of Sainte-Helene, who, wounded in the leg, lin- 

 gered until 3rd December following, and was buried on 

 the 4th, in the Cimetiere des Pauvres, adjoining the 

 Hotel-Dieu Monastery „ 



Let us now take up Parkman's narrative : " Phips 

 lay quiet till daybreak, when Frontenac sent a shot to 

 awaken him, and the cannonade be^an ao-ain. Saint 

 Helene had returned from Beauport ; and he, with his 

 brother Maricourt, took charge of the two batteries in 

 the lower town, aiming the guns in person and throw- 

 ing balls of 18 and 24 pounds with excellent precision 



