CALM recalled his two columns in haste. In the mean time General WOLFE, having withdrawn his artillery, set fire to the camp, destroyed the works he had erected, and re-imbarked his troops without interruption, most of whom he ordered to encamp at Pointe Lévi, the remainder on the Isle of Orleans. The latter afterwards joined the main body at Pointe Lévi.

The plan for landing under the heights of ABRAHAM having been completely digested, a series of operations took place upon the south shore for the purpose of deceiving, and distracting the attention of the enemy. In this they were quite successful. On the 5th September, a corps of six hundred men marched up the south shore from Pointe Lévi, attended by sloops carrying one month's provision. On the 6th, the main body received orders to march above the town, taking with them only one spare shirt, and one pair of stockings. They forded the River Etchemin, and proceeded to a spot, whence they embarked on board of the men of war and transports, under the command of Admiral Holmes, who conveyed then some distance above Cape Diamond. General MONTCALM did not suspect, from the small number of ships, that WOLFE had conveyed his main body up the river. He contented himself, therefore, with detaching BOUGAINVILLE with two thousand men to Cape Rouge to watch their motions. On the 10th, the weather being wet, and the troops much crowded on board, they were landed on the south shore for exercise and refreshment, and marched to the Church of St. Nicolas where they took post, all their movements adding to the uncertainty of the French as to their destination. Every preparation having been made-and

Admiral SAUNDERS having engaged to co-operate by a feint attack upon the entrenchments at Beauport-the eventful day approached when the blow was to be struck. Rear Admiral HOLMES had the command of the naval force employed in covering the disembarkation, the immediate management of which was entrusted to Captain CHADS, a name to this day distinguished in the Royal Navy. On the 12th September, General WOLFE issued the following order:

66 ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP SUTHERLAND.".

"The enemy's force is now divided great scarcity of provisions is in their camp, and universal discontent among the Canadians. The second officer in command is gone to Montreal, or St. Johns; which gives reason to think that General Amherst is advancing into the colony. A vigorous blow struck by the army at this juncture may determine the fate of Canada. Our troops below are in readiness to join us all the light artillery and tools are embarked at Pointe Lévi; and the troops will land where the French seem least to expect it. The first body that gets on shore is to march directly to the enemy, and drive them from any little post they may occupy. The officers must be careful that the succeeding bodies do not, by any mistake, fire upon those who go before them. The battalions must form upon the upper ground with expedition, and be ready to charge whatever presents itself. When the artillery and troops are landed, a corps will be left to secure the landing place, while the rest march on, and endeavor to bring the French and Canadians to a battle. The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing, against five weak French battalions, mingled with disorderly peasantry. The soldiers must be attentive and obedient to their officers, and the officers resolute in the execution of their duty."

The plan adopted was, that the troops should be conveyed some distance up the river for the purpose of deceiving the enemy, and of amusing M. De

Bougainville. They were afterwards in the night to drop down with the tide, and to land on the north shore about a mile above Cape Diamond, in the expectation of being able to ascend the heights of Abraham, and to gain the open ground westward of the city, where it was most open to attack. Nothing could be more hazardous in the execution than this design-the slightest accident might derange the whole course of the operations—a night attack was always liable to mischance-yet the plan was carried into effect not only with complete success, but with singular ease and good fortune.

On the evening of the 12th September, Admiral SAUNDERS ordered all the boats of the fleet below the town to rendezvous astern of one of the frigates. Into these he put all the marines he could spare, and under cover of some frigates and sloops of war, ordered them to work up, and just at break of day, on the 13th, to stand over to the Beauport shore, as if intending a descent there. The frigates and sloops were ordered to approach as near as possible, and to cannonade the French lines. This feint had a good effect, as it compelled MONTCALM to leave a stronger body, than he at first designed for that service, to protect the entrenchments: at the same time that it drew off his attention from the more important scene of action above the town.

At night on the 12th, the main body quartered on the south shore were ordered to embark in flat bottomed boats, and to proceed up the river with the tide of flood. The first division was composed of the light infantry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel the Honorable WILLIAM HOWE, the regiments of Bragg, Kennedy, Lascelles and Anstruther, with a detachment of Highlanders, and the grenadiers of

the Royal American Regiment, under the command of Brigadiers General MONCKTON and MURRAY. The night was clear and star light, and BOUGAINVILLE perceiving the boats, marched up the north bank of the river to prevent any landing. About an hour before day light, the boats fell down the river with the tide of ebb, with great rapidity by the help of oars, and keeping close to the shore. They were followed at some interval by the shipping, and both luckily escaped observation. About day-light they arrived at a cove below Sillery, now for ever celebrated as WOLFE'S COVE, which was the place chosen for the disembarkation. The light infantry, which had been carried a short distance below by the rapidity of the tide, were the first that landed, and scrambling up the woody precipice-the ascent of which was so difficult, that the soldiers were obliged to pull themselves up the roots and boughs of trees-displaced a French guard at the top, under the command of Captain De Vergor, which defended the narrow path, and thereby enabled the rest of the division to reach the summit. The boats in the mean time had returned for the second division under Brigadier General TOWNSHEND, which arrived and landed in like good order. General WOLFE was with the first division, and he was one of the first on shore. On seeing the difficulty of ascending the precipice, he observed in a familiar strain to Captain DONALD MCDONALD, a very gallant officer of Fraser's Highlanders, who commanded the advanced guard of the light infantry :-" I don't believe there is any possibility of getting up; but you must do your endeavor."

The exultation of WOLFE on thus finding himself, with scarcely any loss, on the heights of ABRAHAM,

After more than two

may easily be conceived.
months of solicitude, the object of his long and anxious
wishes was before him-his only remaining hope was
that MONTCALM would give him battle of the re-
sult he entertained no doubt. The hour of triumph
so long sought for, so eagerly expected, was at hand
-he was determined that day to decide the supre-
macy of ENGLAND or FRANCE, in America, before
the walls of her most important fortress:

Conspicit in planos hostem descendere campos,
Oblatumque videt votis sibi mille petitum

Tempus, in extremos quo mitteret omnia casus.

The first care of General WOLFE was to capture a four gun battery on the left of the British, which was accomplished by Colonel HowE-the next, to draw up his little army to the best advantage, as the regiments landed, in order to meet General MONTCALM, who was observed to be on his march from Beauport.

MONTCALM could scarcely give credit to the first messenger who brought him the news of the successful landing of the ENGLISH. WOLFE's extraordinary achievement had indeed baffled all his plans, and astonished to the utmost by this unexpected event, he yet prepared for the crisis with promptness and courage. He immediately adopted the resolution of meeting WOLFE in the field, and of deciding the fate of CANADA in a pitched battle. In this determination he is said to have acted against the opinion of the Governor General, the Marquis De VAUDREUIL, who had come down from Montreal.

About nine o'clock the enemy advanced in three columns, having crossed the bridge of boats on the St. Charles. Their force consisted of two thousand regular