CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. In order to do ample justice to the interesting subject of which we now treat, and satisfied that nothing which tends to illustrate the glorious campaign of 1759, will be read with indifference at the present day, we devote this chapter to a selection from the various anecdotes and reminiscences, which have been handed down, relative to the chief actors in the eventful crisis which added another wreath to the national fame, and a new Province to the British Empire. MEMORABILIA OF 1759. ANECDOTE OF MR. PITT, AFTERWARDS EARL OF CHATHAM. The following anecdote of Mr. PITT, the Minister who selected WOLFE as eminently fit for the command of the expedition against Quebec, was communicated by his under Secretary of State, Mr. Wood, to a friend of his, and is a striking proof of his honesty and energy of purpose. Mr. PITT sought out merit wherever he could find it ; and knowing that he could not give General WOLFE a sufficient number of troops, he told him that he would make it up to him as well as he could, by giving him the appointment of all his officers. WOLFE sent in his list, in which was the name of an officer, Lieutenant Colonel Guy Carleton, who had unfortunately made himself obnoxious to the then King, by some un guarded expression, concerning the Hanover troops, and which had, by some officious person, been repeated to His Majesty. CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. In order to do ample justice to the interesting subject of which we now treat, and satisfied that nothing which tends to illustrate the glorious campaign of 1759, will be read with indifference at the present day, we devote this chapter to a selection from the various anecdotes and reminiscences, which have been handed down, relative to the chief actors in the eventful crisis which added another wreath to the national fame, and a new Province to the British Empire. MEMORABILIA OF 1759. ANECDOTE OF MR. PITT, AFTERWARDS EARL OF CHATHAM. The following anecdote of Mr. PITT, the Minister who selected WOLFE as eminently fit for the command of the expedition against Quebec, was communicated by his under Secretary of State, Mr. Wood, to a friend of his, and is a striking proof of his honesty and energy of purpose. Mr. PITT sought out merit wherever he could find it; and knowing tha ot give General WOLFE a sufficient him that he would make it up to him ng hi number of as well officers officer tel ment of all hes name ið m : effirit Lord Ligonier, then Commander-in-Chief of all His Majesty's land forces, took in the list to the King, who, as he expected, made objections to a particular name, and refused to sign the commission. Mr. PITT sent Lord Ligonier into the closet a second time, with no better success. His Lordship refused to go in a third time at Mr. PITT's suggestion. He was, however, told his place would be vacant if he did not; and that, on presenting the name to the sovereign, for the third time, he should tell him the peculiar situation of the state of the expedition; and that in order to make any General completely responsible for his couduct he should be made as much as possible inexcusable if he failed; and that, in consequence, whatever an officer, entrusted with any service of confidence, requested, should, if possible, be complied with. Lord Ligonier went in a third time, and told his Sovereign, what he was directed to say. The good sense of this so completely disarmed his resentment, that he signed the particular commission as he was requested. GENERAL WOLFE. General JAMES WOLFE was born January 2nd, 1727, in the Parish of Westerham, Kent. The County of York also claimed the honor of his birth, and there was a dispute on the subject. His father was Lieutenant General EDWARD WOLFE, who died Colonel-in-Chief of the 8th Regiment, ou the 27th March, in the same year with his illustrious son. He commanded that Regiment at the battle of Culloden, in 1745. He was the second son-the eldest, Edward, a youth of great promise, also entered the army, and died young in Germany. Another brother, younger than James, is mentioned as having been at Louisbourg. In the mismanaged expedition against Rochford, under Sir John Mordaunt, in 1757, WOLFE was Quarter Master General with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the army. When the General's conduct came under examination, he was called upon as an evidence by both parties. The candor, precision, and knowledge of his profession, with which he delivered it, gained him esteem; and though only thirty years of age, his military talents in conversation appeared with such lustre as recommended him to the patronage of the Ministry, and of His Majesty George II. His gallant conduct at the capture of LOUISBOURG Completely established his fame, and led to his appointment to the command of the expedition against QUEBEC. In personal appearance he was what might be called a plain man. He had a face sharp and thin, red hair, coarse skin, fair and freckled. His eyes were blue and benignant, he had a smiling mouth, and a manner which assured you of the pleasant and happy disposition of him that wore it. WOLFE'S Physician, Dr. Hinde, died lately at Newport, He was Kentucky, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. represented in some of the pictures of the death of WOLFE, as feeling the fast ebbing pulse of the wounded hero. General WOLFE was the object of his liveliest recollection, and to his a tall and latest days he was accustomed to describe him as robust person, with fair complexion and sandy hair, possessing a countenance calm, resolute, confident, and beaming with intelligence." General WOLFE was to have been married on his return from Quebec to a most amiable and accomplished lady, Catherine, daughter of Robert Lowther, Esquire, of Westmoreland, formerly Governor of Barbadoes. Six years after the death of WOLFE, she became the wife of the last Duke of Bolton, and died in 1809. The letters of General WOLFE, amounting to more than two hundred, passed from the hands of his friend General Ward, whose family lived at Westerham, into those of Mr. SOUTHEY, who has written the life of WOLFE, published in Murray's Family Library. We regret that this work has not yet fallen into our hands. An account of his life was published in 1759, by Kearsley, the Bookseller, written by J. P., Master of Arts. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE OF THE PLAINS. The late Professor ROBINSON, of Edinburgh, at that time a Midshipman in the Royal Navy, happened to be on duty in the boat in which General WOLFE went to visit some of his posts the night before the battle. The evening was fine, and the scene, considering the work they were engaged in, and the morning to which they were looking forward, was sufficiently impressive. As they rowed along, the General, with much feeling, repeated nearly the whole of Gray's Elegy,-which had recently appeared, and was yet but little known-to an officer who sat with him in the stern of the boat, adding as he concluded, "that he would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to-morrow." Tomorrow came, and the life of this illustrious soldier was glo |