[Cover Illustration] AN ACCURATE and AUTHENTIC JOURNAL OF THE SIEGE of QUEBEC 1759. By a Gentleman in an eminent Station on the Spot. _LONDON:_ Printed for J. ROBINSON, at the Golden Lion in Ludgate-Street, MDCCLIX. [Price One Shilling.] The above is a reproduction of the title-page of a book lately met with in the library of a Shropshire Rector, by whose courtesy we are enabled to print the text of the work _verbatim et literatim_. There is also a copy of the book in the British Museum. In quaint and simple language the story is told how the Dominion of Canada, three thousand miles long and now within six days’ steaming of England, was won for the British Empire by a handful of brave men led by daring and sagacious Commanders. ——_Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury_, December 27th, 1912. Printed by George Henry Burton, Markby Cottage, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, at his private Press from the type as composed by the _Stamford Mercury_ in re-publishing the “Journal” in serial form. A SHORT DESCRIPTION of QUEBEC. The city of Quebec is divided into the Upper and Lower Town; it stands upon the S.E. side of a very high and steep bank, which stretches out into the river from the north side of the river St. Lawrence. The Lower Town stands upon a flat between the river and hill, which is exceedingly steep; it is of no great breadth, but encircles the foot of the hill above a mile in length, from Point Diamond to the river St. Charles: here most of the principal merchants and tradesmen inhabit; the houses in the Upper Town are occupied by the clergy, officers of the army, and principal people of Canada. Near Cape Diamond, which is the south part of the town, is the King’s yard; where there is now on the stocks a ship of sixty guns. Upon four batteries in the Lower Town are mounted forty pieces of cannon, forty-two and twenty-four pounders; and cover the passage up to Point Levi, up to the narrows: the communication between this and the Upper Town, is by an almost perpendicular passage, defended above by nine pieces of cannon, and is cut across by trenches, strengthened by breast-works; so that should we get possession of the Lower Town, our conquest of the Upper will be but little forwarded, as there are difficulties which it will not be easy to surmount.