attempted to land his troops some miles below the town near the falls of Montmorenci; here he was repulsed by a large division of the French forces, with loss. Undismayed by his repulse near the falls of Montmorenci, on the 31st of July, 1759, he saw, in this reverse, the necessity of greater efforts, and conceived the bold design of drawing the French from their unassailable position by scaling the heights of Abraham. The soldiers clambered up the heights with great difficulty, and the guns were hauled up by means of ropes and pulleys fixed round the trees, which covered the banks from top to bottom. At the top the plain commences, and extends close under the walls of the city. By this arrangement he forced the French to come out of the city. The Marquis de Montcalm was thus compelled to abandon his camp, and risk a battle for the protection of Quebec. While bravely animating his troops on the 13th of September, 1759, and at the moment when victory was almost within his grasp, he received a wound in the wrist, and another in the breast, which rendered it necessary to bear him to the rear. There, roused from fainting, in the agonies of death, by the cry of "They run! they run!" he eagerly, asked "Who run?" and being told the French, and that they were defeated, he exclaimed, "Then I thank God, and die contented;" and almost immediately expired.[21] He was in the thirty-fourth year of his age. Brigadier-Generals Monckton and Townshend, after the loss of their commander, completed the victory. On the 18th of September Quebec surrendered; and, like Gibraltar, conquered by a similar bold exploit, has, to the present time, continued an appendage to the crown of Great Britain. The remains of Major-General Wolfe were conveyed to Portsmouth, and at night on the 20th of November were deposited in the family vault at Greenwich. A handsome monument was also erected, by order of Government, to his memory in Westminster Abbey. The Major-General is represented as endeavouring to close, with his hand, the wound made in his breast, and is supported by a grenadier. An angel is seen in the clouds, holding a wreath ready to crown the expiring hero. On the pyramid is represented, in relief, the faithful Highland serjeant who attended him; and his sorrow at witnessing the agonies of his dying master is so pathetically expressed, that a spectator can scarcely view the sculpture unmoved. In the front, in alto-relief, is depicted the landing at Quebec, with a view of the precipices the troops had to ascend before the enemy could be attacked. The inscription is as follows:-- "_To the memory of James Wolfe, Major-General and Commander-in-Chief of the British Land Forces on an expedition against Quebec, who, after surmounting, by ability and valour, all obstacles of art and nature, was slain in the moment of victory, on the 13th of September, 1759, the King and the Parliament of Great Britain dedicate this monument._" LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISH.