and when at any time he was induced to partake of them, it was with a lofty native politeness, which seemed to indicate that he did so more in compliment to those with whom he was associated, than from any gratification he received in his own person. Circumstances, with which they or their commanding-officer had nothing to do, had kept the Highlanders altogether out of action during the campaign of 1757, which had done so little for the glory of the British arms. But in the autumn of this year, Lord Loudon was recalled, and Lieutenant-General Abercromby succeeded to the command of the army. By this time, the Highlanders had received an accession of strength, by the arrival of seven hundred recruits from their native mountains; and the corps now numbered no less than thirteen hundred men, of size, figure, strength, and courage, not easily to be matched. The British army in America now consisted altogether of above twenty-two thousand regulars, and thirty thousand provincial troops, which last could not be classed under that character. The hopes of all were high, therefore, and active operations were immediately contemplated. It was some little time before this, that Inverawe was spending an evening, tete-a-tete, with his friend, Colonel Grant. The bottle was passing slowly but regularly between them, when, by some unaccountable change in their conversation, the subject of supernatural appearances came to be introduced. Colonel Grant protested against all belief in them. The recollection of the apparition which had three several times visited Inverawe, came back upon his mind, in form and colours so strong and forcible, that his cheeks grew pale, and a deep gloom overspread his brow; so much so, indeed, that it did not escape the observation of his friend. Colonel Grant rallied him, and asked him, jocularly, if he had ever seen a ghost. "I declare I could almost fancy that you saw some spectre at this moment, Inverawe," said he. "Where?--how?--what?" cried Inverawe, darting his eyes into every corner of the room, with a degree of perturbation which the Colonel had never seen him display before. "Nay," said the Colonel, surprised into sudden gravity, "I cannot say either where or what; but I must confess that you seem to me as much disturbed at present as if you saw a spectre." "I cannot see him here," said Inverawe, with an abstracted solemnity of tone and manner, that greatly increased his friend's astonishment--"I cannot see him here. This is not the place where I am fated to behold him." "Him!" exclaimed Colonel Grant, with growing anxiety--"him!--whom, I pray you? For heaven's sake, tell me whom it is that you are fated to behold!"