former sentence read to his face, and to combat in person for the Sovereign’s prerogative right of giving, and his own competence of receiving, the conferred honour.--A. [107] How he _strengthened rather than effaced the suspicion of his courage_, and yet _fought with a coolness that with almost all men justly palliated or removed the imputation on his spirit_, seems rather difficult to explain, if it were any part of the duty of an editor to reconcile the contradictions of an author.--E. [108] The surrenders of General Burgoyne’s and Cornwallis’s Armies. [109] Francis Osborne, only son of the Duke of Leeds. CHAPTER XI. General Murray beaten at Quebec--Retreat of the French from that city--General Amherst takes Montreal--Our successes in the East Indies--Campaign in Germany--Prussians defeated--King of Prussia invests Dresden--Is obliged to retreat--Defeats Laudohn--Daun compelled to raise the Siege of Schweidnitz--The Allies take Berlin--Subsequently abandon it--The King of Prussia defeats Daun at Torgal--Prince Ferdinand’s Campaign--Earl of Clanricarde challenges the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland--Character of George II.--His death--His Will--Anecdote respecting the Will of George I. Those prodigious efforts were crowned, though not with universal, yet with most important success. In Germany, the campaign was far from decisive; but in America the war was concluded. After the loss of Quebec, the French retired into the heart of Canada. General Murray,[110] a brave and adventurous officer, with a garrison of about seven thousand men, and with the terror our arms had inspired, was left to defend the ruins of Quebec. The frost had obliged the Fleet to retire. Monsieur Levi, who had succeeded Montcalm, seized that last opportunity of struggling to recover their empire. Assembling a body of French, Canadians, and Indians, to the amount of ten thousand and upwards, he marched in April to besiege the capital. General Murray, impatient to be cooped within walls into which the English had entered so impetuously, disdained to await a regular siege, and, with far more intrepidity than policy, marched out with inferior force, attacked the French, and was defeated. He lost his cannon, but was sufficiently fortunate in not being cut off, as he was near being, from his retreat to the City. Levi soon prepared to form the siege by land and sea, having brought up six frigates; against which we had not a single vessel. The place must have fallen into the hands of its old masters, if, on the 9th of May, Lord Colville, with two frigates, outsailing the British squadron, had not entered the river and demolished the French armament. Levi, from the heights on the other side, was witness to that defeat; and, judging rightly that the rest of our naval force approached, broke up his camp in haste and confusion, and retreated, leaving his Artillery behind him.