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must form upon the upper ground with expedition, and be ready to charge whatever presents itself. When the artillery and troops are landed, a corps will be left to secure the landing place, while the rest march on, and endeavour to bring the French and Canadians to a battle. The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with disorderly peasantry. The soldiers must be attentive and obedient to their officers, and the officers resolute in the execu' tion of their duty.” The plan adopted was, that the troops should be conveyed some distance up the river for the purpose of deceiving the enemy, and amusing M. De Bougainville. They were afterwards in the night to drop down with the tide, and to land on the north shore, about a mile abovc Cape Diamond, in the expectation of being able to ascend the heights of Abraham, and to gain the open ground westward of the city, where it was most open to attack. Nothing could be more hazardous in the execution than this design': the slightest accident might derange the whole course of the operations ; a night attack was always liable to mischance : yet the plan was carried into effect not only with complete success, but with singular ease and good fortune. At night on the 12th, the main body quartered on the south shore was ordered to embark in flat-bottomed boats, and to proceed up the River with the tide of flood. The first division was compos ed of the light infantry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel the Honourable AV-illiam Howe, the regiments of Bragg, Kennedy, Lascellcs and Anstruthcr, with a detachment of Highlanders, and the Grenadiers of the Royal American Regiment, under the com mand of Brigadiers General Monckton and Murray. The night was clear and star-light, and Bougainville, perceiving the boats, marched up the north bank of the river to prevent any landing. About an hour before day-light, the boats fell down the river with the tide of ebb with great rapidity by the help of oars, and keeping close to the shore. They were followed at some interval by the ship ping, and both luckily escaped observation. About day-light on