t, it would be his fate to row a British
subject thus. "At these last mighty words," says the Memoirs, "a stern
resolution sat upon his countenance, which the Canadian beheld and with
reluctance temporized." After a series of adventures, and dangers of
every kind, the fugitives succeeded in capturing a French boat. Next,
they surprised a French sloop, and, after a most hazardous voyage, they
finally, in their prize, landed at Louisbourg, to the general amazement.
Stobo missed the English fleet; but took passage two days after in
a vessel leaving for Quebec, where he safely arrived to tender his
services to the immortal Wolfe, who gladly availed himself of them.
According to the Memoirs, Stobo used daily to set out to reconnoitre
with Wolfe on the deck of a frigate, opposite the Falls of Montmorency,
some French shots were nigh carrying away his "decorated" and gartered
legs.

We next find the Major, on the 21st July, 1759, piloting the expedition
sent to Deschambault to seize, as prisoners, the Quebec ladies who
had taken refuge there during the bombardment--"Mesdames Duchesnay and
Decharnay; Mlle. Couillard; the Joly, Malhiot and Magnan families."
"Next day, in the afternoon, les belles captives, who had been treated
with every species of respect, were put on shore and released at Diamond
Harbour. The English admiral, full of gallantry, ordered the bombardment
of the city to be suspended, in order to afford the Quebec ladies time
to seek places of safety." The incident is thus referred to in a letter
communicated to the Literary and Historical Society by Capt. Colin
McKenzie.

Stobo next points out the spot, at Sillery, where Wolfe landed, and
soon after was sent with despatches, via the St. Lawrence, to General
Amherst; but, during the trip, the vessel was overhauled and taken by a
French privateer, the despatches having been previously consigned to the
deep. Stobo might have swung at the yard-arm in this new predicament,
had his French valet divulged his identity with the spy of Fort du
Quesne; but fortune again stepped in to preserve the adventurous Scot.
There were already too many prisoners on board of the French privateer.
A day's provision is allowed the English vessel, which soon landed Stobo
at Halifax, from whence he joined General Amherst, "many a league across
the country." He served under Amherst on his Lake Champlain expedition,
and there he finished the campaign; which ended, he begs to go to
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