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'I leave to Colonel Oughton, Colonel Carleton, Colonel Howe, and Colonel Warde a thousand pounds each. 'All my books and papers, both here and in England, I leave to Colonel Carleton. Wolfe's mother, who died five years later, showed the same confidence by appointing Carleton her executor. With the fall of Quebec in 1759 Carleton disappears from the Canadian scene till 1766.
Aim at his foremast another broadside will floor it. It's on the reel. Newton, jump forward, and " But the order was stopped by a grape-shot, which struck Captain Oughton in the breast. He staggered and fell from the poop to the quarter-deck. Newton leapt down, and went to him.
Dr Johnson was a great reciter of all sorts of things serious or comical. We returned to my house, where there met him, at dinner, the Duchess of Douglas, Sir Adolphus Oughton, Lord Chief Baron, Sir William Forbes, Principal Robertson, Mr Cullen, advocate. Before dinner, he told us of a curious conversation between the famous George Faulkner and him.
They have sent her back, with their compliments, seven times already, full of luggage. There's one lieutenant I forget his name whose chests alone would fill up the main-deck. There's six under the half-deck," said Captain Oughton, pointing to them. "Lieutenant Winterbottom," observed Newton, reading the name.
She is French rigged; the rake of her stern is French; in fact, she is French all over." "All Lombard Street to a China orange, 'tis Surcoeuf," replied Captain Oughton, who, with the rest of his officers, had his glass upon the vessel. "There goes the tricoloured flag to prove I've won my bet. Answer the challenge. Toss my hat up. Pshaw! I mean hoist the colours there abaft.
"You may say so now," replied Captain Oughton, bluntly, "and so have many more said the same thing to me; but you soldiers have cursed short memories in that way after you have landed." "I trust, Captain Oughton," replied Major Clavering, "that you will not have to make that accusation general."
I've got the newspaper in the cabin, with the fight forty-seven rounds; but we can't read it now we must see after these soldiers and their traps. Look at them," continued Captain Oughton, turning to a party of the troops ordered for a passage, who were standing on the gangway and booms; "every man Jack with his tin pot in his hand, and his greatcoat on.
The guns were therefore properly secured; the decks washed; a jury mizen-mast stuck up abaft; Captain Oughton, and the gallant fellows who had fallen in the combat, committed to the deep with the usual ceremonies; the wounded made as comfortable as possible in their hammocks; the carpenters busied with the necessary repairs; and the Windsor Castle, commanded by Newton Forster, running before a spanking breeze, at the rate of eight knots per hour.
It was a quarter of an hour before the Frenchman returned to the attack. Captain Oughton had again hauled his wind, as if not wishing to decline the combat; which, indeed, the superior sailing of his antagonist prevented.
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