We are all resolved that the siege shall be brought to an end.

If we could have been here a month earlier, we might have effected a junction with our friends in the west, and have averted the calamity which has overtaken them there." "Will they accept ?" asked Julian eagerly.

"They are in a sore strait, but yet they are brave men.

They might, perhaps, have looked to be permitted to march out with the honours of war after their bold defence." "Yes; and this would have been granted them had it not been for what happened at Fort William Henry.

But the memory of that day cannot be wiped out from the memory of our officers, The General was supported by the bulk of his officers.