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 awaken the postillion, hearing only the last words, hastily fancied they imported an unfavourable change in his friend; but springing to the place found the cottager in transports, incessantly repeating, "Our own regiment! our own regiment!" At length comprehending him, he asked if he had really belonged to the — — regiment. "I did," said the other, rapturously, "I was with them at Fontenoy and Bergen-op-Zoom, and also in the late war in Ticonderago, Cape Breton, and Quebec." "Did you," called the gentleman on the ground, "know Hamilton?"—"What, Charles Hamilton," said the veteran, "that was made captain at Quebec? I taught the boy his manual, and a gallant officer he is."—"You did indeed," said the gentleman on the ground, "I see now you are Sergeant Maxwell."—"That I am, please your noble honour, extreme