Bath.
Under the impression that the following Note, with reference to the
gallant General James Wolfe, may tend to illustrate some other fact
connected with the later period of the life of that generally lamented
individual, I send it at a venture.
General Jones Wolfe was (I am not aware of the military rank he then
filled) at--
"An encampment on Bradford Heath. about two miles from the town of
Dorchester, co. Dorset, in the year 1757. The encampment consisted
of the following regiments, under the command of Lieut.-Gen. Sir
John Mordaunt and Major-Gen. Conway; viz. Bland's Dragoons; the
Old Buffs, two battalions; Kingsley's, two battalions; one company
of the Train of Artillery--in all ten troops, six battalions.
Generals Mordaunt and Conway, and a great part of these forces,
being sent on the expedition against Rochford, the remainder was
reinforced and commanded by Lieut.-Gen. John Campbell, afterwards
Duke of Argyll, and Major-Gen. Mostyn."
The above is extracted from Hutchins's _History of Dorset_, 1st edition,
vol. i. p. 375.
That General Wolfe was in the above encampment, I had the information
from a gentlemen who knew him; and many years ago I accidentally met
with a book with the autograph of the General, "James Wolfe," written on
the fly-leaf, in a bold and gentlemanly style. The volume being on a
military subject, was not taken any care of, and lost: it was left by
the General in the hands of Messrs. Gould and Thorne, booksellers in
Dorchester, from whose successors I had it.