The life and letters of James Wolfe . waschiefly lip service, and each has to meet the accusation of attempt-ing to depreciate their late leader to advance their own moment the capitulation had been signed—a capitulationwhose terms reflected little credit upon Townshend—the latter wasanxious to proceed at once to England and there parade his ownpart in the achievement. But Monckton, who was naturally alittle piqued at the way Townshend had rushed through the capitu-lation, was opposed to Townshends departuie and told him then appeared that Townshend feared that Wolfes partisan
The life and letters of James Wolfe . waschiefly lip service, and each has to meet the accusation of attempt-ing to depreciate their late leader to advance their own moment the capitulation had been signed—a capitulationwhose terms reflected little credit upon Townshend—the latter wasanxious to proceed at once to England and there parade his ownpart in the achievement. But Monckton, who was naturally alittle piqued at the way Townshend had rushed through the capitu-lation, was opposed to Townshends departuie and told him then appeared that Townshend feared that Wolfes partisans,such as Carleton, Barre, and, he suspected, Saunders, would maketoo much of the brigadiers opposition to the coiip which had ledto victory, and he wished to counteract it in person. This viewhe communicated to Murray, who, doubtless feeling that he wasopen to the same charge, wrote— Since so black a lie was propagated I think myself very happythat you will be on the spot to contradict whatever ignorance orfaction may -q JOY IN ENGLAND 499 I have no copy of the paper I sent by you to GeneralWolfe concerning his scheme of landing between Point auTremble and St. Augustin, but the public orders are a sufficientproof of his intention to do it, and likewise of the suddenness ofthe thought of landing when we did. Indeed his orders through-out the campaign show little stability, stratagem or fixedresolution ; I wish his friends had not been so much our enemies,his memory would probably have been dearer to his country thannow it can be. We are acting on the defensive, you have theexecution of the plan, and I am well persuaded you will manageit with as much tenderness to the memory of the poor Generalas the nature of things will admit of. I find I am not to have the honour of a visit from you so Imust take the opportunity of wishing you a good voyage and ahappy meeting with your friends.^ So To\vnshend and Murray believed themselves to be acting on the defensive in the
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