Colonel Wilkinson, Gates's aide-de-camp, then introduced the two generals. Both dismounted, and Burgoyne, raising his hat gracefully, said -- "The fortune of war. General Gates, has made me your prisoner." The victor promptly replied -- ''I shall always be ready to bear testimony that it has not been through any fault of your excellency." The other officers were then introduced in turn, and the whole party repaired to Gates's head-quarters, where the best dinner that could be procured was served. The plain farmhouse in which that remarkable dinner-party was

assembled remained unaltered externally when we visited it, excepting such changes as have been effected by necessary repairs. It stood about eighty rods from the Hudson, on the western margin of the plain ; and between it and the river the Champlain Canal passed. Our sketch was made from the highway, and includes glimses of the canal, the river, and the hills on the eastern side of the plain.

The Baroness Reidesel, in her narrative of these events, says : "I was, I confess, afraid to go over to the enemy, as it Avas quite a new situation

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to me. When I drew near the tents, a handsome man approached and met me, took my children from the caUche, and hugged and kissed them, which affected me almost to tears. 'You tremble,' said he, addressing himself to me; 'be not afraid.' 'No,' I answered, ' you seem so kind and tender to my children, it inspires me with courage.' He now led me to the tent of General Gates, where I found Generals Burgoyne and Phillips, who were on a friendly footing with the former.