About half way between "Wilbur's Basin' and Bemis's, stood, until within twenty years, a rude building, the upper half somewhat projecting, and every side of it battered and pierced by bullets. It was used by Burgoyne as his quarters when he first moved forward to attack Gates,

THE HUDSON.

and there the Baron Eeiclesel had his quarters at the time of the battle of the 7th of October. Thither the wounded Eraser was conveyed by his grenadiers, and consigned to the care of the wife of the Brunswick general.

''About four o'clock in the afternoon," says the baroness, "instead of the guests [Burgoyne and Phillips] whom I expected to dinner, General Fraser was brought on a litter mortally wounded. The table, which was already set, was instantly removed, and a bed placed in its stead for the wounded general. He said to the surgeon, ' Tell me if my wound is

teaser's BIIEIAL-PLACE.

mortal ; do not flatter me.' The ball had passed through his body, and, unhappily for the general, he had eaten a very hearty breakfast, by which the stomach was distended, and the ball, as the surgeon said, had passed through it. I often heard him exclaim, with a sigh, ' 0 fatal ambition ! Poor General Burgoyne ! 0 my dear wife ! ' He was asked if he had any request to make, to which he replied, that, if General Burgoyne would permit it, he should like to be buried at six o'clock in the evening, on the top of a mount, in a redoubt which had been built there."