Anon.
General Fraser (Vol. viii., p. 586.).—Simon Fraser, Lieut.-Colonel, 24th Regiment, and Brigadier-General was second in command under Burgoyne when he advanced from Canada to New York with 7000 men in 1777. He fell at Stillwater, a short time before the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga. He was struck by a shot from a tree, as he was advancing at the head of his troops; and died of his wound October 7, 1777. He was buried, as he had desired, in the redoubt on the field, in the front of the American army commanded by General Gates. During his interment, the incessant cannonade of the enemy covered with dust the chaplain and the officers who assisted in performing the last duties to his remains, they being within view of the greatest part of both armies. An impression long prevailed among the officers of Burgoyne's army, that if Fraser had lived, the issue of the campaign, and of the whole war, would have been very different from what it was. Burgoyne is said to have shed tears at his death. General Fraser's regiment had been employed under Wolfe in ascending the Heights of Abraham, Sept. 12, 1759; where, both before and after the fall of Wolfe, the Highlanders rendered very efficient service. His regiment was also engaged with three others under Murray at the battle of Quebec in 1760. Some incidental mention of General Fraser will be found in Cannon's History of the 31st Regiment, published by Furnivall, 30. Whitehall; but I am not aware of any memoirs or life of him having been published.
J. C. B.
Namby-Pamby (Vol. viii., pp 318. 390.).—Henry Carey, the author of Chrononhotonthologos, and of The Dragoness of Wantley, wrote also a work called Namby-Pamby, in burlesque of Ambrose Phillips's style of poetry; and the title of it was probably intended to trifle with that poet's name. Mr. Macaulay, in his Essay on Addison and his Writings, speaks of Ambrose Phillips, who was a great adulator of Addison, as—
"A middling poet, whose verses introduced a species of composition which has been called after his name, Namby-Pamby."
D. W. S.
The Word "Miser" (Vol. ix., p. 12.).—Cf. the use of the word miserable in the sense of miserly, mentioned amongst other Devonianisms at Vol. vii., p. 544. And see Trench's remarks on this word (Study of Words, p. 38. of 2nd edit.).
H. T. G.
Hull.
The Forlorn Hope (Vol. viii, p. 569.), i.e. the advanced guard.—This explains what has always been to me a puzzling expression in Gurnall's Christian in Complete Armour (p. 8. of Tegg's 8vo. edit., 1845):