With this view, he paraded on the adjacent heights for some days, and sent two flags to demand a surrender.

But the presence of Colonel M'Clean restrained those measures which the fears of the inhabitants dictated.

Deeming any communication with the assailants dangerous, he refused to receive the flag, and fired on the officer who bore it.

Intelligence was soon obtained, that the first alarm was visibly wearing off, and giving place to other sentiments unfavourable to the hope of gaining Quebec.
Fears for the vast property contained in the town had united the disaffected; who were, at their own request, embodied and armed.

The sailors too were landed, and placed at the batteries; and, by these means, the garrison had become more numerous than the American army.
[Sidenote: And retires to Point Aux Trembles.] {November 19.} After collecting those who had been left on the south side of the St.
Lawrence, Arnold could not parade more than seven hundred men, and they were in no condition to risk an action.