Lawyers gave their opinions either by word of mouth or in writing,
commonly without any reasons annexed, but not always.
The lawyers of these days do not, as a rule, see their clients quite so
early in the morning as those of Rome did.
Agricolam laudat juris legumque peritus
Sub galli cantum, consultor ubi ostia pulsat.
Romae dulce diu fuit et solemne, reclusa
Mane domo vigilare, clienti promere jura.
[24] La Hontan, I., 21 (Ed. 1705). In some editions the above is expressed
in different language - (From Parkman's Old Regime, p. 270.)
[25] It lines a space in rear, on which the Imperial Government erected,
for the British troops in garrison, the Military Hospital. Since 1872, it
is used as a temporary Court House, in lieu of the old Court House, built
in 1814, and destroyed by fire in 1871. A high wall to the south-east,
encloses a lofty eminence surmounted by a flagstaff - the Mont Carmel
mentioned by La Potherie, Charlevoix and other old writers. The French had
a Cavalier here. A little Eden of flowers, adjacent to the residence of
the member for the County of Quebec, Hon. Adolphe P. Caron, Minister of
Militia, and son of the late Lieutenant-Governor, Hon. R. E. Caron, now
enlivens this eminence. On the same side of the street, about one hundred
feet to the east, facing Parloir street, still exists a high-peaked old
tenement, to which a livery stable is attached. This house is said to
occupy the site on which, in 1759 stood the dwelling of Dr. Arnoux, Jr.,
the French surgeon under whose roof the gallant Montcalm was brought about
noon, on his way from the lost battle of the Plains.
[26] Smith's History of Canada, Vol. II, p. 92. Diary of Siege of
1776. Lit. and Hist. Society Pub., fourth series, p. 9.
[27] In accepting the Chateau St. Louis as the spot where Montcalm
expired, we still wish to leave the question an open one. Did Montcalm
expire at the Chateau, under Dr. Arnoux's roof, at the General Hospital,
as averred by Capt. John Knox, or, possibly, under his own roof on the
ramparts, near Hope Gate? This point is not yet cleared up. See
disquisition in Album du Touriste "Ou est mort Montcalm?"
[28] On the 9th July, 1755, De Beaujeu won this brilliant victory.
[29] The 8th July, 1758, has been rendered famous by Montcalm and his
regulars and Canadian militia at Carillon.
[30] Louis Honore Frechette, born at the town of Levis, opposite to
Quebec - went through a classical course at the Quebec Seminary - studied
for the Bar, recently member of parliament for his native county, Levis,
under the present Judge for the Kamouraska District, Hon. Henri
Taschereau. Represented his native county of Levis in the Commons
Parliament from 1873 to 1878. His poetical effusions were published, at
Quebec, in 1863, in a small volume, intituled "Mes Loisirs"; in 1877, a
more extensive collection was published under the title of "Pele-Mele." He
was awarded in 1880, by the Academie Francaise of Paris, the Grand Prix
Monthyon, 2,000 francs. In April, 1881, Queen's College conferred on Mr.
Frechette the degree of Doctor of Laws, and McGill University also made
him an LL.D. Since his marriage in Montreal to Mdlle. Beaudry, the poet
resides in that city.
[31] A magnificent banquet had just previously been given to Mr.
Frechette.
[32] The greatest of French Canada's poets died at St. Malo, France, in
June 1880, an exile - and fugitive from Justice.
[33] Parkman's Old Regime, p. 192.
[34] Bouchette - Topography of Lower Canada, 1815.
[35] "There were in that forte and habitation thereof four brasse pieces
each weighing about 150 lbs. weight, another piece of brasse ordinance
weighing eighty lbs. weight, five iron boxes of shot, for the five brasse
pieces of ordinance; two small iron pieces of ordinances weighing each
eight cwt. six murderers with their double boxes or chargers, one small
piece of ordinance weighing about eighty lbs., forty-five small iron
bullets for the service of the aforesaid; five brasse pieces, six iron
bullets for the service of the aforesaid, twenty-six brasse-pieces
weighing only three lbs. each, thirty or forty lbs. of gunpowder all
belonging to M. de Caen, of Dieppe; about thirty lbs. of mettle belonging
to the French King; thirteen whole and one broken musket, a harquebush,
two large harquebueses five or six foote longe, a piece belonging to the
Kinge; five or six thousand leaden bulletts, plate and bars of lead
belonging, sixty corselletts whereof two are compleat and pistoll proof;
two great brasse pieces weighing eighty lbs., one pavilion to lodge about
twenty men belonging to the Kinge, a smith's fordge with appurtenances,
all necessaries for a carpenter, all appurtenances of iron work for a
windmill; a handmill to grind corn; a brass bell belonging to the said
merchants, and about 2,500 to 3,000 beaver skins in the magazines, and
some cases of knives and the forte belonging to the Kinge, and the
habitations and houses then belonging to the said merchants were all left
standing. * * * * *
"That there were not any victualls or ordinance, sustenance for men in the
said forte at the time of taking it, the men in the same having lived by
the space of two months before upon nothing but rootes." (THE CONQUEST OF
CANADA, 1629, by Kirke, p. 76-7.)
[36] A detailed account of the picturesque interview between Count de
Frontenac and Sir Wm. Phipps' envoy in 1690, will be found in Quebec
Past and Present, p. 122.
[37] This sketch of the old Chateau in 1804, now forms part of the
historical album of the writer, through the kindness of Mr. Parkman.
[38] "Toronto of Old," H. Scadding, D.D., Toronto, 1873, p. 122-3.
[39] The name of Lennox in 1819, was indeed a familiar one in the highways
and byways of old Stadacona.
