The English army, under General Abercrombie, though more
numerous, was repulsed with great slaughter.
[260] Chs. Tarieu de Lanaudiere, Knight of St. Louis, commanded a portion
of the Canadian Militia at Carillon, and also during the campaign of 1759.
Under the English rule he was Aide de Camp to Sir Guy Carleton - served in
1775, and accompanied the General to England, where George III rewarded
him handsomely. He was called to the Legislative Council, and appointed
Deputy Postmaster General of Canada.
[261] Knox's Journal. Vol. I, p. 179.
[262] The Bureau was at the foot of Mountain Hill, next to (the Old
Neptune) Chronicle Office.
[263] For many years, it was the practice to close the gates of Quebec at
gun fire (10 p.m.) for carriages, leaving the wicket open only for
pedestrians, in the troublous days of 1837-8, the wicket at times was
closed.
[264] Mr. Jean Tache, the first owner of the "Old Neptune Inn," and of a
poetical turn, wrote the first Canadian poem, intituled Tableau de la
Mer.
[265] History of French Dominion in North and South America. - Jeffery,
London, 1760, page 9.
[266] Montgomery Place, on the Hudson, is now the residence of Mrs. Ed.
Livingston, a country seat of unrivalled beauty. - "It is," says Downing,
"one of our oldest improved country seats, having been originally the
residence of General Montgomery, the hero of Quebec. On the death of his
widow, it passed into the hands of her brother, Edward Livingston, Esq.,
the late Minister in France." - page 31.
[267] Major Samuel Holland was also a first rate Engineer. He was, says
Abbe Bois, one of the legatees of the late Gen. Wolfe, and died at Quebec,
28th Dec, 1801.
[268] My old friend, the late Wm. Price, Esq., of Wolfe's Field, to whose
literary taste and happy memory, I am indebted for several incidents in
these pages, and whose written statement I still hold, anent the
mysterious stranger could not at the time furnish me with her name, it had
escaped his memory, but, as he informed me since he had furnished it to
Lady Head, his amiable neighbor of Spenser Wood. (Her name was Neville).
[269] The old Chateau Garden. - This lot, 3 acres, 3 yards, 9-1/2 feet in
superficies, was granted to Major Samuel Holland by letters-patent, under
the great seal, on the 12th March, 1766, with certain reservations as to
the requirements for barracks or fortifications. The Major does not seem
to have taken possession of it - but about 1780, General Haldimand having
tendered Major Holland the sum of L800 as an indemnity for the use of the
land, and the amount being refused, Government took possession of the lot
and erected there a five-gun battery.
