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when one recalls the memorable utterance of the late Sir E. P. Taché, 
A.D.C. to the queen. ‘The last gun fired on Canadian soil in favour of 
England will be by a French Canadian.” Other bits of information, as 
new as the last, and curious as subjects for reflection, occur in Mr. Elliott’s 
second letter to Mr. Taylor, dated “ Quebec, 12th November, 1835.” 
After alluding to the opening of the session and to the doubt whether, 
in voting the arrears of the last two years, the assembly would include re- 
payment of the sum of £31,000, advanced to the civil servants out of the 
military chest, Mr. Elliott adds: “If Mr. Spring Rice himself had been 
there he could not have wished to hear more home truths than I delivered 
on the subject to two or three French members with whom I dined en petit 
comité, among whom was the editor of Le Canadien newspaper. 
“Tt is astonishing how this country has been mismanaged. When I 
came to know the men whom the military rulers here have been accus- 
tomed to regard as little better than traitors and little wiser than children, 
1 am surprised to find : 
On what friendly bases their views generally are founded, and, 
“2. How much superior are their perceptions in political science to 
those of the men by whom they have been so arrogantly despised.” 
How strange Mr. Elliott’s strictures seem to us in the present day, 
and how could a full and impartial record of the past be indited without 
referring to these dry-as-dust documents of another age ? 
Mr. Elliott’s letters are followed with one addressed by the Hon. A. N. 
Morin to Sir Francis Hincks, dated at Quebec, 8th May, 1841, replete 
with politic and patriotic utterances, in which he comments on an expression 
of Lord Durham on the political events of the period. This clever and 
proud statesman is alleged to have said, through the mouth of one of his 
attaches, * That they (the ue had done enough to drive the 
people wild into the woods.” (p. 172 of Archivist’s report for 1883.) 
1884.—It may be interesting to note the names, rank and land grants 
of the distinguished French em/grés in the township of Markam and in 
other localities round Toronto. These French loyalists, several titled men 
among them, after escaping the guillotine in France, had applied to the 
British government for land in Canada. Their names appear in the 
military correspondence as follows : 
CounbidetPurisayerobtaims. 2-4-4. 5). eo eee i ead.” RE 850 acres. 
[= de Chalus; manréchal dejcamp; colonel) ss. 41: -22.-6.-..4:.-.- BHO 
M. d’Allégre, major-general of the district de Vannes, colonel..... 450 =“ 
M. de Marseuil, major-general of division, lieutenant-colonel...... SOOM ier 
Viscount de Chalus, adjutant-general, colonel Sarat eae eee ine BOOM. 
M. Quetton de St. George, major of division, lieutenant- colonels 400 ‘* 
Merdeulnacy, aide-de-Camp CAPITAINE RE TE Te Pc noe ahs 
M. Renault, capitaine without commission............--........... 150 
Me Seveamitrelie UE ALI merc Ut kore crises uen eee neo dde {0 28 
Fouchard, Furose, Langevin, Bugle, Marchand, non-commissioned 
OMICEUS) An OeSOIGIersppen 435 a0 ahs ee ENS el alse fea era" sr 
