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Frances Brook's novel, " The History of Emily Montague/' and was 

 meant for Ool. Rivers, the friend cf the divme Emily. This was the 

 first English novel written in Canada, in 1767. 



A greaft sorrow invaded, in 1804, t)he sweet retreat of Belmont 

 Manor; the death, on the 19th February, at the age of 67 years, of 

 the loved chatelaine, Ann Caldwell. This much esteemed lady was 

 sister to the Lord Bishop of Ossory, and of Baron Hamilton; slie left 

 an only son, John Caldwell. The learned Rev. Alexander Sparkes, 

 who had landed at Quebec, in 1780, had been selected as the precep- 

 tor to the only son of Col. Cal'dwell; he found a bright and apt scholar 

 in young John, who, after going through a course in the classics and 

 in foreign languages, studied for, and was admitted in 1789, a member 

 of the Quebec Bar; he also received a comimissiioin in the Canadian 

 militia. 



Young John soon became his father's factotum in the manage- 

 ment of the seigniory of Lauzon, and other family estates in Canada. 

 His sympathetic atnd kind treaitment of his father's tenantry, as well 

 as his liberal views won him their confidence. In 1804, and again, in 

 1809, he was deputed, to parliament as member for the extensive 

 county of Dorchester, whioh then comprised Lauzon, Ste. Marie and 

 other large centres in the Beauce district. 



In 1813 John Caildwell, whjo was to beoome Sir Jofin Caldwell 

 by the death of an Irish baronet, succeeded to his father's office as 

 Receiver-General, accepting the onerous charge and its responsibilities. 

 Col. the Hon. Henry Caldwell, expired at Belmont Manor, on the 

 28th May, 1810, aged 75 years. His remains were buried in the vaults 

 of the Anglican Cathedral. 



Mr. Jos. Edmond Roy, the historiographer of the Seigniory of 

 Lauzon, published the olograph will of the Receiver-General, its tenth 

 Seignior. 



Among other ipirovisions in this lengthy document there are several 

 legacies; to his wife, Mrs. Caldwell; to his brother, Major-General 

 Caldwell, serving in Portugal an annuity of £300 ; to the children of his 

 younger brother Charles, a naval officer, who died in 1775; there are 

 also legacies to Edward Bowen, attorney-general, later on, chief- 

 Justice, who died at Quebec, in 1865; to Miss Margaret CofSn, Mrs. 

 Alice Simpson, Miss Annabella Simpson, Miss Sarah Taylor, Miss 

 Christian Nairn, Dr. James Davidson, William Hamilton, without for- 

 getting the poor, whom he was in the habit of assisting each week in 

 winter; to each the generous old man left 40 shillings.' 



The warrior who, on so many occasions, had braved shot and 

 shell, seems to have had a holy horror of being buried alive, judging 

 from the text of his will, which I shall give, in Mr. Roy's French ver- 



