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sion: " C^est, de plus, ma volonté, si ma mort arrive en été, que mon 

 corps demeure dans mon lit jusqu'à ce que l'on ne puisse plus long- 

 temps sujjiporter l'odeur. Si la mort a lieu en hiver, je désire que mon 

 corps demeure jpp,reillement dans mon lit cinq à six jours et que l'on 

 fasse du feu dans la chambre, à moins que l'odeur ne puisse plus être 

 supportée. C^est ma volonté que mon corps soit alors confié à la terre 

 dans la voûte que j'ai fait construire dans le cimetière, à Québec." 



Belmont lines the St. Foy heights in a most picturesque situation. 

 The view from the east and northwest windows is magnificently grand; 

 probably one might count more than a dozen church spires glittering in 

 the distance — in every happy village, which dots the base of the blue 

 mountains to the north. In 1854, this splendid property was purchased 

 by J. W. Dunscomb, collector of customs, Quebec; he resided there and, 

 about 1864, he sold the mansion and garden to the Roman Catholic 

 church authorities of Quebec, reserving 400 acres. The old house, a few 

 months later, was purchased by Mr. Wakeham. 



The first time our eyes scanned the silent and deserted banqueting 

 halls of Belmont, with their lofty ceilings and recalling the traditional 

 accounts of the hospitable gentlemen, whose joviality had once lit up 

 the scene, visions of social Ireland of Barrington's day floated Utpper- 

 most in our mind. We could fancy we saw the gay roysterers of times 

 bygone; first, a fête champêtre of lively French officers from Quebec, 

 making merry over their Bordeaux or Burgundy, and celebrating the 

 news of their recent victories over the English at Fontenoy, Laujffeld or 

 Carillon to the jocund sound of Vive la France! Vive le Maréchal Saxe! 

 à la Claire Fontaine! etc., then. Governor Murray surrounded by his 

 veterans, Guy Carleton, Col. Caldwell, Majors Hale and Holland, and 

 some of the new subjects, such as brave Chs. de Lanaudière,^ comp;li- 

 menting one another all round over the feats of the respective armies 

 at the two memorable battles of the Plains, and all joining loyally in 

 repeating the favourite toast in Wolfe's army British colours on every 

 French fort, port and garrison in America.^ 



Tvaier on, at the dawn of the late century, a gathering of those 

 Canadian barons, so well delineated by J. Lambert in his Travels in 

 Canada in 1808, one week surrounding the board of this jolly Receiver- 



' Chs. Tarieu de Lanaudière, Knight of St. Louis, commianded a portion 

 of the Canadian militia at Carillon, was A.D.C. to Sir Guy Carleton — 

 served in 1775 — aocompanied the General to England, where George III. 

 rewarded Ihim; he was made Legislative Councillor and Deputy Postmaster 

 General for Canada. 



- The sanguinary battle of Fontenoy, was fought on the llth May, 1745. 

 The battle of Lauffeld took place on the 2nd of July, 1747. The French 

 victory at Carillon, in which the militia of Canada bore a contpicuous part 

 was won near Lake George, 8th July, 1758. 



