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sion of sadness and benevolence, like that wliich one mtfy observe on the face of tlie predecessor 

 of Louis Philippe, Charles the Tenth, whose current portrait recalls, not badly, the whole head 

 and figure of this early Governor of Upper Canada. In an outline representation which we 

 accidentally possessed, of a panorama of the battle of Waterloo, on exliibition in London, the 

 1st Foot Guajds were conspicuously to be seen led on by " Major-Gen A'al Sir Peregrine Mait- 

 land." It was a matter of no small curiosity to the boyish mind, and something that helped to 

 rouse an interest in history generally, to be assured that the living personage here, every week, 

 before the eye, was the commander represented in the panorama ; one who had actually passed 

 through the tremendous excitement of the real scene. With persons of wider knowledge. Sir 

 Peregrine was invested with further associations. Besides being the royal representative in 

 these parts, he was the son-in-law of Charles Gordon Lennox, fourth Duke of Richmond, a name 

 that stirred chivalrous feelings in early Canadians of both Provinces ; for the Dnke had come to 

 Canada as Governor-in-Chief, with a grand reputation acquired as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; 

 and great benefits were expected, and probably would have been realized from his administra- 

 tion, had it been of long continuance. But he had been suddenly removed by an excruciating 

 death. WhOst on a tour of inspection in the Upper Province, he had been fatally attacked with 

 hydrophobia, occasioned by the bite of a pet fox. The injury had been received at Sorel : its 

 terrible effects were fatally experienced at a place near the Ottawa, since named Richmond. — 

 Some of the prestige of the deceased Duke continued to adhere to Sir Peregrine Maitland, for he 

 had married the Duke's daughter, a graceful and elegant woman, who was always at his side, 

 here and at Stamford Cottage across the Lake. She bore a name not unfamiliar in the domestic 

 annals of George the Third, who once, it is said, was enamoured of a beautiful Lady Sarah 

 Lennox, grandmother, as we suppose, or some other near relative, of the Lady Sarah here 

 before us at York, Moreover, conversationalists whispered about (in confidence) something 

 supposed to be unknown to the general public — that the match between Sir Peregrine and 

 Lady Sarah had been effected in spite of the Duke. The report was that there had been an 

 elopement ; and it was naturally supposed that the party of the sterner sex had been the most 

 active agent in the aflair. To say the truth, however, in this instance, it was the lady who 

 precipitated matters. The affair occurred at Paris, soon after the Waterloo- campaign. The 

 Duke's final determinatior against Sir Peregrine's proposals having been announced, the 

 daughter suddenly withdrew from the father's roof, and fled to the lodgings of Sir Peregrine, 

 who instantly retired to other quarters. The upshot of the whole thing, at once romantic and 

 nnromantic, included a marriage and a reconciliation ; and eventually a Lieutenant-Governor- 

 ship for the son-in-law under the Governorship-in-chief of the father, both despatched together 

 to undertake the discharge of vice-regal functions in a distant colony. At the time of his 

 marriage with Lady Sarah Lennox, Sir Peregrine had been for some ten years a widower. On 

 his staff here at York was a son by his first wife, also named Peregrine, an ensign in the army. 



After the death of the Duke of Richmond, Sir Peregrine became administrator, for a time, oi 

 the general government of British North America. The movements of the representative of the 

 crown were attended with some state in those days.— Even a passage across from York to Stam- 

 ford, or from Stamford to York, was announced by a royal salute at the garrison. Of a visit to 

 Lower Canada in 1824, when, in addition to the usual suite, there were in the party several 

 young Englishmen of distinction, tourists at that early period, on this continent, we have the 

 following notice in the Canadian Review for December of that year. After mentioning the 

 arrival at the Mansion House Hotel in»Montreal, the Review proceeds : "In the morning His 

 ExceUeney breakfasted with Sir Francis Burton, at the Government House, whom he after- 

 wards accompanied to Quebec in the Siuiftsure steamboat. — Sir Peregrine is accompanied," the 

 Review reports, "by Lord Arthur Lennox, Mr. Maitland, Colonels Foster, Lightfoot, Coffin and 

 Talbot ; with the Hon. E. G. Stanley [the present Lord Stanley], grandson of Earl Derby, M.P. 

 for Stockbridge, John E. Denison, Esq. [subsequently Speaker of the House of Commons], M.P. 

 for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and James S. Wortley, Esq. [afterwards Lord Whamcliffe], JI.P. for 

 Bossiney in Cornwall. The three latter gentlemen," the magazine adds, " are now upon a tour 

 in this country from England ; and we are are happy to learn that they have expressed them- 

 selves as being highly gratified with all that they have hitherto seen in Canada." 



It win be of interest to know that the name of Sir Peregrine Maitland is further pleasantly 

 preserved by means of Maitland Scholarships in a Grammar School for natives at Madras . 



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