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This was not, however, the only exciting experience 

 the stern General was doomed to encounter, at Quebec. 

 On the 9th May, 1760, writes Sergeant James Thomp- 

 son one of Murray's stalwart troopers, General Murray 

 was startled by the news of the appearance round 

 Pointe Levi, of a ship-of-war, the " Leostoff," a fresh 

 arrival from sea, " seen tacking across and across be- 

 tween Pointe Levi and the opposite shore." Was she 

 English or French ? As yet she had showed no colors. 

 Was she a friend from the white cliffs of old England, or 

 a foe from Brest or L'Orient ? Hope and relief or defeat 

 and surrender ? 



The news he says, " electrified " the General, who 

 was at that moment " in a meditative mood, sitting 

 before the fire in the chimney place." All uncertainty 

 ceased when the "Leostoff" hoisted the meteor Hag of 

 England, in response to the English colors, ordered by 

 Murray to be displayed from the Citadel. The whole 

 city guns roared out a salute ; on the 16th, the arrival 

 in port of the " Vanguard " and the " Diana," other 

 english frigates, meant that the old regime was closed 

 for ever. 



The French legions, expecting an immediate attask 

 on their trenches, took to flight, leaving their breakfast 

 still cooking in camp. 



This solid edifice, the bright home of Judge Elmsley 

 at the dawn of the century, was subsequently acquired 

 by the Ordance Department, as an officers barracks for 

 one of the regiments of British troops stationed at 

 Quebec, and has remained ever since as quarters to the 

 Dominion staff of officers. 



A plan of Quebec, dated 20th May, 1756, signed by 

 Land Surveyor LeMaistre-Lamorille, and contersigned 

 by Intendant Bigot, assigns M. Pean, as proprietor of 

 lot No. 17, on the plan in rear of the * Officers' Quar- 

 ters " and opening up on St. Genevieve street, whilst 

 M. de Meloises appears to have owned lot No. 30 to 

 the east, comprising also a mill on Mont Carmel (de 



