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from his last battle-field, supported by two grenadiers, 

 on his black charger, and courteously greeting, but with 

 down cast countenance, some poor women, horrified at 

 his appearance, and telling them that he was not 

 seriously hurt and not to weep for him ! 



Varied indeed are the incidents and spectacles 

 recalled by this historic street. 



At the corner opposite to this spot lived Abbe Vignal, 

 .previous to his joining the Sulpiciens, in Montreal. In 

 October, 1661, he was captured by the Iroquois, at La 

 Prairie de la Magdeleine, near Montreal, roasted alive 

 and partly eaten by these fiends incarnate. 



On a cold, blustery Sunday morning, in "December, 

 1775, the peaceable denizens of St. Louis street, were 

 startled from their sleep at 5 a. m., by the loud voice 

 of the officer on duty, Capt. Fraser, rushing down the 

 street, towards the main guard at the.Eecollets, exclaim- 

 ing at beat of drum " To arms ! To arms ! ! " The 

 solitary sentry making his rounds on the St. John 

 bastion, in the gathering storm, had reported an armed 

 body of men, as if marching to assault the city gates. 

 It was the feint entrusted to Col. Livingstone, while 

 the Commander-in-Chief, Eichard Montgomery, and his 

 intrepid lieutenant, Col. Benedict Arnold, were marching 

 under cover of night intending to meet him at the foot 

 of Mountain Hill which they were to ascend and storm 

 Quebec. — Bed Diis aliter visum ! 



Facing Garden street we shall meet the Academy of 

 Music and next to it, the St. Louis Hotel. 



On, on we go, past the imposing new Court House, 

 completed on the site of the former one, dating back to 

 1814 and destroyed by fire 1st February, 18V 1. 



In this neighborhood also, in 1764, Brown and Gil- 

 more printed, twenty-four years before the London 

 Times, the first number of the Quebec Gazette " two 

 doors higher than the Secretary's office " wherever the 

 latter may have been. The venerable sheet died of old 



