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Mr. de Gaspe* evidently saw a great deal of several 

 of our parliamentary leaders in days of old : L. J. Papi- 

 neau, Hon'ble Louis Ignace d'Irumbery de Salaberry, 

 Hon'ble Dr. Pierre de Sales Laterriere (1), Hon'ble 

 John Neilson, Hon'ble Eemi Vallieres de Saint-Eeal. 

 A practising barrister, lie had splendid opportunities of 

 noting the career of the most prominent members of 

 the Quebec Bar : Hon'ble Jonathan Sewell, his patron, 

 Sir James Stuart, Vallieres de Saint-Eeal — all three 

 successively Chief Justices, Hon'ble Prs. W. Prim- 

 rose (2), Henry Black, &c. Many a spicy anecdote 

 he has also to relate about his contemporary confreres 

 of less note : Moquin, the incorruptible jurist ; Ls. 

 Plamondon, the eloquent pleader ; the scholarly Solicitor 

 General and statesman, Andrew Stuart, Q. C, who died 

 in 1840, the father of our ex Chief Justice, Sir Andrew 

 Stuart; courteous Judge Elzear Bedard ; upright Judge 

 Panet, without forgetting the witty, jovial, dissipated, 

 but gifted Justin McCarthy, a barrister, quite a char- 

 acter in his day ; a victim in the end to that merciless 

 destroyer, King Alcohol. 



Let us note some of De Gaspe's anecdotes concerning 

 our Governors. 



The presence of the Canadian seignior and of his 

 handsome family at the charmed circle of the Chdteau 

 St. Louis, and later on, in those delightful fStes cham- 

 petres at Powell Place — now Spencer Wood— then 

 occupied in summer by Sir James Henry Craig, our 

 Governor, has afforded the author subjects for most 

 pleasant souvenirs and some spicy anecdotes. If guber- 

 natorial festivities in those days were not on so vast, so 



(1) Dr. Pierre Laterriere, went to London, studied medi- 

 cine under Sir Astley Cooper and married there, an heiress y 

 Miss Bulmer, the daughter of Sir Fenwick Bulmer. 



(2) For years a leading Barrister, of the Quebec Bar — the 

 uncle of the Earl of Eoseberry, Prime Minister of Great 

 Britain. 



