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trie, La Perade, De la Naudiere, etc. Many of these 

 refined Canadian gentilshommes, however, appear to 

 have more attended to the heading sanguinary raids on 

 the peaceable hamlets of New England and to border 

 warfare generally, than to ploughing and harrowing their 

 broad acres. 



The conquest of the country in 1759-60 brought out 

 from Britain an important accession of English and 

 Scotch adventurers in and around Quebec ; the wealthy, 

 a prey to that " earth hunger' which distinguishes the 

 Saxon race, and anxious to acquire estates for their 

 sons and daughters, 



The exodus in 17.83-4 of the United Empire Loyalists, 

 from the adjoining, heretofore, British Provinces, recog- 

 nized in 1783 as an independent nation, was but slightly 

 felt at Quebec. This progressive element, the founders 

 of Western Canada, were, however, represented in that 

 city, in 1786, by the late Chief Justice of New York, 

 the Hon. William Smith, appointed in 1785 by King 

 George III, Chief Justice of Quebec ; by his son, Wil- 

 liam Smith, the historian of Canada, and later, in 1789, 

 by his son-in-law, the learned Jonathan Sewell, another 

 U. E. L. from Massachusetts, who, in 1809, became 

 Chief Justice of Lower Canada, and died in 1839, leav- 

 ing eighteen sons and daughters. 



The Eeign of Terror in France in 1793, which sent 

 over a colony of distinguished French Eoyalists to 

 Western Canada, added nothing appreciable to the cen- 

 sus of Quebec, with the exception of a few zealous 

 French priests, who were provided with cures, in and 

 round the city. The banner of St. George, instead of 

 the white lily of France, floating on our bastions, 

 secured the city against the invasion of the delegates of 

 Couthon, Eobespierre, Danton, Carrier, etc. ; no scaffolds 

 were erected in the upper town market place, and 

 French noblemen and French priests were welcome 

 among us, without the constant fear of the guillotine 

 before their eyes. Quebec was not Cayenne ! 



