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built by Chief Justice Jonathan Sewell, in 1804, where 

 this eminent jurist and ripe scholar closed his long and 

 distinguished career, on the 12th November, 1839. The 

 chronicles of his spacious, old mansion, now the quarters 

 of the commandant of B Battery, would, alone, fill a 

 volume. 



At the corner of d'Auteuil and St. Louis streets, on 

 a lot owned, in 1791, by the Chief Justice's father-in- 

 law, Hon. Wm. Smith, an eminent U. E. Loyalist and 

 our Chief Justice in 1786, a double, modern residence 

 now stands. It was occupied, in 1860, by our Governor- 

 General, Lord Monck. Divided since, into two tene- 

 ments, it is owned and tenanted by Judge G. N. Bosse 

 and by Judge A. B. Eouthier, E.E.S.C. At the next 

 house, resided and died on the 17th December, 1847,. 

 the Hon. W. Smith, son of the Chief Justice and the 

 author of Smith's History of Canada, the first volume 

 of which was published at Quebec, in 1815. In 1812-3 

 the American prisoners taken at Detroit, &c, occupied 

 for a time this tenement. For years, it was the cosy 

 mansion of the late Sheriff Alleyn, and has been since 

 fitted up and leased as the Union Club. 



We have just walked past a wide expanse of verdure, 

 fringed with graceful maples and elms, sacred to mili- 

 tary evolutions, the Esplanade, extending from St.. 

 Louis to St. John's Gate, facing the green slope, crowned 

 by the city fortifications. On our left, you can notice a 

 low, old rookery. One hundred years ago it sheltered a 

 brave (J. E. Loyalist family, the Coffins ; it was since 

 purchased by the City Corporation. In this, penurious, 

 squeezed-up local, the Eecorder daily holds his Court. 

 Next to it, with a modern cut-stone front occurs our 

 modest City Hall, acquired from the heirs Dunn, at 

 present quite inadequate to municipal requirements. 

 On one corner, opposite, dwells the Hon. P. Pelletier, 

 Senator ; on the other, Sir H. L. Langevin, for years 

 one of our leading statesmen. Within a stone's throw 

 up St. Ursule street, still exists the massive, spacious 



