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age 110 years later, in 1874, merged into the Quebec 

 Morning Chronicle. 



There still stands on the east corner of Haldimand 

 and St. Louis streets, the spacious, modernized old 

 Kent House, the winter-quarters, 1791-94, of H. E. H. 

 Prince Edward, Queen Victoria's father, the colonel of 

 the 7th Fusiliers, at that time in garrison at Quebec. 



The Quebec Gazette of the 4th March, 1794, adver- 

 tises the mansion as " Miss Mabane's elegant house, 

 No. 6 Port St. Louis street " ; it was then occupied by 

 the Lord Bishop Mountain, the first Anglican Bishop. 



Next to it, is the high peaked, antique Commissariat 

 Building, purchased in the early part of the century, 

 from old Peter Brehaut — fitted out with solid iron 

 shutters, by the Imperial Government for the safe 

 keeping, before the era of banks and police in Quebec, 

 of the specie paid out to the troops and army con- 

 tractors. At the departure of the Commissariat Staff, 

 in 1871, it was put in thorough repair by the Dominion 

 Government, and is now used as the Militia Bureau 

 and residence of the D. A. G., Lt.-Col. T. J. Duchesnay, 

 Commanding 7th Military District, and President of 

 the Quebec Garrison Club. 



Now we have reached the east end of St. Louis street, 

 where it is intersected by Des Carrieres street, leading 

 to the Cape. I can scarcely forbear telling you of a 

 sight I witnessed here in the troublous days of 1837-8. 

 General Theller and Colonel Dodge, the Yankee sym- 

 pathizers, had escaped the night previous from their 

 cells on the Citadel, by drugging with laudanum in 

 porter the British sentries on their beat ; it was estab- 

 lished that they had then let themselves down from 

 the Bastion by using the flagstaff haliards. All Quebec 

 was on the alert. The Commaudant of the garrison, 

 Sir James Macdonald, an old Waterloo veteran, had 

 worked himself into a white heat, when he heard of the 

 escape of the American prisoners. The sentries were 



