This Was The Favourite Summer Abode Of An English Prince.
His
Royal Highness Edward Augustus, Colonel of the Royal Fusileers,
subsequently Field Marshal the Duke of Kent, "had landed
Here," says the
Quebec Gazette of the 18th August, 1791, from H. M. ships Ulysses and
Resistance, [214] in seven weeks from Gibraltar, with the 7th or Royal
Regiment of Fusileers." The Prince had evidently a strong fancy for
country life, as may be inferred by the fact that, during his prolonged
stay in Halifax, as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, he owned also, seven
miles out of the city, a similar rustic lodge, of which Haliburton has
given a charming description. 'Twas on the 11th of August the youthful
colonel, with his fine regiment, landed in the Lower Town; on the 12th was
held in his honour, at the Chateau St. Louis, a levee, whereat attended
the authorities, civil, military and clerical, together with the gentry.
In the afternoon "the ladies were presented to the Prince in the Chateau."
Who, then, attended this levee? Did he dance? If so, who were his
partners? No register of names; no list of Edward's partners, such as we
have of the Prince of Wales. [215] No Court Journal! Merely an entry of
the names of the signers of the address in the Quebec Gazette of the
18th August, 1791. Can we not, then, re-people the little world of Quebec
of 1791? - bring back some of the principal actors of those stormy
political, but frolicsome times?
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