One Class, However, Found In Him An Unrelenting
Disciplinarian - The Refractory Soldier Attempting Mutiny Or Desertion
From The Corps.
We are invited to these reflections from the fact that new light is
now promised to us on this
Traduced commander, in the shape of what
will no doubt be an attractive biography of Duke Edward from the pen
of a London litterateur of note, whose name we are not justified in
giving at present. The following extract from a London letter,
received this last mail by a gentleman of this city, who has succeeded
in gathering together valuable materials for Canadian history, will
prove what we now assert. It is addressed to Mr. LeMoine, late
President of the Literary and Historical Society, whose sketch of the
Prince's career in 1791, as contained in the Maple Leaves for 1865,
seems to have obtained the full approbation of the distinguished
litterateur now engaged in writing the life of the Duke:
"SOUTH KENSINGTON, London, May 30, 1874.
DEAR SIR, - If my note on Miss Nevill's incident [222] clears up any
point hitherto obscure of Canadian life, use it by all means for your
Canadian sketches. During my searches consequent to elucidate the
Duke's sojourn in Canada, many curious stories came under my eye,
which have never, as I am aware, been yet published in Canadian
histories, when the Prince was stationed at Quebec. The London pens
were m the habit of publishing from time to time incidents of
considerable interest bearing on forgotten periods of the early
British Constitutional History of Canada - parliamentary.
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