[66] A MONUMENT OF THE OLDEN TIME.

- Inserted in the wall enclosing the lot of ground between Buade street and the Basilica, about midway from the front entrance of the church, is to be seen a slab of very fine marble, bearing the following inscription.

It is the only one in the plate: -

"In memory of Mary, wife of Thomas Ainslie, Esq., Collector of His Majesty's Customs of Quebec, who died March 14th, 1767, aged 25 years. If Virtues Charms had pow'r to save Her faithful votaries, from the grave; With Beauty's ev'ry form supply'd The lovely AINSLIE ne'er had died."

[67] John Hale who died in 1842, had six sons: 1st, Edward, who died at Quebec in May, 1874; 2nd, Jeffery Hale; 3rd, Miss Hale; 4th, Bernard Hale, now in England; 5th, Richard Hale, late 81st; 6th, William, late Capt. 52nd, who died at Ste. Anne, district of Three Rivers, about 1845; 7th, Mrs. Hotham; 8th, George Hale; 9th, Miss Elizabeth Harriet Hale, who in 1838 married Commander John Orlebar, R.N.

[68] We are indebted to Professor H. LaRue, M.D., for the following notes relative to an address delivered by him at a dinner given by the Notaries Public in 1872: - "The first physician who entered Quebec narrowly escaped being hung," says Dr. LaRue. "I said that he had narrowly escaped the gallows; had he been hung I would not say it. It occurred thus: - Champlain had just landed in the Lower Town and had laid the foundation of his abode, when some of his followers hatched a plot against his life.

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