[219] "Away," exclaimed the Prince to the excited voters, "with those
hated distinctions of English and Canadians; you are all my august
father's beloved subjects."
[220] The anecdote of the officer, who, on being ordered on foreign
service, cut off his queue and buried it with military honors, is
humorously related by Erskine Neale, in the Duke's biography, p. 325.
[221] Christie's History of Canada.
[222] This curious incident is mentioned in the Maple Leaves for
1865, in connection with a mess dinner, when a gentleman friend of one of
the young Hollands was proved to be a beautiful female in disguise, who
afterwards married the brother of an English nobleman.
[223] Since these lines were written in 1865, many changes have come over
Marchmont - our esteemed neighbor was suddenly called away, leaving his
beautiful house to his devoted wife; she, too, alas! has paid the debt of
nature in May, 1880.
[224] "Ce capitaine avait avec lui beaucoup d'habitants de Lorette, dont
le lieu etait a portee de ce poste; ils lui demanderent permission d'aller
travailler la nuit chez eux, il la leur accorda (on pretend que ce fut a
condition d'aller aussi travailler pour lui, sur une terre qu'il avait
dans cette paroisse)." - Memoire sur les affaires du Canada, 1749-60, p.
114.
