23So say the Americans. Mr. Alison says three weeks.
24Taken verbatim from Alison. TheWasp, whose Captain, Blakeley, was an Irishman, was lost in the same year, during a cruise, and no trace of her gallant captain or crew was ever obtained.
25Alison's History of Europe.
26This was the father of the celebrated Felicia Hemans.
27It is here worthy of note that the late Lord Raglan, then Fitzroy Somerset--sometime between the abdication of Napoleon and Waterloo, and before his lordship had lost his arm--was in Quebec, having been sent to Canada, it was supposed, privately to ascertain how matters were, and especially as a spy upon Sir George Prevost, against whom many complaints had been made by thereigningofficials.
A lady, still living, well remembers the late Commander-in-Chief, of the British army in the Crimea, being in Quebec. She saw him in Mountain street, and the object of his visit was no secret.
28True, and which an elective government will altogether remove, to the great advantage and enduring honor of Great Britain.]
29Christie's History, page 290.
30Gourlay's Canada, page 523. vol. 1.
31Gourlay, page 512, vol. 2.
32Gourlay, page 316, vol. 2.
33It is not a little curious that the judge in summing up the evidence in this case speaks of Upper Canada being an island.
34To-day an agitation has begun for a repeal of the present Act of Union.
35Well's Canadiana, page 162.
36Well's Canadiana, page 164.