Brief Sketch of the Life and Times, of the Late, Hon. e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In 1818 he was united in what proved to be the happiest of mar riages, with Mademoiselle Julie Bruneau, eldest daughter of Pierre Bruneau, Esq., merchant, of Quebec, and member of Parliament for that city. Superior in intellect and education and personal attrae tions, endowed with a rare prudence, she was through life the best of wives and the best of mothers. A true woman, neither too for ward nor too retiring, a devoted companion and wise counsellor, sympathizing in every thought of her husband, his ideas were her ideas, his friends her friends. With admiration for his character, and full faith in his future, she clung closely to him during his stormy parliamentary career, followed him cheerfully in exile to endure its privations, and, when domiciled in his Ottawa retreat, she was there rejoicing in his relief from cares, and continuing to exhibit with him, as they had from the beginning, a most perfect example of all that is excellent and to be admired in every relation of mar ried life. Happily she lived till the storms had passed away, and their sacrifices were unfelt, to enjoy a few years' quiet repose and tranquillity in their last home, where she saw the idol of her affec tions privileged to that rest and dignified leisure for which his soul had long yearned, with those cherished companions - the books of his favorite authors - around him. At monte-bello, on the 18th August, 1862, when apparently in her usual excellent health, sur rounded by her children and grandchildren, she was suddenly stricken down, and after half an hour's illness, calmly her spirit winged its departure from a world that her whole life had so adorned. With the arrival of the Earl of Dalhousie, in June, 1820, com menced a new Parliamentary era. The offer made by the'assembly in 1810 to provide for the whole civil list, always supplemented by drafts on the British treasury, had been accepted in 1818, and our Parliament was now, when there was a deficiency of in the Provincial Chest,