ericans at the
_Pres-de-Ville_, Quebec, applied to Sir John Sherbrooke for the
remains of her husband, which had been buried somewhere in the
neighborhood of a powder magazine. The request was complied with. On
the 16th of June, the exhumation of the body, in the presence of Major
Freer, who was on the staff of the Governor, of Major Livingston, a
near relative to Mrs. Montgomery, and of some other spectators, took
place under the direction of Mr. James Thomson, of the Royal Engineer
Department, one of the followers of General Wolfe, who forty-two years
previously to the application for the body had buried the General with
his two Aides-de-Camp, Cheeseman and McPherson, beside him, where the
military prison, near St. Lewis Gate, now stands.

Sir John Sherbrooke was, at his own request, recalled. His health had
been indifferent for some time. He was relieved of his government soon
after he had requested to be so by His Grace the Duke of Richmond. Sir
John sailed for England on the 12th of August, with his character
either in a military or civil point of view untarnished. Richmond,
Lennox and Aubigny, the new Governor-in-Chief, had been Lord Lieutenant
General of Ireland. His hereditary rank, his previous position, as well
as his present station obtained for him a consideration greater than
any mere military knight could reasonably look for. He was accompanied
by Major-General Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B., his son-in-law
appointed to the Lieutenant-Governorship of Upper Canada. His Grace was
looked upon indeed as a semi-deity. But the Duke was exceedingly poor,
and perhaps owed his own appointment as well as that of his son-in-law,
as much to the influence of the Duke of Wellington, who was his friend,
as to his own. He summoned the legislature of Canada together on the
12th of January, 1819, but merely intimated that the Queen had died,
and adjourned the public business, out of respect to Her Majesty's
memory, until the 22nd of the month. The opening speech on that day was
a wretched affair. The Duke did not recommend anything beyond a
provision for the expenses of the civil government, which the illness
of Sir John Sherbrooke had prevented him from completing; and the reply
to his Grace was as tame as His Grace's speech. It was very like two
individuals in meeting, saluting each other with the words--"good
morning, Sir,"--"a good morning to you, Sir,"--"_shalom elachem_,"
as the Jew has it, to be returned with "_alaic