He was suddenly aroused from his dream by the announcement that two warlike frigates were sailing below the cliffs. He hurried to the bastion, which commanded the spot, to survey what might portend fresh struggles and more bloodshed. But soon a standard was run up to the masthead, unfolding to the breeze the flag of England. Immediately from the ramparts, where so recently had proudly floated the flag of France, an answering signal was shown, and, as the guns roared out a salute to the British colours, it was also a farewell honour to the old _Regime_, which has passed away forever from Canadian shores. Of Murray, the first British Governor of Canada, it has been said that, in the long roll of unblemished good service, in the record of his honourable fidelity to his trust and duty, no passage of his life stands out in brighter colours than this period, during which he turned a deaf ear to intolerance and the spirit of persecution, and strove to show the new subjects of the Crown how truly beneficent, just and good, with all its errors, the rule of Great Britain had ever proved to be. With the Treaty of Paris in 1763 King George III. abolished the French laws, substituting for them the English Code in the newly won Dominion; later on, however, by the "Quebec Act," they were restored to the Canadians. The members of the _Noblesse_, whose ties compelled their remaining in Canada, sent to London to offer fealty to King George, and thus further their personal interests. When the Chevalier de Lery and his wife, the beautiful Louise de Brouages, one of the most lovely women of her day, were presented at the Court of St. James, the young Sovereign was so struck with her beauty that he gallantly exclaimed:-- "If all Canadian ladies resemble her, we have indeed made a conquest." A French writer of the time says:-- "How can we sufficiently deplore the loss of Canada, with all its present value and with all its future hope--a possession of which all the difficulties were already overcome, and of which the consequent advantages were secure and within reach! That loss might have been guarded against--yes, that land consecrated by the blood of a Montcalm, a Jumonville, and so many brave Frenchmen who shared their dangers, and were united with them in fate--that country honoured with the name of New France--that country where we may yet trace her children enjoying the manners and customs of their forefathers--that country might yet have existed under its rightful princes, if the Cabinet of Versailles had known the true position it held--had erected there a new throne and had placed upon it a Prince of the Royal Family--it would have ruled to-day over that vast region, and preserved the treasures vainly spent in its defence."