briand, who had retired to Charlesbourg since the month of July, came to Quebec to minister to the hero during his supreme ordeal. Montcalm received the last rites of the Church with the feelings that could have been expected from such a true Christian. Then his mind turned towards his dear ones at Candiac, towards his revered mother, his beloved wife and children whom he was never to see again in this world. He entrusted his secretary with the mission of conveying to them his last farewell and recommendations.

gieuse de l'Hôpital Général, nor in the Journal of the Epedition on the River St-Laurence, nor in the Short authentic account of the Expedition against Quebec, nor in Fraser's Journal of the Siege of Quebec. Moreover, Townshend himself, the supposed recipient of Montcalm's letter, makes no reference to it in his reports and letters. He does not speak of it, does not seem to know anything about it, Is it likely that Townshend would not have mentioned a document so honourable both for the victor and vanquished, if he really had received it?

Montcalm wrote a letter to this Brigadier, but it is altogether different from that which Abbé Bois has communicated to Parkman. Here is the text of it; we translate it from the French :

Sir,

Being obliged to surrender Quebec to your arms, I have the honour to recommend our sick and wounded to your Exccellency's kindness and to ask the execution of the cartel d'échange agreed upon by His Most Christian Majesty and His Britannic Majesty. I beg Your Excellency to rest assured of the high esteem and respectful consideration with which I have the honour to be

Your most humble and obedient servant

MONTCALM.

This letter is found in the Townshend papers; why should not the other one have been preserved in the same way if it had ever existed? We state the case as we find it. We do not contend that Montcalm never wrote the lines quoted first by Father Martin, and communicated to Parkman by Abbé Bois. But we say that we have found no evidence of their authenticity. Of course the Abbé Bois' sincerity is not to be impugned. But he may have been misled by some fabricated document of the same stamp as the spurious letters published in London in 1777.