[m'lachlan] FLEURY MESPLET, FIRST PRINTER AT MONTREAL 24B 



After the receipt of my letter and warrant You will keep the matter 

 secret till you have taken the proper measures for executing the same 

 with precision; you are to take care they do not escape you, and endeavour 

 to make sure of all their papers, at the same time you will see, that they 

 are treated with humanity be furnished with good provisions and have 

 such conveniences as can be procured them. While in confinement on shore, 

 or on board you will direct that the prisoners are not permitted to com- 

 municate together or with persons from without and that they be not 

 allowed the use of pen Ink or paper. If any of the Treasury Brigs are 

 still at Montreal you will order one of them to carry down the prisoners 

 or send them by the first vessels that sail from there taking care they are 

 kept seperately and to be guarded by such as you can entirely confide in. 



"When the Prisoners have been secured you will deliver the enclosed to 

 Mr Rouville; I need not recommend to you, whose good sense and atten- 

 tion to the King's service I have the most perfect confidence in, to observe 

 the effects this measure has upon the King's subjects of every denomination 

 and their movements in general in times so critical and dangerous as the 

 present are 



I am &c. 



Endorsed To Major Nairn Ist June 1779. 



No. 18. 

 Canadian Archives, Series B, Vol. 185, Pt. 1, p. 89. 



Quebec, 1st June 1779. 



To Major Nairn; 

 Sir, 



In case you not yet sent away the two Dilinquents you will receive 

 orders by an express dispatched this day to arrest them; you are to put 

 them on board the Provincial armed schooner Mercury that sails this day 

 for the purpose the commanding officer thereof has Directions to obey you 

 should they come away before she reaches Montreal you will detain her 

 as short a time as possible and order the officer to return to this port. 

 Endorsed To Major Nairn 1st June 1779. 



No. 19. 

 Canadian Archives, Series B, Vol. 185, Pt. 1, p. 94. 



Tou are hereby ordered and directed to proceed without loss of time 

 with the Provincial schooner Mercury under your command, to Montreal; 

 should you find when you arrive at the Foot of the Rapids of St Mary's near 

 Montreal that the "Wind is contrary you are to cast Anchor there and proceed 

 by land to Montreal to deliver my despatches to the officer commanding 

 there, whose orders you are to obey without delay; you will keep an 

 exact journal of all occurrences in your passage up as well as down. 



Given under my hand at Quebec 1st June 1779. 



Endorsed To Wm Halcro Esqre Commd His Majesty's Provl Armed Schooner 

 Mercury 1779. 

 To the Master of the provincial Armed schooner Mercury June 1st 1779. 



