332 AN INTERLUDE. [1094. 



years ago, has played an amazing part in this affair. 

 I shall write about it to Father La Chaise, that he 

 may set it right. Some remedy must be found ; 

 for, if it continues, none of the officers who were 

 sent to Michillimackinac, the Miamis, the Illinois, 

 and other places, can stay there on account of the 

 persecutions to which they are subjected, and the 

 refusal of absolution as soon as they fail to do what 

 is wanted of them. Joined to all this is a shame- 

 ful traffic in influence and money. Monsieur cle 

 Tonty could have written to you about it, if he had 

 not been obliged to go off to the Assinneboins, to 

 rid himself of all these torments." L In fact, there 

 was a chronic dispute at the forest outposts be- 

 tween the officers and the Jesuits, concerning which 

 matter much might be said on both sides. 



The bishop sailed for France. " He has gone," 

 writes Callieres, " after quarrelling with everybody." 

 The various points in dispute were set before the 

 king. An avalanche of memorials, letters, and 

 proces-verhaux, descended upon the unfortunate 

 monarch ; some concerning Mareuil and the quar- 

 rels in the council, others on the excommunication 

 of Desjordis, and others on the troubles at Mon- 

 treal. They were all referred to the king's privy 

 council. 2 An adjustment was effected : order, if 

 not harmony, w r as restored ; and the usual distribu- 

 tion of advice, exhortation, reproof, and menace, 

 was made to the parties in the strife. Frontenac 

 was commended for defending the royal preroga- 



1 Frontenac a M. de Lagny, 2 Nov., 1695. 



2 Arrest qui ordonne que les Procedures faites entre le Sieur Evesque de 

 Qn€bec et les Sieurs Mareuil, Desjordis, etc., seront evoquez au Conseil Priv€ 

 de Sa Majeste, 3 Juillet, 1695. 



