80 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



able portion of the iiivading force surrendered at the time their com- 

 mander was slain : the remainder, in the following spring, decamped,, 

 leaving behind them their stores, their artillery, their scaling ladders 

 and their sick. Three armed ships from England seen rounding the 

 opposite promontory of Point Levi, bringing aid and supplies, were 

 the caiise of this j)i"ecipitate flight. No hostile flag has since been 

 seen before the walls of Quebec. These occurrences .took place, as 

 we already said, in 1776. 



My MS. memorial of Carleton is interesting and somewhat charac- 

 teristic. It consists of an order wholly in his own handwriting, 

 authorizing the distribution of powder and shot to the Indians of 

 Lorette, a well-known Huron village near Quebec. The date of this 

 document is January 4, 1770. It reads as follows : "Quebec, Jan. 

 4, 1770. You are hereby required to issue out of the King's stores 

 of this town, one hundred weight of gunpowder and two hundred- 

 weight of shot for the Huron, of Lorette. Guy Carleton. To the 

 respective officers of the Board of Ordnance." 



The band of Hurons at Lorette were thus, we see, not depiived of 

 their fire-arms. Confidence in the native races was established. The 

 wide-sj)read conspiracy of Pontiac against the English had collapsed 

 some time since ; and the great chief himself had met with a violent 

 death in the far west the preceding year. The powder and shot 

 ordered to be issued from the King's stores were expected probably 

 to aid in provisioning the city during the winter months. 



In 1777 Carleton solicited his own recall from Canada, ofiended at 

 the appointment of General Burgoyne, instead of himself, to the 

 command-in-chief of the army in Noi'th America. He afterwards, 

 however, obtained the honour which he had envied Burgoyne. But the 

 war was then drawing-%o a close. It was in 1782 that he succeeded 

 Sir Henry Clinton as Commander-in-Chief. In 1786 he was raised 

 to the peerage as Lord Dorchester ; and in the same year he was 

 sent out again to Canada to execute the functions of Governor- 

 General a second time. In 1796 he returned to England, after a 

 popular administration; and in 1806 he died, having attained the age 

 of eighty-three. 



Sir Guy Carleton's successor as Governor-General, before his second 

 return to Canada, was General Haldimand, a Swiss by birth. I 

 have his autograph attached to a document dated Quebec, 25th 

 October, 1782 — a paper transmitted to the Lords Commissioners of 



