90" LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



Quant h faire de vous un ecclesiastique — cela ne peut avoir lieu qu' 

 apres examen fait par Monseigneur de Canathe qui jugera de votre 

 capacity, de vos dispositions, et du temps de vous admettre. Je 

 m'en rapporterai h, lui, et sa decision sera la mienne. Je suis &c., -j- 

 P. EvSque de Quebec." — The Monseigneur de Canathe just men- 

 tioned was Joseph Octave Plessis, coadjutor to Bishop Denaut from 

 1797 to 1806. His Life has been published, and forms a work of 

 great historical interest. I have his autograph also, and it chances 

 likewise to relate to Ensign Cheniquy. A document in the hand- 

 writing of Bishop Plessis is by no means a common sight. The lan- 

 guage of the paper this time is Latin. First we have a brief certincate 

 of Joseph Cheniquy having attended confession, signed by a presbyter 

 named Demers. "Audivi Jos. Cheniquy. Quebeci, die 3S, Mali, 

 1803. Demers, pter." Then in continuation follows Bishop Plessis'' 

 testimonial to Cheniquy's orthodoxy : " Quem fidei Catholicse adhse- • 

 rentem et nuUo, quod noverim, censurarum vinculo irretitum omnibus 

 ad quos prsesens perveniet schedula testificor. Ego infra scriptus. -j- 

 J. 0. Epus Canathensis et Co-adjutor Quebecensis, Qubeci, 13 Mali,, 

 1803." The "Demers, presbyter," whose signature appears above, 

 was in his day a man of emiience in the scientific world of Canada^ 

 His work, entitled " Institutiones Philosophicse ad usum studiosse 

 juventutis," was published at Quebec, in 1835. — Further on, I shall 

 have occasion to give some passages from an autograph letter of 

 Jacob Mountain, the first English Bishop of Quebec. 



I intx'oduce here the letter of a Mohawk chief addressed to General 

 Simcoe in England, after his final departure from Upper Canada. It 

 will serve to shew the esteem and veneration in which the general 

 continued to be held among the native tribes and other portions of 

 the people lately under his rule. Liancoiirt remarked how Governor 

 Simcoe cultivated the good will of the Indians. Joseph Brant was 

 Ms personal friend. The name of the chief whose letter I am about 

 to give from the original, was John Norton, biit known among the 

 Mohawks as Teyoninhokarawen. . He is said by some to have been 

 the son of an Indian woman by a Scotchman ; but Stone in his Life 

 of Brant puts it the other way, and says that he was the son of a 

 Scotchwoman by an Indian, which does not seem so probable. He 

 passed two years in Scotland in his early boyhood, and moreover 

 received some education in an American college. Stone remarks of 

 him, that next to Thayendanegea, i. e. Brant, he was the most distin- .. 



