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lasted, had rather misty ideas of the inexorable military 

 code, and the battle over, made for home, without 

 asking by " your leave." This flagrant breach of disci- 

 pline could not be overlooked and a letter from Mr. De 

 Salaberry, sr., to his brave son, the Colonel, is still 

 extant, showing how the pardon of the delinquents was 

 procured : 



I Translation.'] 



" Beauport, 4th December, 1813. 



" My Son, — Joseph and Stanislas "Vincent of your regiment 

 returned to Lorette on the 2nd December inst., and hurried 

 to meet me, full of regret and repenting of the breach of dis- 

 cipline of which they were guilty : they have no excuse to 

 offer except to say that evil advice alone caused them to 

 commit such an act of folly. They were told that the other 

 Indian nations served in war, as Indians only, not as if they 

 were soldiers enlisted to do so ; that they ought to have 

 turned a deaf ear to such counsels, but that youth has not 

 the experience of age ; that they appeal to me, as the father 

 of the greatest warrior the English King possesses, and hope 

 I will obtain forgiveness for them. I replied, I would appeal 

 to your kind heart, and was persuaded you would grant their 

 prayer, as a brave man is always merciful to those who submit 

 and repent. I beseech you, then, to forgive them, seeing 

 how they repent and have entire confidence in you. Probably 

 my own prayer will be for much in this pardon, but there is 

 an additional reason for clemency ; the great chief also called 

 on me and in his own and in the name of the other chiefs, he 

 asked me to intercede in favor of their young men, telling 

 me how much the nation loves and admires you, ' the Great 

 Warrior.' 



" Ls. Salaberry. 



Mr. Bedard, who collected this incident from the lips 

 of an aged Huron chief in 1879, furnishes as follows 

 the names of the Huron braves, who to perpetuate their 

 gratitude for the Hero of Chateauguay, contribued to 

 the monument erected that year to Col. De Salaberry, 

 at Beauport, at which celebration it was my privilege 

 to be present. 



