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particularly two who I (Lieutenant Fraser) sent pri- 

 soners by a serjeant, after giving them quarter, and 

 engaging that they should not be killed, were one shot, 

 and the other knocked down with a tomakawk and both 

 scalped in my absence by the rascally serjeant neglect- 

 ing to acquaint Montgomery, that I wanted them saved, 

 as he, Montgomery pretended when I questioned him 

 about it ; but even that was no excuse for such an 

 unparalleled piece of barbarity. After this skirmish, we 

 set to burning the houses with great success setting all 

 in flames, till we came to the church of Ste. Anne." 

 (Siege of Quebec, 1759, Fraser). I also for a time 

 accepted the version promulgated by my respected 

 seniors, until the discovery, in the archives of the 

 Literary and Historical Society, of documents which 

 the Society, at my suggestion, printed. I allude to a 

 dry-as-dust MS. letter which I found one day in ran- 

 sacking among some old papers. It bore date, " Quebec, 

 15th June, 1776 ", was addressed to a general officer 

 in England, the writer's friend ; the latter part of the 

 letter was missing, and so was the signature. In com- 

 paring date with context, it was easy for me to fix on 

 the writer ; evidently it was Major H. Caldwell, unbo- 

 soming himself to his old commander, Brig.- Gen. James 

 Murray. At p. 7 occurred the following, in alluding to 

 the city blockade of 1775 : " General Montgomery 

 (brother of him you might remember at Quebec, and 

 lately a Capt. in the 17th Eegt. "). There was a 

 luminous flash in these few words ; two Montgomerys, 

 then, I said, served King George II, in America, in the 

 summer of 1759, Ei chard Montgomery of the 17th 

 foot and Capt. Alexander Montgomery of the 43rd, the 

 regiment detailed to ravage with fire and sword St. 

 Joachim, Ste. Anne, etc., near Quebec, the command- 

 ing officer of the detachment connected with the Ste. 

 Anne butchery, as stated by his subaltern, Lieutenant 

 Fraser. Being then in correspondence with the late 

 George Coventry, of Cobourg, who had been charged 



