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the four Officers, who had the misfortune to be ta- 

 ken in that fatal Incurfion, which chefeTygers made 

 into Monrealy as I told you in my ijtb Letter. The 

 Chevalier Beaucour returned again to the Coloi v vkth 

 his Party, and brought along with him twelve Pii? 

 foners of the Iroejue/e, who were immediately con- 

 duced to Quebec : After they arrivd, Mr. Front mac 

 did very judicioufly condemn two of the wicked- 

 eft of the Company, to be burnt alive with a flow 

 Fire. This Sentence extreamly terrified the Gover- 

 nor's Lady, and the Jefuics; the Lady us'd all 

 manner of fupplication to procure a moderation of 

 the terrible Sentence, but the Judge was inexorable, 

 and the Jefuics employed all their Eloquence in vain 

 upon this occafion. The Governour anfwered 

 them, fC That it was abfolutely necelTary to make 

 " fome terrible examples of Severity to frighten the 

 €C Iroquefe ] That fince thefe Barbarians burnt almoft 

 €€ all the French, who had the misfortune to fall in- 

 " to their Hands, they muft be treated after the 

 cc fame manner, becaufe the Indulgence which had 

 <c hitherto been fhown them, feem'd to authorize 

 " them to invade our Plantations, and fo much the 

 " rather to do it, becaufe they run no other hazard, 

 u than that of being taken, and well kept at their 

 Cf Matter's Houfes; but when they fhould under- 

 " ftand that the French caus'd them to be burnt, they 

 cc would have a care for the future, how they ad- 

 ? f vanc'd with fo much boldnefs to the very Gates 

 ic of our Cities ; and in fine, That the Sentence of 

 €c Death being paft, thefe two wretches muft pre- 

 €C pare to take a Journey into the other World. 

 This obftinacy appeared furprizing in Mr. Frontemc, 

 who but a little before had favour'd the efcape of 

 three or four Pei Tons liable to the Sentence of Deaths 

 upon the importunate prayer of Madam the Gover- 

 nefs ; but though ihe redoubled her earneft Suppli- 

 cations^ fhe- could not alter his firm Refolution as 



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