que le jour marqué pour sa première audience était encore très-éloigné, ils firent rendre cette lettre par la voie ordinaire, et se retirèrent chacun aux lieux où ils espéraient recevoir le secours que la justice demandait pour eux.

Je crois, Monsieur, avoir rempli exactement la promesse que je vous ai faite au commencement de cette lettre, de ne m'écarter en rien de la vérité, et je ne crois pas non plus qu'il n'y ait rien dont personne ait le droit de s'offenser; vous pourrez donc la communiquer à tous ceux qui souhaiteront de la voir. J'ai l'honneur d'être, etc.

A Paris, le 3 septembre 1764.

true, they realized the difficulty of finding places of refuge suitable for them, and, at the same time, the means of subsistence; but they put their confidence in the Providence of God, who, up to that time, had not abandoned them; and they were inwardly persuaded that, when the help of man fails, it is then that the beneficent hand of the Lord makes itself better felt.

Finally, having arrived at Paris, they received, although they were not known there, the same tokens of friendship that had been shown them throughout their journey. Persons of different conditions, even the most distinguished, at all times attached to the Jesuits, signalized themselves on this occasion by new proofs of their kindness. After a time, they all repaired to Versailles, to present to Monsieur the duke de Choiseul the letter entrusted to them; but, as the day appointed for his first audience was still very distant, they had this letter delivered in the ordinary way, and withdrew to the places where they hoped to receive the assistance that justice demanded for them.

I believe, Monsieur, that I have exactly fulfilled the promise that I made you at the beginning of this letter, not to deviate from the truth; nor do I think, besides, that there is anything herein at which any one has the right to be offended; you may, therefore, communicate it to all those who shall desire to see it. I have the honor to be, etc.

Paris, September 3, 1764.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA: VOL. LXX

CCXXIV

For bibliographical particulars of this account-book of the Huron mission upon Detroit River, see Vol. LXIX.

CCXXV

Same reference as for data upon Doc. CCXVII., also in our Vol. LXIX.

CCXXVI

This is a letter by Pierre Joseph Antoine Roubaud, Jesuit missionary to the Abenakis, giving an account of the French-Indian campaign against Fort William Henry. It was published anonymously in Lettres édifiantes, t. vi., pp. 189-253, from which we reprint; but Sommervogel and other authorities agree in attributing the document to Roubaud, as above stated.

CCXXVII

We obtain this brief account, by Étienne de Villeneuve, of the wanderings of the Huron converts until their establishment at Jeune Lorette, from L'Abeille for January 23, 1879 (vol. xii., p. 76).

CCXXVIII

The report to the Propaganda, undoubtedly written by François Philibert Watrin, upon the expulsion of the Jesuits from Louisiana, was first printed in the

following work, from which our publication is made:

Bannissement | des Jésuites | de la Louisiane | Relation et Lettres inédites | publiés | Par le P. Auguste Carayon de la Compagnie de Jésus. | [Printer's ornament.] | Paris | L'Écureux, Libraire, | rue des Grands-Augustins, 3 | 1865.

An abridgment of the memoir, translated into English by the Rev. D. Lynch, S.J., of St. Louis, with notes by Oscar W. Collet, of that city, was published in the Magazine of Western History, vol. i., pp. 263-269. Another, and inferior, English translation appeared in the American Catholic Historical Researches, vol. xvii., pp. 89-92.

The original Latin MS. of this abridgment was discovered in the archives of the Propaganda, at Rome, by the Rev. H. Van der Sanden, chancellor of the archdiocese of St. Louis. In the same archives also rests the Latin MS. of the complete document as published by us from Carayon's edition, above cited.