I should have wished, Sir, that you had explained your case more clearly, and that you had placed in my hands the proofs or vouchers of your debt, so as to explain it to the King, for so many things pass through the hands of Mess his Majesty's Ministers that I fear M. de Lonnoy will not recollect your affair, which he cannot know except through the Intendant who was at Nancy, whose name you do not mention. I shall not fail, Sir, to endeavour to obtain for you some favor from the King my master for the services which you have rendered Ins majesty. I should wish, Sir, to have an opportunity, on some other more fitting occasion to prove that I am,

have martyred, you are acquainted.

to contribute to designs so pious as those of your

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Sir,

Your very humble and very obedient Servant.

M.

DE DENONVILLE'S MEMOIR

ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IN CANADA AND THE NECESSITY OF MAKING

WAR NEXT YEAR ON

THE IROQUOIS. [

Paris Doc. III. ]

Quebec

Our reputation is absolutely destroyed both among our friends and our enemies.

the 8th 9ber 1686.

It is no trifling

My lord, to reestablish it in view of fhe expense and labor and the dreadful consequences of a war, absolutely necessary. But, My lord, when we are certain that it is God's business and the

thing,

King's glory that are in question, and that all those to whom they are committed have head and heart occupied only with zeal to perform their duty so as to have nothing wherewith to reproach themselves,